Andrea Guardini

Italian finds confidence and a better programme with Bardiani-CSF

Reinardt Janse van Rensburg becomes the fourth African to win the Tour de Langkawi, and now he's targeting Milano-Sanremo.

Andrea Guardini earns his 21st career win at Le Tour de Langkawi as Reinardt Janse van Rensburg defends overall lead.

Andrea Guardini outsprints Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Andrea Palini to make it 20 career stage wins at the Tour de Langkawi

Andrea Guardini continues his dominance at the Tour de Langkawi by winning his 19th career stage in Wednesday's opener.

Mark Cavendish picks up his first victory of the season by winning a bunch sprint and now leads the race's overall standings.

The Astana rider wins the stage in a high-speed bunch sprint in the desert heat.

Sunday's edition of the sprinter's classic pulls from past races to present an old-school route that finishes on the Via Roma

Andrea Guardini collects his 18th win at Langkawi while Youcef Reguigui rides in defense of his overall lead

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The Italian now has a record 17 career stage wins at the annual race in Malaysia

Caleb Ewan's stage 3 heroics earn a win and GC lead in Langkawi as 20-year-old speedster uses climbs to his advantage against sprinters

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The Astana rider leads the GC by 8 seconds with six days of racing left

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Andrea Guardini likes racing in the heat, and it shows, as he collects another victory in stage 1 of the 2015 Tour de Langkawi

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Alexander Kristoff (right) wins stage 3 at the Tour of Oman after notching three victories in last week’s Tour of Qatar

The Italian claims victory in a mass sprint to take the early lead in the GC

The Dutch rider wins by 6 seconds as Sam Bennett claims victory in the final stage

Andrea Guardini's tiny Specialized Venge is tuned for the sprints with deep carbon rims, Campagnolo parts, and more

The Katusha rider claims victory and now leads the overall standings with four days of racing left

Mark Cavendish maintains his grip on the race lead with two stages remaining

Guardini grabs first stage of Eneco tour in the Netherlands

The Italian sprinter survived several crashes inside the final 10km, out-sprinting Yohann Gène (Europcar) to take the stage win and GC lead

Most of the field finishes together at stage 7 of the Tour de Langkawi, with Julian David Arredondo maintaining his GC lead

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The Giro's stage 18 winner, Andrea Guardini has spent a lot of time at the back of the race caravan. Photojournalist Gregg Bleakney captures his moments at the rear

Zabriskie feels the heat, but holds lead, Danielson on the ropes

Italian youngster Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini) opened up a long sprint to hold off Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo) to win the opening stage at the Tour of Turkey on Sunday.

Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) won his fourth bunch sprint in the Tour de Langkawi on Saturday.

After the general classification battles of the past two days, the Tour de Langkawi returned to flatter terrain, and Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini –Neri Sottoli) clocked up his hat-trick of sprint victories in the race.