Marco Canola gave the Colnago-CSF Inox team its first vic­tory of the 2012 sea­son at the Tour de Langkawi, win­ning stage seven to Kuantan with a per­fect sprint after being in the break­away of the day.

Canola is one of sev­eral tal­ented first year pro­fes­sion­als in the Colnago-CSF Inox but took his vic­tory with con­fi­dence. He made sure he was part of the break­away that formed early in the 205km stage, went with the right attacks in the finale and then had the fin­ish­ing speed to win, beat­ing Joon Yong Seo of Korea and Serguei Klimov of Russia.

“This vic­tory is for the team and gives me the moral for the future,” Canola said.

“Before the start I was focused on doing some­thing but I hon­estly didn’t think I’d win. I think I pulled it off because I raced intelligently.”

Team man­ager Roberto Reverberi was rightly happy that the Colnago-CSF Inox team had secured the first vic­tory of the sea­son, boost­ing moral in the team as another squad pre­pares to ride the Strade Bianche race in Tuscany on Saturday and then the WorldTour Tirreno-Adriatico stage race.

“With 15km to go I told Canola to save him­self and focus on the sprint. We got the tac­tics right and Canola didn’t do a thing wrong,” Reverberi explained proudly.

The 10-day Tour de Langkawi ends on Sunday, leav­ing three more chances of vic­tory for Colnago-CSF Inox.

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