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GP Camaiore: Camaiore
Nibali wins Italy's GP Camaiore one-day race
Liquigas rider overcomes Tour de France fever
Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) tops the GP Camaiore podium, Massimo Giunti (Miche-Silver Cross) and Leonardo Bertagnolli (Diquigiovanni) l & r.
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Vincenzo Nibali held on to his excellent form from the Tour de France to score a solo win in the GP Camaiore – the second victory for him this year after the Giro dell'Appenino.
After coming in seventh overall at the Tour, the "shark of the strait" as he's nicknamed in reference to his Sicilian origins, the young Italian fell ill, but rebounded in a spectacular way on Saturday.
"When I came back from Paris, I had fever for two days and I was forced to cancel a few criteriums," Nibali explained. "Because of that, I didn't expect to be in such a good form here but with three laps to go (about 60km), I've told my teammates that I was feeling great."
After a long breakaway of Matteo Montaguti (LPR) and Dainius Kairelis (Ceramica Flaminia) from kilometre 30 through 142, the Liquigas rider forged his success on the last ascent to the Monte Pitoro where he went away with defending champion Leonardo Bertagnolli (Diquigiovanni), Massimo Giunti (Miche) and Giampaolo Caruso (Ceramica Flaminia).
Nibali dropped them off in the downhill with 5km to go. "I felt I would have lost the sprint against Bertagnolli and Giunti," he justified. "I have already proven in the past that I'm good going downhill. I never looked back and I felt in the last kilometre that I had made it."
On Monday, Nibali will start a 10-day training camp with Liquigas in San Pellegrino before returning to competition to the Eneco Tour, then to the GP Plouay where he collected his first big pro win three years ago.
There's no Vuelta a Espana on his race schedule. He will instead take on a series of races leading up to the World championship, providing that Italian technical director Franco Ballerini will select him.
The former winner of Paris-Roubaix was impressed by Nibali's ride on the roads of Tuscany. He acknowledged that the course in Mendrisio suits the "shark of the straits" who might well be a card for Italy to play towards the succession of Alessandro Ballan.
| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas | 4:21:29 | |
| 2 | Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | 0:00:09 | |
| 3 | Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 4 | Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 5 | Timofey Kritskiy (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | 0:00:10 | |
| 6 | Daniele Colli (Ita) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 7 | Daniele Callegarin (Ita) Centri Della Calzatura | ||
| 8 | Jure Kocjan (Slo) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 9 | Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) LPR Brakes Farnese Vini | ||
| 10 | Francesco Ginanni (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | ||
| 11 | Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Team Utensilnord | ||
| 12 | Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 13 | Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 14 | Giovanni Visconti (Ita) ISD | ||
| 15 | Fortunato Baliani (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 16 | Luca Solari (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | ||
| 17 | Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Centri Della Calzatura | ||
| 18 | Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 19 | Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 20 | Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 21 | Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 22 | Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita) Barloworld | ||
| 23 | Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Team Utensilnord | ||
| 24 | Jaroslaw Dabrowski (Pol) Amore & Vita - Mcdonald's | ||
| 25 | Federico Canuti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 26 | Yauhen Sobal (Blr) Centri Della Calzatura | ||
| 27 | Nikita Novikov (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | ||
| 28 | Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes Farnese Vini | ||
| 29 | Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 30 | Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 31 | Santo Anza' (Ita) ISD | ||
| 32 | Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 33 | Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld | 0:00:19 | |
| 34 | Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld | 0:01:27 | |
| 35 | Philipp Mamos (Ger) Amore & Vita - Mcdonald's | ||
| 36 | Bjorn Thurau (Ger) ELK Haus | ||
| 37 | Rafael Maika (Pol) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 38 | Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 39 | Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes Farnese Vini | ||
| 40 | Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Amore & Vita - Mcdonald's | ||
| 41 | Michele Scarponi (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | ||
| 42 | Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas | 0:02:54 | |
| 43 | Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas | ||
| 44 | Laurent Beuret (Swi) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 45 | Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 46 | Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 47 | Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld | ||
| 48 | Cristiano Fumagalli (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 49 | Aristide Ratti (Ita) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 50 | Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld | ||
| 51 | Evgeny Popov (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | ||
| 52 | Stanislav Starodubtsev (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | 0:03:24 | |
| 53 | Alexander Mironov (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | 0:04:29 | |
| 54 | Edwin Carvajal Jaramillo (Col) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 55 | Alessandro Proni (Ita) ISD | ||
| 56 | Maurizio Biondo (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 57 | Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Carmiooro - A Style | 0:04:37 | |
| 58 | Andrea Moletta (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | 0:05:29 | |
| 59 | John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld | 0:05:32 | |
| 60 | Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | 0:06:15 | |
| 61 | Gianluca Mirenda (Ita) ISD | ||
| 62 | Pierpaolo Tondo (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia | ||
| 63 | Pierpaolo De Negri (Ita) ISD | ||
| 64 | Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 65 | Simone Stortoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare | ||
| 66 | Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Liquigas | ||
| 67 | Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas | ||
| 68 | Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas | ||
| 69 | Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) LPR Brakes Farnese Vini | ||
| 70 | Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Liquigas | ||
| 71 | Luigi Sestili (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | ||
| 72 | Fabio Taborre (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | ||
| 73 | Diego Alejandro Tamayo Martinez (Col) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 74 | Diego Genovesi (Ita) Carmiooro - A Style | ||
| 75 | Jan Valach (Svk) ELK Haus | ||
| 76 | Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 77 | Fabio Terrenzio (Ita) Carmiooro - A Style | 0:06:51 | |
| 78 | Davide Torosantucci (Ita) Centri Della Calzatura | ||
| 79 | Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | 0:08:25 | |
| 80 | Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli | ||
| 81 | Harald Totschnig (Aut) ELK Haus | ||
| 82 | Paolo Ciavatta (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 83 | Andrey Solomennikov (Rus) Katyusha Continental Team | ||
| 84 | Alessandro Fantini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo | ||
| 85 | Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce | 0:09:15 |