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Dahle-Flesjaa wins first race back after having a baby

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Cyclingnews
Published:
June 29, 2009, 13:49,
Updated:
June 29, 2009, 21:33

Paulissen earns comfortable win in men's race

World Marathon Champion Roel Paulissen won the Gunn-Rita Marathon, which doubled as the Italian National Marathon Championships in Montebelluno. In her first race back after having a baby, Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa won the women's competition.

The men's race featured 16 climbs. "It was a challenge to race 116km. It's different racing marathons as proper organization is important. The last 30km were especially not easy in heavy, wet clay soil, however I won by nine minutes," said a happy Paulissen.

"This gives me extra confidence going into the European Championships in two weeks in the Netherlands."

Paulissen defeated Leonardo Paez (TX Active-Bianchi), who was second. Paez was slowed by a mechanical at 28km, which forced him to have to repair his chain at 30km. But he made a determined comeback to finish ahead of Italian Mirko Celestino, who became national marathon champion.

Paez will head home to Colombia for a period of training before he returns for the World Marathon Championhips.

Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå returned to racing to win the race named after her.

"When I arrived at the finish, I did not realize I had won right away, as I thought that the strong Italian riders were all ahead of me. I'm still completely surprised as I did not exopect such a result," said the Norwegian. On the demanding course, she profitted from her experience to properly pace herself.

Dahle Flesjaa is unsure of what she will race next. "First I have to see how I recover from this effort, and then I'll continue with my build-up. Within a few days, I should be able to judge which races are a realistic option and make sense."

Eva Lechner finished second at 1:21, and Roberta Gasparini was third, with the same time.

Results

 

Elite men
1 Roel Paulissen 4:24:18  
2 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon 0:09:30  
3 Mirko Celestino 0:09:38  
4 Mike Felderer 0:09:40  
5 Mirko Pirazzoli 0:11:28  
6 Massimo De Bertolis 0:14:24  
7 Gilberto Simoni 0:14:58  
8 Marzio Deho 0:15:48  
9 Enrico Franzoi 0:19:00  
10 Julio Humberto Caro Silva 0:19:02  
11 Johann Pallhuber    
12 Iván Gutiérrez 0:20:45  
13 Juri Ragnoli 0:23:21  
14 Michele Casagrande 0:26:02  
15 Paolo Cesar Montoya Cantillo 0:27:02  
16 Johnny Cattaneo 0:28:49  
17 Pierluigi Bettelli 0:29:08  
18 Paolo Alberati 0:30:42  
19 Flavio Creuso 0:34:07  
20 Massimiliano Milan 0:36:17  
21 Johannes Schweiggl 0:36:22  
22 Nicola Dalto 0:36:32  
23 Simone Diviggiano 0:38:09  
24 Luca Ronchi 0:44:04  
25 Alexey Medvedev 0:44:13  
26 Ramon Bianchi 0:46:16  
27 Daniele Mensi 0:46:58  
28 Ivan Degasperi 0:47:20  
29 Federico Fuser 0:50:08  
30 Alberto Olla 0:52:04  
31 Federico Rizza 0:56:22  
32 Simone Colombo 0:56:37  
33 Marco Santinello 1:01:52  
34 Marco Trentin 1:04:29  
35 Diego Beltramo 1:06:31  
36 Manuele Spadi 1:10:19  
37 Alessandro Garziera 1:12:14  
38 Marco Bastianel 1:28:44  
39 Alessio Bisio 1:28:49  
40 Daniel Pozzecco 1:35:38  
41 Davide Finetto 1:40:38  
42 Davide Cecchin 1:55:35  
43 Nevio Cornaro 2:02:24  
44 Matteo Garbin 3:16:57  
45 Mirko Tessaro 3:48:26  
Elite women
1 Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa 3:47:30  
2 Eva Lechner 0:01:21  
3 Roberta Gasparini    
4 Elena Gaddoni 0:03:33  
5 Elena Giacomuzzi 0:08:45  
6 Alessia Ghezzo 0:13:58  
7 Michela Benzoni 0:21:58  
8 Sandra Klomp 0:27:49  
9 Daniela Campuzano 0:39:11  
10 Francesca Lonardelli 0:39:38  
11 Nadia Tosi 0:59:00  
12 Ilenia Lazzaro 1:12:28  

 

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