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5th Giro della Provincia di Lucca - 2.3
Italy, September 30-October 3, 2003
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Stage 2 - October 1: Altopascio - Altopascio, km 180
Freire strikes another blow
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Oscar Freire (Rabobank) has repeated yesterday's winning performance by taking the second stage of the Giro di Lucca in a bunch sprint. The Spanish rider triumphed over Stefano Zanini (Saeco) and Michele Bartoli (Fassa Bortolo), and thus kept his lead in the general classification.
The second stage started at Altopascio at 11:27am, without Sergio Barbero (Lampre) and Alberto Ongarato (Domina). The stage consisted of four laps of a 29 km circuit followed by three laps of a 21 km loop. On each lap, the riders had to tackle the 2.5 km climb of Montecarlo.
The opening laps were quite pedestrian, and the average speed after two hours of racing was just 31.05 km/h. But on the fourth large lap, the tempo suddenly picked up as Oscar Pozzi (Tenax) and Rinaldo Nocentini (Formaggi) attacked coming into Capannori. By the end of the lap, the pair had 2'45 lead on the bunch that was being led by the Rabobank team. The average speed for the fourth lap was 38.63 km/h, and it only got faster from then on.
The chase of the two leaders began in earnest at the start of the three 21 km laps, with Fassa Bortolo also riding tempo at the front. At the end of the lap, which was raced at 45.7 km/h, the gap was just 1'16 and closing. On the second finishing lap, Fassa had all but pulled back the leaders at the summit of the Montecarlo climb, as the pair were just 18" clear at the top..
Pozzi and Nocentini stayed away for another lap however, only being caught on the final climb of Montecarlo. Ruslan Gryschenko (Landbouwkrediet) tried counter attacking on the climb, but was caught well before the top. The final attack was made by Dariusz Baranowski (CCC Polsat) with 4 km to go, but the Pole was recaptured at the 1 km to go mark.
In the bunch sprint, Stefano Zanini was looking good 100 metres out, but Oscar Freire showed how quick he can be in the final metres by coming around the Italian and claiming his second stage win in a row.
Photography
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) crosses the line ahead of Stefano Zanini (Saeco) and Michele Bartoli (Fassa Bortolo) to win stage 2 of the Giro di Lucca
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) very happy with his second win
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) on the podium after his second stage win in the Giro di Lucca
- Oscar Freire (Rabobank) strengthened his lead in the general classification by winning stage 2
Results
1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 4.43.44 (38.06 km/h) 2 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 3 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 5 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) iBanesto.com 6 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 7 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 8 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio 9 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 10 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 11 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 12 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 13 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 14 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 15 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 17 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 18 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 19 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 20 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 21 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 22 Sergiy Avdyeyez (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 24 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC Polsat 25 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 26 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 27 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 28 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 29 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 30 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 31 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 32 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC Polsat 33 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) iBanesto.com 34 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 35 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 36 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) CCC Polsat 37 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi-Colpack 38 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC Polsat 39 Piotr Przydzial (Pol) CCC Polsat 40 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 41 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio 42 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 43 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 44 Massimo Codol (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 45 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 46 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 47 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Alessio 48 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 49 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.08 50 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 51 Roberto Petito (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 52 Roberto Arroyo (Spa) Team CSC 53 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio 54 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 55 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 56 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 57 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 58 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 59 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio 60 Davis Mcpartland (Aus) Tenax 61 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 62 Eugeni Petrov (Rus) iBanesto.com 63 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 64 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 65 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio 66 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 67 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 68 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 69 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Rabobank 70 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 71 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 72 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 73 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 74 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 75 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 76 Tom Sutahm (GBr) Amore & Vita Beretta 77 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 78 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 79 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 80 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 81 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 0.36 82 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 3.32 83 Luciano Pagliarini Mendonica (Bra) Lampre 84 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 85 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 86 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 87 Salvatore Scamardella (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 88 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 5.36 89 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 90 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 91 Giosuè Bonomi (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 6.24 92 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 93 Markus Knopfle (Ger) Tenax 94 Diego Caccia (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 95 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) iBanesto.com 96 Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 97 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 98 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 99 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Lampre 100 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 101 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Tenax 102 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC Polsat 103 Oscar Mason (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 104 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 105 Jimmi Madsen (Den) Team CSC 8.04 106 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 9.32 107 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 108 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 109 Giuliano Sulpizi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 110 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 12.51 111 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) CCC Polsat 112 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 113 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 114 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) CCC Polsat 115 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 116 Claudio Lucchini (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 117 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 118 Marco Villa (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 119 Matteo Cappe' (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. DNS Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron DNS Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre DNF Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita Beretta DNF Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron DNF Javier Pascual Rodriguez (Spa) iBanesto.com DNF Jesus Ramirez Torres (Spa) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval Points 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 15 pts 2 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 13 3 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11 4 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 9 5 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) iBanesto.com 8 6 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 7 7 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 6 8 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio 5 9 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4 10 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 3 11 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 2 12 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 1 Teams 1 Saeco 14.11.12 2 iBanesto.com 3 De Nardi - Colpack 4 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 5 Rabobank 6 Alessio 7 Lampre 8 CCC Polsat 9 Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 10 Amore & Vita Beretta 0.08 11 Team CSC 12 Tenax 13 Ceramiche Panaria - Fiordo 14 Vini Caldirola - Saunier Duval 15 Fassa Bortolo 0.16 16 Domina Vacanze - Elitron 17 Form. Pinzolo - Ciarrocchi Imm. 9.32 General classification after stage 2 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 8.59.08 2 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) iBanesto.com 0.14 3 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.18 4 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 5 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 0.22 6 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 7 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 9 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 10 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 11 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 12 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 13 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 14 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) iBanesto.com 17 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi-Colpack 18 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio 19 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 0.26 20 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 21 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 22 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) CCC Polsat 23 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 24 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre 25 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.30 26 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 27 Piotr Przydzial (Pol) CCC Polsat 28 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 29 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Lampre 30 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 0.34 31 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 32 Eugeni Petrov (Rus) iBanesto.com 33 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 0.38 34 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio 35 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 36 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 37 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.42 38 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 39 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 0.48 40 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 0.50 41 Roberto Petito (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.02 42 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.04 43 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 1.14 44 Tom Sutahm (GBr) Amore & Vita Beretta 1.19 45 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.35 46 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 2.42 47 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) CCC Polsat 6.50 48 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Tenax 7.28 49 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8.15 50 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10.35 51 Thomas Brozyna (Pol) CCC Polsat 13.21 52 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 15.03 53 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 15.09 54 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC Polsat 55 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) CCC Polsat 56 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 57 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC Polsat 58 Massimo Codol (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 59 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 60 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 61 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Alessio 62 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 63 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 64 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 65 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio 66 Sergiy Avdyeyez (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 67 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 15.17 68 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 69 Roberto Arroyo (Spa) Team CSC 70 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 71 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio 72 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 73 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 74 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 75 Davis Mcpartland (Aus) Tenax 76 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 77 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 78 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 79 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 80 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 81 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Alessio 82 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Rabobank 83 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 84 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 85 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 15.45 86 Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 16.45 87 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 18.41 88 Salvatore Scamardella (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 89 Luciano Pagliarini Mendonica (Bra) Lampre 90 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 91 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 92 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 93 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 20.45 94 Julian Sanchez Pimienta (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 95 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21.33 96 Jon Odriozola Mugarza (Spa) iBanesto.com 97 Diego Caccia (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 98 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 99 Oscar Mason (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 100 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Lampre 101 Giosuè Bonomi (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 102 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 103 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 104 Markus Knopfle (Ger) Tenax 105 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 106 Jimmi Madsen (Den) Team CSC 23.13 107 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 24.41 108 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 109 Giuliano Sulpizi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 110 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 111 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 28.00 112 Claudio Lucchini (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 113 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 114 Robert Hunter (RSA) Rabobank 115 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) CCC Polsat 116 Matteo Cappe' (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 117 Massimo Amichetti (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 118 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 119 Marco Villa (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. Points classification 1 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 30 pts 2 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) iBanesto.com 21 3 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 17 4 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 5 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 13 6 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 11 7 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Lampre 9 8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7 9 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo-Ciarrocchi Imm. 7 10 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 6 11 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 6 12 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 5 13 Davide Casarotto (Ita) Alessio 5 14 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4 15 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 3 16 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine Per Caffe' 3 17 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) iBanesto.com 2 18 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 2 19 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 1 20 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 1 Teams classification 1 iBanesto.com 26.58.28 2 Alessio 0.10 3 Lampre 0.14 4 Saeco 0.18 5 CCC Polsat 6 Landbouwkrediet - Colnago 0.22 7 Domina Vacanze - Elitron 0.30 8 Vini Caldirola - Saunier Duval 0.42 9 Amore & Vita Beretta 1.07 10 Fassa Bortolo 1.55 11 Rabobank 2.54 12 Mercatone Uno - Scanavino 14.49 13 De Nardi - Colpack 14.53 14 Team CSC 14.57 15 Ceramiche Panaria - Fiordo 15.01 16 Tenax 30.26 17 Form. Pinzolo - Ciarrocchi Imm. 53.55
