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9th GP Beghelli (53rd Milano-Vignola) - 1.1
Italy, October 9, 2005
2004 Results Results Past winners
Fischer wins another
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Brazilian Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore Di Mare) is capitalising on his late season form, winning today's 9th GP Beghelli (53rd Milano-Vignola) in a bunch sprint. Fischer beat another man in form: Quick.Step's Paolo Bettini, who showed that he is ready for next weekend's Tour of Lombardy, while Paride Grillo (Panaria) finished third.
"It's a very important victory and confirmation of my good physical condition," said Fischer. "The main job was certainly carried out by the team, Santoni in the lead is a guarantee, with his race tactics resulting in a victory. My teammates, in the finish, were in a good position to lead me out for the win, and I didn't mess it up. This win has a noteworthy value: you don't beat Bettini every day. I'm happy."
The 200 km race saw an attack by Ravis Belohvosciks (Universal Caffe-Styloffice) escaped after 87 km, before being joined by Moises Aldape Chavez (Ceramica Panaria Navigare), Danilo Napolitano (Team LPR), Santo Anzā and Rinaldo Nocentini (Acqua & Sapone Adria Mobil), Filippo Simeoni and Cristian Gasperoni (Naturino Sapore di Mare), Frank Schleck (CSC), Ivan Santaromita (Quick Step Innergetic), Massimo Giunti (Fassa Bortolo), Devis Miorin (Liquigas Bianchi), Kristjan Fajt (Tenax Nobili Rubinetterie), Stefano Boggia (Ceramica Flaminia) and Paolo Bailetti (Team Androni Giocattoli-3C).
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The leading group gained a maximum of 2'45, but was caught after 156 km by a determined peloton. In the finale, a very strong Bettini attacked several times on the climb of Zappolino, which had to be ridden eight times, but the Olympic champion was unable to get clear. However, Bettini still took second in the final 26 man sprint that was won by Fischer, also a winner of the GP Cimurri and fifth in the World Championships in Madrid.
Photography
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Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) beats Paolo Bettini to win the GP Beghelli
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) was too good for Bettini
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) celebrates
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) with the Brazilian flag
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) salutes from the podium
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) gets a podium kiss to remember
- Yeah. Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare)
- The podium (L to R): Paolo Bettini (2nd), Murilo Fischer (1st), and Paride Grillo (3rd)
- Riders passed through some great fall landscapes
- The bunch spreads out up this small climb
- The sun was shining despite some recent nasty fall weather
- The main bunch stayed close together
- Emanuele Sella (Ceramica Flaminia) does some work in front of a teammate
- Vincenzo Nibali (Fassa Bortolo) looks comfortable through this corner
- Alessandro Bertolini (Domina Vacanze) rides out front
- Riders pass fields ready for planting crops throughout the northern Italian countryside
- The gruppo starts one of the climbs along the parcours...
- ...and continues up it
- Frank (l) and Andy Schleck (CSC) together before the start
- Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) cracks a rare smile - maybe he's happy the season's nearly over!
- The QuickStep riders worked hard to get Bettini into his podium position
- Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) finished second today
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) in action
- Quick.Step riding for Bettini
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) wins the 9th GP Beghelli
- Murilo Fischer (Naturino-Sapore di Mare) is pretty happy with his success in the GP Beghelli
Results - 199.9 km
1 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 4.52.27 (41.012 km/h) 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step 3 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 6 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 7 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Team L.P.R. 8 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 9 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick Step 10 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 11 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 12 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 13 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 14 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 16 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 17 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Quick Step 18 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 20 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 21 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 22 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 23 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 24 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 25 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 26 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 27 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 0.26 28 Luca Solari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.42 29 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 30 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 31 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.45 32 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33 David Mcpartland (Aus) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 0.51 34 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 35 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 36 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 37 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 38 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 39 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 40 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 41 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 42 Chris Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 43 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 44 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 45 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 46 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 47 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 48 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Lampre-Caffita 49 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 50 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 51 Francisco Javier Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 52 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 53 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 54 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 55 Konstantin Klyuev (Rus) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 56 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 57 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 58 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick Step 59 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 60 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 61 Dmitri Nikandrov (Rus) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 62 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 63 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 64 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 65 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas-Bianchi 66 Michal Wladislaw Pomietlo (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 67 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 68 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 69 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 70 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 71 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 72 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 73 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 74 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 75 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 76 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step 77 Giulio Tomi (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 78 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 79 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 80 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 1.23 81 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.50 82 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Team Universal Caffe' - Styloffice 2.07 83 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 2.15 84 Inigo Chaurreau Bernardez (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 4.08 Starters: 160 Classified: 84
Past winners
2004 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2003 Luca Paolini (Ita) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2002 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 2001 Andrei Tchmil (Bel) 2000 Marco Serpellini (Ita) 1999 Michael Boogerd (Ned) 1998 Stefano Zanini (Ita) 1997 Stefano Zanini (Ita) 1996 Fabio Roscioli (Ita) 1995 Angelo Canzonieri (Ita) 1994 Angelo Lecchi (Ita) 1993 Alberto Elli (Ita) 1992 Andrej Teterijuk (Est) 1991 Silvio Martinello (Ita) 1990 Mario Cipollini (Ita) 1989 Adriano Baffi (Ita) 1988 Adriano Baffi (Ita) 1987 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1986 Roberto Visentini (Ita) 1985 Emanuele Bombini (Ita) 1984 Mario Beccia (Ita) 1983 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1982 Giovanni Mantovani (Ita) 1981 Gregor Braun (Ger) 1980 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita) 1979 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1978 Rik Van Linden (Bel) 1977 Luciano Borgognoni (Ita) 1976 Rik Van Linden (Bel) 1975 Rik Van Linden (Bel) 1974 Enricvo Paolini (Ita) 1973 Marino Basso (Ita) 1972 Julien Van Lint (Bel) 1971 Marino Basso (Ita) 1970 Adriano Durante (Ita) 1969 Attilio Rota (Ita) 1968 Marino Basso (Ita) 1967 Rudi Altig (Ger) 1966 Adriano Durante (Ita) 1965 Guido De Rosso (Ita) 1964 Guido De Rosso (Ita) 1963 Adriano Durante (Ita) 1962 Vendramino Bariviera (Ita) 1961 Willy Vannitsen (Bel) 1960 Alessandro Fantani (Ita) 1959 Adriano Zamboni (Ita) 1958 Adriano Zamboni (Ita) 1956 Pierino Baffi (Ita) 1952 Antonio Bevilacqua (Ita) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
