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82nd Giro di Toscana - 1.1
Italy, May 3, 2009
2008 Results Results Past winners
Petacchi scores six days before Giro
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Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi put another win into his books one week prior to his season objective at the Giro d'Italia. The Team LPR Brakes rider won the Giro di Toscana Sunday in Sansepolcro, Italy, over Manuel Belletti (Diquigiovanni) and Ruggero Marzoli (Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo).
"It is a great pleasure to get a win only a few days before the Corsa Rosa. This year it will be a great Giro and we will have a great team," he said to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
The win came at the end of a 194-kilometre race that featured an early escape of 12 with Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) and Filippo Simeoni (Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce). LPR Brakes took the race under control for the 26-kilometre closing circuit to give Petacchi his seventh win of the season.
"It was a great win and it was not easy, we pulled hard through the last climb, even if that did not work out in Larciano [the day before]."
The team effort was a test for the first of the Giro d'Italia sprint stages: stages two (Trieste) and three (Valdobbiadene). Petacchi will need to have all eight of his LPR men in order if he can beat the strongest sprinter in the peloton, Mark Cavendish – "He's a cannibal."
The team of Petacchi and general classification leader Danilo Di Luca will be without Lorenzo Bernucci, who crashed in training Thursday. Team Manager Fabio Bordinali said that they will be ready, and can count on second-year professional Matteo Montaguti. (GB)
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- Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes Farnese Vini) takes the sprint in the Giro di Toscana.
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- Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes Farnese Vini) wins by several lengths.
- Manuel Belletti (Diquigiovanni) gets a nice trophy for second place.
- The Toscana podium: Ruggero Marzoli (Acqua e Sapone), Alessandro Petacchi (LPR) and Manuel Belletti (Diquigiovanni)
- Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes Farnese Vini) was unstoppable in the sprint.
Results - 193.4
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini 4.30.00 (43.11km/h) 2 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 3 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 4 Enrico Rossi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce 5 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-NGC 6 Miguel Rubiano Chávez (Col) Centri della Calzatura 7 Félix Rafael Cárdenas (Col) Barloworld 8 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche-Silver Cross 9 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini 10 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche-Silver Cross 11 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre-NGC 11 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre-NGC 11 Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Liquigas 11 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas 11 Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 11 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 11 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 11 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Amica Chips-Knauf 11 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Barloworld 11 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group-Navigare 11 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group-Navigare 11 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini 11 Marco Cattaneo (Ita) LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini 11 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) ISD 11 Dmitry Grabovskiy (Ukr) ISD 11 Edwin Andrés Carvajal Jaramillo (Col) Miche-Silver Cross 11 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Adria Mobil 11 Donato Cannone (Ita) Betonexpressz 2000 - Limonta 11 Peter Kusztor (Hun) Atlas - Romer's Hausbäckerei 11 Nico Schneider (Ger) Atlas - Romer's Hausbäckerei 11 Fabio Terrenzio (Ita) CarmioOro - A-Style 11 Julian David Muñoz Giraldo (Col) Nazionale Elettronica - New Slot - Hadimec 11 Elias Schmäh (Swi) Vorarlberg-Corratec 34 Yauhen Sobal (Blr) Centri della Calzatura 35 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Lampre-NGC 36 Dario Cioni (Ita) ISD 37 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Amica Chips-Knauf 38 Robert Vrecer (Slo) Adria Mobil 39 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche-Silver Cross 40 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini 41 Davide Torosantucci (Ita) Centri della Calzatura 42 Alan Marangoni (Ita) CSF Group-Navigare 43 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD 44 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Barloworld 45 Luca Fioretti (Ita) Centri della Calzatura 46 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Amica Chips-Knauf 47 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 48 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) CSF Group-Navigare 49 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 50 Filippo Savini (Ita) CSF Group-Navigare 51 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 52 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce 53 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 54 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-NGC 55 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) ISD 56 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 5.00 57 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 58 Nazareno Rossi (Swi) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 59 Sante Di Nizio (Ita) Nazionale Elettronica - New Slot - Hadimec
Past winners
2008 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Preti Mangimi 2007 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 210km in 4.41.52 (42.640 km/h) 2006 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche 198km in 5.02.05 2005 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita 196km in 5.03.53 2004 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.56.00 2003 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo 194km in 4.57.23 2002 Aleksandr Shefer (Kaz) Alessio 194km in 4.44.58 (40.85 km/h) 2001 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas 199km in 4.50.45 (40 km/h) 2000 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Amica Chips 199km in 5.06.00 (39.216 km/h) 1999 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 199km in 5.18.10 (37.565 km/h) 1998 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Scrigno-Gaerne 175km in 5.11.00 1997 Sergio Barbero (Ita) 1996 No event 1995 Massimo Podenzana (Ita) 1994 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) 1993 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) 1992 Giorgio Furlan (Ita) 1991 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) 1990 Marco Saligari (Ita) 1989 Maurizo Fondriest (Ita) 1988 Ron Kiefel (USA) 1987 Piccolo 1986 Corti 1985 Moroni 1984 Baronchelli
