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27th Giro del Trentino - 2.2
Italy, April 24-27, 2003
Stage 1 - April 24: Arco - Moena, 170.5 k
Garzelli comes back with a win
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Just over 11 months since he was thrown out of the Giro d'Italia for testing positive to probenecid, Stefano Garzelli (Caldirola-Sidermec) has returned to racing with a victory, winning the first stage of the Giro del Trentino from local favourite Gilberto Simoni (Saeco). Garzelli was part of a four man breakaway that escaped with 25 km to go, holding off the peloton by 15 seconds at the finish.
"I'm savouring this success because I've had misfortunes this past year that are difficult to subscribe," said Garzelli who has always maintained that he was innocent of any wrong doing. "The Giro del Trentino is excellent preparation for the Giro, which remains my main objective."
The first stage from Arco to Moena was a tough one, finishing at 1184m in Moena and including the climb of Pramadiccio (1431m) after 145 km. The peloton stayed together until the first sprint at Rovereto (km 45), won by Mauro Zinetti (Amore e Vita). Immediately following that, Giuseppe Palumbo (De Nardi-Colpack) attacked, riding alone for the next 96 km, with a maximum lead of 6'55 at Civezzano (km 93).
When he reached the Pramadiccio climb he was quickly caught by the peloton, which was being driven by Panaria and Caldirola mainly. With 2 km to the summit, Simoni and Sabaliauskas (Saeco), Garzelli (Caldirola), Jones (Amore e Vita), and Valjavec (Fassa Bortolo) pulled away from the front part of the peloton, which contained Julio Perez Cuapio (Panaria). At the top of the climb, Jones couldn't hang on, leaving four riders in front.
The quartet worked well and reached a lead of 1'15 with 10 km to go. From that point on their lead was reduced by the chasing peloton, which had regrouped on the descent. However it proved to be enough at the finish, and despite a one-two move by Saeco (Sabaliauskas attacking followed by Simoni), Garzelli was strong enough to keep it together, easily winning the four man sprint to take the stage.
Photos
Image by Mosna/AFP
- Stefano Garzelli (Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval) crosses the finish line victorious, ahead of Gilberto Simoni (Team Saeco, C) and Slovenian Tadej Valjavec (Fassa Bortolo, L).
Images by Yuzuru Sunada
- Stefano Garzelli (Caldirola Sidermec) is back on the winner's podium after 11 months absence
Results
1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 4.58.00 (34.32 km/h) 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Team Saeco 3 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 4 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Team Saeco 5 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 0.15 6 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 7 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 8 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Team Saeco 9 Loïc Lamouller (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 10 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 11 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 12 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 13 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 14 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 15 Christophe Rinero (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 16 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 17 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 18 Vincenzo Di Falco (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 19 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 20 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 21 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 22 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Team Saeco 23 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 24 Rasmus Dyring (Den) Miche 25 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 26 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 27 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 28 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 29 Freddy Excelino Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle It 30 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 31 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Team Saeco 32 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 33 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 34 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 35 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 36 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 37 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 38 José Joaquim Castelblanco Romero (Col) Colombia-Selle Ita 39 Felix M. Garcia Casas (Spa) Big.Mat-Auber 93 40 Bo Hamburger (Den) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 41 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) CCC-Polsat 42 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi-Colpack 43 Timothy Jones (Zim) Amore & Vita-Beretta 44 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Team Saeco 45 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta 46 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 47 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 48 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Team Saeco 49 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 50 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 51 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 52 Hector Orlando Mesa Mesa (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 53 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 54 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Tenax 55 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 56 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 57 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Lampre 58 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 59 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 60 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 61 Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 62 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 1.58 63 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 8.51 64 Vincent Templier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 65 Pawel Kavetski (Blr) Miche 66 Roger Lucia Ibarra (Spa) Miche 67 Markus Knöpfle (Ger) Tenax 68 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 69 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 70 Marco Milesi (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 71 Laurent Paumier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 72 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Polsat 73 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 74 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 75 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 76 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 77 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 78 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 79 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 80 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 81 Lorenzo Di Silvestro (Ita) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 82 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 83 Dmitry Gaynitdinov (Rus) Miche 84 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 85 Sergeï Krushevskiy (Uzb) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 86 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Big.Mat-Auber 93 87 John Freddy Garcia (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 88 José Luis Martinez (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 89 Igor Bonciucov (Mda) Miche 90 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 91 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 92 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 93 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Team Saeco 94 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 95 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 96 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 10.26 97 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 98 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Tenax 99 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 100 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 101 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 102 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders-IteamNova.com 103 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 104 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 105 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Tenax 106 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 107 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders-IteamNova.com 108 Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 109 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 110 Heiko Szonn (Ger) Flanders-IteamNova.com 111 Leonid Baciu (Mda) Miche 16.47 112 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 113 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 114 Jérôme Lepron (Fra) Flanders-IteamNova.com 115 Laurent Roux (Fra) Flanders-IteamNova.com 116 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 117 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta 118 Bjorn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders-IteamNova.com Sprints Rovereto - km.45.0 1 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 6 pts 2 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 4 3 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 2 Mountains Vigolo Vattaro, Cat. 2, km 75.7 1 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4 pts 2 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 3 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 1 Passo Pramadiccio - Cat. 2, km 145.8 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 4 pts 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Team Saeco 2 3 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 1 General classification after stage 1 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 4.57.50 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Team Saeco 0.04 3 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 0.06 4 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Team Saeco 0.10 5 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 0.25 6 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Team Saeco 8 Loïc Lamouller (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 9 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 10 Sébastien Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 11 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 12 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre 13 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 14 Christophe Rinero (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 15 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 16 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 17 Vincenzo Di Falco (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 18 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 19 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 20 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 21 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Team Saeco 22 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 23 Rasmus Dyring (Den) Miche 24 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 25 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 26 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 27 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 28 Freddy Excelino Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle It 29 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 30 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Team Saeco 31 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 32 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 33 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 34 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 35 Andrei Mizourov (Kaz) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 36 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 37 José Joaquim Castelblanco Romero (Col) Colombia-Selle Ita 38 Felix M. Garcia Casas (Spa) Big.Mat-Auber 93 39 Bo Hamburger (Den) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 40 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) CCC-Polsat 41 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi-Colpack 42 Timothy Jones (Zim) Amore & Vita-Beretta 43 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Team Saeco 44 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta 45 Charles Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi-Colpack 46 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 47 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Team Saeco 48 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 49 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) CCC-Polsat 50 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 51 Hector Orlando Mesa Mesa (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 52 Hernan Dario Munoz (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 53 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Tenax 54 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 55 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 56 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Lampre 57 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 58 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 59 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 60 Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 61 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 0.35 62 Marek Galinski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 2.08 63 Cyril Saugrain (Fra) Big.Mat-Auber 93 9.01 64 Vincent Templier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 65 Pawel Kavetski (Blr) Miche 66 Roger Lucia Ibarra (Spa) Miche 67 Markus Knöpfle (Ger) Tenax 68 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 69 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) CCC-Polsat 70 Marco Milesi (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 71 Laurent Paumier (Fra) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 72 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) CCC-Polsat 73 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Lampre 74 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) CCC-Polsat 75 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 76 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 77 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 78 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 79 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 80 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 81 Lorenzo Di Silvestro (Ita) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 82 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 83 Dmitry Gaynitdinov (Rus) Miche 84 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 85 Sergeï Krushevskiy (Uzb) MBK-Oktos-Saint-Quentin 86 Plamen Stoianov (Bul) Big.Mat-Auber 93 87 John Freddy Garcia (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 88 José Luis Martinez (Spa) Paternina-Costa de Almeria 89 Igor Bonciucov (Mda) Miche 90 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big.Mat-Auber 93 91 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 92 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 93 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Team Saeco 94 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 95 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 96 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 10.36 97 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 98 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 99 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 100 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 101 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders-IteamNova.com 102 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 103 Andrej Hauptman (Slo) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 104 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Tenax 105 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 106 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders-IteamNova.com 107 Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 108 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 109 Heiko Szonn (Ger) Flanders-IteamNova.com 110 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Tenax 10.46 111 Leonid Baciu (Mda) Miche 16.57 112 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 113 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 114 Laurent Roux (Fra) Flanders-IteamNova.com 115 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 116 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta 117 Bjorn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders-IteamNova.com 118 Jérôme Lepron (Fra) Flanders-IteamNova.com 17.07 Mountains classification 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Caldirola-Sidermec-Saunier Duval 4 pts 2 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 4 3 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Team Saeco 2 4 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 2 5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 1 6 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 1 Sprints classification 1 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta 6 pts 2 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 4 3 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 2
