Tre Valle Varesine, Cat 1.1

1998 Results     Past Winners Report: 30-year old Italian Sergio Barbero, achieved the most important victory of his career when he won the 79th edition of the Tre Vale Varesine (the 3 Valleys of Varesine) which was raced over a distance of 200 kms in the Varèse region. Usually working for team captain Marco Pantani in the major stage races, Barbero is a little known but very talented bike rider. He won the final sprint in front of 1998 winner Davide Rebellin and in-form Francesco Casagrande. It was Casagrande who was the major aggressor in the race when he attacked after 122 kms. Only 6 other riders could respond to his attack (including Barbero and Rebellin). Over the next 70 odd kms, Casagrande was very forceful and one-by-one the others were dropped with the exception of Barbero and Rebellin. Casagrande launched the final sprint some 500 metres from the line but that allowed the other two to sit his wheel and come around in the closing metres. Borgomanero to Varese, 200 kms: 1. Sergio Barbero (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Bianchi 5.04.25 2. Davide Rebellin (Ita) Team Polti 3. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Vini Caldirola 4. Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 0.19 5. Vitali Kokorine (Rus) Saeco-Cannondale 0.44 6. Ivan Basso (Ita) Riso Scotti 2.10 7. Vladimir Douma (Ukr) Navigare-Gaerne 2.24 8. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Riso Scotti 2.24 9. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 3.23 10. Alessandro Varocchi (Ita) Amica Chips 3.23 11. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3.23 12. Gianluca Valoti (Ita) Team Polti 3.23 13. Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Casino 3.23 14. Emiliano Murtas (Ita) Costa Almeria-Amica Chips 3.28 15. Pasquale Santoro (Ita) KRKA 3.37 17. Fabio Baldato (Ita) Ballan-Alessio 8.21 .. 47. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 8.21 56. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Telekom 8.21 57. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 8.21 64. Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola 8.21 68. Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Liquigas 9.39 Started: 164 Finished: 68 Past Winners 1919 Piero Bestetti (Ita) 1920 R. Rosa (Ita) 1921 Adriano Zamaga (Ita) 1922 Domenico Pieomontesi (Ita) 1923 F. Brusatori (Ita) 1924 Libero Ferrario (Ita) 1925 Giovanni Tizzoni (Ita) 1926 Mario Bonvicini (Ita) 1927 Renato Zanone (Ita) 1928 Battista Visconti (Ita) 1929 Ambrogio Morelli (Ita) 1930 Albino Binda (Ita) 1931 Luigi Giacobe (Ita) 1932 Domenico Piomontesi (Ita) 1933 Alfredo Bovet (Ita) 1934 Severino Canavesi (Ita) 1935 Piero Chiappini (Ita) 1936 Cesare Del Cancia (Ita) 1937 Olimpio Bizzi (Ita) 1938 Gino Bartali (Ita) 1939 Olimpio Bizzi (Ita) 1940 Cino Cinelli (Ita) 1941 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1942 Luciano Succi (Ita) 1945 Adolfo Leoni (Ita) 1946 Enrico Mollo (Ita) 1947 Fiorenzo Magni (Ita) 1948 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1949 Nedo Logli (Ita) 1950 Antoni Bevilacqua (Ita) 1951 Guido De Santi (Ita) 1952 Giuseppe Minardi (Ita) 1953 Nino Defilippis (Ita) 1954 Giorgio Albani (Ita) 1955 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1956 Gastone Nencini (Ita) 1957 Germain Derijcke (Bel) 1958 Carlo Nicolo (Ita) 1959 Dino Bruni (Ita) 1960 Nino Defilippis (Ita) 1961 Willy Vannitsen (Bel) 1962 Giuseppe Ferrardi (Ita) 1963 Italo Zilioli (Ita) 1964 Marino Vigna (Ita) 1965 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1966 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1967 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1968 Eddy Merckx (Bel) 1969 Marino Basso (Ita) 1970 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1971 Giancarlo Polidori (Ita) 1972 Giacinto Santambroggio (Ita) 1973 Enrico Paolini (Ita) 1974 Costante Conti (Ita) 1975 Fabrizio Fabbri (Ita) 1976 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1977 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1978 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1979 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1980 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1981 Gregor Braun (Ger) 1982 Pierino Gavazzi (Ita) 1983 Alessandro Paganessi (Ita) 1984 Pierino Gavazzi (Ita) 1985 Giovanni Mantovani (Ita) 1986 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1987 Franco Ballerini (Ita) 1988 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1989 Gianni Bugno (Ita) 1990 Pascal Richard (Swi) 1991 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1992 Massimo Ghirotto (Ita) 1993 Massimo Ghirotto (Ita) 1994 Claudio Chiappucci (Ita) 1995 Roberto Caruso (Ita) 1996 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) 1997 Roberto Caruso (Ita) 1998 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Past winners are from Mario Stiehl, Berlin