Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile, Cat 2.9.1

Main Page Report: Sonia Rocca, the young rider from Bergamo from the Alfalum-William Aurora team which is leading the Giro won Stage 11. She is the cousin of famous golf champion Costantino Rocca and finally gave Italy another stage win in this 10th Giro d'Italia femminile. The stage started in front of the marvellous buildings in Fontaniva (Padova) which are made out of and around an old chimney. The day was expected to be very quite for pink jersey Joana Somarriba, now very close to the final win, but it was not the case as the Spaniard had to fight a lot to retain her grip on the race. As a result of heavy rain the downhill that followed the GPM of Conco was very risky and slippy. Pregnolato and Blazquez crashed. Somarriba decided to slow down and take no risk. Her position was so comfortable before the start of the stage that it was stupid to risk to lose the whole race for a few seconds. She never lost her mind even when 15 riders attacked including Boubnenkova and Sundstedt. Somarriba stayed calm and worked hard to limit the loss to around a minute. The stage win went to her young team-mate Sonia Rocca. "My team gave me the opportunity to win and I am happy I was able to do it". Tomorrow sees the 12th and last stage of the 10th Giro d'Italia Femminile. The pink jersey Somarriba and the whole bunch with start in Chiuppano and finish in Piovene Rocchette, in the province of Vicenza, a distance of 119 kms. Somarriba said: "Of course it's done now. But you know it's never finished till the very last metre. I prefer to wait for some more hours before showing everybody how happy I feel." Stage 11, Fontaniva - Fontaniva, 115 kms: AVS: 37.853 km/h 1. Sonia Rocca (Ita) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 3.02.17 2. Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 3. Svetlana Boubnkova (Rus) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 4. Katia Longhin (Ita) Michela Fanini Valvole Record 5. Sara Carrigan (Aus) Australia 6. Alison Wright (Aus) Australia 7. Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Selene Rama Mista 8. Alessandra Cappellotto (Ita) Gas Sport Team 9. Luisiana Pegoraro (Ita) Edilsavino 10. Heidi Van de vyver (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 11. Pia Sundstedt (Fin) Gas Sport Team 12. Nicole Brandli (Swi) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie Swiss 13. Mandy Hampel (Ger) German National Team 14. Sara Savino (Ita) Edilsavino 15. Roberta Bonanomi (Ita) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 0.04 16. Petra Rossner (Ger) German National Team 0.42 17. Goulnara Ivanova (Rus) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 0.42 18. Nada Cristofoli (Ita) Edilsavino 0.42 19. Priska Doppmann (Swi) Gas Sport Team 0.42 20. Sara Felloni (Ita) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 0.42 21. Serena Gazzini (Ita) Selene Rama Mista 0.42 22. Bedem Guerrero (Mex) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie Swiss 0.42 23. Eya Fortova (Cze) Mimosa Repubblica Ceca 0.42 24. Oksana Sapoykina (Ukr) Primavera Oliviero Sport 0.42 25. Kym Shirley (Aus) Australia 0.42 GC after Stage 11 1. Joane Sommariba (Spa) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 29.17.40 2. Svetlana Boubnkova (Rus) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 3.32 3. Daniela Veronesi (Smr) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 3.35 4. Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 6.37 5. Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 6.58 6. Pia Sundstedt (Fin) Gas Sport Team 7.33 7. Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Selene Rama Mista 7.54 8. Heidi Van de vyver (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 9.31 9. Yuliya Murenka (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 10.34 10. Nicole Brandli (Swi) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie Swiss 11.30 11. Cindy Pieters (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 11.54 12. Alessandra Cappellotto (Ita) Gas Sport Team 12.04 13. Roberta Bonanomi (Ita) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 12.07 14. Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 14.39 15. Fany Lecourtois (Fra) Michela Fanini Valvole Record 18.25 16. Luisiana Pegoraro (Ita) Edilsavino 19.28 17. Valeria Cappellotto (Ita) Gas Sport Team 20.03 18. Nada Cristofoli (Ita) Edilsavino 25.02 19. Simona Parente (Ita) Gas Sport Team 25.54 20. Lucia Pizzolotto (Ita) Master Molteni Record 25.59 21. Fatima Blazquez lozano (Spa) Alfa Lum-Willian Aurora 25.59 22. Radana Novotna (Cze) Mimosa Repubblica Ceca 29.55 23. Oksana Sapoykina (Ukr) Primavera Oliviero Sport 30.05 24. Goulnara Ivanova (Rus) Acca Due O Lorena Camicie 32.45 25. Natalia Kishchuk (Ukr) Michela Fanini Valvole Record 33.37