Giro di Trentino femminile, Cat 2.9.1

Italy, May 19-23, 1999

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Stage 1, Innsbruck - Vipiteno, 111 kms:

 
  1. Diana Ziliute (Lit) Acca Due O         		      3.13.49 (34.363 km/h)
  2. Greta Zocca (Ita) Edilsavino
  3. Zinaida Stahurskaia (Bie) Acca Due O
  4. Nada Cristofoli (Ita) Edilsavino
  5. Regina Schleicher (Ger) Alfa Lum
  6. Tanja Schmidt (Ger) Michela Fanini
  7. Giovanna Troldi (Ita) Selene Rama
  8. Zita Urbonaite (Lit) Acca Due O
  9. Anna Skawinska (Pol) National Team Poland
 10. Priska Doppmann (Swi) National Team Switzerland
 11. Sara Felloni (Ita) Acca Due O
 12. Anka Farina (Ita) S.C. Master Automazione
 13. Lenka Ilavska (Svk) Mista Slovacchia
 14. Barbara Heeb (Swi) Nürnberger-Emmi
 15. Karen Kurreck (USA) Edilsavino
 16. Serena Gazzini (Ita) Selene Rama
 17. YuliYa Murenka (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 18. Oksana Saprykina (Ukr) Mista Primavera
 19. Gitana Groudyte (Lit) Cicli Aliverti 
 20. Silvia Zoller (Swi) Nürnberger-Emmi
 21. Kerstin Scheitle (Ger) Tourenclub Nürnberg
 22. Nicole Brändli (Swi) National Team Switzerland
 23. Alessandra D'Ettorre (Ita) Selene Rama
 24. Katja Longhin (Ita) Michela Fanini
 25. Tatiana Stakika (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 26. Larysa Martson (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 27. Valeria Cappellotto (Ita) Sport Team Gas
 28. Birgit Sollner (Ger) Nürnberger-Emmi
 29. Ivanova Gulnara (Rus) Acca Due O
 30. Daniela Veronesi (San Marino) Alfa Lum
 31. Marion Brauen (Swi) National Team Switzerland
 32. Eva Fortova (Ger) Team Euregio
 33. Bettina Schoke (Ger) Team Region Stuttgart
 34. Gabriella Pregnolato (Ita) Acca Due O
 35. Lucia Pizzolotto (Ita) S.C. Master Automazione
 36. Yvonne Brunen (Ned) KMWU The Greenery
 37. Bogumila Matusiak (Pol) National Team Poland
 38. Luisa Tamanini (Ita) S.C. Master Automazione
 39. Svetlana Boubnenkova (Rus) Alfa Lum
 40. Elfie Kunz (Swi) Nürnberger-Emmi
 41. Elisa Neri (Ita) Selene Rama
 42. Pia Sundstedt (Fin) Sport Team Gas
 43. Vera Hohlfeld (Ger) Sport Team Gas
 44. Mandy Hampel (Ger) Team Euregio
 45. Natalja Kishuk (Ukr) Michela Fanini
 46. Joane Sommarriba (Spa) Alfa Lum
 47. Valentina Karpenko (Ukr) Mista Primavera
 48. Muluse Flaskova (Cze) Mista Fanini
 49. Letizia Giardinelli (Ita) Mista Primavera
 50. Tamara Poliakova (Ukr) Mista Slovacchia
 51. Svetlana Giglieva (Ukr) Michela Fanini
 52. Sigrid Corneo (Ita) S.C. Master Automazione
 53. Irina Chuzhinova (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 54. Marcia Eicher-Vouets (Swi) S.C. Master Automazione
 55. Olena Budouytska (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 56. Kerstin Rein (Ger) Tourenclub Nürnberg
 57. Malgorzata Wysocka (Pol) National Team Poland
 58. Mirjam Senn (Swi) National Team Switzerland
 59. Nicole Peitzmeier (Ger) Nürnberger-Emmi
 60. Alexandra Nohles (Ger) Alfa Lum
 61. Barbara Delvai (Ita) S.C. Master Automazione
 62. Nora Rosch (Ger) Team Region Stuttgart
 63. Ghita Beltman (Ned) KNWU The Greenery
 64. Roberta Bonanomi (Ita) Acca Due O
 65. Andrea Hannemann (Ger) Team Euregio
 66. Andrea Graus (Aut) Mista Fanini
 67. Mariele van Scheppingen (Ned) KNWU The Greenery
 68. Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Sport Team Gas
 69. Kristina Obrucova (Cze) Mista Fanini
 70. Regina Marunde (Ger) Team Region Stuttgart
 71. Sivlia Parietti (Ita) Michela Fanini
 72. Diana Rast (Swi) Nürnberger-Emmi
 73. Olga Mikhailovskaia (Rus) Mista Primavera
 74. Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) Cicli Aliverti
 75. Luisiana Pegoraro (Ita) Edilsavino
 76. Fany Lecourtois (Fra) Michela Fanini
 77. Catherine Marsal (Fra) Edilsavino
 78. Marta Syryjczyk (Pl) National Team Poland
 79. Clarissa Breuer (Ger) Tourenclub Nürnberg
 80. Alena Barilova (Svk) Mista Slovacchia
 81. Sonia Rocca (Ita) Alfa Lum 
 82. Sara Savino (Ita) Edilsavino
 83. Olga Svyrshchuk (Ukr) National Team Ukraine
 84. Simona Parente (Ita) Sport Team Gas
 85. Dorota Czynszak (Pol) National Team Poland
 86. Martina Hatmann (Ger) Tourenclub Nürnberg
 87. Radana Novotka (Cze) Mista Fanini
 88. Sari Saarelainen (Fin) Mista Slovacchia
 89. Simone Klewitz (Ger) Team Euregio
 90. Marika Murer (Swi) Mista Fanini
 91. Moira Tarraran (Ita) Sport Team Gas
 92. Sarka Vichova (Cze) Mista Fanini				 s.t.
 93. Monika Kotek (Pol) National Team Poland                 	 8.11
 94. Arenda Grimberg (Ned) KNWU The Greenery			 8.11
 95. Fulvia Canisa (Ita) Cicli Aliverti                      	 8.58
 96. Patrizia Zulato (Ita) Mista Primavera 			 8.58
 97. Mariella Guarguaglini (Ita) Cicli Aliverti			 8.58
 98. Magali Pache (Swi) National Team Switzerland		 8.58
 99. Linda Visentin (Ita) Acca Due O				 8.58
100. Gabriele Meder (Ger) Team Region Stuttgart              	12.33
101. Fanny Oheim (Ger) Team Euregio                         	19.08
102. Martina Bras (Ned) KNWU The Greenery  			19.08
103. Anna Sofia Czlwik (Ger) Team Region Stuttgart          	20.06
104. Veronika Pare (Hun) National Team Hungary             	20.29
105. Anja Ritter (Ger) Team Region Stutgart			20.29
106. Sabine Studer (Swi) National Team Switerland		20.29
107. Veronica Jeger (Hun) National Team Hungary			20.29
108. Simona Sagramoni (Ita) Selene Rama				20.29

Started: 118
Finished: 108
Thanks to Pascal Meisser, Switzerland for the data

Karen Kurreck reports

I'm not sure when you all will actually get this report! We are staying in a small cabin in Faedo, Italy which is close to Trento in the Italian Alps. It is really remote and beautiful here - I had no idea there were mountains like this in Italy. Email or even phone access has not yet reached Faedo, as far as I can tell!

The Giro del Trentino is a 5 day stage race with a top UCI catergory rating (ie. UCI points). All the normal Italian teams are here including not 1, but 2 Dream Teams (a Lithuanian one and a "Mixed" one). This gives them a team of 12 plus 2 more who are riding for the Swiss National team! There are also some teams from Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Ukraine and Slovakia. All other teams have 6 riders although Fanini also has 2 teams entered.

The first stage actually started in Innsbruck, Austria where we stayed last night. Innsbruck is a nice town although we didn't get much time for sight-seeing. It did serve to totally scramble my languages though! I had to try to speak German with the hotel and restaurant staff including trying to order for my team who were babbling at me in Italian! No matter how hard I tried, I could not seem to utter one complete sentence in either German or Italian and everything came out mixed!

According to the course profile, stage 1 looked like a really hard stage: straight up for 39km right from the start line! It turned out to not be that bad though because there was a headwind most of the way and the climb was not steep. The first 10km or so were the steepest, but there is usually a 7-8km "grace period" it seeems at the start of races over here before the real attacks start. With a gradual 40km headwind descent after the climb, it was not the day for the climbers to make their move - that will come on Friday and Sunday.

My excitement for the day was almost missing the start! The race bible said 10:30 (I double checked it afterwards) and that was the time my manager had said the night before. I guess the race organizers decided to cahnge the start to 10:10 for some unknown reason at some time in the morning and nobody thought to tell me. I rolled up to the start line at 10:15 just in time to see the caravan of team cars pulling away!! The spectators were waving at me to get going so I wound my way up through the cars to the field. It was neutral for 1-2km through town, so I had no trouble catching up. The neutral flag went down at 10:18! Go figure! I guess this is why Italians are early to everything!

There were some attacks up the climb, mostly by Alpha Lum ruders. Nothing really went anywhere though. True to the European racing tradition, it started to rain near the top of the climb. It was certainly not as cold as some races I have done, but since it was warm and sunny at the start, I didn't have the extra layers of clothes I normally have in those conditions! The field was more or less together at the QOM, won by I think Diana Ziluite. ThIs was good since it meant that the pack made the wet descent at a fairly sane pace. We descended for about 40km and I was shivering so much I could hardly ride a straight line. Fany LeCourtois, who probably weighs all of about 85 pounds attacked on the descent, just to keep warm. Needless to say, she was caught. I had visions of Fleche Wallone in my mind, but I told myself that was worse! I tried to stay in the middle of the pack and out of the cold wind. By the bottom, the rain had stopped and the roads were mostly dry, but the riders were still soaking wet!

At the bottom, there was a fairly tight turn into another gradual climb. I watch a rider slide out and take Roberta Bonanomi down with her. I got a nice update on my Italian swear words! This was right in front of me, and is happening to me with more regularity than I like! I was able to avoid them, but now I am almost at a dead stop at the base of a climb in my 53x12 and I just cannot make my frozen hands shift gears!

We had another QOM climb at 83km, but luckily the pace didn't pick up right away and my ice-block legs had a slight chance to thaw out. The climb was not long and we were still big group going into the finish. Greta was still in the group, so we wanted to set her up for the sprint and keep the field together. Dream Team started the inevitable attacks in the last 10km, but nobody managed to get away. With about 1km to go, Zita Urbonita got a small gap so I went after her which basically started the windup for the sprint. Diana Ziliute (Dream Team) was the fastest today and barely held off Greta who was 2nd.

They actually have a separate GC for "Foriegners" in this race. There are 83 non-Italians in the race. That is a pretty big number when you consider how many Italian teams there are in the field!