47th Coppa Sabatini, Cat 1.2

Italy, September 23, 1999

1998 Results     Teams     Past Winners

 

First report: The Russian strikes - again

The Russian Dimitri Konyshev from Mercatone Uno is in fine form at present after winning the 47th edition of Coppa Sabatini in Pecciolo near Pisa.

The descisive move came 55 km from the finish when nine riders got away. Giuseppe Petito gave up and the octet stayed together until 5 kms from the finish in Peccioli. Marco Serpellini attacked but the Russian veteran reacted immediately and finally defeated Serpellini in the sprint.

The rest of the group split in the final climb to Peccioli and Mauro Zanetti came in third alone at six seconds followed by Max Sciandri at 13 seconds and then a group of three riders, including Peter Van Petegem (Bel), Niklas Axelsson (Swe) and Pascal Richard.

The race was held over nine laps of a 21.35 km circuit, followed by a final circuit of 12.1 km, making up the total distance of 198.85 km. There were two climbs on the first circuit, one from Selvatelle to Terricciola, about 4,5 kms long and the the steep climb into the town of Peccioli - 1.1 km long and rising 75 meters, with the finishing line situated at the top.

The 33 year-old Russian cyclist with Mercatone also won the Grand Prix Fourmies on September 12 in northern France, ending a 6-year run of Italian victories. Full results to come. 



Coppa Sabatini, Pisa Italy, 208 km AVS 43.098 kmh


 1. Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Mercatone Uno 	     4.50.41
 2. Marco Serpellini (Ita) Lampre Daikin
 3. Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Vini Caldirola 		       00.05
 4. Maximilian Sciandri (Gbr) La (Fra)ncaise de Jeux   00.13
 5. Peter van Petegem (Bel) TVM-Farm Frites
 6. Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Navigare Gaerne
 7. Pascal Richard (Swi) Mobilvetta Northwave Design   00.25
 8. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank
 9. Nicolay Bo Larsen (Den) Home Jack and Jones        01.32
 10. Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank
 11. Lars Michaelsen (Den) La (Fra)ncaise de Jeux
 12. Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Navigare Gaerne
 13. Alessandro Calzolari (Ita) Mobilvetta Northwave Design
 14. Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei Bricobi
 15. Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Palmans Ideal               01.37
 16. Vitali Kokorine (Rus) Saeco Cannondale
 17. Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Cantina Tollo
 18. Valentino Fois (Ita) Vini Caldirola
 19. Sven Montgomery (Swi) Post Swiss Team
 20. Mirko Puglioli (Ita) Amore & Vita
 21. Massimo Donati (Ita) Vini Caldirola	       02.05
 22. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco Cannondale
 23. Danilo di Luca (Ita) Cantina Tollo 	       02.31
 24. Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Navigare Gaerne
 25. Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank
 26. David Delrieu (Fra) Casino
 27. Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis
 28. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto Mobistar
 29. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) La (Fra)ncaise de Jeux
 30. Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) Post Swiss Team
 31. Piotre Ugrumov (Rus) Ballan
 32. Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno
 33. Felice Puttini (Swi) Amica Chips
 34. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno
 35. Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis
 36. Steven de Jong (Ned) TVM-Farm Frites
 37. Leon van Bon (Ned) Rabobank
 38. Cadel Evans (Aus) Saeco Cannondale
 39. Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Vini Caldirola
 40. Bo Hamburger (Den) Cantina Tollo
 
 159 starters
 62 finishing

 

Casagrande leads Coppa Italia

The Coppa Sabatini is part of the Coppa Italia, an Italian version of the world cup. After 13 races Francesco Casagrande leads in style. 



Individuals
1. Francesco Casagrande, Vini Calderola 	315 points
2. Massimo Donati, Vini Calderola 		195
3. Sergio Barbero, Mercatone Uno 		178
4. Massimo Podenzana, Mercatone Uno 		139
5. Davide Rebellin,Team Polti 			125


Teams
1. Mercatone Uno 		137 points
2. Vini Caldirola 		97
3. Mapei-Quick Step			92
4. Cantina Tollo 		88
5. Team Polti 			72

 

Preview:

The Coppa Sabatini, raced around the town of Peccioli in Tuscany will be an important race for those wanting to be selected for the World Championships held in just a few weeks time.

The race is contested over nine laps of a 21,35 kms circuit, followed by a final circuit of 12,1 kms, making the total distance 198,85 kms. There are two climbs on the first circuit, one from Selvatelle to Terricciola, about 4,5 kms long and the the steep climb into the town of Peccioli - 1,1 km long and rising 75 meters, with the finishing line situated at the top.

This year's race will see most of the major teams contesting, although many of the top riders are riding in the Tour of Spain. All the Italians will be very motivated for this event, although Belgians Johan Museeuw, Wilifried Peeters and Andrei Tchmil will do their best to upset the likes of Fransesco Casegrande and Franco Ballerini.

In an interesting switch, there will also be an Australian addition to the Saeco-Cannondale team. Cadel Evans, silver medalist in last week's U-23 World MTB Championships, will be riding in the red garb. Evans rides for Volvo-Cannondale on the mountain bike circuit, and will be looking to make an impression in this race, as he has hinted about riding the road in future.

Complete Starting List

AMICA CHIPS                    BALLAN-ALESSIO
2 Felice Puttini (Ami)
3 Peitro  Caucchioli (Ami)     11 Fabior Baldato (Bal)
4 Emiliano Murtas (Ami)        12 Martin Hvastlja (Bal)
5 Alessandro Varccchi (Ami)    14 Nicola Loda (Bal)
6 Antonio Colon (Ami)          15 Alberto Ongarato (Bal)
7 Simone Mori (Ami)            16 Gilberto Simoni (Bal)
8 Daniele De Paoli (ami)       17 Matteo Tosatto (Bal)
9 X                            18 Alexandre Gontchenkov (Bal)


TOLLO-ALEXIA ALLUMINIO         LAMPRE-DAIKIN

21 Alessandro Baronti (Cta)    31 Franco Ballerini (Lam)
22 Germano Pierdomenico (Cta)  32 Raivis Belchvocsiks (Lam)
23 Danilo Di Luca (Cta)        33 Matteo Frutti (Lam)
24 Cristian Gasperoni (Cta)    34 Bruno Minniti (Lam)
25 Massimiliano Gentili (Cta)  35 Pavel Padrnos (Lam)
26 Roberto Sgambelluri (Cta)   36 Marco Pincitti (Lam)
27 Bo Hamburger (Cta)          37 Marco Serpellini (Lam)
28 Luca Mazzanti (Cta)         38 Johan Verstrepen (Lam)


LIQUIGAS-PATA                  MAPEI-QUICK STEP

41 Fausto Dotti (Liq)          51 Giuliano Figueras (Map)
42 Cristiano Frattini (Liq)    52 Paolo Fornaciari (Map)
43 Oscar Mason (Liq)           53 Wilfried Peeters (Map)
44 Antonio Figura (Liq)        54 Johan Museeuw (Map)
45 Rodolfo Ongarato (Liq)      55 Rinaldo Nocentini (Map)
46 Franco Maragno (Liq)        56 Luca Scinto (Map)
47 Ellis Rastelli (Liq)        57 David Tani (Map)
48 Mauro Banfi (Liq)           58 Giuseppe Di Grande (Map)


MERCATONE UNO-BIANCHI          MOBILVETTA DESIGN-NORTHWAVE

61 Sergio Barbero (Mer)        71 Mario Manzonic (Mdn)
62 Massimo Podenzana (Map)     72 Mirko Gualdi (Mdn)
63 Marco Velo (Map)            73 Pascal Richard (Mdn)
64 Simone Borgheresi (Map)     74 Allessandro Calzolari (Mdn)
65 Roberto Conti (Map)         75 Sergei Lelekin (Mdn)
66 Marcelloe Sironi (Map)      76 Valerio Tebaldi (Mdn)
67 Dimitri Konyshev (Map)      77 Davide Scalmana (Mdn)
68 Riccardo Forconi (Map)      78 Gorazd Stangelj (Mdn)


NAVIGARE-GAERNE                SAECO MACCHINE DA CAFFE' - CANNONDALE

81 Niklas Azelsson (Nav)       91 Alessio Galletti (Sae)
82 Vladimir Duma (Nav)         92 Alessandro Guerra (Sae)
83 Gerrit Glomser (Nav)        93 Vitali Kokorine (Sae)
84 Luca Belluomini (Nav)       94 Harald Morscher (Sae)
85 Christian Auriemma (Nav)    95 Roberto Petito (Sae)
86 Alessandro Petacchi (Nav)   96 Cadel Evans (Sae)
87 Luca Cei (Nav)              97 Christophe Brandt (Sae)
88 Enrico Degano (Nav)         98 Fabio Testi (Sae)

TEAM POLTI                     VINI CALIROLA-SIDERMEC

101 Mirko Celestino (Plt)      111 Francesco Casagranie (Vin)
102 Mirco Crepaldi (Plt)       112 Massimo Donati  (Vin)
103 Ivan Gotti (Plt)           113 Valentino Fois  (Vin)
104 Denis Lunghi (Plt)         114 Serhiy Honchar  (Vin)
105 Silvio Martinello (Plt)    115 Emanuele Lupi  (Vin)
106 Andrea Nencini (Plt)       116 Guido Trentin  (Vin)
107 Oscar Pellicioli (Plt)     117 Romans Vainsteins  (Vin)
108 Gianluca Valoti (Plt)      118 Mauro Zanetti  (Vin)

AMORE & VITA - GIUBILEO BERETTACASINO

121 Andrew Patuelli (Amo)      131 Lauri Aus (CSO)
122 Mirko Puglioli (Amo)       132 Frederic Bessy (CSO)
123 Simone Leporatti (Amo)     133 Pascal Chanteur (CSO)
124 Maurizio De Pasquale (Amo) 134 David Delrieu (CSO)
125 Michele Ferti (Amo)        135 Fabrice Gougot (CSO)
126 Massimo Gimondi (Amo)      136 Jann Kirsipuu (CSO)
127 Gilberto Zattoni (Amo)     137 Benoit Salmon (CSO)
                               138 Alexandre Vinokourov (CSO)

COFUDIS, LE CREDIT PAR         LA FRANCAIE DES JEUX

141 Jerome Delbove (Cof)       151 Maxmilian Sciandri (Fdj)
142 Laurent Desbiens  (Cof)    152 Stephane Heulot (Fdj)
143 Steve De Wolf  (Cof)       153 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fdj)
144 Peter Farazine  (Cof)      154 Christopher Mengin
145 Claude Lamour  (Cof)       155 Lars Michaelsen (Fdj)
146 Nico Mattan  (Cof)         156 Christopher Horner (Fdj)
147 Arnaud Pretot  (Cof)       157 Jean-Michel Tessier (Fdj)
148 Janek Tombak  (Cof)        158 Bradley McGee (Fdj)

PALMANS-IDEAL/LOTTO            POST SWISS TEAM

161 Scott Sunderland (Mxi)     171 Pierre Bourquenoud (Pos)
162 Dave Bruylandts (Mxi)      172 Phillip Bouschor (Pos)
163 Hans De Clercq (Mxi)       173 Matthias Buxhofer (Pos)
164 Jurgen Van De Walle (Mxi)  174 Sven Montgomery (Pos)
165 Andrei Tchmil (Mxi)        175 Perras Dominique (Pos)
166 X                          176 Daniel Schnider (Pos)
                               177 Alexandre Usov (Pos)
                               178 Patrick Vetsch (Pos)

RABOBANK                       T.V.M FARM FRITES

181 Michael Boogerd (Rab)      191 Olivier Asmaker (Tvm)
182 Erik Dekker (Rab)          192 Hendrik Van Dyck (Tvm)
183 Brem De Groot (Rab)        193 Tristian Hoffman (Tvm)
184 Maarten Den Bakker (Rab)   194 Miquel Hoffman (Tvm)
185 Karsten Kroon (Rab)        195 Martin Van Steen (Tvm)
186 Patrick Jonker (Rab)       196 Bart Voskamp (Tvm)
187 Marc Lotz (Rab)            197 Peter Vries (Tvm)
188 Beat Zberg (Rab)           198 Steven Kleynen (Tvm)

TEAM HOME JACK & JONES

201 Jesper Skibby (Hjj)
202 Juris Silovs (Hjj)
203 Mikael Holst Kyneb (Hjj)
204 Michael Blaudzun (Hjj)
205 Federico Colonna (Hjj)
206 Nicolay Bo Larsen (Hjj)
207 Rene Joergensen (Hjj)
208 Christian Anderson (Hjj)

Past Winners

by Mario Stiehl, Berlin 
1952 Primo Volpi (Ita)
1953 Primo Volpi (Ita)
1954 Rino Benedetti (Ita)
1955 Angelo Miserocchi (Ita)
1956 Idrio Bui (Ita)
1957 Giambattista Gabelli (Ita)
1958 Giuseppe Pardini (Ita)
1959 Rino Benedetti (Ita)
1960 Graziano Battistini (Ita)
1961 Dino Bruni (Ita)
1962 Giovanni Sabbadin (Ita)
1963 Dino Bruni (Ita)
1964 Italo Zilioli (Ita)
1965 Luciano Armani (Ita)
1966 Franco Bitossi (Ita)
1967 Michele Dancelli (Ita)
1968 Franco Bitossi (Ita)
1969 Romano Tumllereo (Ita)
1970 Gösta Pettersson (Swe)
1971 Roberto Poggiali (Ita)
1972 Antoine Houbrechts (Bel)
1973 Mauro Simonetti (Ita)
1974 Wilmo Franconi (Ita)
1975 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita)
1976 Piero Spinelli (Ita)
1978 Francesco Moser (Ita)
1979 Leonardo Mazzantini (Ita)
1980 Gianbattista Baronchelli (Ita)
1981 Claudio Bortolotto (Ita)
1982 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita)
1983 Moreno Argentin (Ita)
1984 Silvano Contini (Ita)
1985 Marino Amadori (Ita)
1986 Jean-Francois Bernard (Fra)
1987 Gianni Bugno (Ita)
1988 Claudio Corti (Ita)
1989 Maurizio Fondriest (Ita)
1990 Moreno Argentin (Ita)
1991 Franco Chicccioli (Ita)
1992 Stefano Zanini (Ita)
1993 Claudio Chiappucci (Ita)
1994 Maurizio Fondriest (Ita)
1995 Davide Cassani (Ita)
1996 Bjarne Rijs (Den)
1997 Andrea Tafi (Ita)
1998 Emmanuel Magnin (Fra)