61st Giro dell' Appennino - 1.2
Italy, June 11, 2000
1999 results Past
winners
Zanetti triumphant in the Appennines
Italian cyclist Mauro Zanetti (Vini Caldirola) won a very wet 61st
edition of the Italian classic, Giro dell' Appennino today. The 206
kilometre race finished in Pontedecimo, near Geneva and only a sodden
group of 19 eventually rode into the finish. 27 year old Zanetti jumped
in the final few hundred metres to beat Eddy Mazzoleni, his breakaway
companion. Mapei's Paolo Lanfranchi finished further back in third,
solo.
133 started but 19 finished - that was the legacy of the conditions
that the race was held under. Mazzoleni and Zanetti made their decisive
attack on the climb of the Bocchetta, taking Lanfranchi and his teammate
Andrea Noé with him. On the descent, the latter two were dropped as
Mazzoleni and Zanetti pushed it to the limit.
This was 27 year old Zanetti's fourth professional victory, and his
second in the rain after he won the Coppa Placci in 1998.
Results
1. Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Vini Caldirola 5.14.20 (39.32 km/h)
2. Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Team Polti
3. Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 0.35
4. Andrea Noè (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 1.50
5. Marco Vergnani (Ita) Cantina Tollo 2.15
6. Valentino China (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli
7. Oscar Mason (Ita) Mercatone Uno
8. Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Amica Chips
9. Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 4.41
10. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Amica Chips 6.26
11. Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Saeco-Valli & Valli 6.39
12. Vladimir Douma (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Gaerne
13. Igor Astarloa Askasibar (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 6.41
14. Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Ceramica Panaria-Gaerne 6.59
15. Daniel Atienza (Spa) Saeco-Valli & Valli 7.58
16. Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mróz-Supradyn Witamin 13.06
17. Moris Sammassimo (Ita) Colpack
18. Marco Della Vedova (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 13.12
19. Michele Laddomada (Ita) LA-Pecol-Calbrita
Starters: 133
Finishers: 19
Past winners
1934 Augusto Como (Ita)
1935 Augusto Como (Ita)
1936 Settimio Simonini (Ita)
1937 Cino Cinelli (Ita)
1938 Luigi Ferrando (Ita)
1939 Lorenzo Mazzarello (Ita)
1946 Enrico Mollo (Ita)
1947 Alfredo Martini (Ita)
1948 SettimioSimonini (Ita)
1949 Dino Rossi (Ita)
1950 Renzo Soldani (Ita)
1951 Rinaldi Moresco (Ita)
1952 Giorgio Albani (Ita)
1953 Angelo Conterno (Ita)
1954 Giorgio Albani (Ita)
1955 Fausto Coppi (Ita)
1956 Cleto Maule (Ita)
1957 Aurello Cestari (Ita)
1958 Cleto Maule (Ita)
1959 Silvano Ciampi (Ita)
1960 Emile Daems (Bel)
1961 Adriano Zamboni (Ita)
1962 Franco Balmamion (Ita)
1963 Italo Zilioli (Ita)
1964 Franco Cribiori (Ita)
1965 Michele Dancelli (Ita)
1966 Michele Dancelli (Ita)
1967 Michele Dancelli (Ita)
1968 Gianni Motta (Ita)
1969 Felice Gimondi (Ita)
1970 Gianni Motta (Ita)
1971 Gösta Pettersson (Swe)
1972 Felice Gimondi (Ita)
1973 Italo Zilioli (Ita)
1974 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita)
1975 Fabrizio Fabbri (Ita)
1976 Francesco Moser (Ita)
1977 Giambattista Baronchelli (Ita)
1978 Giam Baronchelli (Ita)
1979 Giam Baronchelli (Ita)
1980 Giam Baronchelli (Ita)
1981 Giam Baronchelli (Ita)
1982 Giam Baronchelli (Ita)
1983 Marino Lejarreta (Spa)
1984 Mario Beccia (Ita)
1985 Francesco Moser (Ita)
1986 Gianni Bugno (Ita)
1987 Gianni Bugno (Ita)
1988 Gianni Bugno (Ita)
1989 Moreno Argentin (Ita)
1990 Flavio Giupponi (Ita)
1991 Dirk De Wolf (Bel)
1992 Claudio Chiappucci (Ita)
1993 Giuseppe Calcaterra (Ita)
1994 Evgeni Berzin (Rus)
1995 Francesco Casagrande (Ita)
1996 Wladimir Belli (Ita)
1997 Pavel Tonkov (Rus)
1998 Pavel Tonkov (Rus)
1999 Simone Borgheresi (Ita)
Past winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin
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