Cyclocross World Cup #1 - CDMBergamo, Italy, November 5, 2000
Groenendaal too good in round oneDutch World Champion Richard Groenendaal (Rabobank) won the first of six rounds of the ATP Online UCI Cyclocross World Cup, the GP d'Italie in Bergamo. Groenendaal beat Spaar Select's Bart Wellens by nearly a minute, with Palmans/Domo new signing, Mario de Clercq taking third. Groenendaal set his victory up on the first lap of twelve, holding off the rest to take his second win of the season after his Superprestige victory in Ruddervoorde a few weeks ago. The women's race was won by Debby Mansveld from Inge Velthuis.
ResultsElite Men 1 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 1.00.55 2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 0.55 3 Mario de Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Ideal 1.04 4 Daniele Pontoni (Ita) 1.20 5 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 1.36 6 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) RVS-Liege 2.12 7 Luca Bramati (Ita) 2.20 8 Jiri Pospisil (Cze) 2.35 9 Björn Rondelez (Bel) Spar-Oki 3.08 10 Gerben de Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 3.18 11 Maarten Nijland (Ned) WTC Woerden 4.09 12 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) 4.27 13 Francis Mourey (Fra) 4.38 14 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) Ekolog 5.04 15 Beat Wabel (Swi) K2 Pro Flex 5.30 16 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze) 5.40 17 David Pagnier (Fra) Charvieu-Chavagneux IC 1 lap 18 Dominique Arnould (Fra) 19 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 20 Roland Schätti (Swi) GS Mephisto Romers 21 Ondrej Lukes (Cze) 22 David Derepas (Fra) Phonak 23 Stefano Toffoletti (Ita) 24 David Seco Amundarain (Spa) 25 Massimo Sargenti (Ita) 26 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) 27 Igor Tavella (Ita) 28 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) 29 Alexandre Moos (Swi) KIA-Villiger 30 Pascal Perrin (Fra) DNF Stuart Blunt (GBr) DNF Grzegorz Bodnar (Pol) DNF Francesco Case (Ita) DNF Marek Cichosz (Pol) DNF Pawel Cierpikowski (Pol) DNF Matthew Ellis (GBr) DNF Timothy Gould (GBr) DNF Alessandro Iori (Ita) DNF Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) DNF Stephen Knight (GBr) DNF Stefan Nesensohn (Aut) DNF Tobias Nestle (Ger) DNF Jonathan Page (USA) DNF Jens Reuker (Ger) DNF Michele Sbetta (Ita) DNF Radomir Simunek (Cze) DNF Shaun Snodden (GBr) DNF Christian Trafelet (Swi) DNF Pascal Triebel (Lux) DNF Camiel Van D. Bergh (Ned) DNF Valeriano Vandelli (Ita) DNF Christian Wasmer (Ger) Elite Women 1 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 2 Inge Velthuis (Bel) Trek-Sjef van BergenWorld Cup standings after round 1: 1 Richard Groenendaal (Ned) Rabobank 60 pts 2 Bart Wellens (Bel) Spaar Select 50 3 Mario de Clercq (Bel) Palmans-Ideal 45 4 Daniele Pontoni (Ita) 40 5 Tom Vannoppen (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 35 6 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) RVS-Liege 30 7 Luca Bramati (Ita) 28 8 Jiri Pospisil (Cze) 26 9 Björn Rondelez (Bel) Spar-Oki 24 10 Gerben de Knegt (Ned) Rabobank 22 11 Maarten Nijland (Ned) WTC Woerden 20 12 Vaclav Jezek (Cze) 19 13 Francis Mourey (Fra) 18 14 Tadeusz Korzeniewski (Pol) Ekolog 17 15 Beat Wabel (Swi) K2 Pro Flex 16 16 Kamil Ausbuher (Cze) 15 17 David Pagnier (Fra) Charvieu-Chavagneux IC 14 18 Dominique Arnould (Fra) 13 19 Wim De Vos (Ned) Spaar Select 12 20 Roland Schätti (Swi) GS Mephisto Romers 11 21 Ondrej Lukes (Cze) 10 22 David Derepas (Fra) Phonak 9 23 Stefano Toffoletti (Ita) 8 24 David Seco Amundarain (Spa) 7 25 Massimo Sargenti (Ita) 6 26 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) 5 27 Igor Tavella (Ita) 4 28 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) 3 29 Alexandre Moos (Swi) KIA-Villiger 2 30 Pascal Perrin (Fra) 1 Countries 1 Belgium 12 pts 2 Netherlands 9 3 Czech Republic 8 4 France 7 5 Italy 6 |