31st Settimana Ciclista Lombarda - 2.4Italy, April 18-22, 2001Main page Results Previous stage Stage 4 - April 21: Roncadelle - Roncadelle, 158.7 kmGontchar looking good for a second winUkranian World TT champion, Serguei Gontchar (Liquigas) is well on his way to a second Settimana Lombardia win, after he finished second in today's stage behind German Thomas Liese (Nurnberger). The stage that finished in Roncadelle was shortened by 30 kilometres, due to the rain and snow that froze the cyclists. Indeed, Mapei's Stefano Garzelli and Mercatone's Marco Pantani both pulled out, suffering from bronchitis, not wishing to exacerbate their illness. The first attack of the day was made by Koen Das and Uwe Peschel, who were joined after 32 kilometres by Thomas Liese. The three riders reached a lead of nearly 8 minutes, before they were brought back. On the final climb (Muratella), Gontchar bridged up to them from the peloton, getting rid of Peschel and Das. Liese managed to hold off the flying Ukranian for a well earned win, but the overall honours belonged to Gontchar. "Liese did not take one turn in the last 10 kms," complained Gontchar, "and I wanted to make a point of winning this stage, but I was a little slow in the finale."
Results1 Thomas Liese (Ger) Team Nürnberger 4.08.02 (37.979 km/h) 2 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 3 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 1.31 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 5 Pascal Herve (Fra) Alexia Alluminio 6 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 7 Rafael Mateos Peres (Spa) Team Colpack 8 Marco Magnani (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 9 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Alessio 10 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo Acqua & Sapone 11 Franco Pellizzotti (Ita) Alessio 12 Domenico Romano (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 13 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 14 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Albacom 15 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin General classification after stage 4 1 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 17.23.13 2 Pascal Herve (Fra) Alexia Alluminio 1.45 3 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour 1.55 4 Franco Pellizzotti (Ita) Alessio 5 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo Acqua & Sapone 6 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.41 7 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 2.45 8 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Alessio 2.57 9 Rafael Mateos Peres (Spa) Team Colpack 10 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Cantina Tollo Acqua & Sapone 3.04 Points classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12 pts 2 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Alessio 12 3 Stefan Rutimann (Swi) Tacconi Sport-Caldirola 11 4 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Domo-Farm Frites 10 5 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 10 6 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Cantina Tollo Acqua & Sapone 8 7 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 7 8 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 9 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Mobilvetta Design 6 10 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Mountains classification 1 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4 pts 2 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 4 3 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 4 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bonjour 2 5 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 6 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Alessio 1 7 Mirco Marini (Ita) Liquigas 1 Most combative classification 1 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 20 pts 2 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 12 3 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 12 4 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Alessio 10 5 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Colpack 10 6 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Ag2R Prevoyance 8 7 Massimo Strazzer (Ita) Mobilvetta Design 8 8 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Domo-Farm Frites 6 9 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 10 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bonjour 6 |