83rd Coppa Bernocchi - 1.3Italy, August 23, 20012000 Results Results Past Winners Trittico Lombardo
Paolo Valoti wins BernocchiTonetti takes Trittico
Alessio's Paolo Valoti scored a surprise win in the Coppa Bernocchi, the final race of the Trittico Lombardo series. Valoti, who placed second in the Tre Valli Varesine, managed a successful attack in the last kilometre to hold off Dario Andriotto (Alexia) and Denis Lunghi (Colpack). The overall Trittico Lombardo classification was won by Gianluca Tonetti (Selle Italia), principally through his performance in yesterday's Coppa Agostoni. The 200 km race was held in Legano, near Milan, and was marked by a long solo escape from Slovenian Matjaz Batic who was away for 77 kilometres, reaching a maximum lead of 7'45. However, Jan Ullrich (Telekom) and Serguei Gontchar (Liquigas) helped to pull Batic back ready for the finale, although Ullrich later abandoned the race.
With 20 kilometres left, the selection was made by a group of 14 riders, including Gontchar, Di Luca and Bortolami. At 7 kilometres to go, Paolo Valoti attacked and took Andriotto, Lunghi and Matveyev with him. He repeated the move with 1 kilometre left, and the other three could not follow him, and Valoti took the win. Valoti is from Bergamo and is a cousin of Gianluca Valoti (Alexia Alluminio). "I came close on Tuesday with the second position in Tre Valli, 9 seconds behind Celestino. But I wanted to win. I did not trust myself if Bortolami was still there, as it would have been too hard to beat him in the sprint."
"The team has rallied around me, given me confidence, and I am satisfied that I can repay them with a success. Dedication? To my companions certainly, and then to my wife Loredana and my son Andrea." Gianluca Tonetti gained the overall Trittico Lombardo classification, as he started in all three races. He won a diamond worth ITL 12 million (US$5,600)
Results - 199.8 km1 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Alessio 4.59.01 (40.09 km/h) 2 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 0.04 3 Denis Lunghi (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 4 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 5 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 0.16 6 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 7 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 8 Uros Murn (Slo) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 9 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Cantina Tollo-Acqua e Sapone 10 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 11 Oscar Mason (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 12 Sergey Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 13 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 14 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 0.22 15 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 5.12 16 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Cantina Tollo-Acqua e Sapone 17 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 18 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 19 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 20 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Cofidis 5.16 21 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 9.01 22 Miguel A M Perdiguero (Spa) Cantina Tollo-Acqua e Sapone 23 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis 24 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 25 Igor Kranjec (Slo) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 26 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Post Swiss Team 27 Branko Filip (Slo) KRKA-Telekom Slovenije 28 Serguei Lelekin (Rus) Itera 29 Thierry Loder (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 30 Maximilian Sciandri (GBr) Lampre-Daikin 31 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Rabobank 11.50 32 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank 33 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank Starters: 179 Classified: 33 Trittico Lombardo final classification 1 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Selle Italia 11 pts 2 Denis Lunghi (Ita) Colpack 10 3 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Saeco 9 Past winners2000 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola 1999 Giancarlo Raimondi (Ita) Liquigas 1998 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Polti 1997 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) 1996 Fabio Baldato (Ita) 1995 Stefano Zanini (Ita) 1994 Bruno Cenghialta (Ita) 1993 Rolf Sörensen (Den) 1992 Charly Mottet (Fra) 1991 Giorgio Furlan (Ita) 1990 Davide Cassani (Ita) 1989 Rolf Sörensen (Den) 1988 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1987 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1986 Roberto Gaggioli (Ita) 1985 Johan Van de Velde (Ned) 1984 Vittorio Algeri (Ita) 1983 Palmiro Masciarelli (Ita) 1982 Silvano Contini (Ita) 1981 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1980 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1979 Valerio Lualdi (Ita) 1978 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita) 1977 Carnelo Barone (Ita) 1976 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1975 Enrico Paolini (Ita) 1974 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1973 Felice Gimondi (Ita) 1972 Marino Basso (Ita) 1971 Virginio Levati (Ita) 1970 Pietro Guerra (Ita) 1969 Giacinto Santambroggio (Ita) 1968 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1967 Vittorio Adorni (Ita) 1966 Rafaele Marcoli (Ita) 1965 Adriano Durante (Ita) 1964 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1963 Aldo Moser (Ita) 1962 Pierino Baffi (Ita) 1961 Arturo Sabbadin (Ita) 1960 Giuseppe Fallarini (Ita) 1959 Noé Conti (Ita) 1958 Rik Van Looy (Bel) 1957 Rik Van Looy (Bel) 1956 Vasca Modena (Ita) 1955 Renato Ponzini (Ita) 1954 Fausto Coppi (Ita) 1953 Giorgio Albani (Ita) and Antonio Bevilacqua (Ita) 1952 Primo Volpi (Ita) 1951 Luigi Casola (Ita) 1950 Fiorenzo Crippa (Ita) 1949 Mario Ricci (Ita) 1948 Virgilio Salimbeni (Ita) 1947 Mario Ricci (Ita) 1946 Osvaldo Bailo (Ita) 1945 Sergio Maggini (Ita) 1944 Oreste Conte (Ita) 1942 Glauco Servadei (Ita) 1941 Serverino Canavesi (Ita) 1940 Aldo Bini (Ita) 1939 Adolfo Leoni (Ita) 1938 Cino Cinelli (Ita) 1937 Francesco Albani (Ita) 1936 Enrico Mollo (Ita) 1935 Gino Bartali (Ita) 1934 Pietro Rimoldi (Ita) 1933 B. Negri (Ita) 1932 Marco Giuntelli (Ita) 1930 Eugenio Gestri (Ita) 1929 Allegro Grandi (Ita) 1928 Carlo Galluzzi (Ita) 1927 Giuseppe Pancera (Ita) 1926 Giuseppe Pancera (Ita) 1925 Luigi Mainetti (Ita) 1924 Alfredo Dinale (Ita) 1923 Libero Ferrario (Ita) 1922 Libero Ferrario (Ita) 1921 Angelo Testa (Ita) 1920 Giovanni Tragella (Ita) 1919 Ruggero Ferrario (Ita) Past winners are from Mario Stiehl, Berlin |
