12th Giro d'Italia Femminile - 2.9.1

Italy, July 1-15, 2001

Stage 8 - July 10: Nonantola - Nonantola, 102 km

Zocca like Cipollini, four wins at the Giro

Stahurskaia crashes but promises to attack

Another sprint finish at the Girodonne, with another win for Italian Greta Zocca. The rider from Vicenza who rides for the Gas Sport Team took her fourth stage win in Nonantola, equalling the four stage wins of Mario Cipollini at the men’s Giro d’Italia.

Zocca beat Katia Longhin and Australian Rochelle Gilmore with another powerful and dominating sprint."This is a great season for me," Zocca said. "I’ve won nine races, including four Giro stages and the Italian title. I have to thank my team mates for this success.

They were incredible today just as they have been every time I’ve won."

Even though Zocca won, it was not an easy stage for the Gas Sport Team. Race leader Zinaida Sahurskaia crashed with three laps to go, forcing the whole team to work hard to catch back up to the bunch.

"All’s well that ends well," Zahurskaia said afterwards. "I’m fine. I have to thank my team mates for getting me back on so quickly and the other riders for being so sporting. Nobody tried to advantage of my crash."

The pink jersey’s morale is clearly high. "I’m going to attack tomorrow," she said. "I won’t wait for my rivals to cause me problems."

Tomorrow’s stage is much awaited. Starting from Ora near Bolzano in the Dolomites at 12:00, the stage finishes in the mountains at Vetriolo Terme at 3:00pm.

After the the climbs of the Cembra and Sevignano (which are two KOM sprints), the riders will face the final 12km climb which goes up to 1441m to Vetriolo Terme.

The ninth stage is the first of three stages for the climbers which will probably decide the Giro, before the final time trial on Sunday from Cornuda to Valdobbiadene.

Report courtesy of www.girodonne.com

Results

1 Greta Zocca (Ita) Gas Sport Team                                      2.34.09 (39.702 km/h)
2 Katia Longhin (Ita) Acca Due O HP-Lorena
3 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Australia
4 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) Gas Sport 
5 Julia Martisova (Rus) Carpe Diem Itera
6 Malgorzata Wysocka (Pol) Ciegi
7 Andrea Bosman (Ned) Farm Frites Hartol
8 Sara Felloni (Ita) Alfa Lum Aurora
9 Priska Doppman (Swi) Acca Due O Lorena
10 Francesca Castrucci (Ita) Aliverti
11 Daphny Van Der Brand (Ned) Team Farm Frites - Hartol
12 Elena Tchalykh (Rus) Carpe Diem Itera Cycling Team
13 Monica Valen (Nor) Team Sponsor Service Norvegia
14 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Vlaanderen T. Interim Ladies Team
15 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie
16 Anna Skawinska (Pol) Ciegi Professional Cycling Team
17 Svetlana Samokhvalova (Rus) Carpe Diem Itera Cycling Team
18 Barbara Cazzaniga (ita) S.C.I. Chirio Forno D'asolo
19 Ragnhild Kostol (Nor) Team Sponsor Service Norvegia
20 Zita Urbonaite (Ltu) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie
21 Andrea Purner (Aut) Equipe Nurnberger
22 Irene Puccioni (Ita) G.S.Edilsavino Anusca
23 Alessandra D'ettore (Ita) G.S. Team Aliverti 
24 Emanuela Brigati (Ita) S.C.I. Chirio Forno D'asolo
25 Victoria Kachmarska (126) Rosa Dei Venti

General Classification after Stage 8

1 Stahurskaia Zinaida (Blr) Gas Sport Team                             23.35.05
2 Nicole Brandli (Swi) G.S.Edilsavino Anusca                               0.17
3 Diana Ziliute (Ltu) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie                0.18
4 Alessandra Cappellotto (Ita) Gas Sport Team                              0.36
5 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) Team Alfa Lum Aurora R.S.M.                      0.37
6 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) G.S.Edilsavino Anusca                             0.47
7 Rosalisa Lapomarda (Ita) Rosa Dei Venti                                  0.55
8 Joanne Somarriba (Spa) Team Alfa Lum Aurora R.S.M.                       1.22
9 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Vlaanderen T. Interim Ladies Team                1.44
10 Simona Parente (Ita) G.S.Edilsavino Anusca                              1.49
11 Cindy Pieters (Bel) Vlaanderen T. Interim Ladies Team                   3.05
12 Severina Desbouys (Fra) Gas Sport Team                                  3.21
13 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie             4.15
14 Mari Holden (USA) Team Alfa Lum Aurora R.S.M.                           7.34
15 Olga Zabelinskaja (Rus) Carpe Diem Itera Cycling Team                   7.48
16 Zita Urbonaite (Ltu) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie             10.22
17 Priska Doppmann (Swi) G.S. Acca Due O - H.P. Lorena Camicie            10.30
18 Daniela Veronesi (Smr) Team Alfa Lum Aurora R.S.M.                     11.11
19 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) Team Alfa Lum Aurora R.S.M.                    11.27
20 Marcia Eicher (Swi) Carpe Diem Itera Cycling Team                      12.29
21 Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) G.S. Team Aliverti                            13.42
22 Roberta Bonanomi (Ita) Gas Sport Team                                  14.56
23 Tetian Andrusmchenko (Ukr) Ciegi Professional Cycling Team             15.56
24 Valentina Karpenko (Ukr) Ciegi Professional Cycling Team               18.24
25 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.E. Australia National Team                 20.02