Giro del Trentino Alto Adige e Sud Tirolo - 2.9.1Italy, June 23-24, 2001The Stages
ReportBy James Victor, AIS Women's team The A.I.S. Australian Women's team raced in the north of Italy in a 2 day stage race around the region of Trentino, classified as UCI 2.9.1, offering the same international points as the category 1 international stage races. Australia was represented by 4 riders, Sara Carrigan, Hayley Rutherford and Kym Shirley, whilst Karen Sumpton started the first stage and withdrew early, trying to shake a cold before next week's Women's Giro. Other Australians Rochelle Gilmore and Alison Wright have been finalising their preparations for the Track World Cup this weekend in Pordenone, Italy. 2 mountainous road stages and a final 3 km time trial provided an ideal lead-in to the Women's Giro d'Italia starting this weekend (July 2) in Sicily. The Italian professional teams were well represented with GAS Sport, Acca Due O Lorena, Alfa Lum, Edil Savino, Rosa dei Venti, Michela Fanini, Carpe Diem, German professional team Nurnberger, as well as national teams from Switzerland, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. Zinaida Stahurskaia (Gas Sport) had an impressive tour, winning the first stage, finishing second in stage 2, and winning the final time trial. This gave her the overall GC as well as the points, mountains and best international rider classifications. Hayley Rutherford had her best international result with 9th place overall, and 1st in the Under 21 classification, also being Australia's best result in this tour in recent years.
Stage 1 - June 23: Rovere della Luna - Cembra, 83 km1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team 2.27.52 (33.679 km/h) 2 Diana Ziliute (Lit) Acca Due O - HP Lorena 3 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Edil Savino Anusca 4 Severine Desbouys (Fra) GAS Sport team 5 Nicole Brandli (Swi) Edil Savino Anusca 6 Rosalisa Lapomarda (Ita) Rosa dei Venti 7 Allessandra Cappellotto (Ita) GAS Sport team 8 Mari Holden (USA) Alfa Lum 1.59 9 Priska Doppman (Swi) Acca Due O - HP Lorena 2.09 10 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia ... 21 Kym Shirley (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 5.01 44 Sara Carrigan (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 9.17 DNF Karen Sumpton (Aus) A.I.S. Australia Finishers: 82 Stage 2 - June 24: Dro - Dro, 60 km1 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Edil Savino Anusca 1.27.01 (41.302 km/h) 2 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team 3 Rosalisa Lapomarda (Ita) Rosa dei Venti 4 Regina Schleicher (Ger) Michela Fanini Record Rox 1.41 5 Allessandra Cappellotto (Ita) GAS Sport team 6 Naomi Cantelle (Ita) Mixed team 1 7 Nicole Brandli (Swi) Edil Savino Anusca 8 Laura Charameda (USA) Michela Fanini Record Rox 9 Diana Ziliute (Lit) Acca Due O - HP Lorena 10 Priska Doppman (Swi) Acca Due O - HP Lorena ... 15 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 20 Kym Shirley (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 52 Sara Carrigan (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 9.17 Starters: 81 Finishers: 81 Stage 3 - June 24: Dro - Dro ITT, 3 km1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team 4.15 2 Allessandra Cappellotto (Ita) GAS Sport team 0.02 3 Nicole Brandli (Swi) Edil Savino Anusca 0.07 4 Rosalisa Lapomarda (Ita) Rosa dei Venti 5 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Edil Savino Anusca 0.08 6 Mari Holden (USA) Alfa Lum 7 Laura Charameda (USA) Michela Fanini 0.09 8 Vera Carrara (Ita) Carpe Diem 0.12 9 Luisa Tamanini (Ita) Edil Savino 0.13 10 Priska Doppman (Swi) Acca Due O Lorena 0.14 ... 16 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 0.19 17 Sara Carrigan (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 23 Kym Shirley (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 0.23 Final general classification 1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team 2 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Edil Savino Anusca 0.08 3 Rosalisa Lapomarda (Ita) Rosa dei Venti 0.11 4 Allessandra Cappellotto (Ita) GAS Sport team 1.43 5 Nicole Brandli (Swi) Edil Savino Anusca 1.48 6 Severine Desbouys (Fra) GAS Sport team 1.56 7 Mari Holden (USA) Alfa Lum 3.48 8 Priska Doppman (Swi) Acca Due O Lorena 4.04 9 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 4.09 10 Naomi Cantelle (Ita) Mixed team 1 4.47 ... 19 Kym Shirley (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 7.05 49 Sara Carrigan (Aus) A.I.S. Australia 18.53 Mountains classification 1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team Points classification 1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team International rider classification 1 Zinaida Stahurskaia (Blr) GAS Sport team Under 21 classification 1 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) A.I.S. Australia Past winners2000 Pia Sundstedt (Fin) Gas Sport Team 1999 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Gas Sport Team |