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1996 Results
Preview
One hundred and twelve riders, belonging to 14 teams
will be riding the Volta Ciclista a la Comunidad
Gallega. The teams participating will be: Mapei-GB,
Aki-Safi, Asics, Banesto, Estepona-Toscaf,
Euskadi-Petronor, Flavi-Telecom, Kelme-Costa Blanca,
Lotto-Mobistar, Lotus, Petroleo Cpolomboa, Once,
Refin-Mobilvetta y Saeco.
Some of the important cyclists riding will be: Gianni
Bugno, Pavel Tonkov & Andrea Tafi (Mapei); Claudio
Chiapucci & Mario Chiesa (Aki); Santi Blanco & Jose
Luis Arrieta (Banesto); Francisco Cabello & Juan
Carlos Dominguez (Kelme-Costa Blanca) and Aitor
Garmendia & Melchor Mauri (Once).
Here are some of the previous overall winners: Jokin
Mujica (1987), Marino Lejarreta (88), Vicente Ridaura
(89), Federico Etxabe (90), Alvaro Mejia (91), Fabian
Jeker (92), Andrew Hampsten (93), Laudelino Cubino
(94), Miguel Indurain (95) & Abraham Olano (1996).
1. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 2.24.22
2. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics
3. Elio Aggiano (Ita) Refin.
4. Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Refin
5. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco
6. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco
7. Sergei Smetanine (Rus) Estepona
8. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto
9. Luca Pavanello (Ita) Aki
10. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto all s.t.
Overall (after bonuses):
1. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 2.24.16
2. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei s.t.
3. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics 0.02
4. Elio Aggiano (Ita) Refin 0.04
5. Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Estepona 0.04
6. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.04
7. Jürgen Werner (Ger) Refin 0.04
8. Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Refin 0.06
9. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco 0.06
10. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco 0.06
1. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco 4.17.24
2. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics
3. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto
4. Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Refin
5. Andrea Tchmil (Rus) Lotto
6. Orlando Rodrígues (Por) Banesto
7. Luca Pavanello (Ita) Aki
8. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei
9. Elio Aggiano (Ita) Refin
10. Unai Etxebarría (Spa) Euskadi all s.t.
Overall:
1. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics 6.41.57
2. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei s.t.
3. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco 0.02
4. Elio Aggiano (Ita) Refin 0.03
5. Eleuterio Anguita (Spa) Estepona 0.05
6. Fabio Roscioli (Ita) Asics 0.05
7. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto 0.06
8. Jürgen Werner (Ger) Refín 0.06
9. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.06
10. Flavio Balducci (Ita) Refin 0.08
Stage 2 Report
Italian rider Federico Colonna, from team Asics, has
become the new leader of la Vuelta Ciclista a Galicia,
after finishing second on the second stage
(Ferrol-Monforte de Lemos), which was won by Italian
Silvio Martinello, del Saeco. Today's 107km stage
started at 1PM in the streets of Ferrol and proceeded
slowly for the first 20km. The peloton got active with
the arrival of the first slopes of the climb of Igrexa
Feita, a category 2 where Francisco Cabello, from Team
Kelme-Costa Blanca, imposed a strong rhythm, although
Italian Gianluca Bortolami, from Team Festina-Lotus
was the first one to get across the top. This ascent
made an initial selection of 22 riders, where all the
important riders of the race were included. But Team
Euskadi didn't have any riders in that group, so they
worked really hard until they caught that breakaway.
There was again a battle in the peloton when Fabio
Roscioli, from Team Asics, took off by himself until
he reached a maximum advantage of 1 minute, until ONCE
and Euskadi got in front and caught him. Jan Svorada,
the overall leader at the start of the race took
second and third place at the intermediate sprints
and added 3 bonus seconds to his advantage. Then on
the first slopes of the climb of the Oural, a category
2, another select group was formed with Tafi in front
followed by Petito. The peloton reacted again and they
were caught. Then with 20km to go, a few riders tried
lone breakaways, like Alvaro Gonzalez de Galdeano &
Gianni Bugno. Then overall leader until then, Jan
Svorada, stayed behind and lost more than 10 minutes
by the finish. In the last segment the Kelme-Costa
Blanca rider, Francisco Cabello, attempted an escape
but was neutralized by the pull from Saeco, so the
stage was decided in a long sprint, which was won by
Silvio Martinello.
1. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 2.25.48
2. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto
3. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco
4. Stefano Colagè (Ita) Refin.
5. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto
6. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei all s.t.
7. Bruno Boscardin (Ita) Lotus 0.02
8. Juan Carlos Domínguez (Spa) Kelme
9. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics.
10. Gilles Bouvard (Fra) Festina all s.t.
GC after Stage 3a
1. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei
Stage 3a Report
Jan Svorada, rider
for Team Mapei, won today the sprint for the 3rd stage
of la Vuelta a Galicia, over a 97.7km route between
Monforte de Lemos (Lugo) & Orense. Andrea Tafi becomes
the new temporary overall leader, thanks to two bonus
seconds that he achieved with a second place at the
intermediate sprint at Untes. The definite overall
classification for the day will be known this
afternoon after a 13.7km ITT on the streets of Orense.
The first part of the stage was quiet and there were
many flat tires due to the bad shape of the roads.
Gianluca Bortolami crowned the Alto de Chantada, a
category 3 and Colombian Rofin Ramirez was second.
Then on the first slopes of the climb of Pereira, also
a category 3, Bortolami and Marcelino Garcia Alonso
escaped, but the peloton caught them after one
kilometer. The last 50km were a series of escapes,
which caused the peloton to speed up. Melchor Mauri
grabbed the three bonus seconds of bonus when he took
the intermediate sprint at Untes, followed by Tafi &
Colonna. Most of the peloton reached the finish line
together which was settled in the sprint taken by
Svorada.
1. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Once 17.13
2. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.15
3. Armand de las Cuevas (Fra) Banesto 0.19
4. Melchor Mauri (Spa) Once 0.21
5. Vitor Gamito (Por) Estepona 0.24
6. Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Once 0.28
7. Juan Carlos Domínguez (Spa) Kelme 0.29
8. Serguei Gontchar (Ukr) Aki 0.32
9. Andrej Tchmil (Ukr) Lotto 0.34
10. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco 0.36
GC after Stage 3b
1. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Once 9.25.08
2. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.13
3. Melchor Mauri (Spa) Once 0.18
4. Armand de las Cuevas (Fra) Banesto 0.19
5. Vitor Gamito (Por) Estepona 0.24
6. Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Once 0.28
7. Juan Carlos Domínguez (Spa) Kelme 0.29
8. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 0.34
9. Andrej Tchmil (Ukr) Lotto 0.35
10. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco 0.36
Other Classifications
Mountain:
1. Gianluca Bortolami (Lotus) 25 points
2. Andrea Tafi (Mapei) 23
3. Juan Diego Ramirez (ESP-Flavia) 14
Intermediate Sprints:
1. Andrea Tafi (Mapei) 10 points
2. Melchor Mauri (Once) 3
3. Fabio Roscioli (ITA-Asics) 3
Regularity:
1. Jan Svorada (Mapei) 53 points
2. Silvio Martinello (Saeco) 51
3. Federico Colonna (Asics) 48
Stage 3b Report
Spaniard Aitor
Garmendia, from Team ONCE, won the second sector of
the third stage of la Vuelta ciclista a Galicia, a
13.7km individual time trial which has placed him as
the overall leader. Garmendia, who covered the ITT in
17 minutes with 13 seconds, beat Italian Gianluca
Bortomali (Lotus) by 15 seconds, Frenchman Armand de
las Cuevas (Banesto) by 19 seconds and Spaniard
Melchor Mauri (Once) by 21 seconds. The route had a
lot of difficulty and riders like Italian Andrea Tafi,
lost a lot of time and the possibility to wear the
leader's yellow jersey. One of the surprises was not
to find Kelme's Juan Carlos Dominguez, in a higher
placing.
1. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto 4.42.27
2. Andrej Tchmil (Ukr) Lotto.
3. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco
4. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina
5. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics
6. Stefano Colage (Ita) Refin
7. Mauro Bettin (Ita) Refin
8. Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Refin
9. Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Kelme
10. José Ramón Uriarte (Spa) Banesto all s.t.
GC after Stage 4
1. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Once 14.07.35
2. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.13
3. Melchor Mauri (Spa) Once 0.18
4. Armand de las Cuevas (Fra) Banesto 0.19
5. Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Once 0.26
6. Juan Carlos Dominguez (Spa) Kelme 0.27
7. Andrej Tchmil (Ukr) Lotto 0.31
8. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 0.32
9. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco 0.36
10. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei 0.46
1. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 3.44.22
2. Stefano Colage (Ita) Refin
3. Andrej Teteriuk (Kaz) Lotto
4. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei
5. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto
6. Víctor Hugo Peña (Col) Flavia Telecom
7. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco
8. Juan Carlos Domínguez (Spa) Kelme
9. Felice Puttini (Ita) Refin
10. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Once all s.t.
Final overall:
1. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Once 17.51.58
2. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 0.06
3. Armand de las Cuevas (Fra) Banesto 0.19
4. Juan Carlos Domínguez (Spa) Kelme 0.25
5. Iñigo Cuesta (Spa) Once 0.26
6. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 0.32
7. Roberto Petito (Ita) Saeco 0.36
8. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei 0.46
9. Javier Mauleón (Spa) Once 0.53
10. Andrej Teteriuk (Kaz) Lotto 0.57
Other classifications
Mountains:
1. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 41 pts
2. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 33
3. Santi Blanco (Spa) Banesto 14
Metas Volantes:
1. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 12 pts
2. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 8
3. Elio Aggiano (Ita) Refin 6
Points:
1. Jo Planckaert (Bel) Lotto 69 pts
2. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco 67
3. Federico Colonna (Ita) Asics 60
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