Hereby the new official U.C.I rating of May 1th 1996. The results of the last classics race Henninger Turm (1.1) were NOT included, as it was held on the 1 of May. 1. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) 2654 Ptn. 2. Miguel Indurain (Spa) 1899 3. Tony Rominger (Sui) 1660 4. Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1306 5. Francesco Casagrande(Ita) 1107 6. Alex Zulle (Sui) 1045 7. Lance Armstrong (US) 1015 8. Abraham Olano (Spa) 997 9. Andre Tsjmil (Ukr) 919 10. Stefano Zanini (Ita) 824 11. Melchor Mauri (Spa) 818 12. Vlatsjeslav Ekimov (Rus) 806 13. Pascal Richard (Sui) 802 14. Richard Virenque (Fra) 765 15. Claudio Chiapucci (Ita) 702 16. Gabriele Colombo (Ita) 700 17. Evgueni Berzin (Rus) 685 18. Rolf S=F6rensen (Dan) 672 19. Michele Bartoli (Ita) 646 20. Mauro Gianetti (Sui) 641 21. Fabio Baldato (Ita) 637 22. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) 630 23. Chris Boardman (GBr) 615 24. Beat Zberg (Sui) 610 25. Alexandre Gontsjenkov(Rus) 609 26. Maurizio Fondriest (Ita) 606 27. Fransesco Frattini (Ita) 600 28. Eric Zabel (Ger) 598 29. Adriano Baffi (Ita) 586 30. Wilfried Nelissen (Bel) 573
As the classics season closes and the pro-riders are taking a holiday of two to three weeks, the lesser gods will have a chance to pick up some points in the first half of May.
With the Giro coming up and the Tour the France following up, other names will score in the next three months to come.
For those interested. See the UCI listing at the beginning of this year and look who advanced most in the classical races. My tips are Colombo and Gontsjenkov.
By the way, the so called Italian superiority is NOT so evident in this rating-system.
11 nationalities are represented:
Italy 9 - Switzerland (5!) - Spain 3 - Russia 3 - Belgium 3 - France 2 and one each for US - Germany - Denmark - Ukraine- Great Britain