Rund um den Henninger Turm, Germany, Cat 1.1

Germany, May 1, 1997

1996 Results and Reports

Race Distance - 206 kms

  1. Bartoli, Michele (Ita) Maglificio MG - Technogym        4:53:30
  2. Riis, Bjarne (Den) Telekom         			0.02   
  3. Gianetti, Mauro (Switz) La Frangaise des Jeux         	0.11   
  4. Roux, Laurent (Fra) TVM         				0.11   
  5. Di Grande, Guiseppe (Ita) Mapei         			0.27   
  6. Herve, Pascal (Fra) Festina         			0.30   
  7. Rebellin, Davide (Ita) La Frangaise des Jeux        	0.35   
  8. Bvlts, Udo (Ger) Telekom         				4.09   
  9. Ullrich, Jan (Ger) Telekom         			4.09   
 10. Chiappucci, Caludio (Ita) Asics         			4.09   
 11. Peeters, Wilfried (Bel) Mapei         			4.21   
 12. Sciandri, Maximilian (GB) La Frangaise des Jeux   
 13. Aldag, Rolf (Ger) Telekom  
 14. Garzelli, Stefano (Ita) Mercatone 
 15. Baldinger, Dirk (Ger) Polti
 16. Meier, Armin (Switz) Batik
 17. Zberg, Beat (Switz) Mercatone
 18. Boogerd, Michael (Ned) Rabobank
 19. Den Bakker, Maarten (Ned) TVM
 20. Toffalori, Paolo (Ita) Batik
 21. Andersson, Michael (Swe) TVM
 22. Savoldelli, Paolo (Ita) Roslotto
 23. Coppolillo, Michele (Ita) Maglificio MG - Technogym
 24. Bouwmans, Eddy (Ned) Foreldorado-Golff
 25. Salmon, Benolt (Fra) Lotto
 26. Meinert-Nielsen, Peter (Den) US Postal
 27. Donati, Massimo (Ita) Saeco
 28. Breukink, Erik (Ned) Rabobank
 29. Madouas, Laurent (Fra) Lotto      				all s.t.
 30. Koncecny, Tomas (Czech Rep) ZVV-Giant-AIS       		5.59   
 31. Colombo, Gabriele (Ita) Batik
 32. Zberg, Marcus (Switz) Mercatone
 33. Zanini, Stefano (Ita) Mapei
 34. Magnien, Emmanuel (Fra) Festina
 35. Huser, Rolf (Switz) Post Suisse Team
 36. Zemke, Jens (Ger) Team N|rnberger
 37. Henn, Christian (Ger) Telekom
 38. Hennebert, Stiphane (Bel) Tonnissteiner
 39. Levevre, David (Fra) Casino - C'est votre equipe
 40. Kastenhuber, Alexander (Ger) Team N|rnberger
 41. McRae, Chann (USA) Die Continentale / Olympia
 42. M|ller, Dirk (Ger) ECB
 43. Hotz, Franz (Switz) Post Suisse Team
 44. Ivanov, Serguei (Rus) TVM
 45. Hundertmark, Kai (Ger) Telekom
 46. Blaudzun, Michael (Den) Rabobank
 47. Cenghialta, Bruno (Ita) Batik
 48. Tafi, Andrea (Ita) Mapei
 49. Heppner, Jens (Ger) Telekom
 50. Fornaciari, Paolo (Ita) Saeco
 51. Dall'Olio, Davide (Ita) Mercatone
 52. Casagrande, Francesco (Ita) Saeco
 53. Brasi, Rossano (Ita) Polti
 54. Audehm, Gerd (Ger) Team N|rnberger
 55. Gottschling, Stephan (Ger) Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
 56. Buschor, Philipp (Switz) Saeco
 57. Robin, Jean-Cyril (Fra) US Postal
 58. Farazijn, Peter (Bel) Lotto
 59. Meier, Roland (Switz) Post Suisse Team
 60. Molinari, Maurizio (Ita) Asics
 61. Brozyna, Thomas (Pol) US Postal
 62. Chassot, Richard (Switz) Post Suisse Team
 63. Pozzi, Oscar (Ita) Asics
 64. Lecchi, Angelo (Ita) Maglificio MG - Technogym
 65. Bourquenoud, Pierre (Switz) Post Suisse Team
 66. Missaglia, Gabriele (Ita) Mapei
 67. Pumar, Omar (Ven) Brescialat
 68. Van Wyfte, Paul (Bel) Lotto
 69. Mattan, Nico (Bel) Mapei
 70. Fleischer, Thomas (Ger) Lotto
 71. White, Matthew (Australia) ZVV-Giant-AIS
 72. Outschakov, Serguei (Ukr) Polti
 73. Scirea, Mario (Ita) Saeco
 74. Artunghi, Marco (Ita) Mercatone
 75. Voskamp, Bart (Ned) TVM
 76. Luttenberger, Peter (Austria) Rabobank
 77. Bruyneel, Johan (Bel) Rabobank
 78. Van Bon, Leon (Ned) Rabobank
 79. Moos, Alexandre (Switz) Saeco       			all s.t.

U23

  1. Pieter Vries (Ned), 168 km in 4.18.19
  2. Jacques Peeters (Ned)            s.t.
  3. Renco van den Ven (Ned)        + 0.19
  4. Werner Fatheiner (Aut) 
  5. Christian von Dartel (Ned)
  6. Fabrice Parent (Fra)          all s.t.

Women

  1. Karen Kurreck (Usa), 50 km in 1.10.26
  2. Carmen Richardson (Usa)
  3. Evi Gensheimer (Ger)
  4. Barbara Heeb (Sch)
  5. Natalia Junganjuk (Sch)      all s.t.

Report

Italian Michele Bartoli (MG) won today the G.P. of Frankfurt (206 kms.), a race in which Dane Bjarne Riis (Telekom), who finished in second place once again gave an exhibition and confirmed his great form. Riis, who on April 26 won the Amstel Gold Race with authority, was one of the main protagonist in Germany. The Telekom rider started the decisive attack. Riis was joined by Bartoli, Swiss Mauro Gianetti and the French Laurent Roux and Pascal Herve. Riis attacked them succesively, but his attempts were in vain.

In his fourth and last attempt, at seven kilometers, Riis achieved his objective. Only Bartoli was able to follow him and in the final straightaway took away the victory. In the end Riis paid for his earlier efforts and gave up two seconds on the arrival. In this way Bartoli achieved his fifth win of the season and prevented Telekom from taking the win on the only Classic disputed in Germany.

Report from Karen

Today we went to Frankfurt for the Henninger Tour. This is a big race for the Pros and all the big teams were there. The Pros start in town, then race about 200km in the hills and then do a few laps on a finishing curcuit in town. WHile they are out, there was a women's race as well as several Jr. categories that raced just on the finishing curcuit. We were definitely the side show. Still, there were lots of crowds and it was a big event so it was fun. They even had a race with 10-12 yr. olds and there were probably 20 kids racing. This is why there are so many good riders in Europe! They all had bikes with the saddle down resting on the top tube and some of them looked like they could still could barely reach the pedals!

Our race was 10 laps of a 5 km circuit and there was a 300-400m long hill up to the Start/Finish. The rest of the course was pretty flat. There were supposed to be 60 starters, but it looked like less to me. It was mostly German riders. Carmen and Mari raced for their German team along with Ann Samplonious and a few others. World Champ Barbara Heeb was there. Viola Paulitz was there but somehow missed the start warming up!! The US team was Julie H. and I. Hanke and her team were off at the Tour of Majorca.

The Euregio Team (Carmen & Mari's team) was very aggressive. Ann and Mandy Hempel attacked a number of times on the flat sections and the descent. Mari went a few times too. I tried to cover what I could and Barbara and I went hard up the hill pretty much every time and were able to bring back anyone who was off. Barbara never really attacked, but she just went hard for a long time and broke things up. By the halfway point, the lead group was down to 11 riders. With 3 laps to go, Barbara and I made a joint effort to really get away on the climb. We did get a gap with a German rider (Evi Gensheimer, I think). Mari bridged shortly after up but didn't want to work and Evi wasn't doing a whole lot either and we were caught by the end of the lap. At that point, it was pretty clear it was going to be a sprint. I won and Carmen was 2nd. I think it was Evi who was 3rd. Barbara was 4th, Julie was 8th and Mari was 10th.

For the first time since we've been here, the sun was shining in Germany and we actually raced in shorts!! After we got back to the base, we watched the men finish on the same circuit we did on EuroSport. It was kind of cool. Part of our race was on too at some point - some people here at the base had seen it.