The Last Amateur Men's World Road Race


Amateur Men's Road Race, 177 km/106 miles, 7 Oct 95

1. Danny Nelissen, Holland 04:52:39 2. Daniele Sgnaolin, Italy at 13 seconds 3. Pedro Rodriguez, Ecuador at 46 seconds 4. Victor Becerra, Colombia same time 5. Marco Fincato, Italy at 1 minute 50 seconds 6. Nicolaj Bo Larsen, Denmark same time 7. Jose Vanegas, Colombia at 2:42 8. Matthew Stephens, Britain at 4:26 9. Manuel Guevera, Venezuela at 4:51 10. Hector Chiles, Ecuador at 6:49 11. Oskar Camenzind, Switzerland at 7:07 12. Romans Vainsteins, Latvia s.t. 13. Candido Barbosa, Portugal s.t. 14. Israel Sarmiento, Colombia s.t. 15. Philippe Bordenave, France s.t. 16. Valentino Fois, Italy s.t. 17. Igor Bonciukov, Moldovia s.t. 18. Eric Frutoso, Italy at 7:53 19. Markus Andersson, Sweden at 8:19 20. Elder Herrera, Colombia at 9:48 21. Felipe Lopez, Guatamala s.t. 22. Albeiro Giraldo, Colombia at 10:24 23. Felix Cardenas, Colombia at 11:04 24. Paulo Caicedo, Ecuador at 11:30 25. Jan Valach, Slovakia at 11:43 26. Dominique Rault, France s.t. 27. Oleg Pankov, Ukraine at 12:12 28. Alexandre Charapov, Belarus s.t. 29. Andrei Kivilev, Kazakhstan s.t. 30. Jean-Yves Duzellier, France s.t. 31. Stephan Gottschling, Germany s.t. 32. Tobies Steinhauser, Germany s.t. 33. Andrei Mizouroiv, Kazakhstan s.t. 34. Adan Juarez, Mexico s.t. 35. Guisseppe Di Grande, Italy at 13.48 36. Oleg Polovnikov, Russia at 14:38 37. Igor Pougatch, Moldovia at 15:07 38. Artour Babaitcev, Russia s.t. 39. Tomasz Brozyna, Poland s.t. 40. Morten Sonne, Denmark s.t. 41. Casper Van Der Meer, Holland all s.t. 42. Damian McDonald, Australia at 15:28 43. Jan Boven, Holland at 15:54 44. Jan Reuss, Germany s.t. 45. Denis Leproux, France s.t. 46. Eliecer Valdez, Cuba s.t. 47. Marcio May, Brazil at 16:06 48. Allen andersson, Sweden at 17:18 49. Michael Carter, U.S. s.t. 50. Klas Johnasson, Sweden s.t. 51. Arnoldas Saprykinas, Lithuania at 17:35 52. Rouslan Ivanov, Moldovia s.t. 53. Nikolai Kupriavtcev, Russia s.t. 54. Raivis Belohvostiks, Latvia at 17:44 55. Paul Brosnan, Australia s.t. 56. Eric Wohlberg, Canada s.t. 57. Ronel Bermudez, Venezuela at 18:38 58. Brett Dennis, Australia at 18:58 59. Saulius Sarkauskas, Lithuania s.t. 60. Sebastien Demarbaix, Belgium at 20:09 61. Daulet Sapajanov, Kazakhstan s.t. 62. Jeff Evanshine, U.S. at 20:14 63. Eduardo Uribe, Mexico s.t. 64. Csaba Szekeres, Hungary s.t. 65. Uwe Peschel, Germany s.t. 66. Massimiliano Gentili, Italy s.t. 67. Bogdan Ravbar, Slovenia all s.t. 68. Josep Lontscharitsch, Austria at 20:49 69. Oscar Mollar, Spain at 20:57 70. Stig Guldbaek, Denmark at 21:08 71. Kari Myyrylainen, Finland s.t. 72. Daniel Rogelin, Brazil both s.t. 73. Raido Kodanipork, Estonia at 21:28 74. Gabriel Rodriguez, Brazil s.t. 75. Chris Jenner, New Zealand s.t. 76. Juris Silovs, Latvia at 21:33 77. Dennis Rasmussen, Denmark at 21:50 78. Luis Muj, Guatemala s.t. 79. Dariusz Baranowski, Poland at 22:06 80. Gonzalo Garrido, Chile at 22:22 81. Kelvin Martin, Australia s.t. 82. Daniel Atienza, Spain s.t. 83. Omar Ochoa, Guatemala s.t. 84. Dirk Muller, Germany s.t. 85. Allan Wolhuter, South Africa at 23:45 86. Ernesto Manchon, Spain at 24:13 87. Kazimierz Stafiej, Poland at 24:56 88. Fred Rodriguez, U.S. s.t. 89. Hans Pijpers, Holland s.t. 90. Yoshiyuki Abe, Japan at 26:39 91. Artak Mkrthian, Armenia at 27:33 92. Ivanas Romanovas, Lithuanaia at 28:24 93. Alexei Nakazny, Ukraine s.t. 94. Rene Andrle, Czech Republic at 28:54 95. Pedro Lopes, Portugal s.t. 96. Rodrigo Mora, Costa Rica s.t. 97. Beat Huber, Switzerland s.t. 98. Milan Dvorscik, Slovakia at 29:45 99. Peter Wrolich, Austria at 31:00 100. Roland Green, Canada s.t. 101. Alexandre Vinokourov, Kazakhstan at 31:23 102. Esa Skytta, Finland s.t. 103. Alexandre Kornatov, Russia at 31:27 104. Martin Kukk, Estonia at 32:36 105. Tomasz Kloczko, Poland at 33:31 106. Pedro Soeiro, Portugal s.t. 107. Robert Harris, Britain s.t. 108. Irving Aguilar, Mexico at 34:39 109. Victor Garrido, Chile at 36:54 110. Matt Anand, Canda at 37:58 111. Allan Iacuone, Australia s.t.
   * Nelissen broke away during a steep descent on the penultimate lap of
the 10-lap race. "Before the last lap, I felt that I had to attack because
everybody was dead," said Nelissen.

   * "This year I decided to race with the amateurs. I did the best I could
and I let the whole world see that I am good enough to be a professional
again," he said. Nelissen was a professional rider until last year when he
lost his contract with the TVM team.

   * The first 34 nations represented in the finishing order earned five
places in the road race at next year's Olympic Games in Atlanta. The
following countries qualified: Netherlands, Italy, Ecuador, Colombia,
Denmark, Britain, Venezuela, Switzerland, Latvia, Portugal, France,
Moldova, Sweden, Guatamala, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Germany, Mexico, Russia, Poland, Australia, Cuba, Brazil, United States,
Lithuania, Canada, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Spain and Finland.