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6th Giro della Provincia di Lucca - 2.3Italy, February 24-27, 2004Stage 1 - February 24: Viareggio-Capannori, 174kmLet the games begin!Petacchi strikes firstAlessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) has taken first blood against top sprint rival Mario Cipollini, winning the first stage of the Giro della Provincia di Lucca ahead of the former world champion and comptatriot Angelo Furlan (Alessio-Bianchi). After a tame opening stage, where the peloton opted to play it piano, the leadout trains went to work and in the end it was Petacchi who had the fastest kick, taking his first win of the season. Taking advantage of the day's slow start, Slovenian Dean Podgornik (Tenax) took off on a solo escape. Podgornick steadily built a substantial lead as Miche's Massimiliano Martella gave chase in an effort to join the move. With an average speed of just 33 km/h in the first hour, it was clear the sprinters' teams were just biding their time before the frantic charge to the line. By the 60 kilometre mark Podgornik had over ten minutes in hand over the peloton, with Martella stuck in no-man's land four minutes behind the leader. The lead peaked after 100 kilometres of racing, when Petacchi's Fassa Bortolo team decided 12 minutes was enough fun for one breakaway. What took Podgornik 100 kilometres to establish evaporated in just 35 as the peloton whipped itself into shape and reeled in the two escapees. Over the first of two finishing circuits in Capannori the field was already charging at a pace of 46 km/h, primarily led by Cipollini's Domina Vacanze team. The speed would only increase as the field bore down on the finish at an average of nearly 55 km/h on the second circuit. Lorenzo Bernucci (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) somehow escaped the bunch in an effort to surprise the sprinters, but his attack was short-lived with 8km to go. Meanwhile, a crash took out Marco Zanotti (Vini Caldirola) and Simone Cadamuro (De Nardi), but both finished within a few minutes of the winner. As the field hit the final straight, the expected showdown between Petacchi and Cipollini came to a head. Super Mario had no answer for Petacchi, the top sprinter of 2003, as the Fassa Bortolo leader opened his account against his top rival. PhotographyImages by Fotoreporter Sirotti
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Results1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.24.14 (39.510 km/h) 2 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 0.01 4 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 5 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Tenax 7 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 8 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 10 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 11 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 12 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 13 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Berretta 14 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 15 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 16 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 17 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) De Nardi 18 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 19 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Team LPR 20 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Miche 21 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 22 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Team LPR 23 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 24 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 25 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 26 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita-Berretta 27 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 28 Nicola Loda (Ita) Tenax 29 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone 30 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 31 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Miche 32 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 33 Sergiy Adyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 35 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 36 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax 37 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 38 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita-Berretta 39 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 40 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita-Berretta 41 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 42 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 43 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 44 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 45 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Acqua & Sapone 46 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47 Manuel Calvente Gorbas (Spa) Team CSC 48 Francisco Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 49 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 50 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 51 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 52 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 53 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 54 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 55 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 56 Yuri Mitlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 57 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 58 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 59 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 60 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 62 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 63 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 64 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 65 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 66 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 67 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 69 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi 70 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 71 Igor Pugaci (Mda) De Nardi 72 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 73 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 74 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 75 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 76 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 77 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 78 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 79 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 80 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 81 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team LPR 82 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 83 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 84 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 85 Andrei Karpatchev (Rus) Team LPR 86 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Berretta 87 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 88 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 89 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 90 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 91 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 92 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 93 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 94 Dmitri Semov (Rus) Miche 95 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Berretta 96 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 97 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 98 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 99 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 100 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Domina Vacanze 101 Stefano Ciuffi (Ita) Amore & Vita-Berretta 102 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 103 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 104 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 105 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 106 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 107 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 108 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 109 Koos Moerenhout NED Lotto-Domo 110 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 111 Giuliano Sulpizi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 112 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 113 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 114 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 115 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi 116 Mario Scirea (Ita) Domina Vacanze 117 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 118 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 119 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 120 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 121 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 122 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 123 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 124 Andoni Aranga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 125 Oscar Mason (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 126 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 127 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 128 Danilo Andreacci (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 129 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 130 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 131 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 132 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team LPR 133 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 134 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 135 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 136 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 137 Sereiy Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 138 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 139 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 140 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 141 Huberlino Mesa Estepa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 142 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 143 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 144 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 145 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.30 146 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 0.40 147 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Tenax 0.47 148 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.49 149 Trent Wilson (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 150 Jure Golcer (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 151 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 152 Serguei Lelekin (Rus) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 0.54 153 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 0.57 154 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 1.00 155 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 1.07 156 Massimo Boglia (Ita) Team LPR 157 Martin Derganc (Slo) Domina Vacanze 1.32 158 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 159 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Tenax 2.09 160 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 2.42 161 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Miche 2.47 162 Massimiliano Martella (Ita) Miche 163 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi 4.38 164 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie DNS Marco Cedroni (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave DNF Tom Southam (GBr) Amore & Vita-Berretta DNF Bradley McGee (Aus) FDJeux.com General classification after stage 1 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.24.14 2 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 0.01 4 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 5 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Tenax 7 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Team CSC 8 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 10 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 11 Nicola Gavazzi (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 12 Christophe Detilloux (Bel) Lotto-Domo 13 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Berretta 14 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 15 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 16 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 17 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) De Nardi 18 Maxim Rudenko (Ukr) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 19 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Team LPR 20 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Miche 21 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 22 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Team LPR 23 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 24 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 25 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 26 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita-Berretta 27 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 28 Nicola Loda (Ita) Tenax 29 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone 30 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 31 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Miche 32 Ief Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 33 Sergiy Adyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 34 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 35 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 36 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax 37 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 38 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita-Berretta 39 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 40 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita-Berretta 41 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 42 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 43 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 44 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 45 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Acqua & Sapone 46 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47 Manuel Calvente Gorbas (Spa) Team CSC 48 Francisco Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 49 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 50 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 51 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 52 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 53 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 54 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 55 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 56 Yuri Mitlushenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 57 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 58 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 59 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 60 Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 62 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 63 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 64 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 65 Marco Milesi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 66 Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 67 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 68 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 69 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi 70 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 71 Igor Pugaci (Mda) De Nardi 72 Bekim Christensen (Den) Team CSC 73 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 74 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 75 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 76 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 77 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 78 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 79 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 80 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 81 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team LPR 82 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 83 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre 84 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Alessio-Bianchi 85 Andrei Karpatchev (Rus) Team LPR 86 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Berretta 87 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 88 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 89 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 90 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 91 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 92 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 93 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 94 Dmitri Semov (Rus) Miche 95 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Berretta 96 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 97 Ellis Rastelli (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 98 Florent Brard (Fra) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 99 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 100 Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Domina Vacanze 101 Stefano Ciuffi (Ita) Amore & Vita-Berretta 102 Santo Anza (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 103 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 104 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 105 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 106 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 107 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 108 Axel Merckx (Bel) Lotto-Domo 109 Koos Moerenhout NED Lotto-Domo 110 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Domo 111 Giuliano Sulpizi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 112 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre 113 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 114 Ruslan Gryschenko (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 115 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi 116 Mario Scirea (Ita) Domina Vacanze 117 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 118 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 119 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 120 Dave Bruylandts (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 121 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 122 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 123 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 124 Andoni Aranga Azkune (Spa) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 125 Oscar Mason (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 126 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 127 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 128 Danilo Andreacci (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 129 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) FDJeux.com 130 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 131 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 132 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team LPR 133 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 134 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 135 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 136 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 137 Sereiy Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 138 Ruber Alveiro Marin (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 139 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 140 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre 141 Huberlino Mesa Estepa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 142 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 143 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 144 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 145 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 0.30 146 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 0.40 147 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Tenax 0.47 148 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.49 149 Trent Wilson (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 150 Jure Golcer (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 151 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 152 Serguei Lelekin (Rus) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave 0.54 153 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 0.57 154 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 1.00 155 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 1.07 156 Massimo Boglia (Ita) Team LPR 157 Martin Derganc (Slo) Domina Vacanze 1.32 158 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 159 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Tenax 2.09 160 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf 2.42 161 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Miche 2.47 162 Massimiliano Martella (Ita) Miche 163 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) De Nardi 4.38 164 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie |
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