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5th Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale Coppi-Bartali - 2.1
Italy, March 22-26, 2005
Stage 1a - March 22: Riccione - Riccione, 95.2 km
Bongiorno gallops to first Italian win
By Shane Stokes in Riccione
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Argentinean sprinter Guillermo Ruben Bongiorno took the first stage of the Settimana Internazionale de Coppi Bartali today, galloping in ahead of a fragmented main field at the end of the opening 95.2 kilometre circuit race. The Ceramica Panaria Navigare rider beat Francesco Chicchi (Fassa Bortolo), Danilo Napolitano (Team LPR), Olympic champion Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) plus several others in the dash for the line at Riccione, landing the stage win and the first leader’s jersey of the race.
Bongiorno was one of a small number of riders who were not affected by a large crash inside the final 200 metres. Aging Russian star Dmitri Konyshev (LPR) also ended the morning stage on the podium, snagging the King of the Mountains jersey during a long, but unsuccessful, bid for stage victory.
"I was very happy to get the win today," said Bongiorno after the podium presentation. "I’ve taken some stages in the Tour de Langkawi, but this is my first victory in Italy." The 26 year-old was previously fourth and sixth on stages in the Settimana Internazionale Coppi-Bartali in 2003.
How it unfolded
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After a sunny (but slightly chilly) start in the middle of the seaside town of Riccione, Konyshev cleared off early on in the first 10.6 kilometre lap. By the time he crossed the start-finish line along the seafront, he had built a lead of 1:45 over an unphased-looking main field. He continued to increase this advantage, the gap rising to 3:19 by the end of lap two and then peaking at 4:12 one lap later.
Thereafter, the bunch started to accelerate. The Lampre team moved to the front and set about reducing his lead, taking it down to just 1:25 by the end of lap five, and halving it again over the next 10 kilometres.
Shortly afterwards, Giairo Ermetti moved clear of the field and bridged the gap, joining up with Konyshev at the bell. Yet despite his input, the lead was down to just 14 seconds at this point, and Lampre succeeded in bringing it all together very soon afterwards.
That set things up for a big bunch gallop. However, a crash with 150 metres to go put paid to the chances of most of the field, with just a handful of riders fighting it out for the win. In the sprint, Bongiorno proved clearly faster than Francesco Chicchi (Fassa Bortolo), Danilo Napolitano (Team LPR), Olympic champion Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step) plus several others, landing the stage win and the first leader’s jersey.
The rest of the main field were held up behind the fallen riders who included, amongst others, Radoslav Rogina (Tenax Nobili Rubinetterie), Giuliano Figueras and Marius Sabaliauskas (Lampre Caffita), Giuseppe Palumbo and Alexandr Arekeev (Acqua&Sapone Adria Mobil), Paolo Bailetti and Marco Marcato (Team Androni Giocattoli 3C) plus Barloworld-Valsir’s Enrico Degano. Most were able to remount and cross the line, although a bloodied Figueras was taken away to hospital for further examination.
The race continues this afternoon with a 12 kilometre team time trial, starting in Misano Adriatico’s Piazza Roma and taking the riders on a flat, technical course back to Misano’s Via Dante.
Photography
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- Eddy Merckx and Stefano Garzelli
- Shaking hands: the "cannibal" and Damiano Cunego
- Paolo Bettini and Merckx speaking of the road cycling reform?
- The peloton on its way on the circuit course!
- Crossing the line for the first time
- The big favourite: Damiano Cunego
- The Giro 2004 winner racing again
- The crash
- Moments later, a few spared riders sprint towards the line
- Giuliano Figueras in serious pain
- From a bunch sprint into hospital
- Guillermo Ruben Bongiorno outsprints his rivals
- Danilo Napolitano in front, leaving the crash behind
- Time to raise arms!
- V as in... Victory for the Panaria sprinter
- Bongiorno getting his kisses
- And putting on the jersey
- The stage podium
- First Italian win for Bongiorno
Results
1 Guillermo Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 2.16.23 2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R. 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step 5 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 6 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 8 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 9 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Miche 10 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 11 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 12 Davide Vigano' (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 13 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 14 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 16 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 17 Stefano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 18 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 19 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 20 Jan Svorada (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 21 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 22 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 23 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 24 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 25 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 26 Manuele Spadi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 27 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 28 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 29 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 31 Massimo Iannetti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 32 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 33 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 34 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 35 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 36 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 37 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 38 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 39 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 40 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 41 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 42 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 43 Elia Aggiano (Ita) Team L.P.R. 44 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R. 45 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Colombia-Selle Italia 46 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Team L.P.R. 47 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 48 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 49 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 50 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 51 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 52 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 53 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 54 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 55 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 56 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 57 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 58 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 59 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 60 Juan Pablo Magallanes Aranda (Mex) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casaling 61 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 62 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 63 Kensichtsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 64 Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick Step 65 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 66 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 67 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 68 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 69 Charly Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 70 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 71 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 72 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Team L.P.R. 73 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick Step 74 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 75 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 76 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 77 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 78 Scott Davis (Aus) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 79 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 80 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Ceramica Flaminia 81 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 82 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Miche 83 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 84 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 85 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 86 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R. 87 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 88 Timothy Jones (Zim) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 89 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 90 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 92 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 93 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 94 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 95 Nicola Scattolin (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 96 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 97 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step 98 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 99 Guido Trombetta (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 100 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 101 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 102 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 1.36 103 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 104 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 105 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 106 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 107 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 108 Kirk O'bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 109 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 110 Jan Valach (Svk) Ed' System-Zvvz 111 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 112 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 113 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team L.P.R. 114 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 115 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 116 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 117 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 118 Aleksandr Kychinski (Blr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 119 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 120 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 121 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 122 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 123 Marco Osella (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 124 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 125 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 127 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 128 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 129 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 130 Petr Bencik (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 131 Luca Celli (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 132 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 133 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 134 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 135 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 136 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 137 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 138 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 139 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 140 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 141 Ad Engels (Ned) Quick Step 2.49 142 Michele Maccanti (Ita) Team L.P.R. 143 Massimiliano Martella (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 144 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 145 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 2.49 146 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 147 Jose Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick Step 148 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 149 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 150 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 151 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 152 Nathan O'neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 153 Corrado Serina (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 154 Enrico Degano (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 155 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 156 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 157 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Lampre-Caffita DNS Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNS Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare General classification after stage 1 1 Guillermo Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 2.16.17 2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 0.02 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team L.P.R. 0.04 4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step 0.06 5 Artur Krzeszowiec (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 6 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 8 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 9 Fabio Borghesi (Ita) Miche 10 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 11 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 12 Davide Vigano' (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 13 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 14 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 16 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 17 Stefano Boggia (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 18 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 19 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 20 Jan Svorada (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 21 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 22 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 23 Leonardo Moser (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 24 Pavel Zerzan (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 25 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 26 Manuele Spadi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 27 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 28 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 29 Florian Stalder (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 31 Massimo Iannetti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 32 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 33 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 34 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 35 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 36 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 37 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia 38 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 39 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 40 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 41 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 42 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 43 Elia Aggiano (Ita) Team L.P.R. 44 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Team L.P.R. 45 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Colombia-Selle Italia 46 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Team L.P.R. 47 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche 48 Roger Beuchat (Swi) Team Barloworld-Valsir 49 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 50 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 51 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 52 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 53 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 54 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 55 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 56 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 57 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 58 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 59 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 60 Juan Pablo Magallanes Aranda (Mex) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casaling 61 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 62 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 63 Kensichtsin Siutsou (Blr) Fassa Bortolo 64 Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick Step 65 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick Step 66 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 67 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 68 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick Step 69 Charly Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 70 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 71 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 72 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Team L.P.R. 73 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick Step 74 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 75 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 76 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 77 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 78 Scott Davis (Aus) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 79 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 80 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Ceramica Flaminia 81 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 82 Giairo Ermetti (Ita) Miche 83 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 84 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 85 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 86 Daniele Contrini (Ita) Team L.P.R. 87 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 88 Timothy Jones (Zim) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 89 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 90 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 91 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 92 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 93 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 94 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 95 Nicola Scattolin (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 96 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 97 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step 98 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 99 Guido Trombetta (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 100 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 101 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 102 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Colombia-Selle Italia 103 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Colombia-Selle Italia 104 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 105 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 106 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 107 Kirk O'bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 108 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 109 Jan Valach (Svk) Ed' System-Zvvz 110 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 111 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 112 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team L.P.R. 113 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Team Barloworld-Valsir 114 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 115 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 116 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 117 Aleksandr Kychinski (Blr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 118 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 119 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 120 Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 121 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze 122 Marco Osella (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 123 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 124 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 125 Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Martin Mares (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 127 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 128 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 129 Petr Bencik (Cze) Ed' System-Zvvz 130 Luca Celli (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 131 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 132 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 133 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 134 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 135 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 136 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 137 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 138 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 139 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 140 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 141 Eddy Serri (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 142 Luciano Pagliarini (Bra) Liquigas-Bianchi 143 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 144 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 145 Nathan O'neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 146 Corrado Serina (Ita) Tenax-Nobili Rubinetterie 147 Enrico Degano (Ita) Team Barloworld-Valsir 148 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 149 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 150 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 151 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 1.42 152 Ad Engels (Ned) Quick Step 2.55 153 Michele Maccanti (Ita) Team L.P.R. 154 Massimiliano Martella (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia 155 Andreas Dietziker (Swi) Ed' System-Zvvz 156 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil 157 Jose Antonio Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick Step
