9th Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali - 2.1

Italy, March 24-28, 2009

2008 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners

The Stages

Stage 1a - March 24: Riccione - Riccione, 81.2km
Stage 1b - March 24: Misano Adriatico, TTT, 14.3km
Stage 2 - March 25: San Lazzaro - Faenza, 182.1km
Stage 3 - March 26: Borgo San Lorenzo - Serramazzoni, 163.4km
Stage 4 - March 27: Massa Finalese - Finale Emilia, 162.8km
Stage 5 - March 28: Scandiano - Sassuolo, 178.5km

Coppi e Bartali begins with quality field

Cadel Evans during the Ruta del Sol.
Photo ©: Roberto Bettini

The Vuelta a Castilla y León has garnered the cycling world's media attention this week but another important Giro d'Italia warm-up race begins in Italy today – the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali.

While Alberto Contador, Carlos Sastre, Alejandro Valverde and Denis Menchov are battling it out on Spanish roads, Grand Tour contenders Cadel Evans and Damiano Cunego will ride the five-day event that takes riders around the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscana regions.

Evans has been busy testing equipment after a solid performance in Paris-Nice, where he finished 21st overall. It's an indication the Australian is timing the peaks in his form well ahead of the Tour de France, and Coppi e Bartali serves as another important part of that process.

Cunego will also be using the race as preparation, albeit this year's Giro d'Italia, where he will again start as one of the favourites for the overall crown. The diminuitive Lampre rider will be up against countrymen Danilo Di Luca and Michele Scarponi, with the latter recently winning Tirreno-Adriatico.

Team Liquigas will focus on sprint stage wins however, with Francesco Chicchi heading a lineup that includes Kjell Carlström, Claudio Corioni, Vladimir Miholjevic, Andrea Noè, Gorazd Stangelj, Sylwester Szmyd and Brian Bach Vandborg.

Start list

Silence-Lotto                                Lampre - N.G.C.
 
1 Cadel Evans (Aus)                          11 Damiano Cunego (Ita)
2 Mario Aerts (Bel)                          12 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita)
3 Christophe Brandt (Bel)                    13 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita)
4 Francis De Greef (Bel)                     14 Andrea Grendene (Ita)
5 Pieter Jacobs (Bel)                        15 Marco Marzano (Ita)
6 Thomas Dekker (Ned)                        16 Volodymyr Zagorodny (Ukr)
7 Johan Van Summeren (Bel)                   17 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita)
8 Charles Wegelius (GBr)                     18 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita)
 
Liquigas                                     Team Katusha
 
21 Francesco Chicchi (Ita)                   31 Pavel Brutt (Rus)
22 Kjell Carlström (Fin)                     32 Nikita Eskov (Rus)
23 Claudio Corioni (Ita)                     33 Christian Pfannberger (Aut)
24 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro)                 34 Serguei Klimov (Rus)
25 Andrea Noe (Ita)                          35 Luca Mazzanti (Ita)
26 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo)                     36 Nikolay Trusov (Rus)
27 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol)                     37 Alexander Serov (Rus)
28 Brian Vandborg (Den)                      38 Danilo Napolitano (Ita)
 
Team Saxo Bank                               Team Columbia - Highroad
 
41 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus)                   51 Marco Pinotti (Ita)
42 André Steensen (Den)                      52 Adam Hansen (Aus)
43 Fabian Cancellara (Swi)                   53 Greg Henderson (NZl)
44 Domenik Klemme (Ger)                      54 Craig Lewis (USA)
45 Jason McCartney (USA)                     55 Morris Possoni (Ita)
46 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel)                   56 Michael Rogers (Aus)
47 Nicki Sörensen (Den)                      57 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr)
 
LPR Brakes  - Farnese Vini                   Barloworld
 
61 Marco Cattaneo (Ita)                      71 Juan Mauricio Soler (Col)
62 Claudio Cucinotta (Ita)                   72 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA)
63 Roberto Ferrari (Ita)                     73 Francesco Bellotti (Ita)
64 Jure Golcer (Slo)                         74 Félix Rafael Cardenas (Col)
65 Sergio Lagana (Ita)                       75 Carlo Scognamiglio (Ita)
66 Matteo Montaguti (Ita)                    76 Christopher Froome (GBr)
67 Fabio Negri (Ita)                         77 Daryl Impey (RSA)
68 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita)              78 Michele Merlo (Ita)
 
Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo               CSF Group - Navigare
 
81 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita)                  91 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita)
82 Alessandro Fantini (Ita)                  92 Mauro Finetto (Ita)
83 Dario Andriotto (Ita)                     93 Fortunato Baliani (Ita)
84 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita)                  94 Marco Frapporti (Ita)
85 Simone Masciarelli (Ita)                  95 Federico Canuti (Ita)
86 Diego Milan Jimenez (Spa)                 96 Filippo Savini (Ita)
87 Luca Paolini (Ita)                        97 Mauro Abel Richeze (Arg)
88 Luca Pierfelici (Ita)                     98 Alan Marangoni (Ita)
 
Amica Chips - Knauf                          Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
 
101 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita)               111 Thomas Bertolini (Ita)
102 Igor Astarloa (Spa)                      112 Manuel Belletti (Ita)
103 Santo Anza (Ita)                         113 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi)
104 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro)                 114 Luca Celli (Ita)
105 Eddy Ratti (Ita)                         115 Francesco De Bonis (Ita)
106 Edoardo Girardi (Ita)                    116 Alberto Loddo (Ita)
107 Andrei Kunitski (Blr)                    117 Leonardo Moser (Ita)
108 Branislau Samoilau (Blr)                 118 Jose Serpa (Col)
 
ISD                                          Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce
 
121 Giovanni Visconti (Ita)                  131 Filippo Simeoni (Ita)
122 Dario David Cioni (Ita)                  132 Cristiano Fumagalli (Ita)
123 Oscar Gatto (Ita)                        133 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu)
124 Ian Stannard (GBr)                       134 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita)
125 Andriy Grivko (Ukr)                      135 Luigi Sestili (Ita)
126 Maxim Belkov (Rus)                       136 Bernardo Riccio (Ita)
127 Alessandro Proni (Ita)                   137 Enrico Rossi (Ita)
128 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita)                 138 Alessandro Maserati (Ita)
 
Elk Haus                                     PSK Whirlpool - Author
 
141 Markus Eibegger (Aut)                    151 Martin Hebik (Cze)
142 Georg Lauscha (Aut)                      152 Martin Mares (Cze)
143 Steffen Radochla (Ger)                   153 Tomas Buchacek (Cze)
144 Stefan Rucker (Aut)                      154 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger)
146 Martin Schöffmann (Aut)                  155 Leopold Konig (Cze)
147 Bjorn Thurau (Ger)                       156 Jakub Danacik (Cze)
148 Harald Totschnig (Aut)                   157 Petr Kaltofen (Cze)
149 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut)                  158 Stanislav Kozubek (Cze)
 
Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia          Amore & Vita - McDonald's
 
161 Edwin Carvajal Jaramillo (Col)           171 Yurij Mitlushenko (Ukr)
162 Rodrigo Garcia Rena (Spa)                172 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr)
163 Massimo Giunti (Ita)                     173 Jaroslaw Dabrowski (Pol)
164 Pierpaolo Tondo (Ita)                    174 Richard England (Aus)
165 Andrea Moletta (Ita)                     175 Sören Nissen (Den)
166 Pasquale Muto (Ita)                      176 Fabio Gilioli (Ita)
167 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol)                 177 Serguei Gretchyn (Ukr)
168 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol)              178 Vladislav Borisov (Rus)
 
Centri della Calzatura                       Adria Mobil
 
181 Esad Hasanovic (Srb)                     191 Tomaz Nose (Slo)
182 Daniele Callegarin (Ita)                 192 Kristjan Fajt (Slo)
183 Davide Torosantucci (Ita)                193 Marko Kump (Slo)
184 Miguel Rubiano Chavez (Col)              194 Robert Vrecer (Slo)
185 Dmitri Nikandrov (Rus)                   195 Alessio Signego (Ita)
186 Zolt Der (Srb)                           196 Miha Svab (Slo)
187 Luca Fioretti (Ita)                      197 Jure Zagar (Slo)
188 Artur Krol (Pol)                         198 Matej Gnezda (Slo)
 
Nazionale Elettronica New Slot - Hadimec     Carmiooro - A-Style
 
201 Americo Novembrini (Ita)                 211 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa)
202 Danilo Andrenacci (Ita)                  212 Maxim Gourov (Kaz)
203 Michael Baer (Swi)                       213 Sebastien Fournet Fayard (Fra)
204 Sante Di Nizio (Ita)                     214 Francisco José Ventoso (Spa)
205 Guillaume Dessibourg (Swi)               215 Fabio Terrenzio (Ita)
206                                          216 Alessandro Raisoni (Ita)
207 Tobias Eggli (Swi)                       217 Alexandre Aulas (Fra)
208 Nico Keinath (Ger)                       218 Paul Brousse (Fra)

Past winners

2008 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto
2007 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 
2006 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
2005 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi  
2004 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 
2003 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Saeco  
2002 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
2001 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Alessio
 
Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com