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31st Giro del Friuli - 1.1
Italy, March 4, 2009
2004 Results Results Past winners
Lorenzetto marks season's third in Friuli
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Mirco Lorenzetto of Lampre-NGC won his third race of the season Wednesday on the rain-soaked roads of the 31st Giro del Friuli in northeast Italy. The Italian, winner of two stages in the Giro di Sardegna, finished ahead of Grega Bole (Amica Chips-Knauf), Manuel Belletti (Diquigiovanni-Androni) and Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini) after 184.2 kilometres of racing.
Returning after a five-year break, al Friuli's parcours consisted of a circuit around Pordenone that proved perfectly suited to an early escape. Maxim Gourov (CarmioOro - A-Style) and Oleksandr Kvachuk (ISD) did the honours, with the duo gaining up to 10 minutes on the peloton. It took the efforts of the Barloworld, Lampre-NGC, LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini and Liquigas squads to bring Kvachuk back, which they did in the final four kilometres.
The favourites – including Franco Pellizotti and Roman Kreuziger (both Liquigas), Alessandro Bertolini (Diquigiovanni-Androni), Petacchi, Leonardo Bertagnolli (Amica Chips-Knauf), Dario Cioni (ISD) and Eros Capecchi (Fuji-Servetto) – formed a group of 30 which animated the finale.
After the last ascent of the Caneva Castle climb, the flat 25-kilometre run to the finish meant it was always going to end in a bunch kick. Lorenzetto maintained his composure and controlled proceedings in the final kilometre, keeping Pordenone, Bole, Belletti and Petacchi at bay to seal his third victory of the 2009 campaign.
"We took the situation in hand and forced the pace with Bruseghin and then Grendene," said Lampre directeur sportif Fabrizio Bontempi. "Other than Lorenzetto, we also had Bandiera, Bindi and Da Dalto in the lead group." (GB)
Results - 184.2km
1 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 4.38.00 (40.576 km/h) 2 Grega Bole (Slo) Amica Chips - Knauf 3 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini 5 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) ISD 7 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 8 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 9 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 10 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 11 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 12 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Amica Chips - Knauf 13 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr) Amore e Vita-McDonald's 14 Rodrigo Garcia Rena (Spa) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 15 Piergiorgio Camussa (Ita) Team Piemonte 16 Enrico Zen (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 17 Dario David Cioni (Ita) ISD 18 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 19 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Amica Chips - Knauf 20 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 21 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Fuji-Servetto 22 Rafael Infantino (Col) Amica Chips - Knauf 23 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 24 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini 25 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 26 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Liquigas 27 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 28 Andrea Noe (Ita) Liquigas 29 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) ISD 30 Emanuele Bindi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 31 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 32 Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas 33 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 34 Gianni Da Ros (Ita) Liquigas 35 Luca Solari (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 36 Luis Angel Mate (Spa) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 37 Nazareno Rossi (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 38 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini 39 Jure Golcer (Slo) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini 40 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 41 Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 42 Diego Caccia (Ita) Barloworld 43 Marco Corti (Ita) Barloworld 44 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 45 Edoardo Girardi (Ita) Amica Chips - Knauf 46 Michal Golas (Pol) Amica Chips - Knauf 47 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 48 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 49 Alan Marangoni (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 50 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) CSF Group - Navigare 51 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Team Corratec 52 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia 53 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Carmiooro-A Style 54 Alessandro Raisoni (Ita) Carmiooro-A Style 55 Francesco Tizza (Ita) Carmiooro-A Style 56 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Carmiooro-A Style 57 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Adria Mobil 58 Marko Kump (Slo) Adria Mobil 59 Matej Gnezda (Slo) Adria Mobil 60 Vitaliy Kondrut (Ukr) ISD 61 Oscar Gatto (Ita) ISD 62 Emanuel Kiserlovski (Cro) Loborika
Past winners
2004 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 2003 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 2002 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 2001 Denis Lunghi (Ita) 2000 Michele Bartoli (Ita) 1999 Davide Rebellin (Ita) 1998 Francesco Arazzi (Ita) 1997 not held 1996 AndrejTeteriouk (Kaz) 1995 Dimitry Konychev (Rus) 1994 Wladimir Poulnikov (Rus) 1993 Piotr Ugrumov (Lat) 1992 Alessandro Gianelli (Ita) 1991 Gianni Bugno (Ita) (Italian Championships) 1990 Léonardo Sierra (Ven) 1989 Lech Piasecki (Pol) 1988 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1987 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1986 Gianni Bugno (Ita) 1985 Franco Chioccioli(Ita) 1984 Claudio Corti (Ita) 1983 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1982 Guido Bontempi (Ita) 1981 Wladimiro Panizza (Ita) 1980 Claudio Corti(Ita) 1979 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1978 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1977 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1976 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1975 Roberto Poggiali (Ita) 1974 Luciano Borgognoni (Ita)
