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28th Giro del Trentino - 2.2
Italy, April 20-23, 2004
Stage 1 - April 20: Arco - Marcena di Rumo val di Non, 168.5 km
Cunego takes charge
Simoni shows signs of life
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Away from the heart of the northern classics season carrying on in the Ardennes hills of Belgium and the Netherlands, another peloton continues its preparations for the first grand tour of the season, the Giro d'Italia in May. At the four day Giro del Trentino which got underway Tuesday, Gilberto Simoni and his Saeco team lined up eager to make amends for poor performances of late and inspire some confidence before 'Gibo' begins his maglia rosa defense in just a few weeks. Simoni showed that his form is indeed coming, but it was his younger apprentice Damiano Cunego who took the stage 1 honours in Marcena di Rumo.
"For me this doesn't represent an arrival, rather it's just a beginning," the young Cunego said after his win. "I hope to wear the jersey to the end of the race."
After a strictly piano start, covering barely 30 kilometres in the first hour, the peloton began to find its legs before the first contesting the first climb of this year's race. Team LPR's Elio Aggiano took the first points in Andalo (km 50), touching off a counter attack by Patrik Calcagni (Vini Caldirola) and Giuseppe Palumbo (Acqua & Sapone). These two didn't last too long ahead of the main field, which pulled them back just in time for Renzo Mazzoleni (Tenax) to jump clear on his own at kilometre 70.
Mazzoleni gained up to 2'10 over the main field before a chase group formed behind him. Graziano Gasparre (De Nardi) and Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (LPR) slowly bridged the gap to the lone leader, adding some horsepower to the break. A larger chase group of twelve was also forming behind as one more man, Valery Kobzarenko of Acqua & Sapone, began to work his way across. Gutierrez took the next mountain points at Ronzone ahead of his two companions before Kobzarenko made contact with just 30km to race.
By this point Saeco was serious about the chase, and in the closing kilometres the break had been dragged back, allowing Cunego to put his youthful enthusiasm to good use. Forcing the pace in the final 5km, Cunego broke clear to win by 300 metres ahead of Jure Glocer (Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave'). Teammate and defending Trentino champion Simoni came in just five seconds later in 6th place, his first positive showing. As promised, better weather and a bit of sunshine were enough for Simoni to show that he is back on track for a run at a third Giro title.
Photography
Images by Olympia Photo
- Saeco leader Gilberto Simoni enjoyed the sunshine and put in a solid performance in stage 1
- Young Damiano Cunego (Saeco) took charge in the closing kilometres of stage 1
- Damiano Cunego (Saeco) wins stage 1 of the Giro del Trentino
Results
1 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 4.49.22 2 Jure Golcer (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.01 3 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Team ICET 0.05 4 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 5 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco 7 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa (Spa) Lampre 8 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 9 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 10 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore e Vita 11 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 12 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 13 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Acqua & Sapone 14 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 15 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 16 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 17 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) De Nardi 18 Francisco Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 19 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 20 Stefano Boggia (Ita) Team ICET 21 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 22 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone 23 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 24 Igor Pugaci (Mda) De Nardi 25 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 26 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action 27 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 28 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 0.27 29 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 30 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone 31 Charly Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi 32 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Saeco 33 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 34 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax 35 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 36 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Tenax 37 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 38 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone 39 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco 40 Patrik Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 41 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action 42 Marek Galinski (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 1.37 43 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 44 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) De Nardi 45 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 46 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2.31 47 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 48 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 49 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi 50 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action 51 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 52 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 53 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 54 Matteo Cappe' (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 55 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2.50 56 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 2.50 57 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team LPR 2.50 58 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Team ICET 2.50 59 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4.23 60 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 61 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 62 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Tenax 63 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 64 Frèdèric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 65 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 66 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 67 Paolo Longoborghini (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 68 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 69 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 70 Quentino Rodrigues (Por) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 71 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 72 Danilo Andrenacci (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 4.53 73 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 74 Kirill Goloubev (Rus) Team ICET 75 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 5.37 76 Aliaksandr Kychinski (Blr) Amore e Vita 6.20 77 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team LPR 78 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore e Vita 79 Kjell Carlstroem (Fin) Amore e Vita 80 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 81 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 82 Oleksandr Klymenko (Ukr) Action 6.32 83 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 7.06 84 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 85 Andrew Bradley (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 86 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 87 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Team LPR 88 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 89 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 90 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 91 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 92 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 93 Nicola Loda (Ita) Tenax 8.09 94 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 95 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 96 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Team LPR 97 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 98 Marco Cedroni (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 99 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre 100 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 101 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 102 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 103 Michal Pawlyta (Pol) Action 10.15 104 Claudio Lucchini (Ita) Team LPR 11.40 105 Christian Murro (Ita) Miche 106 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 107 Mario Hoeller (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 108 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Miche 109 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Miche 110 Tom Southam (GBr) Amore e Vita 111 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Saeco 112 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 113 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 114 Roland Wafler (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 115 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Action 116 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 13.16 117 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 15.20 118 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Tenax 119 Stefano Ciuffi (Ita) Amore e Vita 16.48 120 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Team ICET 121 Francesco Cipolletta (Ita) Team ICET 122 Samuel Tartaglia (Ita) Team ICET 123 Daniele Balestri (Ita) Team ICET DNS Anders Groenqvist (Swe) Amore e Vita DNF Martin Fischerlehner (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam DNF Josè Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon DNF Ralph Scherzer (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam Teams 1 Saeco 14.28.16 2 Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.01 3 De Nardi 0.05 4 Acqua & Sapone 5 Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.27 6 Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 7 Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 1.59 8 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 9 Lampre 2.31 10 Team ICET 2.50 11 Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 12 Action 2.53 13 Tenax 3.15 14 Miche 9.03 15 Amore e Vita 12.35 16 Team LPR 13.53 17 Elk Haus Radteam 23.14 General classification after stage 1 1 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 4.49.12 2 Jure Golcer (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.05 3 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Team ICET 0.11 4 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 0.15 5 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco 7 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa (Spa) Lampre 8 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 9 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 10 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore e Vita 11 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 12 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 13 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Acqua & Sapone 14 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 15 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 16 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 17 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) De Nardi 18 Francisco Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 19 Ryan Cox (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 20 Stefano Boggia (Ita) Team ICET 21 Luis Felipe Lavrde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 22 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone 23 Kyrylo Pospyeyev (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 24 Igor Pugaci (Mda) De Nardi 25 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 26 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action 27 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 28 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 0.37 29 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 30 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone 31 Charly Wegelius (GBr) De Nardi 32 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Saeco 33 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 34 Radoslav Rogina (Cro) Tenax 35 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 36 Kristjan Fajt (Slo) Tenax 37 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 38 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone 39 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco 40 Patrik Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 41 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action 42 Marek Galinski (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 1.47 43 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 44 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) De Nardi 45 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 46 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2.41 47 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 48 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 49 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi 50 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action 51 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 52 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre 53 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 54 Matteo Cappe' (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 55 Stefano Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 3.00 56 Darren Lill (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 3.00 57 Angelo Lopeboselli (Ita) Team LPR 3.00 58 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Team ICET 3.00 59 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4.33 60 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre 61 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax 62 Giancarlo Ginestri (Ita) Tenax 63 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 64 Frèdèric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 65 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 66 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 67 Paolo Longoborghini (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 68 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 69 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 70 Quentino Rodrigues (Por) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 71 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 72 Danilo Andrenacci (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 5.03 73 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 74 Kirill Goloubev (Rus) Team ICET 75 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 5.47 76 Aliaksandr Kychinski (Blr) Amore e Vita 6.30 77 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus) Team LPR 78 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore e Vita 79 Kjell Carlstroem (Fin) Amore e Vita 80 Rodney Green (RSA) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 81 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 82 Oleksandr Klymenko (Ukr) Action 6.42 83 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Saeco 7.16 84 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 85 Andrew Bradley (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 86 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 87 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Team LPR 88 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone 89 Luca Solari (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 90 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 91 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 92 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 93 Nicola Loda (Ita) Tenax 8.19 94 Wolfgang Murer (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 95 Harald Totschnig (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 96 Ivan Degasperi (Ita) Team LPR 97 Antonio Salomone (Ita) Team Barloworld-Androli Giocattoli 98 Marco Cedroni (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 99 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre 100 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 101 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 102 Jan Svorada (Cze) Lampre 103 Michal Pawlyta (Pol) Action 10.25 104 Claudio Lucchini (Ita) Team LPR 11.50 105 Christian Murro (Ita) Miche 106 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 107 Mario Hoeller (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 108 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Miche 109 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Miche 110 Tom Southam (GBr) Amore e Vita 111 Stefano Casagranda (Ita) Saeco 112 Leonardo Caneschi (Ita) Miche 113 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 114 Roland Wafler (Aut) Elk Haus Radteam 115 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Action 116 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 13.26 117 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 15.30 118 Dean Podgornik (Slo) Tenax 119 Stefano Ciuffi (Ita) Amore e Vita 16.58 120 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Team ICET 121 Francesco Cipolletta (Ita) Team ICET 122 Samuel Tartaglia (Ita) Team ICET 123 Daniele Balestri (Ita) Team ICET Traguardi Volanti Classification 1 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 6 Pts 2 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 4 3 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 2 Mountains classification 1 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Team LPR 6 Pts 2 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Team LPR 4 3 Patrik Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 4 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 2 5 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi 2 6 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Tenax 1 Teams classification 1 Saeco 14.28.16 2 Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.01 3 De Nardi 0.05 4 Acqua & Sapone 5 Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.27 6 Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 7 Hoop CCC-Polsat TV 1.59 8 Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 9 Lampre 2.31 10 Team ICET 2.50 11 Team Barloworld-Androni Giocattoli 12 Action 2.53 13 Tenax 3.15 14 Miche 9.03 15 Amore e Vita 12.35 16 Team LPR 13.53 17 Elk Haus Radteam 23.14
