7th Eko Tour - 2.9.2

Poland, June 5-9, 2004

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Stage 5 - June 8: Porabka - Zar, 96 km

Young Italian triumphs in Poland

By Grzesiek Kaczmarzyk

Italian national team rider Tatiana Guderzo won the 7th Eko Tour after the final stage of the biggest women's race in Poland turned out to be the most important. The young Italian was first to the top of the Zar mountain (810 m) ahead of Maja Wloszczowska (Polish MTB team) and Bogumila Matusiak (MKS Start Peugeot Lublin). This was also the final order of the general classification.

The first two stages in the tour were flat and the whole peloton came to the finish line together. Italian track specialist Giorgia Bronzini won twice - in Wloclawek and then in Piotrkow Trybunalski - ahead of experienced German Tania Hennes.

On the third day the riders had a tough race - an individual time trial on the hilly route in Lazy. Three years ago the Polish championships took place on this 16 kilometre circuit with the ascent of the Stodolsko mountain (1.2 km at 7%). The most decorated Polish cyclist (22 gold medals in the national championships) Bogumila Matusiak won this stage, but German track specialist Anke Wichmann (second in the ITT) took the yellow jersey. In the afternoon on the same route, the next stage took place. Italian Noemi Cantele was alone in the lead for three (of the seven) laps, but the peloton caught her in the last kilometres. On the finish line Bronzini overtook the 2000 World Champion, Bielorussian Zinaida Stahurskaya.

The last stage was only 96 kilometres, but it included five tough climbs. The riders had to climb the Kocierska pass (710 m) twice and the Wielka Puszcza (570 m) twice. At the end of the stage, they rode to the top of Zar mountain (7 km at 8%). Guderzo, the silver medalist at the Junior World TT Championship in Zolder and the fourth placed on GC after stage 4, attacked on the third ascent. Young Polish MTB rider Maja Wloszczowska, the World MTB Marathon Champion, joined the Italian. They cooperated well and the distance between them and the main group grew bigger and bigger.

On the final climb, Wloszczowska tried to distance Guderzo, but she didn't manage and the Italian won the stage and the whole race. "She was very strong," the Pole said about her Italian rival.

For Wloszczowska this race was a kind of preparation for the MTB cross country at the Olympic Games in Athens. "I am surprised with my results," she said, because it was just the second race like this for her.

Matusiak, the favourite for victory in the Eko Tour only finished third. "I concentrated on following the leader and I disregarded Guderzo's attack," Matusiak admitted.

Results

1 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italian National Team             3.07.18 (30.78 km/h)
2 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Polish National MTB Team           0.12
3 Bogumila Matusiak (Pol) MKS Start Peugeot Lublin           2.57
4 Magdalena Sadlecka (Pol) Polish National MTB Team          3.01
5 Birgit Sollner (Ger) Equipe Nurnberger                     3.11
6 Natalia Boyarskaya (Rus) Russian National Team             3.21
7 Oxana Kashehyshyna (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team           3.23
8 Tania Belvederesi (Ita) Italian National Team              3.25
9 Zinaida Stahurskaya (Blr) Belarussian National Team        3.31
10 Birgit Hollmann (Ger) Team Toyota
11 Charlotte Becker (Ger) German National Team
12 Kerstin Scheitle (Ger) Equipe Nurnberger                  3.52
13 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Belarussian National Team
14 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Italian National Team
15 Valentina Gavrilova (Rus) Russian National Team
16 Anna Szafraniec (Pol) Polish National MTB Team
17 Susanne Beyer (Ger) Team Toyota                           4.05
18 Bernadette Schober (Aut) Equipe Nurnberger                4.29
19 Malgorzata Wysocka (Pol) MKS Start Peugeot Lublin         4.43
20 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Team Toyota
...
24 Tanja Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125                          5.12
48 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italian National Team             19.41
64 Ioanna Rotar (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team               33.42
 
Starters: 71
Classified: 64
 
Final general classification

1 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italian National Team            12.56.26
2 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Polish National MTB Team           1.10
3 Bogumila Matusiak (Pol) MKS Start Peugeot Lublin           2.52
4 Charlotte Becker (Ger) German National Team                3.30
5 Natalia Boyarskaya (Rus) Russian National Team             4.02
6 Birgit Hollmann (Ger) Team Toyota                          4.13
7 Zinaida Stahurskaya (Blr) Belarussian National Team
8 Birgit Sollner (Ger) Equipe Nurnberger                     4.28
9 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Team Toyota                            4.36
10 Magdalena Sadlecka (Pol) Polish National MTB Team         4.40
11 Tania Belvederesi (Ita) Italian National Team             4.41
12 Noemi Cantele (Ita) Italian National Team                 4.46
13 Valentina Gavrilova (Rus) Russian National Team           4.49
14 Oxana Kashehyshyna (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team          4.51
15 Susanne Beyer (Ger) Team Toyota                           5.18
16 Kerstin Scheitle (Ger) Equipe Nurnberger                  5.41
17 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Belarussian National Team              5.49
18 Anna Szafraniec (Pol) Polish National MTB Team            5.52
19 Daiva Tuslaite (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team             6.03
20 Malgorzata Wysocka (Pol) MKS Start Peugeot Lublin         6.09
...
27 Tanja Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125                          7.20
46 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italian National Team             22.20
64 Ioanna Rotar (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team               51.41
 
Points classification

1 Tanja Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125                             50 pts
2 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italian National Team                 30
3 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Belarussian National Team                 22
4 Zinaida Stahurskaya (Blr) Belarussian National Team          19
5 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italian National Team                  17
6 Bogumila Matusiak (Pol) MKS Start Peugeot Lublin             16
 
Mountains classification

1 Volha Hayeva (Blr) Belarussian National Team                 38 pts
2 Natalia Boyarskaya (Rus) Russian National Team               20
3 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italian National Team                  19
4 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Polish National MTB Team             17
5 Anna Szafraniec (Pol) Polish National MTB Team               10
6 Tanja Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125                              9
 
Young rider classification

1 Valentina Gavrilova (Rus) Russian National Team        13.01.15
2 Daiva Tuslaite (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team              1.14
3 Inga Cilvinaite (Ltu) Lithuanian National Team             3.49
 
Final team classification

1 Italian National Team                                  38.58.45
2 Polish National MTB Team                                   0.26
3 Team Toyota                                                4.40
4 MKS Start Peugeot Lublin                                   6.40
5 Equipe Nurnberger                                          6.50
6 Belarussian National Team                                  7.10

Courtesy of szosa.rowery.org and Grzesiek Kaczmarzyk