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17th Emakumeen Bira - 2.9.1
Spain, June 10-13, 2004
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Stage 2 - June 11: Lekeitio - Lekeitio, 103.4 km
Somarriba delights
By Martin Hardie
Joane Somarriba (Bizkaia-Panda Software) won the second stage of the Emakumeen Bira in Lekeitio today, delighting a big crowd of mostly young fans as she crossed the line just ahead of Valentina Polkhanova (Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti) and Mirjam Melchers (Farm Frites-Hartol).
The stage started and finished in the magical seaside town of Lekeitio with its wondrous beaches and traditional fishing port. The route traveled out of town and twice around a circuit that passed over the Cat. 3 Molloi and then back along the cliff faces of the coast from Ondarroa to the start. After the second lap the and third passing of Milloi the route turned inland to Markina and over the tough 10 percent ramps of the Lekoitz (Cat. 2) before running back down the Lea valley to the coast and Lekeitio.
After the second passing of the coastal route the leg breaking course started to take its toll on the riders. A group of seven took the opportunity to push off the front of the peloton as it passed through Lekeitio for the final circuit. The main protagonist in the group was Spanish rider Rosa Maria Bravo. The group a managed for a while to hold an advantage which grew at one point to 1.20 as the passed the Milloi for the third time.
From the descent of the Milloi the road starts to gradually climb once again before the start of the Lekoitz at Markina. This climb is one of several shortish but steep passes that criss-cross the zone that traverses the coastal hinterland and it commences with a long seven percent straight of two kilometres which climbs across the open northern face of the mountain. From here the climb kicks up to over 9 percent for its second half and it was in this section that the escapees where brought back into the fold. With their capture Joanne Somarriba and Fabiana Luperini set to work in breaking apart what was left of the peloton. Somarriba crested ahead of the Italian climber and they were followed by Valentina Polkhanova and Mirjam Melchers.
In typical local fashion the three times Grand Boucle (women's Tour de France) winner gave it heaps on the descent and stretched her advantage over those that became her two principal chasers - Valentina Polkhanova and Mirjam Melchers; to 25 seconds. At the bottom in Aulesti the road turns right and heads down the Lea valley for around 12 kilometres towards the coast and the finish. Somarriba managed to hold off the chasers and entered the finishing straight with them almost on her wheel. With the crowd full of her school age admirers screaming her to the line the Vasca held off the pursuit and had time to salute the crowd as she crossed the line a bare second ahead of Polkhanova and Melchers. Luperini, whose team, including Eneritz Iturriaga and Rebecca McConnell had earlier sought to control the race through sheer hard work during the coastal laps, could not get across to the two chasers and eventually came in twenty seconds later with a small group.
Tomorrow the race includes a road stage which as usual has its fair share of climbing followed by a short but sweet Elgeta mountain time trial, the first kilometre or so of which exceeds 13 percent. These are sure to be 5.8 kilometres that have a major bearing on how the race will look when it comes to be finally decided on Sunday.
Results
1 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 2.42.01 2 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 0.01 3 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 4 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) S.C. Michela Fanini 0.20 5 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 6 Nicole Brandli (Swi) S.C. Michela Fanini 7 Dori Ruano (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 8 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 1.13 9 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 1.15 10 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 11 Sandrine Marcuz (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 12 Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 13 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 1.43 14 Ghita Beltman (Ned) Bizkaia-Panda Software 15 Dorte Rasmussen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 16 Alessandra Capellotto (Ita) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 17 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 18 Miho Oki (Jpn) Farm Frites-Hartol 19 Lise Christensen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 20 Mariline Salvetat (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 21 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) Dutch National Team 22 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Dutch National Team 23 Cindy Pieters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 24 Rasa Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 25 Gessica Turato (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 26 Maribel Moreno (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 27 Rachel Heal (GBr) Farm Frites-Hartol 28 Sharon Van Essen (Ned) Dutch National Team 29 Andrea Bosman (Ned) Dutch National Team 2.42 30 Camila Larson (Swe) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 31 Maria Mercedes Cagigas (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 32 Veronique Belleter (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 33 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 4.13 34 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 35 Sousa Uenia Fdes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 36 Irene Broek (Ned) Dutch National Team 37 Erika Vilunaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 38 Yulia Razenkova (Rus) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 39 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 40 Emma James (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 41 Janildes Fernandes Silva (Bra) S.C. Michela Fanini 42 Sabrina Emmasi (Swi) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 43 Sandra Missbach (Ger) Farm Frites-Hartol 44 Ine Wannijn (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 45 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 46 Cristina Alcalde (Spa) Sabeco 47 Nataliya Kachalka (Ukr) S.C. Michela Fanini 48 Iryna Chuzhynova (Ukr) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 49 Gemma Pascual (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 50 Svetlana Denisenko (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 6.14 51 Kornelia Groenveld (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 52 Corine Van Haasterd (Ned) Dutch National Team 53 Iosune Murillo (Spa) Sabeco 54 Blazquez Fatima (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 55 Agurtzane Elorriaga (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 7.36 56 Naiara Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 57 Maitane Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 58 Letizia Gil (Spa) Sabeco 59 Valentina Alessio (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 10.17 60 Keltj Manfrin (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 10.41 61 Martina Corazza (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 62 Rebecca Macconnell (Aus) Team Let's Go Finland 63 Mirella Van Melis (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 10.55 64 Azucena Sanchez (Spa) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 11.05 65 Frederik Van Der Wiel (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 66 Nathalie Van Katwijk (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 11.32 67 Isabelle Moulis (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 13.26 68 Laura Pisaneschi (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 69 Laura Garavello (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 70 Valeria Pintos (Arg) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 71 Cathy Moncassin (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 72 Mireia Epelde (Spa) Sabeco 73 Yolandi Du Toit (RSA) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 25.16 74 Devora Galvez (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 75 Ziortza Jauregi (Spa) Sabeco 76 Maria Diaz De U. (Spa) Urrats 77 Marta Ponce (Spa) Urrats 78 Maria Rosario Rodriguez (Spa) Urrats 79 Ludivine Loze (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 80 Lide Larrañaga (Spa) Urrats Points 1 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 25 pts 2 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 20 3 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 16 4 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) S.C. Michela Fanini 14 5 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 12 6 Nicole Brandli (Swi) S.C. Michela Fanini 10 7 Dori Ruano (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 9 8 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 8 9 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 7 10 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 6 11 Sandrine Marcuz (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 5 12 Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 4 13 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 3 14 Ghita Beltman (Ned) Bizkaia-Panda Software 2 15 Dorte Rasmussen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 1 Mountains Milloi 1 - Cat. 3, km 7,60 1 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 3 pts 2 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 2 3 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 1 Milloi 2 - Cat. 3, km 39,60 1 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 3 pts 2 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 2 3 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 1 Milloi 3 - Cat. 3, km 71,60 1 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 3 pts 2 Erika Vilunaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 2 3 Veronique Belleter (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 1 Lekoitz - Cat. 2, km 87,30 1 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 6 pts 2 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 4 3 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 2 4 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 1 Metas Volantes Berriatu 1, km 12,00 1 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 5 pts 2 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 3 3 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 1 Berriatu 2, km 44,00 1 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 5 pts 2 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 3 3 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 1 Teams 1 S.C. Michela Fanini 8.08.26 2 Farm Frites-Hartol 1.04 3 Usc Chirio Forno Dásolo 2.18 4 Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 5 Dutch National Team 2.46 6 Bizkaia-Panda Software 3.33 7 Vlaanderen-T-Interim 6.15 8 Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 7.46 9 Gruas Tinlohi 7.48 10 Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 8.05 11 Team Let's Go Finland 9.51 12 Ton Van Bemmelen 12.17 13 Midi-Pyrenees 14.01 14 Sabeco 15.40 15 Urrats 1.13.25 General classification after stage 2 1 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 4.48.59 2 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 0.01 3 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 4 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 0.20 5 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) S.C. Michela Fanini 6 Dori Ruano (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 7 Nicole Brandli (Swi) S.C. Michela Fanini 8 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 1.13 9 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 1.15 10 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 11 Sandrine Marcuz (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 12 Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 13 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 1.43 14 Ghita Beltman (Ned) Bizkaia-Panda Software 15 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Dutch National Team 16 Dorte Rasmussen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 17 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) Dutch National Team 18 Miho Oki (Jpn) Farm Frites-Hartol 19 Alessandra Capellotto (Ita) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 20 Mariline Salvetat (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 21 Cindy Pieters (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 22 Gessica Turato (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 23 Lise Christensen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 24 Rachel Heal (GBr) Farm Frites-Hartol 25 Rasa Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 26 Maribel Moreno (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 2.00 27 Camila Larson (Swe) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 2.42 28 Maria Mercedes Cagigas (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 29 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 3.33 30 Sharon Van Essen (Ned) Dutch National Team 31 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 4.13 32 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 33 Andrea Bosman (Ned) Dutch National Team 4.32 34 Iryna Chuzhynova (Ukr) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 4.49 35 Irene Broek (Ned) Dutch National Team 6.03 36 Sousa Uenia Fdes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 37 Sabrina Emmasi (Swi) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 38 Cristina Alcalde (Spa) Sabeco 39 Gemma Pascual (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 40 Nataliya Kachalka (Ukr) S.C. Michela Fanini 6.06 41 Veronique Belleter (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 6.39 42 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 7.15 43 Ine Wannijn (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 44 Erika Vilunaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 8.10 45 Emma James (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 46 Yulia Razenkova (Rus) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 47 Sandra Missbach (Ger) Farm Frites-Hartol 48 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 9.33 49 Svetlana Denisenko (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 10.10 50 Kornelia Groenveld (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 51 Iosune Murillo (Spa) Sabeco 10.11 52 Corine Van Haasterd (Ned) Dutch National Team 53 Blazquez Fatima (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 54 Janildes Fernandes Silva (Bra) S.C. Michela Fanini 10.36 55 Naiara Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 11.33 56 Maitane Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 57 Agurtzane Elorriaga (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 58 Letizia Gil (Spa) Sabeco 59 Martina Corazza (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 12.31 60 Valentina Alessio (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 16.40 61 Rebecca Macconnell (Aus) Team Let's Go Finland 17.04 62 Azucena Sanchez (Spa) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 17.28 63 Frederik Van Der Wiel (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 64 Keltj Manfrin (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 19.21 65 Mirella Van Melis (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 19.35 66 Valeria Pintos (Arg) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 19.49 67 Isabelle Moulis (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 68 Laura Garavello (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 69 Laura Pisaneschi (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 70 Cathy Moncassin (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 71 Nathalie Van Katwijk (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 20.12 72 Mireia Epelde (Spa) Sabeco 22.06 73 Yolandi Du Toit (RSA) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 31.39 74 Ludivine Loze (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 75 Maria Diaz De U. (Spa) Urrats 33.56 76 Devora Galvez (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 77 Ziortza Jauregi (Spa) Sabeco 78 Marta Ponce (Spa) Urrats 79 Maria Rosario Rodriguez (Spa) Urrats 80 Lide Larrañaga (Spa) Urrats 34.45 Points classification 1 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 30 pts 2 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 28 3 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 25 4 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 23 5 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 20 6 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 20 7 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Dutch National Team 20 8 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 17 9 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 15 10 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) S.C. Michela Fanini 14 11 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) Dutch National Team 14 12 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 12 13 Nicole Brandli (Swi) S.C. Michela Fanini 10 14 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 10 15 Camila Larson (Swe) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 10 16 Dori Ruano (Spa) Swell-Pagozelai 9 17 Ghita Beltman (Ned) Bizkaia-Panda Software 9 18 Miho Oki (Jpn) Farm Frites-Hartol 8 19 Dorte Rasmussen (Den) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 7 20 Sandrine Marcuz (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 6 21 Alessandra Capellotto (Ita) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 5 22 Marianna Lorenzoni (Ita) Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 4 23 Mariline Salvetat (Fra) Midi-Pyrenees 2 24 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 1 25 Janildes Fernandes Silva (Bra) S.C. Michela Fanini 1 Mountains classification 1 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finland 14 pts 2 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 9 3 Jolanta Polikeviciute (Ltu) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 8 4 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 3 5 Valentina Polkhanova (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 2 6 Nicole Brandli (Swi) S.C. Michela Fanini 2 7 Erika Vilunaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 2 8 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 1 9 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 1 10 Veronique Belleter (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim 1 Metas Volantes classification 1 Katherine Bates (Aus) Ton Van Bemmelen 15 pts 2 Adrie Visser (Ned) Farm Frites-Hartol 14 3 Rosa Bravo (Spa) Gruas Tinlohi 5 4 Silva C. Fernandes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 1 5 Janildes Fernandes Silva (Bra) S.C. Michela Fanini 1 Espoirs classification 1 Gessica Turato (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 2 Sousa Uenia Fdes (Bra) Usc Chirio Forno Dás 3 Kornelia Groenveld (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen 4 Naiara Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 5 Nathalie Van Katwijk (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen Basque rider classification 1 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 2 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 3 Cristina Alcalde (Spa) Sabeco 4 Iosune Murillo (Spa) Sabeco 5 Naiara Telletxea (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software Teams classification 1 S.C. Michela Fanini 14.29.20 2 Farm Frites-Hartol 1.04 3 Aliverti-Bianchi-Kookai 2.18 4 Usc Chirio Forno Dásolo 5 Dutch National Team 4.36 6 Bizkaia-Panda Software 5.23 7 Team Let's Go Finland 11.41 8 Gruas Tinlohi 11.45 9 Vlaanderen-T-Interim 12.19 10 Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 11 Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 13.51 12 Ton Van Bemmelen 20.10 13 Midi-Pyrenees 20.24 14 Sabeco 25.24 15 Urrats 1.39.25
