79th Giro di Toscana - 1.1

Italy, April 30, 2006

2005 Results Resu lts Past winners

Niemec takes big win in Toscana

By Gianmarco Cilli

Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche)
Photo ©: Sirotti

Przemyslaw Niemec of the Miche squad has won the 79th Giro di Toscana. It is his first win of the season and the sixth of his professional career.

Niemec burned his seven breakaway companions to take out the win in the rain in Arezzo after 198 kilometres in the saddle. The 26 year old Polish rider attacked at 800 meters to go and finished with a two second gap to the rest of the field. The best of the rest was Giuliano Figueras (Lampre-Fondital).

Figueras' teammate Damiano Cunego was hoping to win this race as he did in his magical 2004 season, and it was to be his last before the start of Giro d'Italia. Instead he abandoned the race for reasons not yet known. Until the abandon, Cunego had been mimicking his 2004 form by winning all of the races he had won in his 2004 lead-up to the Giro d'Italia, namely the Giro del Trentino and GP Larciano.

Photography

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Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) wins the Giro della Toscana
Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) wins the Giro della Toscana
Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) wins the Giro della Toscana
Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) celebrates his win
Przemyslaw Niemec (Miche) with his flowers
The podium (L to R): Giuliano Figueras (2nd), Przemyslaw Niemec (1st), and Vladimir Duma (3rd)

Results

1 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche                              5.02.05
2 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                        0.02
3 Volodymir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe' - C.B. Immobiliare      
4 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone                               
5 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Ceramica Flaminia                      
6 Roberto Petito (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                          
7 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld                                 
8 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Naturino-Sapore Di Mare                   
9 Karstansin Siutsou (Blr) Acqua Sapone                              
10 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                0.53
11 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                   
12 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi      
13 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore & Vita-McDonald's                    
14 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Ceramica Flaminia                      
15 Ivan Fanelli (Ita) Amore & Vita-McDonald's                        
16 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Liquigas                                    
17 Gcarlo Ginestri (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                        
18 Manuele Spadi (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia                             
19 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi        
20 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Barloworld                                   
21 Pedro Arredunadia (Spa) Barloworld                                
22 Tomasz Nose (Slo) Adria Mobil                                 1.24
23 Anza' Santo (Ven) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni           
24 Jamie Burrow (GBr) OTC Doors-Lauretana                            
25 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Naturino-Sapore Di Mare                   
26 Francesco Failli (Ita) Liquigas                                   
27 Donato Cannone (Ita) Team Universal Caffe' - C.B. Immobiliare     
28 Massimo Codol (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                          
29 Miguel Rubiano Chavez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare             
30 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld                                         
31 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                   
32 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni    
33 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia                           
34 Luis Filipe Laverde (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare               
35 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                                  
36 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                            
37 Micula De Matteis (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                      
38 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Miche                                          
39 Alessio Signego (Ita) OTC Doors-Lauretana                         
40 Cristiano Salerno (Ita) Team Tenax Salmilano                      
41 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone                              
42 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi         
43 Mads Christensen (Den) Barloworld                                 
44 Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) Team Tenax Salmilano                       
45 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Team Androni Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi       
46 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                               
47 Bo Hamburger (Den) Miche                                          
48 Dimitri Nikandrov (Rus) Team Universal Caffe' - C.B. Immobiliare

Past winners

2005 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre - Caffita   196km in 5.03.53
2004 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                3.56.00
2003 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo 194km in 4.57.23
2002 Aleksandr Shefer (Kaz) Alessio           194km in 4.44.58 (40.85 km/h)
2001 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Liquigas           199km in 4.50.45 (40 km/h) 
2000 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Amica Chips          199km in 5.06.00 (39.216 km/h)
1999 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step	      199km in 5.18.10 (37.565 km/h)
1998 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Scrigno-Gaerne 175km in 5.11.00
1997 Sergio Barbero (Ita)
1996 No event
1995 Massimo Podenzana (Ita)
1994 Francesco Casagrande (Ita)
1993 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita)
1992 Giorgio Furlan (Ita)
1991 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita)
1990 Marco Saligari (Ita)
1989 Maurizo Fondriest (Ita)
1988 Ron Kiefel (USA)
1987 Piccolo
1986 Corti
1985 Moroni
1984 Baronchelli