2nd Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale Coppi-Bartali - 2.3

Italy, March 26-30, 2002

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Stage 3 - March 28: Circuit de Fucecchio, 162 km

Three from three for Petacchi

Guess who? Photo ©: Sirotti

Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) increased his winning streak in the third stage of the Settimana Coppi-Bartali, a 120 kilometre circuit race around Fucecchio. Petacchi picked up his third successive win in a bunch sprint, this time finishing in front of Mariano Piccoli (Lampre) and Jan Bratkowski (Cage). The 28 year old now has nine wins this season, certainly his best season as a professional.

Today's stage was 10 laps of a 16.2 kilometre circuit around Fucecchio-Ponte A Capiano, and was well controlled by Fassa Bortolo who kept things together for another mass sprint. They had confidence in Petacchi, who is also wearing the race leader's jersey, and he did not disappoint, taking the victory and increasing the team's total to 18 wins this season.

With two stages to go, the question remains whether Petacchi can keep winning or if he will finally relinquish his jersey on tomorrow's stage from Luca to San Salvatore.

Photography

Photo's by Fotoreporter Sirotti

• Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) - takes a hat trick and wins the third stage of the Settimana Coppi-Bartali
• Alessandro Petacchi - beats Mariano Piccoli (Lampre) and Jan Bratkowski (Cage) for the third stage
• Alessandro Petacchi -as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Results

1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                3.55.04 (41.350 km/h)
2 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin                        0.03
3 Jan Bratkowski (Ger) Cage Maglierie                        0.01
4 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step
5 Gerrit Glomser (Aut) Saeco-Longoni Sport
6 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Acqua e Sapone
7 Andris Nauduzs (Lat) Colombia-Selle Italia
8 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step
9 Daniele Righi (Ita) Index-Alexia
10 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) CCC

General classification after stage 3

1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                11.37.30(40.581 km/h)
2 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step                        0.13
3 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step
4 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step
5 Luca Scinto (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step
6 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Fassa Bortolo                      0.15
7 Roberto Petito (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
8 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
9 Nicola Loda (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
10 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola     0.19