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89th Milano-Torino - 1.1
Italy, October 13, 2004
2003 Results Results Past winners
Serrano surprise
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Spanish rider Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) has won the 89th Milano-Torino in an improbable manner. Although he made the leading break of four on the crucial climb of the Superga, he was forced to chase after crashing on the descent, and, together with Cadel Evans (T-Mobile), only caught the two leaders Francesco Casagrande (Vini Caldirola) and Eddy Mazzoleni (Saeco) with 500m to go. He wasted no time and surprised them in the sprint, winning comfortably ahead of Mazzoleni, Casagrande and Evans.
How it unfolded
154 riders left Novate Milanese shortly before midday, and constant attacks got the race off to a very fast start. After 20 km, seven riders escaped: Sella, Mariangeli, Velo, Baranowski, Van Bon, Mutsaars and Gussev, reaching a lead of 25 seconds before they were caught at km 25. Many other riders tried to get away in a very fast first hour (50.6 km/h), but it wasn't until the 50 km point that Emanuele Sella (Panaria) and Denis Bondarenko (Rus) were able to break clear for a little while longer. But eight kilometres later, on the climb of Mortara, the pair were joined by 30 more riders, followed by the rest of the peloton at km 64.
After 70 km, Andrea Tafi (Alessio-Bianchi) attacked, and was chased by Michele Gobbi (De Nardi) and Sylvester Szmyd (Saeco), but the two were unable to catch the flying Tuscan and were caught by the peloton. Finally the pace eased up and Tafi quickly established a decent sized lead of 3'40 by km 78. The peloton didn't want to give him too much of an advantage, however, and had reduced the gap to 3'00 at the halfway point (km 100) with the average speed still a very fast 48.1 km/h after two hours of racing.
At the feed zone (km 105), many riders abandoned, including Perez Cuapio, Scarponi, Baldato, Furlan, Van Bon and Marichal. In front Tafi, slowed but was still 3'11 ahead of the peloton with 50 km to go, with the average speed now 45.9 km/h after three hours. The counter-attacks started within the peloton and the pace picked up for the finale. Tafi was caught with 30 km to go and the real race began to determine the winner.
On the Colle di Superga, Duma (Landbouwkrediet), Fertonani (Phonak) and Schreck (T-Mobile) attacked, but the latter quickly lost contact and was replaced by José Luis Arrieta (Illes Balears). The peloton split up in pursuit with Francesco Casagrande (Vini Caldirola) doing most of the damage, catching and passing the three leaders. He was joined by Cadel Evans (T-Mobile), Eddy Mazzoleni (Saeco) and Marcos Serrano (Liberty) with a group of 20 riders forming behind, including Cunego.
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At the top of the climb, the four leaders had 22 seconds on the chase group, and although Evans tried to attack on the descent, he was caught and the leaders regrouped save for Serrano, who had crashed on the descent. With six kilometres to go, Serrano rejoined the front group but he and Evans were dropped at the same time by Casagrande and Mazzoleni. With 2 km left, the two leaders had 6 seconds on Evans, with Serrano a little way back and the chase group at 48 seconds. But Evans and Serrano didn't give up and caught the leaders with 500m to go as they were foxing in the sprint. Serrano attacked immediately and with a huge effort, managed to hold off Mazzoleni and Casagrande for the victory.
Photography
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) wins Milano-Torino ahead of Eddy Mazzoleni (R), Francesco Casagrande (out of shot) and Cadel Evans (L)
- Serrano wins comfortably as Mazzoleni and Casagrande battle for second
- Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) celebrates his win in the 89th Milano-Torino
- Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) smiles on the podium
- Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) looking pleased with himself
- The podium (L to R): Eddy Mazzoleni (2nd), Marcos Serrano (1st) and Francesco Casagrande (3rd)
Images by Roberto Bettini
- A Saeco rider chats to Igor Astarloa (Lampre) at the start
- Michele Bartoli (CSC) in the thick of things in Milano-Torino
- Marcos Serrano (Liberty Seguros) takes a surprising victory
Results - 199 km
1 Marcos A. Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Liberty Seguros 4.32.10 (43.760 km/h) 2 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 0.02 3 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) T-Mobile Team 5 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.31 6 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros 7 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 8 Dmitri Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 9 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 10 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 11 Vladimir Goussev (Rus) Team CSC 12 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 13 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros 14 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 15 Igor Pugaci MDA De Nardi 16 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 17 Santo Anza' (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 19 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 20 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 22 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 23 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 24 Francisco Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre 25 Gianpaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros 26 Tomaz Nose (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 28 Fabian Jeker (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 30 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco 31 Isidro Nozal Vega (Spa) Liberty Seguros 32 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco 33 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 34 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Saeco 0.35 35 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 36 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.23 37 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 38 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 39 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 40 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 41 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) De Nardi 42 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 43 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner 44 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 45 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre 46 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Lotto-Domo 47 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 48 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 49 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 50 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 51 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 52 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Domina Vacanze 53 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 54 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 55 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 56 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 57 Peter Farazijn (Bel) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 58 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) De Nardi 59 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Lampre 60 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 61 Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Domina Vacanze 62 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 63 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 64 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 65 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 66 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 67 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Saeco 1.34 68 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 69 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2.12 70 Sergiy Avdyeyev (Ukr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2.15 71 Ruslan Ivanov MDA Alessio-Bianchi 72 José Vincente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 2.32 73 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 4.13 74 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 4.52 75 Jean-Claude Lebeau (Bel) Gerolsteiner 4.53 76 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 77 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 78 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 79 David Canada Gracia (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 80 Jaun Josč Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 81 José Antonio Lopez Gil (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 82 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 83 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa (Spa) Lampre 84 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 85 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) T-Mobile Team 86 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 87 Javier Ramirez Abeja (Spa) Liberty Seguros 88 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros 89 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 90 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) De Nardi 91 Matej Jurko (Svk) De Nardi 92 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) De Nardi 93 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco 94 Grégory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 95 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 96 Scott Davis (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 97 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 98 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre 99 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 100 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 4.59 101 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 102 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears-Banesto 103 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi 5.00 104 Marco Cavallari (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 7.50 105 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 106 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 107 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 8.22 108 Uwe Hardter (Ger) Gerolsteiner 109 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 110 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 111 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 112 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre 113 Alex Zuelle (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 114 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Fassa Bortolo 115 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 116 Claudio Astolfi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 117 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 118 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 119 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 120 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 121 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 122 Luca De Angeli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 123 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Margres 124 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned) Rabobank 125 Andreas Klier (Ger) T-Mobile Team 126 Rolf Aldag (Ger) T-Mobile Team 127 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 128 René Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros 129 Bo Hamburger (Den) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 130 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi 131 Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 132 Timothy Jones (Zim) Domina Vacanze 8.29 133 Martin Hvastija (Slo) Alessio-Bianchi 11.00 134 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Alessio-Bianchi 135 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 11.06 136 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 11.08 137 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Saeco 138 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 139 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo 140 Giosuč Bonomi (Ita) Saeco 11.11
Past winners
2003 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco 2002 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2001 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 2000 Not held 1999 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 1998 Niki Aebersold (Swi) 1997 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) 1996 Giovanni Moro (Ita) 1996 Daniele Nardello (Ita) 1995 Stefano Zanini (Ita) 1994 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) 1993 Rolf Sörensen (Den) 1992 Gianni Bugno (Ita) 1991 Davide Cassani (Ita) 1990 Mauro Gianetti (Swi) 1989 Rolf Gölz (Ger) 1988 Rolf Gölz (Ger) 1987 Phil Anderson (Aus) 1985 Daniele Caroli (Ita) 1984 Paolo Rosola (Ita) 1983 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1982 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1981 Giuseppe Martinelli (Ita) 1980 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita) 1979 Alfio Vandi (Ita) 1978 Pierino Gavazzi (Ita) 1977 Rik Van Linden (Bel) 1976 Enrio Paolini (Ita) 1975 Wladimiro Panizza (Ita) 1974 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1973 Marcello Bergamo (Ita) 1972 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1971 Georges Pintens (Bel) 1970 Luciano Armani (Ita) 1969 Claudio Micheletto (Ita) 1968 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1967 Gianni Motta (Ita) 1966 Marino Vigna (Ita) 1965 Vittorio Taccone (Ita) 1964 Valentin Uriona (Spa) 1963 Franco Cribiori (Ita) 1962 Franco Balmamion (Ita) 1961 Walter Martin (Ita) 1960 Arnaldo Pambianco (Ita) 1959 Nello Fabbri (Ita) 1958 Agostino Coletto (Ita) 1957 Miguel Poblet (Spa) 1956 Ferdi Kübler (Swi) 1955 Cleto Maule (Ita) 1954 Agostino Coletta (Ita) 1953 Luciano Maggini (Ita) 1952 Aldo Bini (Ita) 1951 Fiorenzo Magni (Ita) 1950 Adolfo Crosso (Ita) 1949 Luigi Casola (Ita) 1948 Sergio Maggini (Ita) 1947 Italo De Zan (Ita) 1946 Vito Ortelli (Ita) 1945 Vito Ortelli (Ita) 1942 Piero Chiappini (Ita) 1941 Piero Chiappini (Ita) 1940 Pierino Favalli (Ita) 1939 Pierino Favalli (Ita) 1938 Pierino Favalli (Ita) 1937 Giuseppe Martano (Ita) 1936 Cesare Del Cancia (Ita) 1935 Giovanni Gotti (Ita) 1934 Mario Cipriani (Ita) 1933 Giuseppe Graglia (Ita) 1932 Giuseppe Olmo (Ita) 1931 Giuseppe Graglia (Ita) 1925 Adriano Zanaga (Ita) 1924 Federico Gay (Ita) 1923 Costante Girardengo (Ita) 1922 Adriano Zanaga (Ita) 1921 Federico Gay (Ita) 1920 Costante Girardengo (Ita) 1919 Costante Girardengo (Ita) 1918 Gaetano Belloni (Ita) 1917 Oscar Egg (Swi) 1915 Costante Girardengo (Ita) 1914 Costante Girardengo (Ita) 1913 Giuseppe Azzini (Ita) 1911 Henri Pelissier (Fra) 1905 Giovanni Rossignoli 1903 Giovanni Gerbi (Ita) 1894 Luigi Airaldi (Ita) 1874 Paolo Magretti (Ita) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
