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26th Giro del Trentino - 2.2
Italy, April 25-28, 2002
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Stage 4 - April 28: Fondo Val Di Non - Lienz (Austria), 196.8 km
Cardenas squeaks to stage win
Casagrande captures overall in 2002 Giro Del Trentino
By Tim Maloney, European editor
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Felix Cardenas (Cage Maglierie) a 29 year old climber from Duitama, Colombia took the 4th and final stage of the Giro del Trentino in Lienz, Austria today ahead of breakaway companion, 22 year old neo-pro Michele Scarponi (Acqua & Sapone), while Francesco Casagrande (Fassa Bortolo) took his second consecutive win in the tough northern Italian stage race. Cardenas won a stage in last year's TDF while on Kelme and transferred to the miniscule Italian squad in the interseason, delivering a major win today for the minor team.
Trentino is always an important warm up for the Giro d'Italia and Casagrande demonstrated that with the Giro starting in less than two weeks, he's once again among the favorites to wear the Maglia Rosa into Milano on June 2nd. But breathing down the fragile, crash-prone Tuscan's neck at Trentino were 2001 Giro champ Gibo Simoni (Saeco-Longoni Sport) in 3rd and magical Mexican climber Julio Perez Cuapio (Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo) in runner-up spot, with 2000 Giro champ Stefano Garzelli (Mapei-Quickstep) a solid 5th, less than 1' behind Casagrande.
Today's stage from the apple growing town of Fondo Val de Non to Lienz, Austria had three major climbs; the first long climb out of Val de Non up Passo Mendola, then up the first GPM Kosten, 1437m high after 176 km and then Bannberg, 1268m high, at only 11 km to go.
Prior to the big climbs, a four man break of Rizzi, Khalilov, Wegelius and Masciarelli went away after 125 km, and at the intermediate sprint point in Dobbiaco (km 138) Khalilov took the sprint points and overall sprint jersey with the peloton leading at 1'30".
But the antsy peloton brought them back before the action began on Kosten. A tough tempo ensued up the climb, where Cardenas attacked, followed by Perez Cuapio. The Colombian was brought back, then his team-mate Buenahora went with De Paoli and Pugaci. They didn't go far, and then Casagrande rode hard to make a selection. Only Perez Cuapio, Simoni, Scarponi and Zakirov (Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo) could follow. Just before the GPM won by the resurgent Simoni, Gotti, De Paoli, Figueras, De Wolf, Gentili and Cardenas came back to the front group.
The cagey Colombian made his move on the descent of Kosten, and only Scarponi want after him, catching the Duitama man on the final climb of the day where the duo crossed the last GPM with 34" on the chasers. With the chase into Lienz powered by Kazakh powerhouse Teteriuk, the duo was almost caught but held on where Cardenas took his second stage win in a tour and Casagrande sewed up his second consecutive win in the Giro del Trentino.
Photography
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Felix Cardenas (Cage Maglierie) - wins the final stage of the Tour of Trentino.
- Francesco Casagrande (Fassa Bortolo) - on the podium after his overall victory
- The final podium - Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Panaria, 2nd), Francesco Casagrande (Fassa Bortolo, 1st) and Gilberto Simoni (Saeco, 3rd).
Results
1 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cage Maglierie 5.18.23 2 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 3 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) CCC 0.03 4 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 5 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 6 Denis Lunghi (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 7 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 8 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Alessio 9 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 10 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 11 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 12 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 13 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 14 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 15 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 16 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 17 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 18 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 19 Faat Zakirov (Rus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 20 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 21 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step 22 Herman Benahora (Col) Cage Maglierie 23 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 1.22 24 Cezary Zamana (Pol) CCC 25 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.11 26 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 27 Miguel Martinez (Fra) Mapei-Quick Step 28 Fabio Bulgarelli (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 29 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 30 Hector Orlando Mesa (Mex) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 31 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 32 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 33 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Saeco-Longoni Sport 34 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.22 35 Oscar Mason (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 4.08 36 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco-Longoni Sport 37 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 38 Roberto Conti (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 6.09 39 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 10.38 40 David Plas (Bel) RDM-Flanders 41 Dawid Krupa (Pol) CCC 42 Bert Scheirlinkx (Bel) RDM-Flanders 43 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 44 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 45 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 46 James Perry (RSA) Amore & Vita-Beretta 47 Marco Magnani (Ita) Index-Alexia 48 Andris Reiss (Lat) Index-Alexia 49 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 50 Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) CCC 51 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 52 Ivan Bertagnolli (Ita) Saeco Longoni-Sport 53 Vladimir Smirnov (Ltu) Team Colpack-Astro 54 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Mercatone Uno 55 Vitali Kokorine (Rus) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 56 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Tren 57 Davide Frattini (Ita) Alessio 58 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 59 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 60 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 61 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 62 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 63 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 64 Aldo Zanetti (Ita) Cage Maglierie 65 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 66 Daniele Castellan (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 67 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 68 Csaba Szekeres (Hun) Colombia-Selle Italia 69 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche-Panaria Fiordo 70 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 71 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Lampre-Daikin 72 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 73 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Mercatone Uno 74 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Mercatone Uno 75 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Index-Alexia 76 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 77 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 78 Daniel Clavero Sebastian (Spa) Mercatone Uno 79 Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 80 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 81 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 82 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Amore e Vita-Beretta 83 Lorenzo Di Silvestro (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 84 Massimo Donati (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 85 Gordon Mc Cauley (NZl) RDM-Flanders 86 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Cage Maglierie 87 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Cage Maglierie 88 Paolo Bono (Ita) Cage Maglierie 89 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo 90 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 91 Gianluca Valoti (Ita) Index-Alexia 92 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 93 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 10.58 94 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio 13.35 95 Alessandro Brendolin (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 96 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 97 Michael Reihs (Den) Phonak Hearing Systems 98 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 99 Denis Zanette (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 100 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 101 Marco Gili (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 102 Markus Knopfle (Ger) Cage Maglierie 103 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 104 Filippo Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 105 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 106 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta 107 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 108 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 109 Damiano Giannini (Ita) Index-Alexia 110 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 111 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 112 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 113 Marco Engels (Ned) RDM-Flanders 114 Marek Salermo (Fin) RDM-Flanders 115 Marco Milesi (Ita) Domo-Farm Frites 116 Saza Gajicic (Yug) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 117 Jan Richter (Ger) RDM-Flanders 118 Harry Lodge (GBr) RDM-Flanders 119 Denis Bondarenko (Rus) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 120 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Domo-Farm Frites 121 Fabio Testi (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 122 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 123 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta 124 Claudio Astolfi (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 125 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport DNF Leif Hoste (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites DNF Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio DNF Denis Bertolini (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Lukas Zumsteg (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Ivan Quaranta (Ita) Index-Alexia DNF Marco Fincato (Ita) Mercatone Uno DNF Andreas Ballan (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa DNF Rafael Mateos Perez (Spa) Team Colpack-Astro DNF Mirko Marini (Ita) Cage Maglierie DNF Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore e Vita-Beretta DNF Przemyslav Niemec (Pol) Amore e Vita-Beretta DNS Cesare Di Cintio (Ita) Acqua e Sapone DNS Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Index-Alexia DNS Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Lampre-Daikin DNS Jaroslaw Rebiewski (Pol) CCC Final general classification 1 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 18.03.06 2 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.28 3 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 0.45 4 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 0.53 5 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 0.56 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 1.02 7 Faat Zakirov (Rus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 8 Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) CCC 1.10 9 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut) Mapei-Quick Step 1.21 10 Massimo Codol (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 1.26 11 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 12 Herman Benahora (Col) Cage Maglierie 1.42 13 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 1.47 14 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 2.05 15 Denis Lunghi (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 3.03 16 Steve De Wolf (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 3.07 17 Cezary Zamana (Pol) CCC 3.37 18 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 3.47 19 Marco Fertonani (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.53 20 Daniele De Paoli (Ita) Alessio 4.18 21 Felix Cardenas (Col) Cage Maglierie 4.34 22 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Saeco-Longoni Sport 5.08 23 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 6.36 24 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 6.45 25 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 7.03 26 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta 7.18 27 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 7.26 28 Hector Orlando Mesa (Mex) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Tren 7.58 29 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Saeco-Longoni Sport 9.14 30 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 11.39 31 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 12.56 32 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 13.50 33 Ivan Bertagnolli (Ita) Saeco Longoni-Sport 14.08 34 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo 14.11 35 Daniele Castellan (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trenti 14.24 36 Freddy Gonzalez Martinez (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 14.57 37 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.44 38 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Mapei-Quick Step 15.53 39 Fabio Bulgarelli (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 17.05 40 Oscar Mason (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 17.56 41 Simone Bertoletti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 18.18 42 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Lampre-Daikin 19.03 43 Matteo Gigli (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 19.06 44 Roberto Conti (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 19.56 45 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 20.06 46 Miguel Martinez (Fra) Mapei-Quick Step 21.06 47 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Lampre-Daikin 22.34 48 Bram Tankink (Ned) Domo-Farm Frites 23.17 49 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 23.42 50 Bert Scheirlinkx (Bel) RDM-Flanders 24.18 51 Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Index-Alexia 25.14 52 Gianluca Valoti (Ita) Index-Alexia 26.01 53 Massimo Donati (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 26.33 54 Balazs Rohtmer (Hun) Amore e Vita-Beretta 26.50 55 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Cage Maglierie 26.55 56 Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 27.05 57 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 27.22 58 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Cage Maglierie 28.25 59 Dawid Krupa (Pol) CCC 28.44 60 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 30.36 61 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 30.52 62 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Mobilvetta Design-Forma 32.03 63 Andris Reiss (Lat) Index-Alexia 32.04 64 Andrey Mizourov (Kaz) Mercatone Uno 32.05 65 James Perry (RSA) Amore & Vita-Beretta 32.08 66 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Domo-Farm Frites 32.23 67 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 32.37 68 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 32.42 69 Davide Bramati (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 32.45 70 Serguei Outschakov (Ukr) CCC 33.03 71 Milan Kadlec (Cze) Lampre-Daikin 33.05 72 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 33.17 73 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 33.33 74 Gordon Mc Cauley (NZl) RDM-Flanders 33.55 75 Elio Aggiano (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 34.38 76 Paolo Bono (Ita) Cage Maglierie 34.55 77 Denis Bondarenko (Rus) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentin 35.00 78 Harry Lodge (GBr) RDM-Flanders 79 Markus Knopfle (Ger) Cage Maglierie 35.08 80 Damiano Giannini (Ita) Index-Alexia 35.12 81 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Amore & Vita-Beretta 35.20 82 Alessandro Brendolin (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Tre 36.13 83 Alessio Galletti (Ita) Saeco-Longoni Sport 36.42 84 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 36.44 85 Lorenzo Di Silvestro (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 37.25 86 Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 39.48 87 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 39.52 88 Daniel Clavero Sebastian (Spa) Mercatone Uno 89 Dmitri Gaynitdinov (Rus) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 90 Roberto Sgambelluri (Ita) Mercatone Uno 91 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 92 Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 93 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Mercatone Uno 94 Davide Frattini (Ita) Alessio 95 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 40.19 96 Saza Gajicic (Yug) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 97 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche-Panaria Fiordo 40.43 98 Fabio Testi (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 41.21 99 Vladimir Smirnov (Ltu) Team Colpack-Astro 41.39 100 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 101 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Phonak Hearing Systems 42.47 102 Marco Gili (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 42.49 103 Michael Reihs (Den) Phonak Hearing Systems 104 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Emmegi 105 Jan Richter (Ger) RDM-Flanders 106 Marco Milesi (Ita) Domo-Farm Frites 43.53 107 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Alessio 44.25 108 Vitali Kokorine (Rus) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 44.28 109 David Plas (Bel) RDM-Flanders 44.30 110 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Domo-Farm Frites 44.53 111 Denis Zanette (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 45.22 112 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 45.36 113 Claudio Astolfi (Ita) Acqua e Sapone 46.23 114 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta 46.34 115 Mikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 47.10 116 Michele Colleoni (Ita) Team Colpack-Astro 47.33 117 Csaba Szekeres (Hun) Colombia-Selle Italia 48.20 118 Aldo Zanetti (Ita) Cage Maglierie 49.56 119 Andrea Brognara (Ita) Alessio 52.01 120 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 54.13 121 Filippo Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 54.19 122 Marek Salermo (Fin) RDM-Flanders 54.53 123 Marco Magnani (Ita) Index-Alexia 1.00.06 124 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Domo-Farm Frites 1.04.42 125 Marco Engels (Ned) RDM-Flanders 1.08.26
