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33rd Settimana Ciclista Lombarda - 2.5
Italy, April 17-21, 2003
Stage 1 - April 17: Alzate Brianza - Alzate Brianza, 151.3 km
Let's go and taste Ravaioli, a new Italian product
By Jean-François Quénet in Alzate Brianza
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Marco Pantani's MercatoneUno-Scanavino GS2 team has scored its first win this year but not in the Vuelta a Aragon where the Pirate is continuing his latest comeback. It happened at the Settimana Lombarda with another rider coming from Romagna. He's a brand new rider and his name is Ivan Ravaioli. The twenty two year old was a promising U-23 last year with nine wins.
"This is my first year pro and my first pro win, I can't say I expected it but I've built it," he said. He started far from the finish, going away after just 30km into stage 1 with ten other riders. They profited from the inaugural laps around Alzate Brianza to break clear. Usually, race organisers put final laps for the spectacle. Here, they've done the opposite: 4 times 17km before going for a big loop. It was actually something very tecnical that cyclists were welcome to use tactically. It helped the race to begin quite early.
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The 11 men away were Leonardo Zanotti (De Nardi-Colpack), Gianpaolo Cheula (Vini Caldirola), Cristiano Frattini and Alessandro Pozzi (Tenax), Ivan Ravaioli (MercatoneUno), Humberto Mesa and Leonardo Scarselli (Selle Italia), Steve Kleynen and Nico Simens (Vlaanderen), Dean Podgornyk (Perutnina) and Sandro Guttinger (Macandina). The hot favourite Panaria team had missed the break. Paolo Lanfranchi tried to bridge the gap by himself but didn't make it.
A group of 33 riders was formed behind, including all the main teams, but they never agreed to pace together and never came across. Nine of the 11 escapees stayed away. "I made the difference on the final hill just before the finish," said Ravaioli. He did however have a bit scare after his win. Going to the medical control, Ravaioli was so excited that he jumped from his team car and got his foot stuck under the back wheel!
He should be OK for the hilly time trial scheduled for Friday on the Roncola. Lanfranchi, Julio Perez Cuapio and some others have planned their revenge on this climb, which is well known by the cyclists around Bergamo.
Photography
Image by Yuzuru Sunada
- Ivan Ravaioli (Mercatone Uno-Scanavino) wins stage 1
Images by Jean-Francois Quenet
- Ivan Ravaioli (Mercatone Uno-Scanavino) accepts the leader's jersey
- Ivan Ravaioli (Mercatone Uno-Scanavino) on the podium after his first pro win
Results
1 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 3.36.01 2 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 0.02 3 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 4 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 5 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 6 Huberlino Mesa Estepa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 7 Dean Podgornyk (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 8 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 0.08 9 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 0.15 10 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.28 11 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 12 Mirko Marini (Ita) Tenax 13 Cesary Zamana (Pol) Mroz 14 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 15 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 16 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 17 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 18 Rudolf Wentzel (RSA) Vlaanderen T-Interim 19 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Tenax 20 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 21 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 22 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 23 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 24 Luis F. Laverde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 25 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 26 Timothy Jones (Zim) Amore & Vita Beretta 27 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.36 28 Vincenzo Di Falco (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 0.38 29 Sandro Guttinger (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 30 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.43 31 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.51 32 Mitja Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 1.57 33 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 4.51 34 Nikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 35 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 36 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 37 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 38 Igor Bongiucov (Mda) Miche 39 Roman Gugger (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 40 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 41 John Freddy Garcia (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 42 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 43 Cappe' Matteo (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 4.57 44 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Ringerike 10.18 45 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team Ringerike 15.43 46 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 15.46 47 Reto Frey (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 48 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 49 Rasmus Dyring (Den) Miche 50 Roger Lucia Ibarra (Spa) Miche 51 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 16.30 52 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 53 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 54 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 55 Reto Leupp (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 56 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 57 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 58 Jose Joaqu Castelblanco Romero (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 59 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 60 Jonas Blum (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 61 Pavel Kavetzki (Blr) Miche 62 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 63 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 64 Mattias Carlsson (Swe) Team Ringerike 65 Robert Radosz (Pol) Servisco-Koop 66 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 67 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 68 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 69 Andrea Del Biaggio (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 70 Jorg Strauss (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 71 Dmitry Gaynitdinov (Rus) Miche 72 Daniel Czajkowski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 73 Corrado Serina (Ita) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 74 Gianluca Dal Cin (Ita) Tenax 75 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 76 Dmitri Semov (Rus) Miche 77 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol) Servisco-Koop 78 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 79 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Servisco-Koop 80 Alex Coutts (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 81 Krzystof Ciesielski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 82 Marek Maciejewski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 83 Massimo Demarin (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 84 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 85 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 86 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita Beretta 87 Miran Kelner (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 88 Bruno Nella (Can) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 89 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 90 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Mroz 91 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Ringerike 92 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) Mroz 93 Tomasz Blaszczyk (Pol) Miche 94 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 95 Stefan Zoss (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 96 John Ibbotson (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 97 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 98 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 99 Mikhail Teteriouk (Kaz) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 100 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 101 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 102 Jan Richter (Ger) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 103 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 104 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 105 Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 106 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 107 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 108 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 109 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 110 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 111 Christopher D. Myhre (Nor) Team Ringerike 112 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Ringerike 113 Bruno Buttiger (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 114 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 115 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Mroz 116 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 117 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 21.26 118 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 119 Maurizio Montalbano (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 21.29 120 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 121 Lee Maxwell Vertongen (NZl) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 122 Serguei Gretchin (Ukr) Miche 123 Stefan Mischeler (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 124 Stefan Felder (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 125 Sabino Fausto Cannone (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo DNF Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec DNS Peter Oeschger (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon General classification after stage 1 1 Ivan Ravaioli (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 3.36.01 2 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 0.02 3 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 4 Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Tenax 5 Gian Paolo Cheula (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 6 Huberlino Mesa Estepa (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 7 Dean Podgornyk (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 8 Cristiano Frattini (Ita) Tenax 0.08 9 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 0.15 10 Paolo Lanfranchi (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.28 11 Renzo Mazzoleni (Ita) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 12 Mirko Marini (Ita) Tenax 13 Cesary Zamana (Pol) Mroz 14 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 15 Michele Gobbi (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 16 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 17 Devis Miorin (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 18 Rudolf Wentzel (RSA) Vlaanderen T-Interim 19 Mauro Zanetti (Ita) Tenax 20 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 21 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 22 Jef Peeters (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 23 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 24 Luis F. Laverde Jimenez (Col) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 25 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Tenax 26 Timothy Jones (Zim) Amore & Vita Beretta 27 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 0.36 28 Vincenzo Di Falco (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 0.38 29 Sandro Guttinger (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 30 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 0.43 31 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 0.51 32 Mitja Mahoric (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 1.57 33 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 4.51 34 Nikhaylo Khalilov (Ukr) Colombia-Selle Italia 35 Giuseppe Ribolzi (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 36 Alessandro Guerra (Ita) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 37 Igor Bongiucov (Mda) Miche 38 Roman Gugger (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 39 David Loosli (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 40 John Freddy Garcia (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 41 Cappe' Matteo (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 4.57 42 Giacomo Battistel (Ita) Amore & Vita Beretta 5.01 43 Filippo Perfetto (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 44 Lars Breiseth (Nor) Team Ringerike 10.18 45 Jonathan Dayus (GBr) Team Ringerike 15.43 46 Massimo Cigana (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 15.46 47 Reto Frey (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 48 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 49 Rasmus Dyring (Den) Miche 50 Roger Lucia Ibarra (Spa) Miche 51 Biagio Conte (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 16.30 52 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 53 Michele Colleoni (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 54 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 55 Reto Leupp (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 56 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 57 Graziano Gasparre (Ita) De Nardi-Colpack 58 José Joaqu Castelblanco Romero (Col) Colombia-Selle Italia 59 Matej Marin (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 60 Jonas Blum (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 61 Pavel Kavetzki (Blr) Miche 62 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 63 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 64 Mattias Carlsson (Swe) Team Ringerike 65 Robert Radosz (Pol) Servisco-Koop 66 Mateusz Mroz (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 67 Andrus Aug (Est) De Nardi-Colpack 68 Joseba Albizu Lizaso (Spa) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 69 Andrea Del Biaggio (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 70 Jorg Strauss (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 71 Dmitry Gaynitdinov (Rus) Miche 72 Daniel Czajkowski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 73 Corrado Serina (Ita) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 74 Gianluca Dal Cin (Ita) Tenax 75 Daniel Lloyd (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 76 Dmitri Semov (Rus) Miche 77 Grzegorz Wajs (Pol) Servisco-Koop 78 Fabio Testi (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 79 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Servisco-Koop 80 Alex Coutts (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 81 Krzystof Ciesielski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 82 Marek Maciejewski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 83 Massimo Demarin (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 84 Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Amore & Vita Beretta 85 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Macandina-Kewa Rad 86 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita Beretta 87 Miran Kelner (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 88 Bruno Nella (Can) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 89 Graeme Brown (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 90 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Mroz 91 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Ringerike 92 Marcin Lewandowski (Pol) Mroz 93 Tomasz Blaszczyk (Pol) Miche 94 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 95 Stefan Zoss (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 96 John Ibbotson (GBr) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 97 Enrico Degano (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Scanavino 98 Bostjan Mervar (Slo) Perutnina Ptuj 99 Mikhail Teteriouk (Kaz) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 100 Tomislav Danculovic (Cro) Perutnina Ptuj 101 Zbigniew Piatek (Pol) Mroz 102 Jan Richter (Ger) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 103 Grzegorz Rosolinski (Pol) Servisco-Koop 104 Alejandro Alberto Borrajo (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 105 Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Colombia-Selle Italia 106 Antonio Rizzi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' 107 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Tenax 108 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 109 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 110 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel) Vlaanderen T-Interim 111 Christopher D. Myhre (Nor) Team Ringerike 112 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Ringerike 113 Bruno Buttiger (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 114 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 115 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Mroz 116 Krzysztof Krzywy (Pol) Mroz 117 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 21.26 118 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 119 Maurizio Montalbano (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo 21.29 120 Marek Wesoly (Pol) Amore & Vita Beretta 121 Lee Maxwell Vertongen (NZl) Team Endurasport.Com-Principia 122 Serguei Gretchin (Ukr) Miche 123 Stefan Mischeler (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 124 Stefan Felder (Swi) Saeco-Romer's-Wetzikon 125 Sabino Fausto Cannone (Ita) Maestro-Nella/Nippon-Hodo
