55th Coppa Agostoni - 1.2Italy, August 22, 20012000 Results Results Past Winners Trittico Lombardo
Casagrande and Ullrich battle it out
The second race in the Trittico Lombardo series, Coppa Agostoni, has been won by Francesco Casagrande (Fassa Bortolo) after a hard fought finish on a hot day in August. Casagrande beat last year's winner Jan Ullrich (Telekom) in a two man sprint, after Ullrich had attacked on the last climb. Gianluca Tonetti (Selle Italia) took third after being dropped near the end. The Trittico Lombardo is a series of three races with a trophy awarded for the best performed rider over all three. Some cyclists compete in each race, while others, such as Ullrich and Casagrande, used it to prepare for Sunday's Championship of Zurich in Switzerland.
Ullrich is in similar form to last year and was one of the main protagonists in the race, forcing the pace on the 13% climb of Lissolo with three of five laps completed. He took Casagrande, Tonetti and Gianluca Valoti with him, and the four steadily built a gap over the main group. On the last lap with 22 kilometres to go, Valoti was dropped, followed by Tonetti at 7 kilometres to go. In the sprint, Ullrich was leading Casagrande, who attacked with 200 metres to go to open up enough of a lead to win. "To beat Ullrich is worth double," said Casagrande. "I came around him at 200 metres to go and got 10 metres. Jan pushed a gear too big in order to catch me." A slightly disappointed Ullrich said that "I am satisfied enough with my performance, but I honestly believed that I would win like last year." He has his eyes on Sunday's World Cup, as does Casagrande.
Results - 198 km1 Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.48.38 (41.159 km/h) 2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Team Deutsche Telekom 3 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Selle Italia-Pacific 0.45 4 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Saeco Macchine per Caffe 1.55 5 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 6 Marcus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 7 Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 8 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 9 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 10 Felice Puttini (Swi) CCC-Mat 11 Gianni Faresin (Ita) Liquigas-Pata 12 Cristian Gasperoni (Ita) Cantina Tollo-Acqua e Sapone 13 Ruggero Borghi (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 14 Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini 15 Alberto Elli (Ita) Team Deutsche Telekom 16 Domenico Romano (Ita) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 17 Oscar Mason (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 18 Devis Miorin (Ita) Mobilvetta Design 19 Massimo Donati (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 20 Gianluca Valoti (Ita) Alexia Alluminio 21 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 22 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Alessio 2.08 23 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo 4.44 24 Christian Heule (Swi) Post Swiss Team 11.29 25 Stefano Venturini (Ita) Barbot-Torrie 26 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) KRKA-Telekom Slovenije 27 Marco Gili (Ita) Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 28 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) Alessio 29 Ivan Gotti (Ita) Alessio 30 Martin Derganc (Slo) KRKA-Telekom Slovenije 31 Daniel Atienza Urendeze (Spa) Cofidis 32 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa 33 Cristian Auriemma (Ita) Alexia Aluminio 34 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Lampre-Daikin 35 D Kyrylo Pospeyev (Ukr) Cantina Tollo 36 Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) Cantina Tollo-Acqua e Sapone 37 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Mapei-Quick Step 38 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Mercatone Uno-Stream TV 39 Vladimir Douma (Ukr) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 40 Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) Fassa Bortolo 41 Igor Pugaci (Mda) Saeco Macchine per Caffe Starters: 180 Finishers: 41 Trittico Lombardo after race 2 (of 3) 1 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Saeco 15 pts 2 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Alessio 12 3 Gianluca Tonetti (Ita) Selle Italia 11 Past winners2000 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 1999 Massimo Donati (Ita) Vini Caldirola 1998 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei-Bricobi 1997 Massimo Apollomio (Ita) 1996 Filippo Casagrande (Ita) 1995 Gianni Bugno (Ita) 1994 Oscar Pelliccioli (Ita) 1993 Davide Cassani (Ita) 1992 Stefano Colage (Ita) 1991 Davide Cassani (Ita) 1990 Maurizio Fondriest (Ita) 1989 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) 1988 Gianni Bugno (Ita) 1987 Bruno Leali (Ita) 1986 Marino Amadori (Ita) 1985 Acacio Da Silva (Por) 1984 Franco Chioccioli (Ita) 1983 Alfons De Wolf (Bel) 1982 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1981 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1980 Cees Priem (Ned) 1979 Giovanni Battaglin (Ita) 1978 Giuseppe Saronni (Ita) 1977 Francesco Moser (Ita) 1976 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1975 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel) 1974 Felice Gimondi (Ita) 1973 Arnoldo Caverzasi (Ita) 1972 Mauro Simonetti (Ita) 1971 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1970 Eddy Merckx (Bel) 1969 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1968 Giovanni Micheletto (Ita) 1967 Franco Bitossi (Ita) 1966 Felice Gimondi (Ita) 1965 Tommso De Pra (Ita) 1964 Italo Zilioli (Ita) 1963 Jaime Alomar (Spa) 1961 Giovanni Bettinelli (Ita) 1960 Pietro Chiodini (Ita) 1959 Michele Gismondi (Ita) 1958 Giaccobe Boggian (Ita) 1957 Carlo Zorzoli (Ita) 1956 Silvano Tessari (Ita) 1955 Lino Pizzoferato (Ita) 1954 Aldo Moser (Ita) 1953 Andrea Barro (Ita) 1952 Ezio Bicocca (Ita) 1951 Renzo Accordi (Ita) 1950 Giorgio Albani (Ita) 1949 Antonio Ausenda (Ita) 1948 Luigi Malabrocca (Ita) 1947 Franco Fanti (Ita) 1946 Luigi Casola (Ita) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, Berlin |
