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39th Settimana Ciclista Lombarda - 2.1
Italy, March 31-April 5, 2009
2008 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners
The Stages
- Stage 1 - March 31: Brignano Gera d'Adda - Brignano Gera d'Adda, 18.7km
- Stage 2 - April 1: Brignano Gera d'Adda - Calcinate, 160km
- Stage 3 - April 2: Boltiere - Zingonia, 164km
- Stage 4 - April 3: Vertova - Vertova, 183.6km
- Stage 5 - April 4: Flero - Flero, 159km
- Stage 6 - April 5: Montello - Bergamo, 131.3km
Di Luca defends in Settimana Lombarda
The 39th Settimana Lombarda stage race starts today in Brignano, Italy, with a strong Italian field. Danilo Di Luca, 2007 Giro d'Italia winner, will defend his title against Gilberto Simoni, Davide Rebellin and Giovanni Visconti.
There are 25 teams and 194 riders slated to start in the northern Italy stage race (held in the Lombardia region). Alessandro Petacchi, Francesco Ginanni and Coppi e Bartali stage winners Danilo Napolitano and Yuri Mitlushenko should head the sprint stages.
The race starts with a team time trial stage of 18.7 kilometres in Brignano. Next weekend's stages should decide the overall title. Stage five covers Colle della Maddalena before the finish in Flero and stage six, Sunday, covers the Colle Gallo, Selvino and Boccola prior to the finish in Bergamo.
Di Luca (LPR Brakes) won the 2008 edition over teammates Paolo Savoldelli and Daniele Pietropolli.
Start list
LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini Team Katusha
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) 9 Pavel Brutt (Rus)
2 Marco Cattaneo (Ita) 10 Alexei Markov (Rus)
3 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) 11 Danilo Napolitano (Ita)
4 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) 12 Kenny De Haes (Bel)
5 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) 13 Alexander Serov (Rus)
6 Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) 14 Nikita Eskov (Rus)
7 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) 15 Serguei Klimov (Rus)
8 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita)
Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo Amica Chips - Knauf
17 Francesco Failli (Ita) 25 Simon Clarke (Aus)
18 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) 26 Fausto Fognini (Ita)
19 Ruggero Marzoli (Ita) 27 Edoardo Girardi (Ita)
20 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) 28 Santo Anza (Ita)
21 Diego Milan Jimenez (Spa) 29 Andrej Kunitski (Blr)
22 Luca Paolini (Ita) 30 Vincenzo Garofolo (Ita)
23 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) 31 Rafael Infantino Abreu (Col)
24 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) 32 Branislau Samoilau (Blr)
Barloworld Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce
33 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) 41 Adriano Angeloni (Ita)
34 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) 42 Cristiano Fumagalli (Ita)
35 Felix Rafael Cardenas Ravelo (Col) 43 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita)
36 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) 44 Leonardo Giordani (Ita)
37 Marco Corti (Ita) 45 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu)
38 Christopher Froome (GBr) 46 Bernardo Riccio (Ita)
39 Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez (Col) 47 Luigi Sestili (Ita)
48 Diego Nosotti (Ita)
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49 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) 57 Daniel Schorn (Aut)
50 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) 58 Harald Fankhauser (Aut)
51 Guillermo Ruben Bongiorno (Arg) 59 Wolfgang Murer (Aut)
52 Michele Gaia (Ita) 60 Harald Starzengruber (Aut)
53 Umberto Nardecchia (Ita) 61 Björn Thurau (Ger)
54 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) 62 Harald Totschnig (Aut)
55 Simone Stortoni (Ita) 63 Gerhard Trampusch (Aut)
56 Enrico Zen (Ita) 64 Jan Valach (Svk)
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65 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) 73 Martin Hebik (Cze)
66 Dario David Cioni (Ita) 74 Tomas Buchacek (Cze)
67 Emanuele Vona (Ita) 75 Jacub Danacik (Cze)
68 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) 76 Leopold Konig (Cze)
69 Ruslan Pidgorny (Ukr) 77 Stanislav Kozubek (Cze)
70 Maxim Belkov (Rus) 78 Martin Mares (Cze)
71 Ian Stannard (GBr) 79 Frantisek Padour (Cze)
72 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) 80 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger)
Serramenti Pvc Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator
81 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) 89 Jan Bakelandts (Bel)
82 Luca Solari (Ita) 90 Thomas De Gendt (Bel)
83 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) 91 Tom Criel (Bel)
84 Francesco Ginanni (Ita) 92 Ben Hermans (Bel)
85 Carlos Jose Ochoa (Ven) 93 Stijn Joseph (Bel)
86 Davide Rebellin (Ita) 94 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel)
87 Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) 95 Maarten Neyens (Bel)
88 Fabio Taborre (Ita) 96 Sven Renders (Bel)
Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team Vorarlberg - Corratec
97 Matteo Carrara (Ita) 103 Alexander Egger (Aut)
98 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) 104 Alexander Gufler (Aut)
99 Clement Lhotellerie (Fra) 105 Andreas Dietziker (Swi)
100 Marco Marcato (Ita) 106 Pascal Hungerbuhler (Swi)
101 Martin Mortensen (Den) 107 Sebastian Siedler (Ger)
102 Wouter Poels (Ned) 108 Harald Morscher (Aut)
109 Elias Schmaeh (Swi)
110 Christoph Sokoll (Aut)
Xacobeo Galicia Amore & Vita - Mc Donald's
111 Carlos Castano Panadero (Spa) 119 Jaroslaw Dabrowski (Pol)
112 Gustavo Cesar Veloso (Spa) 120 Richard England (Aus)
113 Delio Fernandez Cruz (Spa) 121 Matthew Brandt (USA)
114 Marcos Garcia (Spa) 122 Serhy Hrechyn (Ukr)
115 David Garcia Da Pena (Spa) 123 Philipp Mamos (Ger)
116 Gonzalo Rabunal Rios (Spa) 124 Yuri Metlushenko (Ukr)
117 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) 125 Graziano Gasparre (Ita)
126 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr)
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127 Diego Genovesi (Ita) 135 Daniele Callegarin (Ita)
128 Daniele Colli (Ita) 136 Daniele Di Nucci (Ita)
129 Francesco Tizza (Ita) 137 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Col)
130 Jure Kocjan (Slo) 138 Yauhen Sobal (Blr)
131 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) 139 Eugenio Loria (Ita)
132 Alessandro Raisoni (Ita) 140 Dmitri Nikandrov (Rus)
133 Diego Tamayo Martinez (Col) 141 Alain Van Der Velde (Ned)
134 Francisco Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) 142 Luca Zanasca (Ita)
Meridiana - Kalev Chocolate Team Miche - Silver Cross - Selle Italia
143 Domenico Agosta (Ita) 151 Edwin Carvajal (Col)
144 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) 152 Rodrigo Garcia Rena (Spa)
145 Nicola D'andrea (Ita) 153 Massimo Giunti (Ita)
146 Mariano Giallorenzo (Ita) 154 Andrea Moletta (Ita)
147 Urmo Utar (Est) 155 Pasquale Muto (Ita)
148 Tommi Martikainen (Fin) 156 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol)
149 Olegs Melehs (Lat) 157 Marino Palandri (Ita)
150 Eddy Serri (Ita) 158 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol)
Nazionale Elettronica New Slot - Hadimec Rabobank Continental
159 Danilo Andrenacci (Ita) 167 Joeri Adams (Bel)
160 Sante Di Nizio (Ita) 168 Theo Bos (Ned)
161 Christopher Duperrut (Swi) 169 Sergej Fuchs (Ger)
162 Tobias Eggli (Swi) 170 Michel Kreder (Ned)
163 Bernhard Oberholzer (Swi) 171 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned)
164 Alex Meenhorst (NZl) 172 Thomas Rabou (Ned)
165 Julian David Munoz Giraldo (Col) 173 Tejay Van Garderen (USA)
166 Americo Novembrini (Ita) 174 Dennis Van Winden (Ned)
Team Moscow Team Sparebanken Vest - Ridley
175 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) 183 Geir Inge Berg (Nor)
176 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) 184 Otto Eikeset (Nor)
177 Andrey Klyuev (Rus) 185 Jan Frederik Grue (Nor)
178 Vladimir Likhachev (Rus) 186 Roy Hegreberg (Nor)
179 Kirill Baranov (Rus) 187 Michael Stevenson (Swe)
180 Ilya Syrtsev (Rus) 188 Haavard Nybö (Nor)
181 Sergey Shcherbakov (Rus) 189 Christer Rake (Nor)
182 Maksim Razumov (Rus)
Team Utensilnord
191 Fabrizio Amerighi (Ita)
192 Niklas Axelsson (Swe)
193 Carlo Corra (Ita)
194 Marco Corsini (Ita)
195 Emiliano Donadello (Ita)
196 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr)
197 Andrea Pagoto (Ita)
198 Bruno Rizzi (Ita)
Past winners
2008 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes 2007 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Barloworld 2006 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 2005 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Grassi-Marco Pantani 2004 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2003 Julio A. Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo 2002 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Fassa Bortolo 2001 Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 2000 Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Liquigas-Pata 1999 Raimondas Rumsas (Lit) Mróz 1998 (3) Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei-Bricobi 1997 Emanule Lupi (Ita) Elite 1996 (2) Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Panaria-Vinavil 1995 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1994 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Lampre-Panaria 1993 Enrico Zaina (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1992 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Amateur 1991 Lance Armstrong (USA) Amateur 1990 Nikolai Golovatenko (Rus) Amateur 1989 Ivan Ivanov (Rus) Alfa Lum Amateur 1988 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) ??? 1987 Wladimir Poulnikov (Rus) 1986 Zenon Jaskula (Pol) 1985 Yuri Kashirin (Rus) Settimana Ciclista Bergamasca/Giro del Bergamasco 1984 Flavio Giupponi (Ita) 1983 Andrej Serediuk (Pol) 1982 Vladimir Kozarek (Cze) 1981 Giovanni Fidrigo (Ita) 1980 Czeslaw Lang (Pol) 1979 Alberto Minetti (Ita) 1978 Alessandro Pozzi (Ita) 1977 Jan Bieniek (Pol) 1976 Vittoria Algeri (Ita) 1975 Valerij Chaplygin (Rus) 1974 Angelo Tosoni (Ita) 1973 Jiri Mainus (Cze) 1972 Fausto Bertoglio (Ita) 1971 Rudolf Labus (Cze) 1970 Giuliano Marcuzzi (Ita)
