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Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio - CDM
Italy, March 29, 2009
Photography
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Images by Davide Tricarico/ladiescycling.net
- Team Chiro Forno d'Asolo with Brazilian champion Clemilda Fernandes and Lithuanian Edita Janeliunaite.
- Nicole Cooke (Vision 1) with Italian Cycling Federation president Renato Di Rocco and race organiser Mario Minervino.
- Team Flexpoint with team leader Susanne Ljungskog...and a giant green frog.
- Cervèlò TestTeam arrived with its super team including defending champion Emma Pooley and America's Kristin Armstrong.
- Team Bigla also had a strong roster including Noemi Cantele, Modesta Vzeniuskaite, and Nicole Brandli.
- Bigla's Noemi Cantele with Renato Di Rocco and Mario Minervino.
- Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam) attacked a few kilometres into the race.
- Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam) climbed to a good advantage in the opening kilometres.
- British rider Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam) continued to extend her lead over the first climb.
- Team Bigla worked hard to catch 2008 race winner Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam).
- Noemi Cantele (Team Bigla) attacked the peloton to bring Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam) back.
- Emma Johansson (RedSun) and Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) attack the peloton but Emma Pooley (Cervèlò TestTeam) and Kristin Armstrong (Cervèlò TestTeam) also attacked with Eva Lutz (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung).
- Emma Johansson (RedSun) won the last mountains climb on Orino.
- Emma Johansson (RedSun) and Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) worked hard together to stay away from the chase groups.
- Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) did her share of the work on Orino.
- Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) was fresh enough to claim victory over fellow breakaway rider Emma Johansson (RedSun).
- Kristin Armstrong (Cervèlò TestTeam) beat Eva Lutz (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung) for third place.
- A Cervèlò TestTeam rider fell just a few metres from the finish line.
- Podium (L-R): Emma Johansson (RedSun), Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) and Kristin Armstrong (Cervèlò TestTeam).
- Marianne Vos (Netherlands National Team) is the new UCI Women's World Cup leader following her victory.
