Lesser known races results 2013

[Ruudz0r]

That would have been extremely tight between Santambrogio and Sinkewitz... Autumn 2010, in Romagna, Pozzovivo had no chance against Sinke.
Santambrogio is a lot faster in sprints than Pozzo...

I think, not regarding tiredness and race development, Sinkewitz would have had realistic chances to win this today.

Good to see him having secured second, at least, though.

Di Luca tenth is, ofc, a good sign.

Tomorrow Giro Toscana 1.1, then Giro for him. A Giro with two race days in his legs, that´s not much, but OK. Did he do some other racing this spring, amateur/elite level?

What? Pozzovivo is like the worst sprinter in the peloton. He always comes in last and often like 2 seconds behind when he is in a small group that is sprinting to the finish.

 

[Netserk]

True that.

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=21664

 

[SafeBet]

Wow Santa is truly in the form of his career. Can't wait to see him in the Giro.

 

[Michele]

Im actually worried he peaked too early as he's going strong from a long time.

 

[SafeBet]

Im actually worried he peaked too early as he's going strong from a long time.

He had a break after Coppi e Bartali. Almost one month without racing (similar to Nibbles schedule).
I'm pretty confident he'll be good.

 

[Ferminal]

Duarte 12th, AMAZING form for the Giro _O_

 

[Gloin22]

The Tour de Brétagne-Trophée des Granitiers is going on this week, and is one of the best of the 2.2 races in Europe, drawing a solid field and providing some good racing. The key stages will be stages 3 and 4, which both finish on hilly circuits with an uphill rise to the finish, stage 6, a rolling 16km ITT, and stage 7, which features a final kilometre divided into 500m of steep ascent and 500m flat.

There are two ProContinental teams (Sojasun and, rather predictably, Brétagne-Séché Environment), and then an extensive list of foreign Continental teams (Dukla Praha and Etixx-Ihned from Czech Republic, Burgos-BH from Spain, Colombia es Pasión, Joker-Merida, Gourmetfein-Simplon, Raleigh, Ventilair-Steria, Thüringer Energie Team, and the development teams of Astana, Rabobank (yea, I know), Leopard Trek and Itera-Katyusha), along with a Venezuelan national team, and a selection of French amateur teams, mostly from Brétagne itself since the region is a very strong hub of French cycling (Brest-Iroise 2000, CC Nogent-sur-Oise, CC Étupes, Entente Sud-Gascogne, Armée de Terre, U-Nantes Atlantique, Vendée-U and a Bréton regional selection).

The first stage (over 166km from Sainte-Anne-d'Auray to Pluvignier) ended in a sprint, which was won by Louis Verhelst of Etixx-Ihned, the young Belgian managing a clear victory.

1 Louis Verhelst (Etixx-Ihned) 4'03'29
2 Jan Sokol (Gourmetfein-Simplon) +st
3 Timothy Dupont (Ventilair-Steria) +st
4 Juan Pablo Villegas (Colombia es Pasión) +st
5 Christophe Laborie (Sojasun) +st
6 Pablo Torres Muiño (Burgos-BH Castilla y León) +st
7 Eugenio Alafaci (Leopard Trek) +st
8 Marco Benfatto (Continental Team Astana) +st
9 Rick Zabel (Rabobank) +st
10 Lorenzo Manzin (U-Nantes Atlantique) +st

The second stage, from Ploemel to La Turballe over 174km, was a bit more active, with the bunch miscalculating and allowing the 2-man breakaway to duke out the stage. Nevertheless the bunch still had 100 riders in it so plenty of points on offer, and the gap isn't so huge it can't be taken back in a race like this. Rick Zabel was dropped and lost 5 minutes, however.

1 Riccardo Zoidl (Gourmetfein-Simplon) 3'50'14
2 Nicky van der Lijke (Rabobank) +5"
3 Marco Benfatto (Continental Team Astana) +53"
4 Lluís Mas Bonet (Burgos-BH Castilla y León) +st
5 Timothy Dupont (Ventilair-Steria) +st
6 Lorenzo Manzin (U-Nantes Atlantique) +st
7 Jan Sokol (Gourmetfein-Simplon) +st
8 Louis Verhelst (Etixx-Ihned) +st
9 Yoann Verardo (Entente Sud Gascogne) +st
10 Romain Cardis (Vendée-U) +st

Zoidl is quietly having a very fine year. He had some good performances in the medium mountains of Coppi e Bartali and was 5th in the GC, followed by victory in the Circuit des Ardennes, although the TTT did frame that. Gourmetfein have been picking up quite useful results all through the scene in northern Italy, Slovenia and the surrounding area.

How do you rate Verhelst and Lijke for future ? Verhelst seems like okay sprinter so far, Lijke looks more of classical rider with decent sprint too.

Also, do you know how stage 3 panned out ? Dupont, Sutterlin and Verhelst were on late attack or ..?

 

[taiwan]

1. Mauro Santambrogio
2. Patrik Sinkewitz
3. Oscar Gatto
4. Ivan Rovny
5. Andrea Fedi
6. Franco Pellizotti
7. Quintero
8. Manuel Francesco Bongiorno
9. Jackson Rodriguez
10. Danilo Di Luca

Not too bad for Di Luca considering this is his first race of the year.

Nice test before the Giro

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice test before the Giro

there will be another tomorrow:

Duarte
Pellizotti
Santa
Haas
Cummings
Pirazzi
Fedi
etc

startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjQwMTA=

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Stage 3 (La Turballe - Le Rheu, 183km)

1 Timothy Dupont (Ventilair-Steria) 4'32'54
2 Jascha Sütterlin (Thüringer Energie Team) +st
3 Louis Verhelst (Etixx-Ihned) +st
4 Florian Senechal (Etixx-Ihned) +5"
5 Juan Pablo Villegas (Colombia es Pasión) +7"
6 Marco Benfatto (Continental Team Astana) +st
7 Eugenio Alafaci (Leopard Trek) +st
8 Romain Guillemois (Vendée U) +st
9 Eric Berthou (Raleigh) +st
10 Richard Lang (Raleigh) +st

Zoidl retains the leader's jersey.

 

[Gloin22]

Giro della Toscana (1.1)

1 GAVAZZI Mattia Androni - Venezuela
2 ROVNY Ivan Ceramica Flaminia - Fondriest
3 PHINNEY Taylor BMC Racing Team

 

[jaylew]

And Di Luca 6th. Two races back, two top 10s.

 

[Afrank]

Battaglin in 8th as well, Finally finding some form hopefully, just in time for the Giro. Also good result for Phinney.

Anyone have any video?

 

[brilleaben]

Battaglin in 8th as well, Finally finding some form hopefully, just in time for the Giro. Also good result for Phinney.

Anyone have any video?

http://www.youtube.com/user/biklimber Biklimber has promised to have it uploaded around now, so probably soon.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Promising young Frenchman of cyclocross background Julien Alaphilippe won today's stage in Brittany, which finished on a small, typical Bréton hill, opening up some small gaps. Zoidl retains the lead thanks to his successful break in stage 2.

1 Julien Alaphilippe (Etixx-Ihned) 3'47'38
2 Maxime Renault (Selection de Brétagne) +1"
3 Eugenio Alafaci (Leopard Trek) +3"
4 Christophe Laborie (Sojasun) +st
5 Jascha Sütterlin (Thüringer Energie Team) +5"
6 Moisés Dueñas (Burgos-BH) +st
7 Timothy Dupont (Ventilair-Steria) +st
8 Steve Bekaert (Burgos-BH) +st
9 Riccardo Zoidl (Gourmetfein-Simplon) +st
10 Louis Verhelst (Etixx-Ihned) +st

 

[RHRH19861986]

The great Constantino Zaballa won Destination Thy 1.2 (or so) in Denmark, for Christina Watches.

Lots of smaller, but nice races are on in Denmark, it´s sad that they get noticed to less international.

Christina Watches always up front, not only in Denmark.

I very much hope Schumacher will be back in WorldTour, as soon as possible - won´t happen, I know.

 

[brilleaben]

Actually it was the first time a Danish UCI race was live transmitted, I believe. Even Danmark Rundt isn't televised, even though it has the best MTF in Europe. Replay here, for echelons in april: http://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/gense_concordia_forsikring_grand_prix/

 

[Afrank]

http://www.youtube.com/user/biklimber Biklimber has promised to have it uploaded around now, so probably soon.

Looks like it's been uploaded now, thanks for the link.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

http://www.youtube.com/user/biklimber Biklimber has promised to have it uploaded around now, so probably soon.

Thanks for this.

Looks like Rovny pushed hard on the final fill which created some selection. Later in the sprint he got 2nd. Not a bad performance.

edit: added a picture.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Does anyone know where I can find the full result for Giro Della Toscana? They are only showing the top 10 everywhere I look.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Promising young Frenchman of cyclocross background Julien Alaphilippe won today's stage in Brittany, which finished on a small, typical Bréton hill, opening up some small gaps. Zoidl retains the lead thanks to his successful break in stage 2.

1 Julien Alaphilippe (Etixx-Ihned) 3'47'38
2 Maxime Renault (Selection de Brétagne) +1"
3 Eugenio Alafaci (Leopard Trek) +3"
4 Christophe Laborie (Sojasun) +st
5 Jascha Sütterlin (Thüringer Energie Team) +5"
6 Moisés Dueñas (Burgos-BH) +st
7 Timothy Dupont (Ventilair-Steria) +st
8 Steve Bekaert (Burgos-BH) +st
9 Riccardo Zoidl (Gourmetfein-Simplon) +st
10 Louis Verhelst (Etixx-Ihned) +st

Nice, I noticed Alaphilippe earlier this year in Circuit des Ardennes but dont know much about him. Since when did he start focussing on the road?

 

[Pentacycle]

Nice, I noticed Alaphilippe earlier this year in Circuit des Ardennes but dont know much about him. Since when did he start focussing on the road?

He didn't. He's still done a fair amount of CX over the winter, I think he won the U23 Roma WC manche. He's just very allround, like Mike Teunissen for example, who can easily combine road and cyclocross.

 

[gooner]

Anyone know if Mustafa Sayar is riding in Azerbaijan?

Torku are riding and looking at the route he could easily win here as well.

Highlights are on Eurosport. It might be worth a watch if he's riding.

 

[Lupetto]

That's the best list, I could find. Sayar is on it and he seems to have no competition.

 

[gooner]

That's the best list, I could find. Sayar is on it and he seems to have no competition.

Thanks.

He will walk this so.

It's actually a decent route for it as well.