Fontana, Lechner triumph in Italy
Maremma Cup concludes in Massa Marittima
For fans of Italian mountain biking, the opening round of the Internazionali d'Italia could have no better start than with wins by Italians Marco Aurelio Fontana and Eva Lechner on Sunday. The two Italians won the Maremma Cup in Massa Marittima. Alessia Bulleri, from the island of Elba, also won the junior race ahead of Swiss Roger Walder.
Marco Fontana, now in top form, started fast, keeping pace with World Champion Nino Schurter, Olympic Champion Julien Absalon, Swiss Champion Florian Vogel, Jose Antonio Hermida and Ralph Naef. Fontana and Naef worked together at the front while Absalon and Schurter chased behind, followed by Tony Longo.
At the beginning of the fourth lap, Vogel and Fontana pulled away, leaving Naef, Schurter, Longo, and Absalon.
On lap five, the situation had obviously changed when Fontana, who had gained 50 yards on Vogel managed to enter the stadium at Massa Marittima with a 17-second advantage. He was greeted with applause by fans, who watched him wheelie to the finish.
Vogel finished second, and on the last lap, Schurter applied himself to finish third and take the final spot on the podium ahead of Absalon. Tony Longo, who was fourth last weekend took finishing position number five.
In the women's race, two Colnago teammates Eva Lechner and Nathalie Schneitter did battle. They took over the women's race from the start and were never overtaken by rivals.
Frenchwoman Cecile Ravanel was third, followed by track world champion Vera Carrara in her mountain bike debut.
Sunday's race wrapped up the Maremma Cup for 2010. Fontana took the overal in front of Schurter and Andreas Kugler.
With approval from the Grosseto Chamber of Commerce and the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation and the municipalities of Massa Marittima, Monte Argentario, Grosseto, the Massa Marittima is likely to propose itself as a host of a future stop on the World Cup.
Full Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) Cannondale Factory Racing | 1:43:35 |
2 | Florian Vogel (Swi) Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing | 0:00:29 |
3 | Nino Schurter (Swi) Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing | 0:01:02 |
4 | Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea | 0:01:13 |
5 | Tony Longo (Ita) Team Full-Dynamix | 0:01:38 |
6 | Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa) | 0:02:11 |
7 | Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) | 0:02:38 |
8 | Miguel Martinez (Fra) | 0:02:55 |
9 | Patrik Gallati (Swi) | 0:03:40 |
10 | Ralph Naef (Swi) | 0:03:55 |
11 | Manuel Fumic (Ger) | 0:04:50 |
12 | Rudi Van Houts (Ned) | 0:05:03 |
13 | Johnny Cattaneo (Ita) | 0:05:49 |
14 | Marek Konwa (Pol) | 0:05:57 |
15 | Yader Zoli (Ita) | 0:06:12 |
16 | Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Col) | 0:06:13 |
17 | Jelmer Pietersma (Ned) | 0:06:24 |
18 | Stéphane Tempier (Fra) | 0:06:33 |
19 | Karl Markt (Aut) | 0:07:09 |
20 | Mike Felderer (Ita) | 0:07:25 |
21 | Andrea Tiberi (Ita) | 0:07:29 |
22 | Cristian Cominelli (Ita) | 0:07:38 |
23 | Umberto Corti (Ita) | 0:07:46 |
24 | Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) | 0:07:58 |
25 | Johannes Schweiggl (Ita) | 0:08:08 |
26 | Marcel Wildhaber (Swi) | 0:09:00 |
27 | Samuele Porro (Ita) | 0:09:12 |
28 | Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Ita) | 0:10:04 |
29 | Massimo De Bertolis (Ita) | 0:10:14 |
30 | Torsten Marx (Ger) | 0:10:22 |
31 | Juri Ragnoli (Ita) | 0:10:57 |
32 | Elia Silvestri (Ita) | 0:11:17 |
33 | Rafael Visinelli (Ita) | 0:11:26 |
34 | Matthias Rupp (Swi) | 0:11:37 |
35 | Frank Beemer (Ned) | 0:12:14 |
36 | Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita) | 0:12:34 |
37 | Luca Braidot (Ita) | 0:12:43 |
38 | Julio Humberto Caro Silva (Col) | 0:12:45 |
39 | Paolo Cesar Montoya Cantillo (CRc) | 0:12:47 |
40 | Marco Bianco (Ita) | 0:12:55 |
41 | Davide Di Marco (Ita) | 0:13:01 |
42 | Roberto Giacobazzi (Ita) | 0:13:36 |
43 | Bart Brentjens (Ned) | 0:13:37 |
44 | Franz Hofer (Ita) | 0:13:41 |
45 | Ramon Bianchi (Ita) | 0:13:43 |
46 | Alessandro Fontana (Ita) | 0:14:09 |
47 | Fabio Hernando Castaneda Monsalve (Col) | 0:14:13 |
48 | Martin Loo (Est) | 0:14:46 |
49 | Roberto Crisi (Ita) | 0:14:51 |
50 | Manfred Reis (Ger) | 0:15:35 |
51 | David Miguel Costa Rodrigues (Por) | 0:15:57 |
52 | Daniele Braidot (Ita) | 0:16:15 |
53 | Ricardo Paulo Reis Marinheiro (Por) | 0:16:18 |
54 | Martino Di Pierdomenico (Ita) | 0:16:46 |
55 | Giovanni Gatti (Ita) | 0:17:12 |
56 | Florian Thie (Swi) | 0:17:50 |
57 | Francesco Niccoli (Ita) | 0:18:13 |
58 | Luca Ronchi (Ita) | 0:19:27 |
59 | Andrea Bravin (Ita) | Row 58 - Cell 2 |
60 | Lorenzo Martelli (Ita) | Row 59 - Cell 2 |
61 | Alex Lupato (Ita) | Row 60 - Cell 2 |
62 | Alessandro Bernardini (Ita) | Row 61 - Cell 2 |
63 | Lukas Kaufmann (Swi) | Row 62 - Cell 2 |
64 | Nicolò Ferrazzo (Ita) | Row 63 - Cell 2 |
65 | Gunther Huber (Ita) | Row 64 - Cell 2 |
66 | Gregory Saw (Aus) | Row 65 - Cell 2 |
67 | Maurizio Tasca (Ita) | Row 66 - Cell 2 |
68 | Christian Pallaoro (Ita) | Row 67 - Cell 2 |
69 | Fabian Rabensteiner (Ita) | Row 68 - Cell 2 |
70 | Tim Wijnants (Bel) | Row 69 - Cell 2 |
71 | Nejc Cernilogar (Slo) | Row 70 - Cell 2 |
72 | Thomas Forer (Ita) | Row 71 - Cell 2 |
73 | Andrea Dei Tos (Ita) | Row 72 - Cell 2 |
74 | Daniel Pozzecco (Ita) | Row 73 - Cell 2 |
75 | Alessandro Pierantoni (Ita) | Row 74 - Cell 2 |
76 | Alberto Sarto (Ita) | Row 75 - Cell 2 |
77 | Hubert Pollinger (Ita) | Row 76 - Cell 2 |
78 | Marco Cellini (Ita) | Row 77 - Cell 2 |
79 | David Guzzardi (Ita) | Row 78 - Cell 2 |
80 | Daniele Mensi (Ita) | Row 79 - Cell 2 |
81 | Vincenzo Persico (Ita) | Row 80 - Cell 2 |
82 | Thomas Meliti (Ita) | Row 81 - Cell 2 |
83 | Roberto Saraceni (Ita) | Row 82 - Cell 2 |
84 | Alessandro Bellotto (Ita) | Row 83 - Cell 2 |
85 | Tommaso Botti (Ita) | Row 84 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Hannes Genze (Ger) | Row 85 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andreas Kugler (Swi) | Row 86 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Moritz Milatz (Ger) | Row 87 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Robert Gehbauer (Aut) | Row 88 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Irjan Luttenberg (Ned) | Row 89 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) | Row 90 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Filippo Blanc (Ita) | Row 91 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Martino Fruet (Ita) | Row 92 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Igor Smarzaro (Ita) | Row 93 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Michele Casagrande (Ita) | Row 94 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Federico Rizza (Ita) | Row 95 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Davide Finetto (Ita) | Row 96 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Marco Ponta (Ita) | Row 97 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Pierluigi Bettelli (Ita) | Row 98 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Matteo Valsecchi (Ita) | Row 99 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Sebastian Batchelor (GBr) | Row 100 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Balz Weber (Swi) | Row 101 - Cell 2 |
DNF | José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) | Row 102 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andrea Ferrari (Ita) | Row 103 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Marzio Deho (Ita) | Row 104 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Igor Baretto (Ita) | Row 105 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Patrick Marcher (Ita) | Row 106 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Alexander Gehbauer (Aut) | Row 107 - Cell 2 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Eva Lechner (Ita) Colnago Arreghini Südtirol | 1:23:24 |
2 | Nathalie Schneitter (Swi) Colnago Arreghini Südtirol | 0:00:46 |
3 | Cécile Ravanel (Fra) Lapierre Interational | 0:01:55 |
4 | Blaza Klemencic (Slo) Felt Oetztal X-Bionic Team | 0:02:11 |
5 | Adelheid Morath (Ger) Felt Oetztal X-Bionic Team | 0:02:14 |
6 | Katrin Leumann (Swi) | 0:03:44 |
7 | Evelyn Staffler (Ita) | 0:05:44 |
8 | Sandra Santanyes Murillo (Spa) | 0:06:34 |
9 | Daniela Veronesi (SMr) | 0:07:42 |
10 | Judith Pollinger (Ita) | 0:08:31 |
11 | Vivienne Meyer (Swi) | 0:09:49 |
12 | Stephanie Wiedner (Aut) | 0:10:38 |
13 | Lucie Vesela (Cze) | 0:11:32 |
14 | Serena Calvetti (Ita) | 0:12:12 |
15 | Nina Gulino (Ita) | 0:12:48 |
16 | Elena Gaddoni (Ita) | 0:13:35 |
17 | Michela Battaglia (Ita) | 0:13:51 |
18 | Martina Giovanniello (Ita) | 0:16:16 |
19 | Claudia Sieder (Ita) | 0:17:52 |
20 | Sabrina Di Lorenzo (Ita) | 0:18:30 |
21 | Cornelia Schuster (Ita) | 0:18:42 |
22 | Katarina Uhlarikova (Svk) | 0:18:59 |
23 | Chiara Pastore (Ita) | 0:19:07 |
24 | Marta Pastore (Ita) | 0:21:44 |
25 | Vera Carrara (Ita) | 0:24:00 |
26 | Roberta Monaldini (SMr) | 0:26:06 |
27 | Beatrice Balducci (Ita) | Row 26 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Tereza Hurikova (Cze) | Row 27 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Tatjana Dold (Ger) | Row 28 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Sona Jurkova (Cze) | Row 29 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Sabrina Enaux (Fra) | Row 30 - Cell 2 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Roger Walder (Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing) | 1:14:48 |
2 | Denny Lupato (Giant Italia Team) | 0:00:30 |
3 | Andrea Righettini (L'arcobaleno Carraro Team) | 0:00:53 |
4 | Maximilian Vieider (ASC Tiroler Radler Bozen) | 0:02:56 |
5 | Giuseppe Carpino (A.S.D. Team Bikes Ragusa Frw) | 0:03:03 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Alessia Bulleri (Elba Bike) | 1:10:54 |
2 | Miriam Corti (Team Cbe Tecnoimpianti A.S.D.) | 0:01:32 |
3 | Julia Tanner (A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt) | 0:05:03 |
4 | Veronika Widmann (A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt) | 0:06:07 |
5 | Elena Spadaccia (Team Gebi Sistemi) | 0:06:19 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | Header Cell - Column 3 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) | 22 | pts |
2 | Nino Schurter (Swi) | 15 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
3 | Andreas Kugler (Swi) | 12 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
4 | Rudi Van Houts (Ned) | 7 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
5 | Florian Vogel (Swi) | 7 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
6 | Ralph Näf (Swi) | 4 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
7 | Moritz Milatz (Ger) | 3 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
8 | Lukas Kaufmann (Swi) | 2 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
9 | Julien Absalon (Fra) | 2 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
10 | Tony Longo (Ita) | 2 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
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