Fontana, Lechner triumph in Italy

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.

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Elite men
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) Cannondale Factory Racing1:43:35
2Florian Vogel (Swi) Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing0:00:29
3Nino Schurter (Swi) Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing0:01:02
4Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea0:01:13
5Tony Longo (Ita) Team Full-Dynamix0:01:38
6Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa)0:02:11
7Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa)0:02:38
8Miguel Martinez (Fra)0:02:55
9Patrik Gallati (Swi)0:03:40
10Ralph Naef (Swi)0:03:55
11Manuel Fumic (Ger)0:04:50
12Rudi Van Houts (Ned)0:05:03
13Johnny Cattaneo (Ita)0:05:49
14Marek Konwa (Pol)0:05:57
15Yader Zoli (Ita)0:06:12
16Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Col)0:06:13
17Jelmer Pietersma (Ned)0:06:24
18Stéphane Tempier (Fra)0:06:33
19Karl Markt (Aut)0:07:09
20Mike Felderer (Ita)0:07:25
21Andrea Tiberi (Ita)0:07:29
22Cristian Cominelli (Ita)0:07:38
23Umberto Corti (Ita)0:07:46
24Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa)0:07:58
25Johannes Schweiggl (Ita)0:08:08
26Marcel Wildhaber (Swi)0:09:00
27Samuele Porro (Ita)0:09:12
28Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Ita)0:10:04
29Massimo De Bertolis (Ita)0:10:14
30Torsten Marx (Ger)0:10:22
31Juri Ragnoli (Ita)0:10:57
32Elia Silvestri (Ita)0:11:17
33Rafael Visinelli (Ita)0:11:26
34Matthias Rupp (Swi)0:11:37
35Frank Beemer (Ned)0:12:14
36Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita)0:12:34
37Luca Braidot (Ita)0:12:43
38Julio Humberto Caro Silva (Col)0:12:45
39Paolo Cesar Montoya Cantillo (CRc)0:12:47
40Marco Bianco (Ita)0:12:55
41Davide Di Marco (Ita)0:13:01
42Roberto Giacobazzi (Ita)0:13:36
43Bart Brentjens (Ned)0:13:37
44Franz Hofer (Ita)0:13:41
45Ramon Bianchi (Ita)0:13:43
46Alessandro Fontana (Ita)0:14:09
47Fabio Hernando Castaneda Monsalve (Col)0:14:13
48Martin Loo (Est)0:14:46
49Roberto Crisi (Ita)0:14:51
50Manfred Reis (Ger)0:15:35
51David Miguel Costa Rodrigues (Por)0:15:57
52Daniele Braidot (Ita)0:16:15
53Ricardo Paulo Reis Marinheiro (Por)0:16:18
54Martino Di Pierdomenico (Ita)0:16:46
55Giovanni Gatti (Ita)0:17:12
56Florian Thie (Swi)0:17:50
57Francesco Niccoli (Ita)0:18:13
58Luca Ronchi (Ita)0:19:27
59Andrea Bravin (Ita)Row 58 - Cell 2
60Lorenzo Martelli (Ita)Row 59 - Cell 2
61Alex Lupato (Ita)Row 60 - Cell 2
62Alessandro Bernardini (Ita)Row 61 - Cell 2
63Lukas Kaufmann (Swi)Row 62 - Cell 2
64Nicolò Ferrazzo (Ita)Row 63 - Cell 2
65Gunther Huber (Ita)Row 64 - Cell 2
66Gregory Saw (Aus)Row 65 - Cell 2
67Maurizio Tasca (Ita)Row 66 - Cell 2
68Christian Pallaoro (Ita)Row 67 - Cell 2
69Fabian Rabensteiner (Ita)Row 68 - Cell 2
70Tim Wijnants (Bel)Row 69 - Cell 2
71Nejc Cernilogar (Slo)Row 70 - Cell 2
72Thomas Forer (Ita)Row 71 - Cell 2
73Andrea Dei Tos (Ita)Row 72 - Cell 2
74Daniel Pozzecco (Ita)Row 73 - Cell 2
75Alessandro Pierantoni (Ita)Row 74 - Cell 2
76Alberto Sarto (Ita)Row 75 - Cell 2
77Hubert Pollinger (Ita)Row 76 - Cell 2
78Marco Cellini (Ita)Row 77 - Cell 2
79David Guzzardi (Ita)Row 78 - Cell 2
80Daniele Mensi (Ita)Row 79 - Cell 2
81Vincenzo Persico (Ita)Row 80 - Cell 2
82Thomas Meliti (Ita)Row 81 - Cell 2
83Roberto Saraceni (Ita)Row 82 - Cell 2
84Alessandro Bellotto (Ita)Row 83 - Cell 2
85Tommaso Botti (Ita)Row 84 - Cell 2
DNFHannes Genze (Ger)Row 85 - Cell 2
DNFAndreas Kugler (Swi)Row 86 - Cell 2
DNFMoritz Milatz (Ger)Row 87 - Cell 2
DNFRobert Gehbauer (Aut)Row 88 - Cell 2
DNFIrjan Luttenberg (Ned)Row 89 - Cell 2
DNFMirko Pirazzoli (Ita)Row 90 - Cell 2
DNFFilippo Blanc (Ita)Row 91 - Cell 2
DNFMartino Fruet (Ita)Row 92 - Cell 2
DNFIgor Smarzaro (Ita)Row 93 - Cell 2
DNFMichele Casagrande (Ita)Row 94 - Cell 2
DNFFederico Rizza (Ita)Row 95 - Cell 2
DNFDavide Finetto (Ita)Row 96 - Cell 2
DNFMarco Ponta (Ita)Row 97 - Cell 2
DNFPierluigi Bettelli (Ita)Row 98 - Cell 2
DNFMatteo Valsecchi (Ita)Row 99 - Cell 2
DNFSebastian Batchelor (GBr)Row 100 - Cell 2
DNFBalz Weber (Swi)Row 101 - Cell 2
DNFJosé Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa)Row 102 - Cell 2
DNFAndrea Ferrari (Ita)Row 103 - Cell 2
DNFMarzio Deho (Ita)Row 104 - Cell 2
DNFIgor Baretto (Ita)Row 105 - Cell 2
DNFPatrick Marcher (Ita)Row 106 - Cell 2
DNSAlexander Gehbauer (Aut)Row 107 - Cell 2
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Elite women
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Eva Lechner (Ita) Colnago Arreghini Südtirol1:23:24
2Nathalie Schneitter (Swi) Colnago Arreghini Südtirol0:00:46
3Cécile Ravanel (Fra) Lapierre Interational0:01:55
4Blaza Klemencic (Slo) Felt Oetztal X-Bionic Team0:02:11
5Adelheid Morath (Ger) Felt Oetztal X-Bionic Team0:02:14
6Katrin Leumann (Swi)0:03:44
7Evelyn Staffler (Ita)0:05:44
8Sandra Santanyes Murillo (Spa)0:06:34
9Daniela Veronesi (SMr)0:07:42
10Judith Pollinger (Ita)0:08:31
11Vivienne Meyer (Swi)0:09:49
12Stephanie Wiedner (Aut)0:10:38
13Lucie Vesela (Cze)0:11:32
14Serena Calvetti (Ita)0:12:12
15Nina Gulino (Ita)0:12:48
16Elena Gaddoni (Ita)0:13:35
17Michela Battaglia (Ita)0:13:51
18Martina Giovanniello (Ita)0:16:16
19Claudia Sieder (Ita)0:17:52
20Sabrina Di Lorenzo (Ita)0:18:30
21Cornelia Schuster (Ita)0:18:42
22Katarina Uhlarikova (Svk)0:18:59
23Chiara Pastore (Ita)0:19:07
24Marta Pastore (Ita)0:21:44
25Vera Carrara (Ita)0:24:00
26Roberta Monaldini (SMr)0:26:06
27Beatrice Balducci (Ita)Row 26 - Cell 2
DNFTereza Hurikova (Cze)Row 27 - Cell 2
DNFTatjana Dold (Ger)Row 28 - Cell 2
DNFSona Jurkova (Cze)Row 29 - Cell 2
DNSSabrina Enaux (Fra)Row 30 - Cell 2
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Junior men
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Roger Walder (Scott-Swisspower Mtb-Racing)1:14:48
2Denny Lupato (Giant Italia Team)0:00:30
3Andrea Righettini (L'arcobaleno Carraro Team)0:00:53
4Maximilian Vieider (ASC Tiroler Radler Bozen)0:02:56
5Giuseppe Carpino (A.S.D. Team Bikes Ragusa Frw)0:03:03
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Junior women
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Alessia Bulleri (Elba Bike)1:10:54
2Miriam Corti (Team Cbe Tecnoimpianti A.S.D.)0:01:32
3Julia Tanner (A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt)0:05:03
4Veronika Widmann (A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt)0:06:07
5Elena Spadaccia (Team Gebi Sistemi)0:06:19
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Final Maremma Cup classification
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResultHeader Cell - Column 3
1Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita)22pts
2Nino Schurter (Swi)15Row 1 - Cell 3
3Andreas Kugler (Swi)12Row 2 - Cell 3
4Rudi Van Houts (Ned)7Row 3 - Cell 3
5Florian Vogel (Swi)7Row 4 - Cell 3
6Ralph Näf (Swi)4Row 5 - Cell 3
7Moritz Milatz (Ger)3Row 6 - Cell 3
8Lukas Kaufmann (Swi)2Row 7 - Cell 3
9Julien Absalon (Fra)2Row 8 - Cell 3
10Tony Longo (Ita)2Row 9 - Cell 3

Sue George is an editor at Cyclingnews.  She coordinates all of the site's mountain bike race coverage and assists with the road, 'cross and track coverage.

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