A VERY GOOD GIRO DELLA TOSCANA COMES TO AN END
Important results arrive in Tuscany for the Team Servetto – Stradalli – Alurecycling, with the Russian Kseniia Dobrynina in place 8th in the prologue last Friday in Campi Bisenzio and as well protagonist of a breakaway try yesterday in the Lucca – Capannori stage (121.8 kms). Her compatriot Anna Potokina ended the final stage in Capannori in 11th place and she is the best team athlete in the General Classification, 16th with a gap of 2’16” from the overall winner Soraya Paladin.
“We did a strong performance, fighting against some of the World-level riders” – said the Team Manager Dario Rossino – “It’s important to find a good condition before the World Championships in Innsbruck and we hope to improve it this week at the Tour de l’Ardeche.”
The Team from Asti will race in fact between the 13th and 18th September in France for a very hard stage race which are going to start with two half-stages. In the following three days there will be three uphill finishes, included the Mont-Serin, a climb very next to the notorious Mont Ventoux.
The atlhletes at the Tour de l’Ardeche are the Russians Anna Potokina and Kseniia Dobrynina, the Italian Sara Casasola, the Eritrean Mossana Debesay and the French Marion Bessone.
FINAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION GIRO DELLA TOSCANA – MEMORIAL MICHELA FANINI:
1. Soraya Paladin
2. Maria Giulia Confalonieri
3. Tatyana Riabchenko
16. Anna POTOKINA
28. Kseniia DOBRYNINA
DNF. Elena NOVIKOVA
DNF. Mossana DEBESAY
DNF. Sara CASASOLA
LINE-UP TOUR DE L’ARDECHE:
Anna POTOKINA (Russia)
Kseniia DOBRYNINA (Russia)
Sara CASASOLA (Italy)
Mossana DEBESAY (Eritrea)
Marion BESSONE (France)
Team Manager: Dario ROSSINO (Italy)
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