2016 GP di Lugano (HC) Switzerland
70th Edition: February 28, 2016
2016 GP di Lugano (HC) Switzerland
70th Edition: February 28, 2016
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Sunday, February 28, 2016: Lugano - Lugano: 184.9 km
Sonny Colbrelli wins the 70th GP di Lugano
The Race: Only 45 riders finished this race held on a cold, wet day in Switzerland.
Several breaks went clear, only to be re-absorbed. But the one that stuck came in the day's final kilometers when winner Sonny Colbrelli, Diego Ulissi, Roberto Ferrari, Andrei Solommenikov and Jarlinson Pantano escaped.
Colbrelli had the most suds at the end, winning by several lengths.
Here's the release from winner Sonny Colbrelli's Bardiani-CSF team:
Bardiani-CSG has broken the ice in 2016 thanks to Sonny Colbrelli, today’s winner of Gran Premio Città di Lugano. Great performance of the Italian rider as well as his teammates who supported him in the best way during the entire race.
“This victory has been the culmination of a great performances by the entire Bardiani-CSF” said Colbrelli. “We knew today was a very good chance to win and we were really motivated to take it. We rode with a winning strategy, everything was perfect even if the day was really hard with cold and rain”.
“Since the beginning I had good feeling and the motivation to forget the second place of Laigueglia was big push in mind. During the race my teammates supported me a lot to save enough energy to make the difference in the finale. We manage the finale as we wanted and when the race exploded I had to play my chances. People think I’m a sprinter, but it’s not my feeling. During last years I grew a lot, I improved my resistance especially on the short climbs. This is why I attacked selecting the group - I didn’t want a sprint. The hardest moment of the race has been the final kilometer when the small group behind me, Ulissi and Pantano was really close to catch us. Ferrari was there and he’s really fast, I had only one choice - push hard until the finish”.
“This victory is a big boost of confidence in view of the next important events of our calendars, such as Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milano-Sanremo and then the Belgium campaign. We have the confirmation we’re on the right way and, most important, we can forget the not positive 2015 season and just looking ahead” added Colbrelli.
Complete Results:
184.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 36.721 km/hr
1 | Sonny Colbrelli | Bardiani CSF | 5hr 2min 7sec |
2 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre-Merida | s.t. |
3 | Roberto Ferrari | Lampre-Merida | s.t. |
4 | Andrei Solommenikov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
5 | Jarlinson Pantano | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
6 | Damiano Cunego | Nippo-Vini Fantini | +4sec |
7 | Omar Fraile | Dimension Data | +7'' |
8 | Simone Andreetta | Bardiani CSF | +38'' |
9 | Igor Antón | Dimension Data | s.t. |
10 | Roman Maykin | Gazprom-Rusvelo | +1' 02'' |
11 | Fabian Wegmann | Stölting | +1' 16'' |
12 | Natnael Berhane | Dimension Data | s.t. |
13 | Mauro Finetto | Unieuro-Wilier | +1' 19'' |
14 | Jonathan Fumeaux | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
15 | Francesco Gavazzi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
16 | Lorenzo Rota | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
17 | Redi Halilaj | Amore & Vita | s.t. |
18 | Marcel Wyss | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
19 | Paolo Ciavatta | D'Amico-Bottecchia | +1' 26'' |
20 | Alessandro Malaguti | Unieuro-Wilier | +1' 29'' |
21 | Kristian Sbaragli | Dimension Data | +2' 35'' |
22 | Valerio Conti | Lampre-Merida | s.t. |
23 | Merhawi Kudus | Dimension Data | s.t. |
24 | Bruno Pires | Roth | s.t. |
25 | Mathias Frank | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
26 | Franco Pellizotti | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
27 | Francesco Bongiorno | Bardiani CSF | +2' 48'' |
28 | Simone Petilli | Lampre-Merida | +2' 52'' |
29 | Antonio Nibali | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
30 | Grega Bole | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
31 | Jordi Simón | Verva-Active Jet | s.t. |
32 | Ivan Savitsky | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
33 | Stefan Schumacher | Christina Jewelry | +4' 04'' |
34 | Stefano Pirazzi | Bardiani CSF | +4' 13'' |
35 | Serghei Tvetcov | Androni Giocattoli | +5' 42'' |
36 | David Lozano | Novo Nordisk | s.t. |
37 | Joonas Henttala | Novo Nordisk | s.t. |
38 | Ildar Arslanov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
39 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
40 | Alessandro Bisolti | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
41 | Nicolas Baldo | Roth | s.t. |
42 | Matthias Krizek | Roth | s.t. |
43 | Giorgio Bocchiola | D'Amico-Bottecchia | s.t. |
44 | Giovanni Carboni | Unieuro-Wilier | s.t. |
45 | Francesco Baldi | D'Amico-Bottecchia | s.t. |
Mattia Cattaneo | Lampre-Merida | DNF | |
Kristijan Ðurasek | Lampre-Merida | DNF | |
Manuele Mori | Lampre-Merida | DNF | |
Gang Xu | Lampre-Merida | DNF | |
David Tanner | IAM Cycling | DNF | |
Oliver Zaugg | IAM Cycling | DNF | |
Marco Frapporti | Androni Giocattoli | DNF | |
Giorgio Cecchinel | Androni Giocattoli | DNF | |
Mirko Selvaggi | Androni Giocattoli | DNF | |
Davide Viganò | Androni Giocattoli | DNF | |
Enrico Barbin | Bardiani CSF | DNF | |
Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani CSF | DNF | |
Edoardo Zardini | Bardiani CSF | DNF | |
Giacomo Berlato | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF | |
Gianfranco Zilioli | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF | |
Daniele Colli | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF | |
Evgeniy Shalunov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | DNF | |
Sergey Firsanov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | DNF | |
Artem Nych | Gazprom-Rusvelo | DNF | |
Alexander Foliforov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | DNF | |
Kevin Demesmaeker | Novo Nordisk | DNF | |
Brian Kamstra | Novo Nordisk | DNF | |
Javier Megías | Novo Nordisk | DNF | |
Andrea Peron | Novo Nordisk | DNF | |
Martijn Verschoor | Novo Nordisk | DNF | |
Pawel Franczak | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Michal Podlaski | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Lukasz Bodnar | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Pawel Charucki | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Karel Hník | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Pawel Cieslik | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Adam Stachowiak | Verva-Active Jet | DNF | |
Linus Gerdemann | Stölting | DNF | |
Rasmus Guldhammer | Stölting | DNF | |
Lennard Kämna | Stölting | DNF | |
Romain Lemarchand | Stölting | DNF | |
Christian Mager | Stölting | DNF | |
Andrea Pasqualon | Roth | DNF | |
Nico Brüngger | Roth | DNF | |
Andrea Zordan | Roth | DNF | |
Martin Kohler | Roth | DNF | |
Giacomo Tomio | Roth | DNF | |
Andrea Cacciotti | Unieuro-Wilier | DNF | |
Marco Molteni | Unieuro-Wilier | DNF | |
Mattia Viel | Unieuro-Wilier | DNF | |
Marco Tecchio | Unieuro-Wilier | DNF | |
Alex Turrin | Unieuro-Wilier | DNF | |
Eugenio Bani | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Danilo Celano | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Pierpaolo Ficara | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Mattia Gavazzi | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Paolo Lunardon | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Yukinori Hishinuma | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Sergii Movchan | Amore & Vita | DNF | |
Kai Kautz | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Florian Nowak | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Julian Schulze | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Georg Loef | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Arnold Fiek | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Till Drobisch | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Moritz Fußnegger | Christina Jewelry | DNF | |
Fabio Chinello | D'Amico-Bottecchia | DNF | |
Nicola Genovese | D'Amico-Bottecchia | DNF | |
Daniel Ginés | D'Amico-Bottecchia | DNF | |
Iltjan Nika | D'Amico-Bottecchia | DNF | |
Marco Tizza | D'Amico-Bottecchia | DNF | |
Matt Brammeier | Dimension Data | DNF | |
Alessio Taliani | Androni Giocattoli | DNF |
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