June 21/97 19:14 pm - Pezzo Again, Euro Results

Posted by Editor on 06/21/97
 

Pezzo Again  Paolo Pezzo (Gary Fisher) was once again victorious in the Grundig World Cup, showing that the layoff from the series did not slow her down. The Italian Olympic Champion took her fourth World Cup of the year, ahead of Alison Sydor (Volvo-Cannondale), the defending World Cup champion, by a whopping four and a half minute margin. The feared rain did not appear, but that did not help Sydor or third place finisher Ruthie Matthes (Powerbar), as Pezzo rode away from them on the first climb of the 9 kilometre circuit (the women rode three laps). Sydor and Matthes fought it out for nearly 16 kilometres, before the Canadian world champion pulled away on the main climb of the course, to beat the U.S. rider by a minute. Just to show how dominant Pezzo was - 4th place (Beth Coates of Ventana) was over 12 minutes behind first! We will provide results of the top ten (and all Canadians) later tonight.   Remember, the Alison Sydor Chat Room happens at our World Cup site (www.mtbworlds.com) next Friday (June 27th) between 8:00 and 9:00 pm EST. This is your chance to chat live with the 3-time World Champion. So be there, and tell your friends!   Tour of Switzerland  Stage 5, 31.5 km ITT  1. Sergei Gontchar (Ukraine) 39:30 2. Jan Ullrich (Germany) s.t.  3. Oskar Camenzind (Switzerland) at 0:19 4. Alex Zuelle (Switzerland) 0:30 5. Yevgeny Berzin (Russia) 0:47 6. Beat Zberg (Switzerland) 0:57 7. Daniele Nardello (Italy) 1:06 8. Roland Meier (Switzerland) 1:08 9. Laurent Jalabert (France) 1:24 10. David Extebarria (Spain) 1:25  GC  1. Christophe Agnolutto (France) 14:44:26 2. Valentino Fois (Italy) at 4:01 3. Ullrich 6:23 4. Camenzind 7:27 5. Meier 8:07 6. Zuelle 8:30 7. Zberg 8:46 8. Boelts 8:55 9. Danny Nelissen (Netherlands) 9:01 10. Heppner 9:19    Tour of Catalonia, Spain  Stage 3  1.Sergei Outschakov (Ukraine) Polti 5:56  2.Peter Van Petegem (Belgium) TVM  3.Angel Luis Casero (Spain) Banesto  4.Maurizio Molinari (Italy) Asics  5.Jose Luis Rubiera (Spain) Kelme  6.Sergei Ivanov (Russia) TVM  7.Fernando Escartin (Spain) Kelme  8.Paolo Lanfranchi (Italy) Mapei  9.Orlando Rodriguez (Portugal) Banesto  10.Bo Hamburger (Netherlands) TVM all s.t.  GC  1.Chris Boardman (GBR) Gan 11:08:02 2.Angel Luis Casero (Spain) Banesto at 0:12 3.Fernando Escartin (Spain) Kelme 0:23 4.Armand de las Cuevas (France) Banesto 0:33 5.Alberto Leanizbarrutia (Spain) Banesto  6.Alvaro Gonzalez (Spain) Euskadi  7.Alonso Marino (Spain) Banesto all s.t. 8.Bart Voskamp (Holland) TVM 0:36 9.Pavel Tonkov (Russia) Mapei 0:39 10.Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spain) ONCE 0:40