Men
ALONSO MCKERNAN Clemente
1/2/1 33/PRO 00:54:53 04:48:52 02:46:15 08:34:45
VIENNOT Cyril 6/3/2 29/PRO 00:59:54 04:43:59 02:54:07 08:41:48
AIGROZ Mike 4/4/3 34/PRO 00:57:59 04:48:02 02:55:55 08:46:04
FACHBACH Markus 10/5/4 29/PRO 01:00:15 04:51:17 03:00:49 08:57:21
DELSAUT Trevor 15/8/5 27/PRO 01:02:56 04:51:03 03:04:57 09:03:03
VABROUSEK Petr 19/10/6 38/PRO 01:05:22 04:58:02 03:01:50 09:09:57
TWIGG Craig 11/6/7 40/PRO 01:02:48 04:49:16 03:12:37 09:10:48
ROTA Sylvain 14/7/8 28/PRO 01:02:53 04:49:15 03:15:07 09:11:24
HORNER Kent 3/9/9 30/PRO 00:57:55 04:58:03 03:14:09 09:14:39
MANOCCHIO Guilherme 8/14/10 30/PRO 01:00:05 05:11:21 03:04:43 09:20:56

Women
1 BADMANN Natascha 32/18/16 45/PRO 01:14:43 05:14:55 03:12:02 09:47:10
2 BRÄNDLI Simone 7/17/17 31/PRO 01:00:04 05:23:51 03:23:40 09:52:26
3 RIESLER Diana 27/19/18 27/PRO 01:12:27 05:26:57 03:17:14 10:01:14
4 MCEWAN Dianne 23/22/19 28/PRO 01:07:41 05:37:37 03:18:14 10:07:55
5 DIETRICH Susan 22/20/20 30/PRO 01:07:34 05:36:41 03:19:33 10:08:02
6 BERASATEGUI Virginia 18/21/21 36/PRO 01:03:54 05:40:38 03:24:10 10:13:00
7 FAUX Catherine 21/4/3 24/25-29 01:14:48 05:36:53 03:29:03 10:26:42
8 SAKAI Emi 31/23/22 31/PRO 01:14:38 05:37:04 03:31:46 10:28:03
9 BASSO Anne 21/24/23 28/PRO 01:07:14 05:48:32 03:32:33 10:33:12
10 PEKERMAN Nina 25/25/24 34/PRO 01:08:29 05:53:14 03:27:46 10:34:24

AGE GROUP
MAGGITTI Francesco 170/14/7 40/40-44 01:33:23 05:12:47 03:58:14 10:53:00
PIZZAMIGLIO Andrea 64/43/21 31/30-34 01:21:54 06:07:49 03:26:27 11:08:36
JONKER Bernard 57/45/37 52/50-54 01:34:33 06:50:13 04:40:05 13:24:12
SCOTT Michelle 210/165/140 33/30-34 01:38:32 07:09:43 04:40:05 13:47:28
PATRUNO Pierantonio 96/156/161 42/40-44 01:24:48 07:09:18 05:09:18 13:54:16
SCIUTO Alfio 60/87/84 48/45-49 01:26:59 07:05:38 05:02:38 13:57:54
DE PRETO Elena 158/–/– 45/45-49 01:55:03 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00

Mancebo survives brutal Battenkill for NRC lead

Mancebo’s win at Battenkill, where well over half the field did not finish, boosted him
to a nine-point advantage over previous leader Phil Gaimon (Kenda/5-Hour Energy),
who won the series-opening Redlands Bicycle Classic but suffered a mechanical
in the closing kilometers Sunday and was the last rider to finish.
Bissell Pro Cycling’s Paddy Bevin did not race Sunday but is third overall based
on the strength of his three stage wins and second-place GC finish at Redlands.
Mancebo was third in the NRC standings before Sunday’s race.
In the team competiton, Bevin’s Bissell squad, which won this compeition last year,
moved into first place with 390 points after placing riders in third and seventh Sunday.
Optum-Kelly Benenfit Strategies claimed the second and fourth spots at Battenkill
to move into second overall with 358 points, while previous leader
Kenda/5-Hour Energy slipped to third, just three points behind Optum.
The NRC women did not race at Battenkill, and the standings remain unchanged.
Redlands winner Megan Guarnier (Tibco-To the Top), who recently placed third
at Ronde van Gelderland in the Netherlands, continues to lead
the individual competition by 76 points over Optum’s Joelle Numainville.
Alison Powers (NOW and Novartis for MS) is third with 155 points.
TIBCO also leads the team competition with 296 points, while Optum is in second
at 161. NOW and Novartis for MS is third with 213 points.

USA Cycling NRC Standings - Men
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result

1 Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist) (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) 226 pts
2 Phillip Gaimon (Kenda/5-Hour Energy) 217 pts
3 Patrick Bevin (Bissell Pro Cyclingg)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) 195 pts
4 Michael Friedman (Team Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies) 145pts
5 Alexander Candelario (Team Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies) 108 pts

USA Cycling NRC Standings - Men’s Team Standings
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result

1 Bissell Pro Cycling Team (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) 390 pts
2 Team Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies 358 pts
3 Kenda/5-Hour Energy 355 pts
4 Competitive Cyclist (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) 276 pts
5 California Giant Berry Farms/Specialized 159 pts

Friday’s long 120 mile Beaumont Circuit Race played out similar to past years
with the group staying together for the first of five total circuits.
On the second circuit a break of 4 riders got away
and built up a minute gap.
As the four leaders approached the KOM, the gap shrank
to only 10 seconds and group fell to three.
However, the power in the break was recharged with the addition
on an Exergy rider and the gap grew again to two minutes by the end
of the third circuit. Kenda manned the front of the peloton
in protection of their GC leader and brought the break back
by the start of the final lap. Almost on cue, the action started
with last year’s winner, Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist)
and Andy Jacques-Maynes (Kenda), making a brief but strong effort
at a breakaway. BISSELL came to the front in the final miles
to control for any late attacks. The BISSELL train was in great form
heading toward the finish. Bevin’s final lead out man, Pipp, was swarmed
in the final corner, but playing on his strengths Bevin was able
to come through on the slight uphill finish. He surged past his contenders
to take the win by several bike lengths. “It was just a matter of queuing up
at that last corner and just letting her go,” Bevin said. “To put a W on the board
is really satisfying. It’s great to have the BISSELL guys sell out for me,
pretty much, and all I have to do is finish it off. It makes my day pretty easy.”

The day, however, did not come without loss. After his great time trial prologue,
BISSELL’s Carter Jones started the day in fourth place overall.
On the second circuit, Jones crashed and was taken to hospital.
BPCT originally feared a possible clavicle fracture, but are happy to say
it wasn’t the case. A battered Jones was released and will be able to resume
his promising season after a bit of recovery.

Saturday’s Redlands Crit is another day for BISELL to look forward
to as National Criterium Champion Eric Young targets the stage.

An important day for the Team that demonstrates how the women’s movement
is receiving new energy from leading companies in cycling. “I am convinced
that this movement needs more attention. So I hope I have made a gift to my girls
by providing them with a great Champion like Mario Cipollini, who was very kind
to lend to the initiative” - Alessia Piccolo, President of Team and General Manager
of Giordana said of the day, which she strongly supported because it believes
in the power of pink cycling.

This captivating video, published on http://www.mcipollinigiordanateam.com
and official Facebook and Twitter Team profiles says the excitement of a day
in which male and female cyclists were compared and Mario Cipollini
spoke to the athletes (with World Champions Tatiana Guderzo
and Marta Bastianelli on top) power breakfast, gym in half an hour
of stretching pre-workout, technique in the simulations on the rollers,
the specific work by bicycle, and finally theory in the lecture on the construction
of the train post-workout, ending the day with some thoughts on massage
and physical recovery of an athlete.

A combination of content that is also visually tell from the photographs
(more than 50 shots) that collect all the details of a really important day
for athletes run by Luisiana Pegoraro, now ready to deal with some tools
in the most intense season just started.

See the PhotoGallery at the Official Team MCipollini-Giambenini-Gauss Website ›

“It feels really good, not only for me but for the team. They worked so hard for me
in the past two days,” Loder told Cyclingnews.
“The whole race people were attacking non-stop. I’ve done this race four times
and this was the most aggressive I’ve ever seen it. With 1km to go every team
was putting someone up the road. We had Serghei Tvetcov up the road
with 3km to go with Zirbel, and it looked really good. It really made Bissell chase.

“Coming in, everyone’s lead-out trains were depleted and I was able to surf.
Freddie dropped me off at the front with 500m to go and we got swarmed,
but I was able to find the Optum train coming up and I hopped on that and rode it in.”
With all but two teams lacking stage wins, and Optum and Exergy in particular
out for the podium’s top step, even Bissell’s best attempts to reel in the usual
day long breakaway weren’t enough to control the attacks.
In the final kilometers Bevin was forced to cover a number of attacks on his own
before finally surrendering to simply finishing on the same time
as his nearest competitors and taking home the yellow jersey.
Bevin was more than happy with the work from his team, however,
and equally relieved to be able to close the deal after four days of intense racing.
“They started with more than a lap to go with guys throwing bombs,” he said,
and his sense that the other teams were trying to burn out his was corroborated
by the Optum and Exergy riders.
Yet the 21-year-old Kiwi was well composed as were his teammates,
and while he was forced to cover a few attacks in the finale, he credits his team
with keeping his legs rested for the critical moments.
“We knew that after you’ve ridden for that much time, you have to be on your game.
Especially me, I had that plum ride, and when it comes down to the last half lap,
it’s time to earn my keep and do my part. I had to answer a fair bit
in that last half lap to keep sticking it together. There was no need to do much else.
“The guys had been out there for a long time, and you could see it coming.
It was time to start answering, especially the late attacks from the guys
20-30 seconds down who can slip away. I had to don the gloves there
and get in amongst it, but it was no trouble because I had an easy day
being looked after so well.”
After successfully answering all the hard attacks, Bevin knew
there would be no chance to go for third stage win. “You kind of forgo
the stage win just to protect the overall, so at the end of the day
it was definitely worth it.”
In the final classification, Loder overtook Optum’s Tom Zirbel to take
second overall through the time bonus on the stage. Zirbel himself
had a mishap-laden race, frought with near-crashes and mechanicals,
but in the end nearly pulled off a coup when he slipped away
with Tvetcov with 3km to go.
“We weren’t going to be content with second place. We wanted to see
what we could do, but Bissell rode great,” Zirbel said.
“They definitely earned the win today.”
From the start of the 120 mile stage through blooming almond orchards
humming with bees in the warm sunny morning, the Optum Pro Cycling
p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies team was keen to put pressure on Bissell.
They put two men into the day’s breakaway after an attack-laden first lap.
Scott Zwizanski and Mike Friedman, both strong men against the clock, made up
half of the four-man move. They were joined by Austin Carroll (Simple Green)
and Exergy’s Conor Mullervy, and gained several minutes
before being slowly reeled in on the final lap.
Zwizanski explained that they were trying to use up Bissell’s train
but that his escape group was a bit too small to threaten them.
“We wanted to really make Bissell work for the GC, and to isolate Bevin.
It worked to some extent - he had to cover a lot of moves at the end.
But we needed a few more guys in our break. After being out there for 100 miles,
we ran out of gas pretty quickly.”
The team was able to take the lead to try and deliver Ken Hanson for the sprint,
but despite dropping him off at the right spot, he was overtaken by Loder at the line.
“The plan was to be as aggressive as possible to try and take the overall, and we put
all of our eggs into that basket, Hanson said. “I even put in a few moves,
so I wasn’t exactly the freshest at the end, but kudos to Logan, he had a great
turn of speed - he jumped with 200m to go and did a good sprint.”

Armstrong holds onto yellow
The women’s race wrapped up with no change to the overall lead,
with Exergy-Twenty12’s Kristin Armstrong also resisting repeated attempts
to overtake her in the points-based omnium.
Ina Teutenberg took her second consecutive stage win, once again topping
the best young rider, Joelle Numainville (Optum), in the sprint, while Armstrong
stuck fast to the only rider who could overtake her - Numainville,
and claimed third on the stage to secure her overall win.
After winning the opening stage’s time trial by almost a minute,
Armstrong admitted the points-based format, where points were evenly
weighted down to 15th, made it more difficult for her to win.
Separated by just one point from Numainville, she could only give up one place
to the Canadian who would still lose in a tie-breaker as long
as she did not win the final stage.
“The original plan was to just stay on Joelle’s wheel, but she’s a real sprinter,
and she’s okay with the bumping and the swarming - that’s not exactly my strength,”
Armstrong said.
“So I decided just to ride the front in the final kilometer, and let her come from behind.”
It ended up being a drag race, with Teutenberg hitting the front early
and going on to win, and Armstrong able to slot in on Numainville’s win to take third.
“There was a bit of pressure on me because the team did so much work,” she said.
The women’s finale consisted of three laps of the same 24-mile mostly flat circuit which,
lacking any strong winds, was less selective than normal. That isn’t to say
there was a lack of aggression, because the first lap was full of the same sort
of rapid-fire attacks which were seen in the criterium.
Specialized-lululemon attacked repeatedly, interested primarily in a stage win,
while Optum played its card in the form of Janel Holcolmb, who slipped
into a last-lap move with Lauren Tamayo (Exergy)
and Ally Stacher (Specialized-lululemon).
With Holcolmb only six points down on Armstrong it was a iffy proposition for Exergy,
but Stacher and Holcolmb were content to drive the move to go for the stage win.
However, their chances were ruined when a group of four more riders made it across,
meaning Armstrong would have to win the bunch sprint to hold onto her lead
if Holcolmb won the stage.
Exergy chased the move down, and only a single attempt by VC La Grange’s Julie Cutts
looked able to break the stalemate. The mother of eight from Las Vegas, race age 44,
who has had top placings at the Valley of the Sun stage race, attacked with 8 miles to go
and put 45 seconds into the peloton before Specialized-lululemon brought it back
with 5km to go.
“I know I had nothing to lose, and they had no idea who I am, so it was worth it,”
Cutts said of her hail-mary effort. “I was dreaming a big dream thinking I would win,
but oh well - it was fun.”
In the end, Teutenberg showed she is still the fastest woman on two wheels
by nabbing another stage win, but was disappointed that one of her teammates
who will have to work for the big names during the rest of the season
didn’t have a chance to shine in this early season warm-up. “It’s so hard, we tried
to make a difference, but Exergy does such a good job in keeping the pace up.
“We have big goals this year, and it’s best to just ride aggressively. We were happy
to have Ally in the break, because these are the races where everyone
should have a chance to get a win. There are so many races in the rest of the year
where it’s so limited as to who can win. These races, you’re happy
to have some of your teammates who work for you all year long take their chances.
“For sure when it came back together at the end they worked to lead me out,
because we don’t want to give up the win, but we were happy
with any of us in the break.”
Unlike Armstrong, who preferred the previous time-based stage race,
Teutenberg said she enjoyed the points-based omnium, which kept the top riders
close until the end.
“The omnium makes it a better race, otherwise you would have had
a minute in the time trial, but with the points it was pretty close.
It makes for better racing, and it’s a good way to have more girls come out.
There were good fields today and yesterday, and there were
constant attacks, it was fun.”

Full results  
 
1 Logan Loader (Team Exergy)
4:15:27
2 Ken Hanson (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies)
3 Tyler Brandt (Team Mike’s Bikes)
4 Diego Yepez (F.C.C. powered by Pure Gear)
5 Bryan Larsen (Stage 17 Racing)
6 Lee Muse (CashCall Mortgage)
7 Patrick Bevin (Bissell Pro Cycling) (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT)
8 Christiaan Kriek (Simple Green Bike Religion Elite Team)
9 Frank Pipp (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT)
10 Marcus Smith (Team Specialized Racing Juniors)

Points classification
1 Patrick Bevin (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 75 pts
2 Logan Loader (Team Exergy) - 57
3 Ken Hanson (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 49
4 Tyler Brandt (Team Mike’s Bikes) - 41
5 Christiaan Kriek (Simple Green Bike Religion Elite Team) - 32
6 Lee Muse (CashCall Mortgage) - 26
7 Eric Young (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 23
8 Devan Dunn (CashCall Mortgage) - 18
9 Mike Friedman (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 18
10 Justin Williams (CashCall Mortgage) - 14

General classification  
 
1 Patrick Bevin (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 9:18:47
2 Logan Loader (Team Exergy) - 0:00:13
3 Tom Zirbel (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:22
4 Serghei Tvetcov (Team Exergy) - 0:00:23
5 Evan Huffman (California Giant/Specialized) - 0:00:37
6 Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT)
7 Scott Zwizanski (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:47
8 Michael Creed (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:49
9 Chad Haga (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:57
10 Jesse Anthony (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:58
11 Mike Friedman (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:01:04
12 Jonathan Teeter (Marc Pro - Strava) - 0:01:11
13 Fred Rodriguez (Team Exergy) - 0:01:12
14 Frank Pipp (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 0:01:13
15 Christiaan Kriek (Simple Green Bike Religion Elite Team) - 0:01:29

Young rider classification
1 Patrick Bevin (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 9:18:47
2 Logan Loader (Team Exergy) - 0:00:13
3 Serghei Tvetcov (Team Exergy) - 0:00:23
4 Evan Huffman (California Giant/Specialized) - 0:00:37
5 Chad Haga (Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) - 0:00:57
6 Christiaan Kriek (Simple Green Bike Religion Elite Team) - 0:01:29
7 Michael Weicht (Velo Club LaGrange) - 0:01:37
8 Eric Young (Bissell Pro Cycling)  (Giordana, Pinarello, DMT) - 0:02:04
9 Nate Wilson (California Giant/Specialized) - 0:02:05
10 Tyler Brandt (Team Mike’s Bikes) - 0:02:06

The Stage, a total of 100.8 kilometers from Pekan to Chukai, was affected
by rain which made the path slippery and treacherous, but even
the weather conditions were able to stop “Flash” Guardini.
The victory was the result of Andrea explosiveness, but also of an excellent
work team by Farnese Vini - Selle Italia which, throughout the race, managed
to keep under control the advantage of the fugitives. In the final
Team United Healthcare has tried to prepare the train for Jacob Keough
but Andrea Guardini, very supported by Cristian Benenati and Thomas Bertolini,
was able to leverage the work of American Team and then burn them clearly in the final sprint.

Andrea Guardini, with today’s win (the fourth this year, to be added to the 5 last year)
has equaled the record of 9 wins Stage owned by Graeme Brown.
Tomorrow there will be the 9th Stage which will be resolved once more in sprint.

“Now we have to enjoy this success, but surely we’ll try again tomorrow”:
words by “Flash”, that tomorrow will be called on a date with history.

The third stage of Tour of Langkawi wasn’t simple: the four escapers
of the final part of the race (Crosby, Fukushima, Pollock and Reza) are taken
at 400 metres to the finishline, when the yellow - fluo guys
are already started the sprint. But Guardini doesn’t wrong the goal,
with a special sprint in which he has won alone. At the second place, Keough
meanwhile third arrived Harrif.

The six guys Farnese Vini Selle Italia are living a dream: Thomas Bertolini,
Cristian Benenati, Alfredo Balloni, Matteo Rabottini, Rafael Andriato
and Andrea “Flash” Guardini are working day by day for the same dream,
arriving to it. And until the end, since there are many stages
for the sprints, the are hungry.

TOUR DE LANGKAWI - 4th STAGE - RESULTS:
1 Guardini, Andrea (Farnese Vini - Selle Italia) 3h57’11”
2 Keough,Jacobe (United Healthcare) 3h57’11”
3 Harrif,Salleh (Terengganu Cycling Team)
4 Gene,Yohann (Team Europcar)
5 Iglinskiy,Valentin (Astana Pro Team)
6 Colbrelli,Sonny (Colnago CSF Inox)
7 Manan,Anuar (Champion System)
8 Reza,Kevin (Team Europcar)
9 Tewelde,Jani (MTN Qhubeka)
10 Nateghi,Hossein (Tabriz Petrochemical Team) 

Cave, the 2002 ITU Olympic distance world champion and two-time ITU long course world champion, overcame time lost to a flat tire and outdueled Linsey Corbin with a sizzling 8:49:00 time that topped the Montanan’s own personal best by 5 minutes and 33 seconds. The win was Cave’s first at the Ironman distance and comes on the heels of her breakthrough 3rd place finish at the Ironman World Championship in Kona last month. Corbin took her feat well, exulting in her very first sub-9 hour (8:54:33) performance that should have won had Cave not had a quantum leap of a day herself.



Like Llanos, Cave’s victory was not wire to wire, as Amanda Stevens broke into the lead with a race-best 48:43 swim that put 3:25 on Cave, 3:03 on Meredith Kessler, and 8:17 on Corbin. Stevens’ 4:51:51 bike held her lead as she gave back 1:40 to Corbin, 45 seconds to Cave, and added 1:45 to her lead on Kessler. Stevens hung stubbornly to her for one of three laps before surrendering the lead to Cave’s dominating, race-best 2:58:18 marathon. When the Cave’s run was over, the Great Briton outran 2nd place Corbin by 3:36, third place Kessler by 11:27 and the fading to 4th place Stevens by 24:54. 

At the line, Cave’s 8:49:00 finish was 5:33 faster than Corbin, 11:14 better than Kessler, and 20:39 better than Stevens. 



While all three podium women praised 2010 winner Chrissie Wellington for raising the bar of expectations for women Ironman triathletes, Cave’s impressive finish was still 14 minutes slower than Wellington’s 8:35 race-record last year.

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Tempe, Arizona / November 20, 2011
2.4m swim / 112m bike / 26.2m run

Top men

1. Eneko Llanos (ESP) 7:59:38
2. Paul Amey (GBR) 8:01:29
3. Viktor Zyemtsev (UKR) 8:14:36
4. Torsten Abel (GER) 8:16:44 (Pinarello, DMT)
5. Stephane Poulat (FRA) 8:18:55
6. Sebastian Kienle (GER) 8:19:29
7. Jeremy Jurkiewicz (FRA) 8:19:38
8. Michael Weiss (AUT) 8:21:36
9. Trevor Wurtele (CAN) 8:22:21
10. Christophe Bastie (FRA) 8:26:10

Top women

1. Leanda Cave (GBR) 8:49:00 (Pinarello, DMT)
2. Linsey Corbin (USA) 8:54:33
3. Meredith Kessler (USA) 9:00:14
4. Amanda Stevens (USA) 9:09:39
5. Michelle Vesterby (DEN) 9:11:23
6. Kelly Williamson (USA) 9:12:18
7. Kathleen Calkins (USA) 9:12:40
8. Sara Gross (CAN) 9:18:03
9. Susan Dietrich (GER) 9:19:47
10. Charisa Wernick USA) 9:22:37

Written by: Timothy Carlson
Date: Sun Nov 20 2011