Fabio Aru begins perfect day for Palazzago after taking Valle d’Aosta 2011 – Cycling Update
Palazzago team’s Fabio Aru showed a brilliant effort in the sixth and final stage of Giro Ciclistico Della Valle D’Aosta 2011 on Sunday, August 28. He also took the overall leader’s yellow jersey.
The race started and finished in Champdepraz. The Italian cyclists took the total of 28 minutes and 49 seconds to cover the distance of 9.2 kilometres.
The group of five cyclists made their first breakaway lead including, Joseph Dombrokswki (USA National Team), Ilnur Zakarin (Russia), Alexander Foliforov (Itera – Katusha), Kenny Elissonde and Fabio Aru.
All of them worked well together and built an advantage of a few seconds while Dombrokswki and Zakarin attacked to take a lead but failed and Elissonde and Aru increased their pace and got away but in the final kilometres Aru attacked and took the 14 points
in first climb as he crossed the finish line ahead of the other riders without any difficulty.
Kenny Elissonde (France) was runner-up with 23 seconds down to Italian while Joseph Dombrokswki of the USA National team finished third with the difference of 34 seconds ahead of Ilnur Zakarin.
Antoine Lavieu (France), Mattia Cattaneo (Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli) and Nikolay Mihaylov (AVC Aix en Provence) were in seventh, eighth and ninth place respectively.
The two riders form Palazzago team’s Marco Guadagnini and Leandro Cotesta did not start the race and Stig Broeckx (Ovyta Eijssen Acrog) and Richard Lang (Team Jayco-AIS) was disqualified.
Mattia Pozzo (Viris) took the overall sprint standing with 24 points while Mattia Barabesi was in second spot with 10 points ahead of Mengardo. Omega Pharma Lotto Davo team’s Steve Bekaert secured the overall King of mountain title with 52 points and Dombrokswki
was in second place with 38 points.
Fabio Aru also took the overall standing with the timing of 22 hours, 24 minutes and 52 seconds while Joseph Dombrokswki was runner-up with 1 minute and 22 seconds down to the Italian.
Nikita Novikov of Itera-Katusha finished third with the difference of 2 minutes and 8 seconds ahead of Antoine Lavieu (France) and Mattia Cattaneo (Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli).
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