2016 Gran Premio Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, (1.1), Italy
39th edition: Sunday, March 6, 2016
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Larciano - Larciano, 199.2 kilometers
Simon Clarke pulls off a brilliant solo win
The Race: This is a tough day of racing in Tuscany's hills. A look at the race profile will disabuse anyone of the notion that a rider can sit in and sprint at the finish. To make things still tougher, it was a cold, wet day, as the rider photos make clear.
A break went early but during the race's final circuits, some dropped riders made it up to the front group. Among them was Cannondale's Simon Clarke.
Clark was on form today and near the end he blasted clear of the other leaders and big-geared to the finish in Larciano to win by more than a half-minute.
Complete Results:
199.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.873 km/hr
| 1 | Simon Clarke | Cannondale | 4hr 59min 45sec |
| 2 | Andrea Fedi | Southeast-Venezuela | +33sec |
| 3 | Giovanni Visconti | Movistar | s.t. |
| 4 | Rigoberto Urán | Cannondale | s.t. |
| 5 | Francesco Gavazzi | Androni Giocattoli | +43'' |
| 6 | Ramunas Navardauskas | Cannondale | s.t. |
| 7 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 8 | Mauro Finetto | Italy | s.t. |
| 9 | Sergio Pardilla | Caja Rural | s.t. |
| 10 | Simone Petilli | Lampre Merida | s.t. |
| 11 | Adam Yates | Orica-GreenEdge | s.t. |
| 12 | Egan Bernal | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
| 13 | Davide Formolo | Cannondale | s.t. |
| 14 | Esteban Chaves | Orica-GreenEdge | +53'' |
| 15 | Francesco Bongiorno | Bardiani CSF | +1' 18'' |
| 16 | Nathan Brown | Cannondale | s.t. |
| 17 | Andrei Solommenikov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | +1' 23'' |
| 18 | Sergey Chernetsky | Katusha | s.t. |
| 19 | Pello Bilbao | Caja Rural | s.t. |
| 20 | Franco Pellizotti | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
| 21 | Jonathan Fumeaux | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 22 | Tiago Machado | Katusha | s.t. |
| 23 | Ricardo Vilela | Caja Rural | s.t. |
| 24 | Valerio Agnoli | Astana | s.t. |
| 25 | Rodolfo Torres | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
| 26 | Manuele Mori | Lampre Merida | +1' 44'' |
| 27 | Stefano Pirazzi | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
| 28 | Jaime Rosón | Caja Rural | s.t. |
| 29 | Lluís Mas | Caja Rural | +2' 05'' |
| 30 | Manuel Belletti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
| 31 | Nicola Bagioli | Italy | s.t. |
| 32 | Davide Villella | Cannondale | +2' 08'' |
| 33 | Pierpaolo De Negri | Nippo-Vini Fantini | +2' 13'' |
| 34 | Alexander Foliforov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | +4' 26'' |
| 35 | Pirmin Lang | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 36 | Mirko Selvaggi | Androni Giocattoli | +5' 22'' |
| 37 | Francisco Ventoso | Movistar | +5' 41'' |
| 38 | Davide Ballerini | Italy | s.t. |
| 39 | Michele Scarponi | Astana | +5' 48'' |
| 40 | Moreno Moser | Cannondale | +5' 55'' |
| 41 | Eduard-Michael Grosu | Nippo-Vini Fantini | +10' 13'' |
| 42 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +11' 06'' |
| 43 | Yonder Godoy | Venezuela | s.t. |
| 44 | Xavier Quevedo | Venezuela | s.t. |
| 45 | Lorenzo Rota | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
| 46 | Joonas Henttala | Novo Nordisk | s.t. |
| 47 | Alessio Taliani | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
| 48 | Ildar Arslanov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
| 49 | Charles Planet | Novo Nordisk | s.t. |
| 50 | Silvio Herklotz | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 51 | Kevin Demesmaeker | Novo Nordisk | s.t. |
| 52 | Ivan Savitsky | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
| 53 | Artem Nych | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
| 54 | Matvei Mamykin | Katusha | s.t. |
| 55 | Marcel Aregger | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 56 | Martin Elmiger | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 57 | Marcel Wyss | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 58 | Clément Chevrier | IAM Cycling | s.t. |
| 59 | Alessandro Bisolti | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 60 | Lukas Pöstlberger | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 61 | Antonio Nibali | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 62 | Iuri Filosi | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 63 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana | s.t. |
| 64 | Bartosz Huzarski | Bora-Argon 18 | s.t. |
| 65 | Kristjan Koren | Cannondale | s.t. |
| 66 | Oliviero Troia | Italy | s.t. |
| 67 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
| 68 | Sergey Firsanov | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
| 69 | Artem Ovechkin | Gazprom-Rusvelo | s.t. |
| 70 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | s.t. |
| 71 | Dáyer Quintana | Movistar | s.t. |
| 72 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | s.t. |
| 73 | Filippo Pozzato | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
| 74 | Simone Andreetta | Bardiani CSF | +11' 42'' |
| 75 | Simon Gerrans | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 76 | Jens Keukeleire | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 77 | Rubén Plaza | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 78 | Alexander Edmondson | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 79 | Christian Meier | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 80 | Luke Durbridge | Orica-GreenEdge | DNF |
| 81 | Dominik Nerz | Bora-Argon 18 | DNF |
| 82 | Emanuel Buchmann | Bora-Argon 18 | DNF |
| 83 | Zakkari Dempster | Bora-Argon 18 | DNF |
| 84 | Michael Schwarzmann | Bora-Argon 18 | DNF |
| 85 | Antonio Viola | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF |
| 86 | Daniele Colli | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF |
| 87 | Grega Bole | Nippo-Vini Fantini | DNF |
| 88 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana | DNF |
| 89 | Eros Capecchi | Astana | DNF |
| 90 | Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev | Astana | DNF |
| 91 | Andriy Grivko | Astana | DNF |
| 92 | Gatis Smukulis | Astana | DNF |
| 93 | Diego Ulissi | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 94 | Mattia Cattaneo | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 95 | Ilia Koshevoy | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 96 | Sacha Modolo | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 97 | Valerio Conti | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 98 | Przemyslaw Niemiec | Lampre Merida | DNF |
| 99 | Simon Pellaud | IAM Cycling | DNF |
| 100 | Aleksejs Saramotins | IAM Cycling | DNF |
| 101 | Enrico Barbin | Bardiani CSF | DNF |
| 102 | Nicola Boem | Bardiani CSF | DNF |
| 103 | Luca Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | DNF |
| 104 | Ángel Vicioso | Katusha | DNF |
| 105 | Maxim Belkov | Katusha | DNF |
| 106 | Egor Silin | Katusha | DNF |
| 107 | Jurgen Van den Broeck | Katusha | DNF |
| 108 | Alexandr Kolobnev | Gazprom-Rusvelo | DNF |
| 109 | Stephen Clancy | Novo Nordisk | DNF |
| 110 | David Lozano | Novo Nordisk | DNF |
| 111 | Javier Megías | Novo Nordisk | DNF |
| 112 | Scott Ambrose | Novo Nordisk | DNF |
| 113 | Martijn Verschoor | Novo Nordisk | DNF |
| 114 | Matteo Busato | Southeast-Venezuela | DNF |
| 115 | Daniel Martínez | Southeast-Venezuela | DNF |
| 116 | Enrique Sanz | Southeast-Venezuela | DNF |
| 117 | Mirko Trosino | Southeast-Venezuela | DNF |
| 118 | Daniele Ratto | Androni Giocattoli | DNF |
| 119 | Davide Viganò | Androni Giocattoli | DNF |
| 120 | Héctor Sáez | Caja Rural | DNF |
| 121 | José Gonçalves | Caja Rural | DNF |
| 122 | Domingos Gonçalves | Caja Rural | DNF |
| 123 | Rory Sutherland | Movistar | DNF |
| 124 | Marc Soler | Movistar | DNF |
| 125 | Jasha Sütterlin | Movistar | DNF |
| 126 | Rinaldo Nocentini | Italy | DNF |
| 127 | Edoardo Affini | Italy | DNF |
| 128 | Edward Ravasi | Italy | DNF |
| 129 | Marco Tecchio | Italy | DNF |
| 130 | Miguel Ubeto | Venezuela | DNF |
| 131 | Enrique Díaz | Venezuela | DNF |
| 132 | Yonathan Monsalve | Venezuela | DNF |
GP Industria & Artigiano map and profile:
GP Industria & Artigiano di Larciano map
GP Industria & Artigiano di Larciano profile
Photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Caja Rural is presented under rather grey skies before the race begins
It's time to race and the streets are already wet.
Astana leads the peloton
Astana clearly invested a lot of energy into this race, but their best placing today was Valerio Agnoli's 24th.
The back of the peloton
The team cars follow the pack.
Astana still at the front.
Simon Clarke is well-positioned late in the race.
Simon Clarke wins the race.
Clarke is well-pleased with how the day turned out.
Clarke gets to enjoy his win.
The podium, from left: Andrea Fedi (second place), Simon Clarke, and Giovanni Visconti (3rd).
SP Industria & Artigiano Larciano start list