2015 GP Nobili Rubinetterie (HC), Italy

18th edition: Thursday, March 19, 2015

GP Nobili Rubinetterie podium history |

2015 GP Nobili Rubinetterie photos |

Suno - Stresa, 187.5 km

Head down, Giacomo Nizzolo drives for the line and wins.

The Race: This was a fast day on the road. Over the race's 187.5 kilometers, the peloton zoomed along at an average of nearly 47 kilometers/hour.

There were many attempts to break from the speeding field, but none were successful. Eventually, through attrition, a medium-sized group emerged with the peloton chasing more than three minutes back.

But even that was not to be. The leaders and the peloton merged with about twenty kilometers remaining. There were still attacks, including attempts by Davide Rebellin and Alejandro Valverde, but the pack was not to be denied.

With just a few kilometers remaining, the peloton was together, ready for a big rush to the the line, won by Trek's Giacomo Nizzolo.

Complete Results:

2015 GP Nobili Rubinetterie photos |

187.5 km raced at an average speed of 46.813 km/hr

1	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek	4hr 0min 19sec
2	Simone Ponzi	Southeast	s.t.
3	Marco Haller	Katusha	s.t.
4	Juan Jose Lobato	Movistar	s.t.
5	Grega Bole	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
6	Oscar Gatto	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
7	Iuri Filosi	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
8	Matteo Montaguti	Ag2R	s.t.
9	Antonino Parrinello	d'Amico Bottecchia	s.t.
10	Francesco Reda	Team Idea	s.t.
11	Nicola Gaffurini	Mg.Kvis-Vega	s.t.
12	Miguel Angel Rubiano	Colombia	s.t.
13	Alberto Bettiol	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
14	Luis Mas Bonet	Caja Rural	s.t.
15	Sonny Colbrelli	Italian National Team	s.t.
16	Matej Mohoric	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
17	Jan Bakelants	Ag2R	s.t.
18	Yonattah Monsalve	Southeast	s.t.
19	Francesco Gavazzi	Southeast	s.t.
20	Simone Petilli	Unieuro Wilier	s.t.
21	Eduard Prades	Caja Rural	s.t.
22	Davide Rebellin	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
23	Lachlan Norris	Drapac	s.t.
24	Nathan Brown	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
25	Enrico Gasparotto	Italian National Team	s.t.
26	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ	s.t.
27	Fabio Taborre	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
28	Janier Alexis Acevedo	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
29	Mauro Finetto	Southeast	s.t.
30	Antonio Santoro	Mg.Kvis-Vega	s.t.
31	David Arroyo Duran	Caja Rural	s.t.
32	Franco Pellizotti	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
33	Heiner Rodrigo Parra	Caja Rural	s.t.
34	Eduard Vorganov	Katusha	s.t.
35	Benoît Vaugrenard	FDJ	s.t.
36	Ricardo Vilela	Caja Rural	s.t.
37	Damiano Cunego	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
38	Sergio Pardilla	Caja Rural	s.t.
39	Ivan Santaromita	Orica GreenEdge	s.t.
40	Alejandro Valverde	Movistar	s.t.
41	Alan Marangoni	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
42	Salvatore Puccio	Italian National Team	s.t.
43	Simon Clarke	Orica GreenEdge	s.t.
44	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
45	Maciej Paterski	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
46	Alexander Kolobnev	Katusha	s.t.
47	Sylwester Szmyd	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
48	Dmitrii Kozonchuk	Katusha	s.t.
49	Alexandre Geniez	FDJ	s.t.
50	Simone Stortoni	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
51	Hubert Dupont	Ag2R	s.t.
52	Luca Paolini	Katusha	s.t.
53	Sergey Lagutin	Katusha	s.t.
54	Fabio Felline	Trek	s.t.
55	Gatis Smukulis	Katusha	s.t.
56	Laurent Didier	Trek	s.t.
57	Lorenzo Rota	Unieuro Wilier	s.t.
58	Leigh Howard	Orica GreenEdge	s.t.
59	Jasha Sütterlin	Movistar	s.t.
60	Igor Anton	Movistar	s.t.
61	Enrique Sanz	Movistar	s.t.
62	Giovanni Carboni	Unieuro Wilier	s.t.
63	Tomasz Kiendys	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
64	Johan Le Bon	FDJ	s.t.
65	Joonas Henttala	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
66	Matteo Spreafico	Team Idea	s.t.
67	Davide Vigano	Team Idea	s.t.
68	Niccolò Pacinotti	Italian National Team	s.t.
69	Simone Consonni	Italian National Team	s.t.
70	David Lozano Riba	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
71	Ildar Arslanov	RusVelo	s.t.
72	Roman Maikin	RusVelo	s.t.
73	Eugenio Alafaci	Trek	s.t.
74	Filippo Ganna	Italian National Team	s.t.
75	Marco Tecchio	Unieuro Wilier	s.t.
76	Dylan Girdlestone	Drapac	s.t.
77	Timothy Roe	Drapac	s.t.
78	Juan Pablo Valencia	Colombia	s.t.
79	José Hernández	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
80	Edwin Alcibiades Avila	Colombia	s.t.
81	Pierre-Roger Latour	Ag2R	s.t.
82	Julien Berard	Ag2R	s.t.
83	Jussi Veikkanen	FDJ	s.t.
84	Matthieu Ladagnous	FDJ	s.t.
85	Branislau Samoilau	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
86	Walter Fernando Pedraza	Colombia	s.t.
87	Alessandro Malaguti	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
88	Pier Paolo De Negri	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
89	Daniele Colli	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
90	Andrea Cacciotti	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
91	Manuel Belletti	Southeast	s.t.
92	Marco Canola	Italian National Team	s.t.
93	Daniele Ratto	Italian National Team	s.t.
94	Paolo Ciavatta	d'Amico Bottecchia	s.t.
95	Marco D'urbano	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
96	Silvio Giorni	d'Amico Bottecchia	s.t.
97	Giacomo Berlato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
98	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
99	Bartlomiej Matysiak	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
100	Marco Bandiera	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
101	Giuseppe Fonzi	Southeast	s.t.
102	Eugert Zhupa	Southeast	s.t.
103	Serghei Tvetcov	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
104	Calvin Watson	Trek	s.t.
105	Winner Anacona	Movistar	s.t.
106	Marco Coledan	Trek	s.t.
107	Ruben Zepuntke	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
108	Kristoffer Skjerping	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
109	Andrea Peron	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
110	Alessandro Pettiti	Team Idea	s.t.
111	Christopher Williams	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
112	Mamyr Stash	RusVelo	s.t.
113	Manabu Ishibashi	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
114	Charles Planet	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
115	Lasse Norman Hansen	Cannondale-Garmin	s.t.
116	Brenton Jones	Drapac	s.t.
117	Aleksandr Komin	RusVelo	s.t.
118	Johan Van Summeren	Ag2R	s.t.
119	Peter Koning	Drapac	s.t.
120	Kirill Pozdnyakov	RusVelo	s.t.
121	Adriano Brogi	d'Amico Bottecchia	s.t.
122	Kevin De Mesmaeker	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
123	Adrian Kurek	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
124	Antonio Di Sante	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
125	Manuel Todaro	Team Idea	s.t.
126	Giorgio Bocchiola	d'Amico Bottecchia	s.t.
127	Mattia Frapporti	Unieuro Wilier	s.t.
128	Marco Tizza	Team Idea	s.t.
129	Marco Frapporti	Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
130	Michele Gazzara	Mg.Kvis-Vega	s.t.
131	Moreno Giampaolo	Mg.Kvis-Vega	s.t.
132	Alexander Serov	RusVelo	s.t.
133	William Bonnet	FDJ	s.t.
134	José Cayetano	Colombia	s.t.
135	Fabio Andres Duarte	Colombia	s.t.
136	Carlos Mario Ramirez	Colombia	s.t.
137	Jonathan Paredes	Colombia	s.t.
138	Gian Marco Di Francesco	Mg.Kvis-Vega	s.t.
139	Daniele Cavasin	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
140	Filippo Fortin	GM Cycling Team	s.t.
141	Rory Sutherland	Movistar	s.t.

2015 GP Nobili Rubinetterie photos:

Before the race, team d'Amico Bottecchia

Didier Laurent is ready to race.

As is Alejandro Valverde

...and the rest of the Movistar team

Looks like a nice day to go racing in Italy

An earlier, unsuccessful break

Now THAT'S a police escort.

Giacomo Nizzolo wins the 2015 GP Nobili Rubinetterie

Now he can raise his fist in celebration

Oscar Gatto after the race

Giacomo Nizzolo displays the smile of a winner.

The podium, from left: Simone Ponzi, Giacomo Nizzolo, Marco Haller