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| Title: | Cycle Racing |
| Notice: | Cycle Racing Europe and World-wide |
| Moderator: | MOVIES::WIDDOWSON |
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| Created: | Wed Dec 10 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 854 |
| Total number of notes: | 9617 |
848.0. "Liege - Bastogne - Liege" by VNACO1::HERIBERT () Mon Apr 21 1997 11:23
The first half of the race was highlighted by a marathon escape by Austrian
Georg Totschnig, who pulled clear after eight kilometres and at one stage was
more than 20 minutes ahead.
He was eventually joined by Italian Ermanno Brignoli at the 177-km mark and by
the bunched pack shortly afterwards.
Michele Bartoli of Italy sprung free from pre-race favourite Laurent Jalabert of
France one
kilometre from the finish to win the Liege-Bastogne-Liege World Cup cycling race
on Sunday.
Jalabert was trailing Bartoli when the Italian struck on the final uphill
stretch to the line in the
262-km race.
The Frenchman, who won the Fleche Wallonne classic in the same region on
Wednesday, finished eight seconds behind Bartoli. Italy's Gabriele Colombo was
third 21 seconds behind, with Luc Leblanc of France another second back.
1. Michele Bartoli (Ita) MG-Technogym 7:09.45
2. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE + 0.08
3. Gabriele Colombo (Ita) Batik + 0.21
4. Luc Leblanc (Fra) Polti + 0.22
5. Max Sciandri (GB) Frangaise des Jeux + 0.27
6. Johan Museeuw (Bel) Mapei s.t.
7. Beat Zberg (Swi) Mercatone-Uno s.t.
8. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone-Uno s.t.
9. Laurent Madouas (Fra) Lotto s.t.
10. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) Frangaise des Jeux s.t.
11. E Berzin (Rus)
12. S Della Santa (It)
13. P Herve (Fr)
14. R Virenque (Fr)
15. F Casagrande (It)
16. A Merckx (Bel)
17. C Chiappucci (It)
18. R Sorensen (Den)
19. L Roux (Fr)
20. U Boltz (Ger)