Trofeo Laigueglia

- Italy, February 20th, 2007 -

Ignatiev strikes again

Following on from his win at the Tour Méditerranéen when he bagged stage three, 21 year-old Russian Mikhail Ignatiev has done it again... He has won the 44th edition of the Trofeo Laigueglia. Ignatiev showed impressive form once again in taking the win and is quickly making a name for himself and his new Pro-Continental outfit, Tinkoff Credit Systems.

So, how did he win? The powerful Russian jumped clear with about 4000 meters remaining following the final 690-meter climb of the Passo Balestrino holding a 10 second gap all the way to the line and showing exactly why he is the Olympic points race gold medallist!

Behind him impressive Milram rider Mirco Lorenzetto, who won the final stage of the Tour Méditerranéen, led in the charge for second place 0'04" behind with Liquigas rider and pre-race-favorite Filippo Pozzato taking third on the same time.

Results (183.3 km)

1 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 4.35.05 (39.981 km/h)
2 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 0.04
3 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas
4 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
5 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
6 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche
7 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
8 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Tinkoff Credit Systems
9 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche
10 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia
11 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com
12 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
13 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R Prévoyance
14 Domenico Quagliarello (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia
15 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Tinkoff Credit Systems
16 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
17 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R Prévoyance
18 Luca Solari (Ita) Team LPR
19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française des Jeux
20 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen
21 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
22 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems
23 Luca Ascani (Ita) Aurum Hotels
24 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Barloworld
25 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems
26 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Aurum Hotels
27 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française des Jeux
28 José Serpa (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia
29 Jure Golcer (Slo) Tenax-Salmilano
30 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
31 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram
32 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis
33 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
34 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
35 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir
36 Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld
37 José Rujano (Ven) Unibet.com
38 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Milram
39 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas
40 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Milram
41 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 0.32
42 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank
43 Roberto Petito (Ita) Liquigas
44 Andrea Noè (Ita) Liquigas 0.40
45 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas
46 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.10
47 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.18
48 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team LPR 2.40
49 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana
50 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana
51 Ángel Gómez Gómez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir
52 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen
53 Marco Osella (Ita) Kio-Ene-DMT
54 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française des Jeux
55 Roberto Traficante (Ita) Team LPR
56 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis
57 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana
58 Leonardo Giordani (Ita) Aurum Hotels
59 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux
60 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
61 Michal Golas (Pol) Unibet.com
62 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis
63 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank
64 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Kio-Ene-DMT
65 Christian Murro (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
66 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis
67 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld
68 Maurizio Varini (Ita) Ceramica Flaminia
69 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 8.20
70 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
71 Giuseppe Palumbo (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
72 Tiziano Dall'Antonia (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
73 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2R Prévoyance
74 William Walker (Aus) Rabobank
75 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank
76 Benny De Schrooder (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen
77 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld
78 Sergio Barbero (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia
79 Andreas Matzbacher (Aut) Volksbank
80 Cristiano Salerno (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
81 Miculà De Matteis (Ita) Tenax-Salmilano
82 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Team LPR
83 Francesco Reda (Ita) OTC Doors-Lauretana
84 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Milram
85 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) Team LPR
86 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Milram
87 Luca Celli (Ita) Team LPR
88 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
89 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems
90 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Amore e Vita-McDonald's
91 Giuseppe Muraglia (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
92 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo
93 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffè Mokambo

Mountains

Passo del Ginestro, 39.8 km
1 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
2 José Rujano Guillen (Ven) Unibet.com
3 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit Systems

Passo Del Ginestro, 81,6 Km
1 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
2 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
3 Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit Systems

Passo Balestrino, 151,3 Km
1 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Unibet.com
2 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua e Sapone-Caffe Mokambo
3 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems

Past Winners

2006 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital

2005 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Fassa Bortolo