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Giro Della Toscana 2009

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Stage 5- Ina-Yoko Teutenberg won, Diana Ziluite in Rosa

Segromigno in Piano - Capannori 100.9km

Race Writeup

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Team Columbia HTC) blasted to victory at the end of a breakaway on stage five of the Giro della Toscana race in Italy on Saturday. The Columbia-HTC rider's win at the end of the 100.9-kilometre stage from Segromigno in Piano to Capannori was Teutenberg's 24th victory of the 2009 season.

The break which included, Teutenberg, Ziluite, Charlotte Becker (Equipe Nurnberger), Kristin McGrath (USA) and Luisa Tamanini (Selle Italia Ghezzi) was too strong to hold off the peloton on Stage 5. This was a tough stage and conditions were much warmer than they had been for the early stages of the tour. The American team controlled the front of the bunch, hoping for a possible victory from McGrath in the break.

Giorgia Bronzini (Safi) won the sprint for the line for sixth place ahead of Marianne Vos (DSB Bank)

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Post Race Comments

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Team Columbia HTC) felt good about her win, "It's good to win like this from a break, it's more satisfying than in a bunch sprint because you have to work more for it and there's more strategy involved" Teutenberg said afterwards. "I must have spent around 75 kilometres off the front today. There were five of us in the break that finally stayed away and it wasn't easy for me to make it to the finish. I got dropped on a big climb close to the end and then caught the others on the descent before finally outsprinting them. I didn't think the break would survive because it had a rider in it who was dangerous for the overall. But when we got more than five minutes I started thinking we had a good chance."

Teutenberg said Columbia-HTC teammate Judith Ardnt, who won in the same finish last year, had advised her on the best tactics for winning the stage. "Judith told me that there was a kind of chicane 200 metres before the finish and that if I got into the chicane first then it wouldn't be possible for the rest to get past me. I did that and it worked out fine."

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Results - Top 10 - click here to see full result

The results were delayed due to an incident at the finish line involving a truck not associated with the race. It drove under the banner just before the prize presentation and in doing so, took the finishing banner, PA equipment and 100m of fencing. The estimate for the damage is 40000 euro. The prize ceremony had to be conducted using the PA of one of the support teams.

Position	Name	Team	Time	Gap
1	TEUTENBERG INA	TEAM COLUMBIA HTC WOMEN	2:39'38
2	ZILIUTE DIANA	SAFI PASTA ZARA TITANEDI	2:39'38
3	OLDS SHELLEY	USA NATIONAL TEAM	2:39'38
4	BECKER CHARLOTTE	EQUIPE NURNBERGER VERSICHERUNG	2:39'38
5	TAMANINI LUISA	SELLE ITALIA GHEZZI	2:39'43	5
6	MC GRATH KRISTIN	USA NATIONAL TEAM	2:45'26	5'48
7	BRONZINI GIORGIA	SAFI PASTA ZARA TITANEDI	2:45'38	6'00
8	VOS MARIANNE	DSB BANK NEDERLAND BLOEIT	2:45'38	6'00
9	LELEIVYTE RASA	SAFI PASTA ZARA TITANEDI	2:45'38	6'00
10	BRAS MARTINE	SELLE ITALIA GHEZZI	2:45'38	6'00

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General Classification Top 10 - click here to see full GC

Position	Name	Team	Time	Gap
1	ZILIUTE DIANA	SAFI PASTA ZARA TITANEDI	9:18'13
2	TAMANINI LUISA	SELLE ITALIA GHEZZI	9:19'44	1'31
3	BECKER CHARLOTTE	EQUIPE NURNBERGER VERSICHERUNG	9:21'21	3'08
4	GUDERZO TATIANA	S.C. MICHELA FANINI RECORD ROX	9:23'25	5'12
5	VOS MARIANNE	DSB BANK NEDERLAND BLOEIT	9:23'32	5'19
6	BRANDLI NICOLE	BIGLA CYCLING TEAM	9:23'46	5'33
7	ARNDT JUDITH	TEAM COLUMBIA HTC WOMEN	9:23'49	5'36
8	ABBOTT MARA	TEAM COLUMBIA HTC WOMEN	9:24'13	6'00
9	PUCINSKAITE EDITA	GAUSS RDZ ORMU COLNAGO	9:24'16	6'03
10	MC GRATH KRISTIN	USA NATIONAL TEAM	9:24'19	6'06

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