The coach Daniele Pontoni has released the names of the squad who will take part in the first Gravel World Championships in Veneto (Vicenza - Cittadella) next weekend over the weekend.
Source: press release / FCI
Among the males stands out the name of the recent winner of the Bernocchi Cup, Davide Ballerini, who is joined by the new Italian gravel champion, Samuele Zoccarato, the experts Daniel Oss and Alessandro De Marchi. The men's group is then completed with bikers such as Juri Zanotti, the new engineer Luca Cibrario and Mattia Viel.
Among the women, the Italian champion, Barbara Guarischi leads the blue team also made up of Sofia Bertizzolo, Chiara Teocchi, Ilaria Sanguineti and Letizia Borghesi.
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It will be a demanding test, as anticipated by CT Pontoni in recent days, and which sees at the start many interpreters who have also distinguished themselves on the road such as Mathieu Van der Poel, Peter Sagan, the 2016 Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet, Zdenek Stybar, Alexey Lutsenko , Magnus Cort Nielsen, Lilian Calmejane, Nicholas Roche, the new Under 23 world champion Yevgeniy Fedorov.
Among the women stands out the name of Pauline Ferrand Prevot, French, who this season has already distinguished herself with 3 world titles (XCO, Short Track and Martathon).
“There is a lot of emotion and expectation for these World Championships - the words of Daniele Pontoni - an event that will remain in history as it is in its first edition. The boys are loaded. For both men and women we have chosen well with athletes ready even in the event of a sprint finish. We can aspire to important positions ".
The CT added: “A complete training and in my heart I am confident. In a short time we have prepared this prestigious appointment at its best. We have also viewed the routes and experimented with various technical solutions. Even for us staff it will be a great challenge because the logistic organization is rather complex. Now all we need is a refinement that we will do on Thursday with the women and on Friday with the men ”.
THE CONVOKED
DANCERS DAVIDE QUICK STEP-ALPHA VINYL
BERTIZZOLO SOFIA GS GOLD FLAMES
BORGHESI LETIZIA EF EDUCATION - TIBCO-SVB
CIBRARIO LUCA BELTRAMI TSA THREE COLLI
DE MARCHI ALESSANDRO ISRAEL - PREMIER TECH
HEARINGS BARBARA MOVISTAR TEAM WOMEN
OSS DANIEL TOTAL ENERGIES
SANGUINETI ILARIA VALCAR - TRAVEL & SERVICE
TEOCCHI CHIARA ARMY SPORTS CENTER
VIEL MATTIA D'AMICO
ZANOTTI JURI BMC MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING TEAM
ZOCCARATO SAMUELE BARDIANI-CSF-FAIZANE '
