Standings of the Italian Cyclocross Championships 2023 Rome

The morning in Ostia Antica crowned the winners of the youngest categories of these 2023 Italian Cyclocross Championships: they are Samuele Scappini (Fortebraccio team, Valentina Corvi (Trinx Factory Team) and Filippo Agostinacchio (Selle Italia Guerciotti). While in the afternoon the categories Elite, with the victory of Filippo Fontana (Carabinieri) and Silvia Persico (Valcar – Travel & Service).The Team Relay races were held yesterday, with the victory of the Selle Italia Guerciotti Team.

Source: press release / FCI

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On a track that was only slightly damp due to the drops of water that rained down at dawn, Samuele Scappini (Team Fortebraccio) immediately puts it into fourth gear to repeat last year's title, chased by an increasingly small group of men. The DP66 Giant SMP tandem Stefano Viezzi-Tommaso Cafueri emerged from the tussle, with Viezzi taking advantage of the silver and Cafueri shedding tears of joy on the podium for the bronze achieved. The two of them were also returning from the Team Relay run yesterday (and won by Selle Italia Guerciotti).

This is the immediate comment of the two-champion Scappini: «I immediately bet to win, the sports director told me "give it all" and I did it: I'm exhausted! I thank all those who are close to me. Now I'm taking a bit of time to do the best I can at the World Cup."

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In the meantime, under the rain that has returned to the Camping Village Roma Capitol, the three take advantage: Arianna Bianchi (Guerciotti Development) former MTB European champion, the reigning Italian and European vice-champion Valentina Corvi of the Trinx Factory Team, and the 'experienced Federica Venturelli (Selle Italia Guerciotti). Venturelli runs into a moment of difficulty which leads her to be overtaken by Sara Tarallo and Greta Pighi, but then she makes the decisive tailspin which ensures her the podium. Up front, meanwhile, Corvi is glacial in the conduct of the race: she stays close as long as she serves, she finds the right moment to launch the gold attack and leave Bianchi an excellent silver.

This is the immediate comment by Valentina Corvi (second last year in Friuli behind Sophie Auer): «I really wanted to take this Italian championship, I took the decisive meters on Arianna at the point and at the moment when I knew that my characteristics they would guarantee my success. Winning your country's shirt is always an important goal. I dedicate this title to the sporting director Bramati and to all my family.»

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MALE UNDER 23

Here too we see a trio leading. This time, all from the same team, Selle Italia Guerciotti: Filippo Agostinacchio (already opening fractionist yesterday in the victorious Team Relay), Ettore Loconsolo and Samuele Leone. During the race, the engine revs of Lorenzo Masciarelli (Colpack Ballan) increase, which joins the breakaway, while Loconsolo and Leone progressively lose contact. The latter resists in third place and puts the bronze medal around his neck, while a few meters ahead of him Agostinacchio launches the decisive sprint out of the last corner: Masciarelli can only sketch the reaction and is second.

This is the immediate comment of the triumphant Filippo Agostinacchio: «I'm speechless, I arrived calmly at these Italian championships despite coming from a week in Belgium characterized by some health problems. I had a lot of fun, we managed to play as a team and react to Masciarelli's good attempt. Congratulations to Samuele (Leone, ed) who had a lot of bad luck and we weren't able to finish as a couple.»

A triumph for Selle Italia Guerciotti, which after the Team Relay brings home the U23 flag with the athlete from Valle d'Aosta.

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MALE ELITE

Philip Fontana grabs the tricolor Elite title after having made an authentic collection in his youth profile. The athlete from the Carabinieri Olympia Vittoria Sports Center places his paw in the last lap of the Camping Village Roma Capitol circuit, in a race that sees him finish at the head of the group of five men who animated and fought for the race.

Unpredictable right up to the last minute, this is the extremely poker leader, in strict order of arrival. The 2000 class Fontana, who crosses the finish line first; 2nd an excellent Davide Toneatti (Astana Development) Under 23 champion last year in Friuli; 3rd the outgoing champion Jakob Dorigoni (Torpado); 4th Federico Ceolin (Beltrami TS Tre Colli) and 5th Gioele Bertolini, star performer yesterday in the Team Relay won by Selle Italia Guerciotti. Sixth, alias "first of the others", Nicolas Samparisi for the KTM Alchemist. And a special mention for the seventh place of an infinite Martino Fruet, aged 45.

This is the immediate comment of the new Italian cyclo-cross champion: «I'm very happy, it's a jersey that has a completely different flavor from Elite! I dedicate the victory, as always, to all the people behind the results: family, friends, the team, everything that takes care of growing a person and making me who I am».

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WOMEN'S ELITE AND U23

Second consecutive Italian title in cyclo-cross for Silvia Persian (FAS Airport Servies) great business card in view of the World Cup on 4-5 February in Hoogerheide. The podium of the Elite Women race of the 2023 Italian championships in Ostia Antica is completed by Rebecca Gariboldi (Cingolani team) and Francesca Baroni (Pissei Groep TOM).

The Under 23s raced together with the "grown-ups": the first three classified on the U23 women's podium are: the daughter of art Asia Zontone (Jam's Buja, dad Marco was tricolor in cyclo-cross and his daughter gives him enormous pride today), Carlotta Borello (DP66 Giant SMP, also second yesterday in the Team Relay) and Giada Borghesi (Lapierre Trentino Alè, who precedes the older sister Letizia).

So instead Asia Zontone: «I knew I had great strength and I gave my all to recover and detach the opponents. I dedicate the victory to my dad and my boyfriend Davide, without them I couldn't do any of this. "

The race opens with a crash, which forces Sara Casasola, yesterday's winner of the Team Relay with Selle Italia Guerciotti, to stop in the pits. Also involved Silvia Persico, who recovers immediately, joins the group and begins to skim off the opponents until she finds herself returning from the term together with Rebecca Gariboldi. The champion from Bergamo places the decisive push on the penultimate lap and goes to get the well-deserved applause, then thunderous also at the passage of Gariboldi, Francesca Baroni, Alice Maria Arzuffi who remains briefly off the podium and the first three placed Under 23.

This is Silvia Persico's immediate comment: «A very tough race today, they followed me well and it turned out to be a good race. I am very happy, at the beginning of a year which, after the CX World Championship, brings me a new adventure in the road World Tour with the UAE. "

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