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Illustrious names at the start of the 38th edition of the Ten Hillsraced yesterday in Bologna by a thousand long-distance runners. The reigning Italian champion Simone Velasco has traveled i 117 kilometers expected, strictly out of competition. As well as the former coach of the national cycling team Davide Cassani and Lithuanian Edit Puisinskaite, former world champion. The Dieci Colli saw an encore of Federico Pozzettowho had also imposed himself in 2023. The MG.KVis-Promotech representative with a strong move separated a trio of Matteo Fontanelli by a few seconds, preceding Stefano Stagni and Francesco Manuel Buongiorno.
In the first part of the race the escape of a trio formed by Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, Alberto Gavazzi And Mikel Demiri, reached towards the halfway point by Stagni, Pozzetto, Frignani, Filippi, Fontanelli, Pierangeli. While Gavazzi was losing ground, along the Brento climb the four took off and then competed for success. It was along the final descent that Pozzetto gained the handful of seconds that allowed him to take the victory.
In the women’s field the exciting head-to-head between Elisa Leardini and Liliana Pillon saw the Romagna girl from Cicli Matteoni Bianchi prevail. Third place for Angela Stecca, who arrived with a gap of 4’01”. Leardini also received, as a special prize, a painting of the Venezuelan painter Magaly Arocha Rivas that remembers Alfonsina Strada on the centenary of his historic participation in the 1924 Giro d’Italia.
The oldest competitor was Renzo Compagnin, born in 1944, the youngest were nineteen-year-olds Alessandro Artoni and Raissa Costea,
Complete rankings: Results – Dieci Colli | ENDU
