AMATEURS | 04/29/2024 | 6.05pm
by Antonio Mannori
After 4 and a half years, the twenty-two-year-old Andrea Piras from Brianza of Named Sport MI Impianti directed by Paolo Riva, took his first victory as an Under 23 amateur in Tuscany at the finish line of Castello di Albola near Radda in Chianti with a sprint in the longest stretch. hard on the final climb that led to the finish line. Piras spent a brilliant time as a protagonist as a student and as a junior, he also wore the blue shirt, but in the three years with Beltrami TSA he had only achieved sporadic placings. In 2024 he moved to Named Sport MIImpianti and already last Saturday in the Giro della Franciacorta he did well, taking fifth place. The race he won was the third and last of the Regional Triptych set up by Pol. Tripetetolo starting from Fattoria Rocca di Montemassi in the municipality of Roccastrada in the province of Grosseto, thanks to the director Alessandro Gallo, and ending at Castello di Albola in Chianti with in the Fabrizio Fabbri Memoprial will also be up for grabs to remember the brilliant cycling champion from Pistoia. The Italian coach Marno Amadori was also following the match, with 130 starters from 24 teams. The start of the race was given by Elena Menghini, councilor of the municipality of Roccastrada and the race featured four athletes who broke away after 45 km. They were Colnaghi, Magli, Regnanti and Hoeks who, after a maximum advantage of 2.30″ were reached a dozen km from the finish line after the long climb towards Castellina in Chianti, by the MBHBank Colpack Ballan pair formed by the Hungarian Valent and Bracalente (the Bergamo team had worked hard to cancel the quartet’s escape) and from Piras. The leading seven, while the Polish Szymacha was trying to catch up behind them, faced the tough final climb together where the group split up and the winning sprint was that of Piras 1,500 meters from the finish line. He tried to replicate Valent, but the Named Sport athlete was uncatchable and the victory was a deserved prize for him. Behind the others in an incredible split as expected. In the points classification of the “Trittico”, first place and special final jersey went to Mark Valent of MBHBank Colpack Ballan, while the green jersey of the mountain grand prix was won by Michael Belleri of Hopplà Petroli Firenze Don Camillo.
ORDER OF ARRIVAL
130 km in 3h 16’24 average/h 39.990
1. Andrea Piras (Namedsport MI-Impianti)
2. Mark Valent (Hun-MBHBank Colpack Ballan CSB) 14″
3. Diego Bracalente (MBHBank Colpack Ballan CSB) 19″
4. Kamil Szymacha (Pol-VPM Moretti) 29″
5. Andrea Colnaghi (Onec Team) 42″
6. Eduard Hoeks Daan (Maltinti Lampadari BCC) 54″
7. Pietro Salvadori (Maltinti Lampadari BCC) 57″
8. Pietro Aimonetto (Rostese Cycling) 59″
9. Matteo Regnanti (Hopplà Petroli Firenze Don Camillo) 1’04”
10. Luca Belloni (Overall Tre Colli) at 1’10”
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