Italy’s Tommaso Electric won the 130km feature road race of the UCI Gran Fondo World Championship in Varese, Italy, today.
Electric completed the race in 3:24:35, beating Belgium’s Niels Merckx and Remi Cara by four seconds.
Italy’s Tommaso Electric won the 130km feature road race of the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships today. Photo: facebook.com/ucigranfondoworldseries/photos
Out of approximately 3 500 entrants in total, Neil Timm was the first South African to finish the race, placing 105th overall in 3:31:08.
Alex Pavlov, SA’s “adopted citizen” originally from Russia, placed 341st in 3:40:03.
View more results below.
130km road race
Men
1. Tommaso Electrico (Italy) 3:24:36
2. Niels Merckx (Belgium) 3:24:40
3. Remi Cara (Belgium)
4. Gregor Sikosek (Slovenia) 3:24:41
5. Roberto Cesaro (Italy)
6. Federico Scotti (Italy)
7. Roman Locher (Switzerland) 3:24:42
8. Manuel Fedele (Italy)
9. Geoffrey Lucat (France)
10. Wladimir Cuaz (Italy)
*Selected
105. Neil Timm (South Africa) 3:31:08
341. Alex Pavlov (South Africa) 3:40:03
434. Gary Beneke (South Africa) 3:42:04
538. Graham Coker (South Africa) 3:44:18
1092. Glenn Lawson (South Africa) 4:03:07
1122. Israel Zimmerman (South Africa) 4:04:45
1427. Marc Geduldt (South Africa) 4:19:52
1486. Bill Nicolson (South Africa) 4:23:36
1646. Enzo Lezzi (South Africa) 4:36:29
1815. Julie Luyt (South Africa) 5:19:36
1832. Nicolaas Jacobs (South Africa) 5:43:36
DNF. Jaco Cronje (South Africa)
DNS. Riaan Brink (South Africa)
