The Italian-Japanese team is back to races in Italy. The Coppa Agostoni and the Coppa Bernocchi will start an intense period of Italian races. The line-up of the team will involve riders from 4 different countries.
The September of Italian races of the NIPPO Vini Fantini Faizanè will start this weekend. Coppa Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi are the inaugural appointments. On the teamcar there will be the DS from Bergamo Mario Manzoni that for the occasion has selected two balanced line-up taking into account also the return from the of the Tour de Hokkaido of some riders.
Marco Canola, Damiano Cima and Ivan Santaromita are the Italian riders at the start, Alejandro Osorio and Ruben Acosta the young Colombians, while Hideto Nakane and the trainee Masahiro Ishigami the Japanese riders that completes the list for the Coppa Agostoni that will take place on Saturday 14 September in Brianza .
On Sunday 15 September, for the Coppa Bernocchi, some changes with more space for the team’s fast wheels. Imerio Cima, Giovanni Lonardi and Juan Josè Lobato will take over from the Japanese climber Hideto Nakane and the two young Colombian climbers Ruben Acosta and Alejandro Osorio.
Here the two complete line-up:
Coppa Agostoni: Marco Canola, Damiano Cima, Hideto Nakane, Ivan Santaromita, Ruben Acosta, Alejandro Osorio, Masahiro Ishigami.
Coppa Bernocchi: Marco Canola, Damiano Cima, Imerio Cima, Juan Josè Lobato, Giovanni Lonardi, Ivan Santaromita, Masahiro Ishigami.
LIVE: You will be able to follow both races live on the Official Facebook Page of the team, starting from 3.00 pm.