The team NIPPO Vini Fantini is preparing a week-end of great races. This Sunday the Amstel Gold Race, with Damiano Cunego to lead the team, supported by Grega Bole. The Japanese riders Kuboki and Koishi will debut in the World Tour race of the North. On Sunday the team will race also in Italy with the Giro dell’Appennino as great opportunity for the young talents of the team as Iuri Filosi, Gianfranco Zilioli and Antonio Nibali.
La Spezia, 13 aprile.
The training camp of Gabicce Mare has finished and NIPPO Vini Fantini is preparing a week-end of important races. The Sunday, 17th of April, the team will race in Italy with the Giro dell’Appennino and in The Nederland at the Amstel Gold Race, the important World Tour race in which the team is at the second participation in two years.
#AMSTELGOLDRACE: Damiano Cunego, the winner of Amstel Gold Race 2008, 5° in 2009 and 6° in 2010, will be the captain of the #OrangeBlue team. With him the Slovenian Grega Bole with a victory and a podium in the current season. The 51° edition of the Amstel Gold Race will be the one of the debut for the two new Japanese of the team. The national champion Kazushige Kuboki, now called also for Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be at his first participation to the race, as his team mates Yuma Koishi, the Under23 Asian Champion that will climb the Cauberg for the first time. The experience of Daniele Colli and Pierpaolo De Negri will be very important in a such long and hard race, as the young and dynamic approach to races of Giacomo Berlato and Riccardo Stacchiotti.
#APPENNINO: In Italy will have a great chance to be protagonist of the race the young talents of the team, in a typical race of the Italian racing calendar as it is the Giro dell’Appennino. Iuri Filosi on of the most performing #OrangeBlue rider after his 5° position in Volta Limburg can help the team, as Gianfranco Zilioli, at his first year in NIPPO Vini Fantini but already a good performer of last edition of the race. With them attention to Antonio Nibali the young brother is growing fast, and to Alessandro Bisolti, the most expert climber of the team in that race. To complete the roster Genki Yamamoto, Manabu Ishibashi, Nicolas Marini and Antonio Viola.
AMSTEL GOLD RACE – The line-up:
Damiano Cunego, Grega Bole, Kazushige Kuboki, Daniele Colli, Pierpaolo De Negri, Yuma Koishi, Giacomo Berlato, Riccardo Stacchiotti.
Sports Director: Stefano Giuliani.
GIRO DELL’APPENNINO – The line-up:
Iuri Filosi, Gianfranco Zilioli, Alessandro Bisolti, Antonio Nibali, Genki Yamamoto, Mananbu Ishibashi, Nicolas Marini, Antonio Viola.
Sports Director: Mario Manzoni.