Many news from the NIPPO Vini Fantini in the Spanish race calendar. 2 important upcoming races as the Circuito de Getxo and the Vuelta Burgos with 2 important news. On the team car Stefano Garzelli will be back as additional Sports Director of the team, while the young Spanish talent Joan Bou, coming from “Fundacion Alberto Contador” will make is debut as trainee with the #OrangeBlue jersey.
Many races and many news in this August for the NIPPO Vini Fantini team. While 6 riders are preparing the USA calendar, 2 important races are coming soon in Spain: The Circuito de Getxo and the Vuelta Burgos. For these 2 important races something new in the team both on the team car and on bike. Stefano Garzelli is back with the team, he will be the additional Sports Directors, with his deep knowledge of the Spanish cycling and International experience with his main activity of TV technical speaker. The other news is about a young Spanish talent, Joan Bou, coming from Fundacion Alberto Contador, that will debut with the #OrangeBlue jersey as trainee.
STEFANO GARZELLI.
An important renewal for the team, also for the 2017 season. Stefano Garzelli will be also this year the additional Sports Director of the team. With his experience he will support Valerio Tebaldi in the team foreign calendar, helping the team thanks to his great experience and deep knowledge of the Spanish cycling.
JOAN BOU.
Joan Bou, born in 1997, will be the youngest trainee of the NIPPO Vini Fantini team for the 2017 season. He started to race when he was 13 years old in the Guti-Vinalesa Cyclist Club School and then passed in the team Juniores of the Foundation Alberto Contador. The 2017 is his 4th season in the Foundation, the second one as Under23. Complete and modern rider, strong in climbing, but fast enough to battle in the sprints. He obtained important results thanks to his ability to sprint in small groups and thanks to his attitude he did a good race in Under23 National Championships both ITT and Road Race.
CIRCUITO DE GETXO AND VUELTA BURGOS.
Double race, double relevance. For the NIPPO Vini Fantini the 2 Spanish races are very important and very fascinating. The Circuito de Getxo is one of the historical moments of the Spanish cycling, since the 1924, year of the very first edition of the race. Then Vuelta a Burgos, race of 2.HC category, that will take place from 1 to 5 August. Together with the already described young Spanish talent Joan Bou, the team NIPPO Vini Fantini team will have to the start the winner of GP Lugano Iuri Filosi, the experience of Pierpaolo De Negri and the climber Alessandro Bisolti, together with the young Italian talent Nicola Bagioli, the Japanese talent Marino Kobayashi and the Japanese trainee Hiroki Nishimura at his debut with the team.
Valerio Tebaldi will lead the team, together with Stefano Garzelli.
Here his pre-race comment: “For the team these 2 races have a strong relevance, we really want to surprise our Spanish fans. Both races will be very demanding. In Getxo we will try with our fastest riders as De negri and Filosi that could make a good sprint if a small group remains, but we are also very curious to see what our 2 trainee Nishimura and Joan Bou will do. At the same time a rider as Alessandro Bisolti will be very important for us in climbers stage of Vuelta a Burgos. We are ready and we want to surprise our fans.”
The complete line-up:
Iuri Filosi, Pierpaolo De Negri, Alesandro Bisolti, Nicola Bagioli, Marino Kobayashi, Hiroki Nishimura, Joan Bou.
DS: Valerio Tebaldi & Stefano Garzelli.
Image credits:
(Team NIPPO pics) Sonoko Tanaka
(Hiroki Nishimura pic) Shimano Racing Team
(Joan Bou Pic) Fundación Alberto Contador