With the NIPPO Vini Fantini team in the next August races 3 stagiaries of great perspective. The Italian Nicola Bagioli, from the Zalf Euromobil and winner of the Piccola Sanremo 2016, the Japanese Marino Kobayashi, young talent, already Under23 road champion & ITT champion and the young Gaona Vazquez from Mexico.
From the 1st of August 3 young talented riders will be aggregated to the NIPPO Vini Fantini team as stagiares for a future that could also become #OrangeBlue if they will convince with their quality and attitude the Sports Directors during August races with the team.
The Italian Nicola Bagioli, born in 1995, already won 4 races among not Professionist with Zalf Euromobil in 2016. Among this the Piccola Sanremo – Sovizzo. A good second place also in Giro della Valle d’Aosta 2016, where in 2015 it was second in the Mountain Ranking behind Giulio Ciccone. For him good words from the General Manager Francesco Pelosi: “Our idea is to select few talented apprentice that can be functional to our project and next season team. Nicola Bagioli has been selected because is an Italian young talented rider that fits perfectly with team needs, maybe already in 2017.”
The Japanese Marino Kobayashi, is the young most important rider in the Japanese Cycling. National Champion in 2016, in the Under23 category, both road and ITT. He is a young talented rider with a great future in front of him. Born in 1994 he is now in the amateur team KUOTA C.Paulino. in Spain.
Selected by the Japanese Team Manager Daimon Hiroshi: “Marino is a young talent very interesting, that already demonstrated that could become a complete rider with a good future, winning in the Under23 category both road and ITT National Championship. We are observing him before that result, because of his career in Spain with also very good victories with his team. Our goal is to help the growth of all the most talented young Japanese rider and for this reason Marino Kobayashi is a rider that deserves an opportunity with our team.”
The third trainee will be the Mexican rider David Gaona Vazquez, born in 1997, is a very young rider, already under team observation. In 2016 winner of the Queen Stage Tour of the Gila cat.1 and of the Wednesday Night Criterium both in USA.