PeloPics: Impressed by our very talked-about look again on the 1986 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, we’ve assembled one other journey down reminiscence lane with a Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1995 photograph gallery. Set the Means-back machine for 1995, it’s April and we’re going to Belgium!
Gianetti crossed the road solo 15 seconds forward of a chase group of Gianni Bugno, Michele Bartoli and Laurent Jalabert, with Francesco Casagrande at over a minute. Lance Armstrong rode in on his personal at 3 minutes and the remaining had been 5 and 10 minutes later. La Doyenne is at all times a troublesome race as you possibly can see within the eyes of Steven Rooks and Michele Bartoli.
Pin-up of the 90s professional biking scene – Sergei Outschakov. Extra lately he was PR agent with Katusha-Alpecin
ONCE would attempt to dominate each race they rode, the Telekom rider is Udo Bolts
Liège was not likely the race for sprinter Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
Hanging out of a staff automotive – These had been the times
Edwig Van Hooydonck was higher identified for his wins within the Tour of Flanders than Liège, his assaults gave him the nickname Eddy Van Bosberg
Andrei Tchmil was Belgian in 1995, he had been Russian, Ukrainian and Moldovan. What his nationality is now’s unknown though he was appointed Minister of Sport in Moldova in 2006
Italian champion, Massimo Podenzana was a prolific winner with Giro and Tour stage wins and double Nationwide champion. He’s now a DS with Staff Novo Nordisk
Johan Museeuw – What are you able to say in regards to the ‘Lion of Flanders’? Three wins in Roubaix and three in De Ronde, plus World champ and a ton of different races. Right here he wears the World Cup leaders jersey
Colombian Alvaro Mejia, 4th general within the Tour and 4th within the World championship. He additionally received the Volta a Catalunya, Vuelta a Murcia, Route du Sud and Vuelta a Galicia. He’s now a health care provider and lecturer within the Technological College of Pereira and the Universidad Andina in Pereira.
Rudy Undertaking make nice glasses and helmets (sure, I exploit each), however what had been they pondering? They will need to have been paying Dimitri Konychev to put on these. Dimitri is now a DS with Katusha-Alpecin
Jose Jimenez was going to be the subsequent Miguel Indurain and confirmed moments of gorgeous racing, however would free time on different days. He was the primary winner on the Angliru. Jimenez appreciated ‘the evening life’ however suffered with despair for a few years and died in a Madrid psychiatric hospital in 2003
Laurent Jalabert had modified from a pure sprinter to a extra all-round rider after a horrific crash within the 1994 Tour de France and went on so as to add Sanremo, Flèche, San Sebastián, Lombardia, World TT and Tour KOM to his factors wins
Heinz Imboden was not a giant winner, however was at all times ‘up there’
Maurizio Fondriest – 1988 shock World champion who went on to win Sanremo, Flèche, Zurich and stage races in Britain, Poland and Midi Libre and Tirreno–Adriatico
The place to start out with Claudio ‘El Diablo’ Chiappucci – Not that many wins in his palmarès, however he was at all times aggressive and would gentle up a race along with his attacking fashion. Second and third within the Giro and Tour plus the KOM jersey in each, seventh in Liège ’95. Chiappucci had fluctuating hematocrit values throughout his profession and as soon as acknowledged that he knew when his hemocrit was excessive as a result of his hemorrhoids would trouble him
Italian Nationwide coach and biking TV pundit Davide Cassani was a useful rider in his time
Franchman Laurent Brochard – World champion in 1997, however was caught up within the ‘Festina Affair’ of 1998. He was a professional for 15 years and was nonetheless racing as an newbie in 2008
Mr. Armstrong earlier than he was a Grand Tour rider. 2nd in Liège ’94 and ’96 he was sixth in ’95
Eddy Bouwmans was a tough working Dutchman who turned professional for the Panasonic staff in 1990 and helped many riders to victories. He received the ‘Finest Younger rider’ competitors within the 1992 Tour de France. He completed seventeenth in Liège ’95, the highest finisher for his Novell staff
Evgueni Berzin received the earlier years Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Giro d’Italia, in ’95 he was 2nd within the Giro and ’96 he held the yellow jersey within the Tour for 2 days after which slowly disappeared from the game
Mauro Gianetti took Liège and adopted it up with a win within the Amstel Gold Race. Then what?
Double World champion Gianni Bugno took second place at 15 seconds
These glasses had been blamed for a lot of of Alex Zulle’s crashes
A tough race for Steven Rooks
Michele Bartoli was third within the 1995 Liège, however he was one of many classiest riders round and took a load of wins in his profession
Two large wins within the spring for Gianetti in Liège and Amstel, in 1996 he took the silver medal within the Worlds behind Johan Museeuw
Motion from Liège’95:
Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1995 End result:
1. Mauro Gianetti (Swi) Polti-Granarolo-Santini in 6:38:25
2. Gianni Bugno (Ita) MG Maglificio-Technogym at 0:15
3. Michele Bartoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno
4. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE
5. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Mercatone Uno at 1:24
6. Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola at 3:04
7. Claudio Chiappucci (Ita) Carrera at 4:45
8. Rolf Sörensen (Den) MG-Technogym
9. Heinz Imboden (Swi) Refin-Cantina Tollo
10. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM at 10:10
11. Maurizio Fondriest (Ita) Lampre
12. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto
13. Johan Museeuw (Bel) Mapei
14. Alex Zülle (Swi) ONCE
15. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Mapei
16. Davide Rebellin (Ita) MG-Technogym
17. Eddy Bouwmans (Ned) Novell
18. Marco Pantani (Ita) Carrera
19. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) Gewiss-Ballan
20. Dmitri Konyshev (Rus) AKI-Gipiemme at 11:20
21. Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Brescialat at 11:38
22. José Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto at 12:02
23. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Novell
24. Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom
25. Francesco Frattini (Ita) Gewiss-Ballan.
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