MARCO Benfatto WINS THE SECOND STAGE OF THE TOUR OF QINGHAI IN CHINA

Italians are becoming an important figure at the Tour of Qinghai, China, which takes place July 6 to 19. The Pickled Blacks, with driving sporting director Luca Amoriello, has selected eight athletes for the race in China. It is Cecchinel George, Samuel Conti, Roberto De Patre, Failli Francis, Joseph Fonzi, Luigi Miletta, Mattia Pozzo and Mirko Germans.
During the first first-stage Xining Xining (122 km) that was developed on a circuit of 17 km to be repeated seven times, Joseph Fonzi managed to enter in the first flight of the day, then resumed at 40 km from the finish. The flight then came off guard, they entered 16 runners, including Samuel Conti and Luigi Miletta. Upon arrival, the team gets a good result with a fourth position for Samuel Conti and a tenth place for Luigi Miletta.
During the second day came the victory for an Italian. Mark Benfield took his second win of the season in the sprint by adjusting the compact group. The 26 year old dell’Astana Continental was the fastest at the end of the 188 km between Duoba and Datong, a fraction flat but run entirely above 2300 meters. In second place hath placed the German Robert Förster (a past winner of the stage at the Giro and Vuelta), while the third came the Lithuanian Evaldas Siskevicius: among Italians in the race I got good results for Antonio Di Battista, sixth, and Federico He threw the tenth. In the overall standings continues to lead the Ukrainian Oleksandr Polivoda: the first Italian is Samuel Conti, eighth at 53. “