22 Oct Temporada de récord para Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team
Metallurgica Veneta MTB Professional Team achieved a record time with 11 victories
The third place of Maria Zarantonello in the Castro Legend Cup will continue until the end of the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team in 2024. In the last race of the calendar Massimo Rosa returned to compete after 135 days.
The last podium, in the last season of 2024, the Castro Legend Cup, demonstrates the high level that the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Professional Team has maintained throughout the year. Included in the last marathon of the UCI calendar, the third place of Maria Zarantonello will give the team great satisfaction until the last day of the race.
Maria Zarantonello: “The race was very hard on the selective and slippery track, but above all because of the wind, I noticed that it literally moved me, when the wind was against the wall that was closer to what was ahead. . I also loved Saturday a lot at night and the rocks that came up were very slippery, a very hard journey because it was full of tears and for me, I’m not an explosive deporter, I’ll suffer it all. I intended to give myself the best and during the first two hours I resisted 30 seconds of the second position, without much explanation, but in the last 50 minutes I literally broke down and finished in the third position, I told you, let’s finish the time like this. this, because you don’t want more.
I ended this year very satisfied, even more than what I hoped for. I believe that I have demonstrated that I feel good enough on long and long stretches, so that I am very satisfied with the results I get at home, which were definitely better than what I had hoped for. It’s a very good basis for building what will be next time, and I understand that I want to work and improve to make it even better.”
The young Vicenza cyclist concluded her first time on long-distance races with a convincing and significant result, contributing with a victory and new podiums to the figures that stand at the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team among the best Italian mountain bike teams. In this there are the four runners who tasked themselves to take the sum of once victorious, among them Nicola Taffaril with four were the man who raised his arms to the sky several times this time, with the contribution of Jacopo Billi (3), Massimo Rosa ( 2) and Ole Hem (1), who marked a new hit victorias for the team. All with a young group but with the necessary experience in any compromise.
And the records never end, because the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team achieved the final victory in the 4-stage race of Island MTB Croatia with the team Rosa-Taffaril, achieving 27 podiums and achieving 34 positions in the Top 10 in the different categories quotes in a calendar as competitive as international. At the individual level, Ole Hem won the Norwegian marathon campaign maillot one month before his definitive retirement from the competitions and Jacopo Billi consolidated his time with the final victories of the national circuits Marathon Tour and Trek-Zerowind MTB Challenge.
Nicola Taffaril also showed himself to be fully satisfied with his time, despite being forced to miss the last race.
“I don’t come up with intestinal problems that I suffer during the night. I felt a lot because it was the last journey and it was the first time I had done it, the journey was good and I wanted to do it well, but there were some external factors that did not depend on me. It has been a long time since I have been very satisfied, I have grown a lot compared to the past year, obtaining excellent results that I hope to confirm and continue growing in the year that comes with this team that has been at my house for the last two years. stations.”
In Castro the Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team garage was finally completed. More than two months and a half after surgery for endofibrosis of the iliac artery, Massimo Rosa is returning with his team.
“Finally I’m back with my team. I followed the expected path of rehabilitation and recovery of my physical condition after the operation, without encountering any problems and I decided to suffer the motorbike for ten days without being able to force it again. In view of this, there would still be a little time to spare for the green light to be able to move forward, so that today I will be on the road very calmly, supporting Maria. The weeks without the bike were quite difficult and when I started pedaling again it was a brilliant feeling, it was like wanting to ride a mecha! Being here today is a great feeling for me, and it was also a good way to get rid of the team until the next year.”