12 Mag Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team – Two second places and a fourth place at the Etruscan Coast Epic
Double podium for Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team, ambassador of ISB Sport, at the Costa degli Etruschi Epic. Two second places that only do nothing but confirm the qualities of a team that is a protagonist in every occasion. Podium within reach also for Nicola Taffarel, author of a surely extraordinary fourth place.
Two second places for the riders of Metallurgica Veneta MTB Professional Team at the Costa degli Etruschi Epic and another positive weekend for the Martino Tronconi’s team, which since the first races of March has been putting up victories and podiums. After 4 Island MTB Croatia’s victory number nine continues to elude the boys of the Tuscan team, but today on the Tyrrhenian coast in the UCI marathon, Ole Hem put on displayed a great condition coming very close to celebrating his first personal best of 2024.
Nicola Taffarel’s race ended with a beautiful placing, an important fourth place with which the 24-year-old from Treviso finished very close to the podium. To make matters worse, an ear infection that although treated as best he could, did not allow him to present himself at the start at 100%. The goal was to do the maximum possible, Taffarel held his own, was able to play with the best and then in the four-way sprint for the third step of the podium he missed it by a few centimeters.
Metallurgica Veneta MTB Pro Team also on the podium in the women’s race with Maria Zarantonello, second, an unexpected result today. The feelings of the rider from Vicenza were not of the best, Maria struggled to find her rhythm and in the first hour and a half somehow it was realistic her sixth position, then she started the second climb with a bit more ammunition and she recovered positions and with that her overall ranking ambitions.
