Team Type 1-Sanofi com­pleted a hugely suc­cess­ful Tour if Austria, with Italy’s Daniele Colli win­ning the final stage of the race and Alessandro Bazzana win­ning the red points jer­sey and Georg Preidler tak­ing the polka-dot climber’s jersey.

It meant that Colnago bikes dom­i­nated the Tour of Austria. Colli won the sprint rid­ing a black and white color ver­sion of the Colnago M10 S, while some of his team­mates used Colnago C59 Italia bikes.

Colli has taken sev­eral impres­sive plac­ing in races this year and finally landed his first win of the sea­son with a pow­er­ful sprint fin­ish in Podersdorf. Colli rightly cel­e­brated his vic­tory by punch­ing the air.

“I have been in the top ten 21 times this year, and on the podium seven times with­out climb­ing on the top step. With the help of my team­mates I’ve taken a vic­tory for the first time at this level, and for the first time since I had can­cer,” Colli said.

Colli was diag­nosed with a malig­nant tumor on his knee in late 2010. He under­went a bone graft and ther­apy before mak­ing a com­ing back. He signed with Team Type 1-Sanofi for the 2012 season.

“At 300 hun­dred metres I saw another rider start the sprint, and so I looked back to see who was com­ing. The road was clear in front and so I went for the win. It was the great­est feel­ing of sat­is­fac­tion I have had in a long time.”

The whole Team Type 1 – Sanofi rightly cel­e­brated their Austrian suc­cess. Colnago is proud to be the bike spon­sor of the team that does so much to pro­mote the treat­ment of diabetes.

“We won two stages with two dif­fer­ent rid­ers, we took the points jer­sey and the King of the Mountains clas­si­fi­ca­tion as well. To have so much to cel­e­brate in July in one week in Austria is a great tes­ta­ment to the hard work and pro­fes­sion­al­ism of the rid­ers, the staff and the man­age­ment at Team Type 1-Sanofi,” team man­ager Vassili Davidenko said.

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