2021 Settimana Ciclistica Italiana (2.1), Italy

1st edition: July 14 - 18, 2021

Settimana Ciclistica Italiana podium history
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5

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Sunday, July 18: 5th & final stage, Cagliari - Cagliari, 170.2 km

Pascal Ackermann wins the final stage. Bettini photo

Weather at the start/finish city of Cagliari: 32C (90F), fair, with the wind from the north at 27 km/hr (17 mph). There is a 24% chance of rain during the afternoon.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Pascal Ackermann's Bora-hansgrohe team.

Today the race traversed 170.2 km and two ascents around Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. The terrain wasn't expected to put the fast men in any difficulty and in the end the race ended in a sprint.

A quartet broke free following 20 kilometres of racing and opened up a lead of around 3 minutes throughout the day before the race came back together. On the final climb, however, the peloton fell apart, yet BORA - hansgrohe managed to ride out front and place Pascal Ackermann well ahead of the finale. He ultimately was able to show his sprinting prowess yet again and took the victory in the fast finish.

The squad from Raubling finishes the race with three stage wins and the points jersey, with Pascal Ackermann, as well as a third place in the GC and victory in the young rider's classification with Giovanni Aleotti, and fourth overall with Felix Großschartner.

From the finish line:
"Today we had another chance to win a stage and we wanted to do our all to take advantage of this opportunity. On the last climb the peloton fell apart but we tried to stay in front and we succeeded. I was then able to launch my sprint at the right time and take my third stage win here. Thanks very much to the whole team for their support here in Italy." - Pascal Ackermann

"It was a successful race for us here in Sardinia and I'm happy with my third place overall and winning the young rider's classification. The whole team worked hard to achieve our results here. My performance this week motivates me a lot for the next races and I'm hoping to build upon this success next time." - Giovanni Aleotti

"A great finish to the race with a third stage win and also third place overall. Chapeau to the whole team for this strong result."- Steffen Radochla, Sports Director

Complete results:

170.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.683 km/hr

1	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	4hr 11min 1sec
2	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
3	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
4	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
5	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
6	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
7	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
8	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
9	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
10	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
11	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
12	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
13	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
14	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
15	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
16	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
17	Felix Grossschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
19	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
20	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
21	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
22	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
23	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
24	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
25	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
26	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
27	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
28	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
29	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
30	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
31	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
32	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
33	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
34	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
35	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
36	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
37	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
38	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
39	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	@ 14sec
40	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	0:42
41	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	1:17
42	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
43	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
44	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
45	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
46	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
47	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
48	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
49	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
50	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
51	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
52	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
53	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
54	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
55	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
56	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
57	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
58	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
59	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	3:10
61	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	3:28
62	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
63	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	3:30
64	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
65	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
66	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
67	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	s.t.
68	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
69	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
70	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
71	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
72	Johnatan Canaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
73	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
74	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
75	Eduard Prades	Delko	3:34
76	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
77	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	4:15
78	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	4:30
79	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
80	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	4:52
81	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	5:49
82	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	6:01
83	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
84	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
85	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
86	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
87	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	6:23
88	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
89	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
90	Arturo Gravalos	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
91	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
92	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
93	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
94	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	s.t.
95	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	9:45
96	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
97	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
98	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
99	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	s.t.
100	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
101	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
102	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
103	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
104	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
105	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
106	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
107	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
108	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	s.t.
109	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
110	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
111	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
112	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
113	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
114	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
115	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	s.t.
116	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	s.t.
118	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
119	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
120	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
121	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	9:53
122	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.

Final GC after stage 5:

• GC winner: Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates)
• Mountains classification winner: Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious)
• Points classification winner: Pascal Ackermann (Bora-hansgrohe)
• Best young rinder: Giovanni Aleotti (Bora-hansgrohe)

859.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.899 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	20hr 30min 24sec
2	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	@ 8sec
3	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	0:16
4	Felix Grossschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	0:20
5	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
6	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
7	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
8	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
9	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
10	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	0:27
11	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:30
12	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:59
13	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:19
14	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:31
15	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	3:02
16	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	3:30
17	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:31
18	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	3:40
19	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
20	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
21	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:32
22	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:42
23	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	5:00
24	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
25	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
26	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
27	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	5:07
28	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	5:42
29	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	5:55
30	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	6:10
31	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	6:24
32	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	6:38
33	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	8:22
34	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	10:09
35	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	10:14
36	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	11:01
37	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	11:03
38	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	11:23
39	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	11:36
40	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	13:22
41	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	14:28
42	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	14:36
43	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	15:12
44	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	15:45
45	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	17:48
46	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
47	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	17:50
48	Eduard Prades	Delko	18:02
49	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	18:04
50	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	18:57
51	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	19:41
52	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	19:47
53	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	20:51
54	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	20:59
55	Johnatan Canaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	21:11
56	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	21:44
57	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	21:56
58	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	22:17
59	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	22:20
60	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	22:54
61	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	22:56
62	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	23:02
63	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	24:01
64	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	24:43
65	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	25:03
66	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	25:55
67	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	27:05
68	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	27:07
69	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	28:10
70	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	28:58
71	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	29:35
72	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	29:56
73	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	31:40
74	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	31:54
75	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	32:25
76	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	32:49
77	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	33:06
78	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	33:28
79	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	34:03
80	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	34:40
81	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	34:53
82	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	35:02
83	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	35:03
84	Arturo Gravalos	Eolo-Kometa	35:15
85	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	35:18
86	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	35:47
87	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	36:03
88	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	36:11
89	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	36:11
90	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	36:33
91	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	37:17
92	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	37:55
93	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
94	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	38:06
95	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	38:28
96	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	38:44
97	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:24
98	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	40:06
99	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	40:33
100	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	41:08
101	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	41:11
102	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	41:17
103	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	43:12
104	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	43:41
105	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	43:44
106	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	43:56
107	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	44:31
108	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	45:09
109	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	45:45
110	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	46:14
111	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	47:45
112	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	49:05
113	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	49:07
114	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	49:56
115	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	49:58
116	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	50:11
117	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	50:17
118	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	51:16
119	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	52:51
120	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
121	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
122	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	53:04

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Saturday, July 17: Stage 4, Cagliari - Caglieri, 168 km

GC leader Diego Ulissi takes the stage. Bettini photo

Weather at the start/finish city of Cagliari at 3:00 PM, local time: 30C (86F), fair, with the wind from the north at 26 km/hr (16 mph). There is a 17% - 30% chance of rain during the afternoon.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner & GC leader Diego Ulissi's UAE Team Emirates.

UAE Team Emirates put in a dominant performance on Stage 4 of the Settimana Ciclista Italiana, a stage of 168 km with start and finish in Cagliari.

The main group reduced to 22 riders on the hilly parcours and these riders fought for the victory in the sprint, with Diego Ulissi first crossing the finish line in front of team mate Aleksandr Riabushenko and Sep Vanmarcke (Israel Start-Up).

Ulissi, in his third success of the season and second in this race, confirms himself as the leader of the general classification and of the points classification, with only one stage still to run (Cagliari-Cagliari of 170.2 km with a double pass on the 2nd category climb of the Coremò peak (5.6 km at 6.4% average gradient).

Ulissi: “The stage was tough, also due to the considerable heat. Riabushenko was very good at staying with me on the climb; together we worked well to control the attacks of the opponents and to make a great sprint, and it turned out perfectly.
We are happy, but we are already focused on tomorrow: we will have to control as best we can to bring the race home.”

Complete results:

168 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.317 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	4hr 3min 58sec
2	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
3	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
4	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	s.t.
5	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
6	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
7	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
8	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
9	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
10	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
11	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
13	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
14	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
15	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
16	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
17	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
18	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
19	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
20	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
21	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	@ 5sec
22	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	0:44
23	Lluis Mas	Movistar	2:09
24	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
25	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
26	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
27	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
28	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
29	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
30	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
31	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	3:11
32	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
33	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
34	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
35	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	3:23
36	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	3:29
37	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
38	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
39	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
40	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
41	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
42	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
43	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
44	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
45	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
46	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
47	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
48	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
49	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
50	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
51	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
52	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
53	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
54	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
55	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
56	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
57	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
58	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
59	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
60	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
61	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
62	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
63	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	7:04
64	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	7:38
65	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	12:57
66	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
67	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
68	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
69	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
70	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
71	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
72	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
73	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
74	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
75	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
76	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	s.t.
77	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
78	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
79	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
80	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
81	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
82	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
83	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
84	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
85	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
86	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
87	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
88	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
89	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
90	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
91	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
92	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
93	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
94	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
95	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
96	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
97	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
98	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
99	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
100	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
101	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
102	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	s.t.
103	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	s.t.
104	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	s.t.
105	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
106	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
107	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
108	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
109	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
110	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
111	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
112	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
114	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
115	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
116	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
117	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
118	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
119	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
120	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
121	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
122	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
123	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
124	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
125	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
126	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	s.t.
127	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	13:14

GC after stage 4:

691.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.363 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	16hr 19min 23sec
2	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	@ 12sec
3	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	0:16
4	Davide Villella	Movistar	0:20
5	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
6	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
7	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
8	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
9	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
10	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	0:27
11	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:30
12	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:59
13	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:19
14	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:31
15	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	1:45
16	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:57
17	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	2:13
18	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:31
19	Lluis Mas	Movistar	3:40
20	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
21	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
22	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	4:25
23	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:32
24	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:38
25	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:42
26	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	4:53
27	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	5:00
28	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
29	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
30	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
31	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	5:07
32	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
33	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	5:21
34	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	8:22
35	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	8:52
36	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	8:57
37	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	9:46
38	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	11:07
39	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	11:09
40	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	11:36
41	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	12:27
42	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	13:19
43	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	13:22
44	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	13:55
45	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	14:10
46	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	14:18
47	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
48	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	14:28
49	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
50	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
51	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	15:17
52	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	16:11
53	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	17:01
54	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	17:29
55	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	17:41
56	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	17:50
57	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	18:04
58	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	18:25
59	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	18:34
60	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	18:57
61	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	19:24
62	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	19:34
63	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	20:31
64	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	21:00
65	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	21:06
66	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
67	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	22:56
68	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	23:26
69	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	23:33
70	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	23:46
71	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	25:24
72	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	25:48
73	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	25:55
74	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	26:18
75	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	26:26
76	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
77	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
78	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	27:32
79	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	28:02
80	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	28:10
81	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
82	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
83	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
84	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
85	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	28:17
86	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	28:36
87	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	28:40
88	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	28:43
89	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	28:52
90	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
91	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	28:53
92	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	29:58
93	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
94	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	30:02
95	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	30:21
96	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	31:23
97	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	31:26
98	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	31:32
99	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
100	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	31:48
101	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	31:54
102	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	33:14
103	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	33:27
104	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	33:59
105	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	34:10
106	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	34:11
107	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	35:14
108	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	35:16
109	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
110	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	35:56
111	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	36:00
112	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	36:29
113	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	38:08
114	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	39:20
115	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	39:22
116	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	40:13
117	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
118	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
119	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	40:26
120	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	40:32
121	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	41:31
122	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	41:44
123	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	43:06
124	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
125	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
126	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	43:19
127	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	43:33

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Friday, July 16: Stage 3, Oristano - Cagliari, 180.9 km

Pascal Ackermann wins again. Bettini photo

Weather at the finish city of Cagliari at 2:40 PM, local time: 28C (82F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the north-northwest at 31 km/hr (19 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Pascal Ackermann's Bora-hansgrohe team.

The Tour of Sardinia today traversed 180.9 km from Oristano to Cagliari. Except for two hills halfway through the race, the course was not particularly demanding and with a long descent to the finish, it was again a day for the fast men.

A five-man escape group got away quite early, yet BORA - hansgrohe pushed the pace hard, with the leaders being caught again shortly before the last climb. In the end, the team from Raubling positioned Pascal Ackermann, the winner of the previous stage, perfectly for the finale and he crossed the line victoriously. 

From the finish line:
"We wanted to go for the win again and the guys controlled the race well throughout the day and didn't give the breakaway group a chance. On the last part of the course we had a strong tailwind and the pace was high. In the sprint finale, I was in a good starting position and ultimately able to cross the finish line first. I am very happy with my second win here in Sardinia and would like to thank everyone in the team for their support." - Pascal Ackermann

"That was some great racing today, another win for us and Pascal. Juraj did a particularly good job to control proceedings. In the finale there was a lot of cross-tail wind and we then tried to use the winds to split the race. That didn't quite work, but our plan was to go for the sprint win for Pascal anyway, and that worked out perfectly in the end. Chapeau to the whole team, and now we move on." - Steffen Radochla, Sports Director

Complete results:

180.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.666 km/hr

1	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	4hr 8min 34sec
2	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
3	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
4	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
5	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	s.t.
6	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
7	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
8	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
9	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
10	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
11	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
12	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
13	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
14	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
15	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
16	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
17	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
18	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	s.t.
19	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
20	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
21	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
22	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
23	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
24	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
25	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
26	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
27	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
28	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
29	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	s.t.
30	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
31	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
32	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
33	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
34	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
37	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
38	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
39	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
40	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
41	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
42	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
43	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
44	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
45	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
46	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
47	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
48	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
49	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
50	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	@ 7sec
51	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
52	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
53	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
54	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	@ 0sec
55	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	0:19
56	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
57	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
58	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	0:21
59	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	0:26
60	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:28
61	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	0:30
62	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
63	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	0:33
64	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	0:35
65	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
66	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:42
67	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
68	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
69	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
70	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
71	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
72	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
73	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
74	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
75	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
76	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
77	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
78	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
79	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	0:52
80	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	1:05
81	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
82	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	1:10
83	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	1:18
84	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	1:20
85	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
86	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	1:39
87	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	1:43
88	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	1:45
89	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
90	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	1:48
91	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
92	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	1:53
93	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	2:00
94	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
95	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	2:07
96	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
97	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	@ 0sec
98	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	@ 0sec
99	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	2:11
100	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	2:16
101	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	2:16
102	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	2:20
103	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
104	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	@ 0sec
105	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	@ 0sec
106	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	2:37
107	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	3:06
108	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	3:13
109	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
110	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	3:13
111	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	3:14
112	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
113	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
114	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	3:16
115	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	3:20
116	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	3:22
117	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
118	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
119	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
120	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	s.t.
121	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
122	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
123	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
124	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
125	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
126	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
127	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
128	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
129	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
130	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
131	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
132	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
133	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
134	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
135	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
136	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	3:58
137	August Jensen	Delko	10:54
138	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	11:07

GC after stage 3:

523.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.701 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	12hr 15min 35sec
2	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	@ 6sec
3	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	Davide Villella	Movistar	0:10
5	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
6	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
7	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
8	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
9	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
10	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
11	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	0:17
12	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:20
13	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	0:46
14	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:53
15	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:55
16	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:59
17	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:03
18	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
19	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:09
20	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	1:20
21	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	1:21
22	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
23	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
24	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
25	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
26	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
27	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
28	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
29	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
30	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
31	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
32	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
33	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:28
34	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
35	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	1:30
36	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	1:42
37	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	1:53
38	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	2:03
39	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	2:10
40	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	2:24
41	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	3:23
42	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	4:43
43	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
44	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
45	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	4:48
46	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:13
47	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	5:18
48	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	7:24
49	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	7:27
50	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	7:28
51	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	7:53
52	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	8:50
53	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	8:54
54	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	8:59
55	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	9:40
56	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	9:57
57	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	10:01
58	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	10:16
59	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	10:27
60	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	10:39
61	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
62	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
63	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	11:03
64	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	11:17
65	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	11:26
66	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	12:17
67	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	12:31
68	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	12:32
69	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	12:41
70	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	13:11
71	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	13:19
72	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
73	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
74	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	14:25
75	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	14:55
76	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
77	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	15:03
78	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
79	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
80	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
81	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
82	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	15:18
83	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	15:29
84	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	15:33
85	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	15:36
86	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	15:45
87	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
88	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
89	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
90	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
91	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	15:55
92	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	16:06
93	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	16:51
94	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
95	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	16:55
96	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	17:14
97	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	17:19
98	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	18:16
99	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	18:19
100	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	18:25
101	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
102	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	18:41
103	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	18:47
104	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
105	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	19:17
106	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	19:47
107	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	20:07
108	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	20:20
109	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	21:03
110	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	21:04
111	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	22:07
112	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	22:09
113	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
114	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
115	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	22:49
116	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	22:53
117	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	23:22
118	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	24:38
119	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	25:01
120	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	26:13
121	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	26:15
122	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	26:37
123	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	27:06
124	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
125	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
126	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	27:19
127	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	27:25
128	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	28:24
129	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	28:37
130	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	28:43
131	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	29:59
132	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
133	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
134	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	30:12
135	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	30:20
136	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	30:26
137	August Jensen	Delko	33:47
138	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	34:36

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Thursday, July 15: Stage 2, Sassari - Oristano, 185 km

Pascal Ackermann wins stage two. Bettini photo

Weather at the finish city of Oristano at 1:50 PM, local time: 26C (79F), sunny, with the wind from the west at 23 km/hr (14 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Pascal Ackermann's Bora-hansgrohe team:

The second stage took the riders over 185.5 km from Sassari to Oristano. The route featured constant ups and downs and several small hills, but ultimately this did not prevent the sprinters from fighting it out for the victory in a fast finale.

An early small group was able to break away from the field, yet their efforts were unsuccessful and with 70 km to go, it was all over for the quintet. A little later, the race exploded, yet thanks to strong teamwork, BORA - hansgrohe managed to make sure that Pascal Ackermann made it into the first group, and he was ultimately able to prove himself the fastest to take the win.

From the finish line:
"It was a strong performance by the team today. We did everything we could to control the race and have the stage be decided in a sprint at the end. My timing was good and I sprinted at the right moment to ultimately take the win. This result shows that my form is good and I'm fully motivated for the rest of the race here." - Pascal Ackermann

"That was a pretty tough stage today. The last climb was a first category ascent, 11.5km long with an average gradient of 6 percent. With 60 km remaining, the race exploded and the guys worked hard to make sure Pascal was in the first reduced group. Thanks to this strong combined effort, we ultimately succeeded in the sprint, where he proved to be the fastest, a great result for him and the whole team." - Jean-Pierre Heynderickx

Complete Results:

185 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.625 km/hr

1	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	4hr 26min 40sec
2	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
3	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
4	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
5	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
6	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
7	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
8	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
9	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
10	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
11	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
12	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
13	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
14	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
15	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
16	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
17	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
18	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
19	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
20	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
21	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
22	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
23	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
24	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
25	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
26	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
27	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
28	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
29	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
30	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
31	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
32	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
33	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
34	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
35	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
36	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
37	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
38	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
40	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
41	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
42	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
43	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
44	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
45	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
46	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
47	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
48	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
49	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
50	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
51	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
52	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
53	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
54	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
55	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
56	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
57	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	@ 23sec
58	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	5:43
59	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	5:44
60	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
61	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
62	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
63	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
64	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	s.t.
65	Giovanni Visconti	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
66	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
67	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
68	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
69	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
70	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
71	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
72	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
73	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
74	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
75	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
76	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
77	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
78	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
79	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
80	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
81	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
82	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
83	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
84	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
85	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
86	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
87	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
88	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
89	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
90	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
91	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
92	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
93	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
94	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
95	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
96	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
97	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
98	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
99	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
100	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
101	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
102	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
103	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
104	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
105	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
106	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
107	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
108	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
109	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
110	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
111	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
112	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
113	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	6:15
114	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	13:34
115	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
116	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
117	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
118	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
119	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
120	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
121	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
122	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
123	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
124	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	s.t.
125	Francesco Di Felice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
126	August Jensen	Delko	s.t.
127	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
128	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
129	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
130	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Pro	14:03
131	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
132	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
133	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	s.t.
134	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
135	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
136	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
137	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
138	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
139	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
140	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú	s.t.
141	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
142	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.

GC after stage 2:

342.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.208 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	8hr 7min 1sec
2	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	@ 4sec
3	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	0:06
4	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Felix Großschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	0:10
6	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
7	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
8	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
9	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
10	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
11	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
12	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
13	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
14	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
15	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	0:17
17	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
18	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:20
19	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	0:46
20	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
21	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:55
22	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	1:03
24	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
25	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	1:05
26	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:09
27	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	1:21
28	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
29	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
30	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
31	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
32	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
33	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
34	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
35	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
36	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
37	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
38	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
39	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
40	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
41	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
42	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
43	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
44	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
45	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	1:35
46	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:51
47	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	2:41
48	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	4:13
49	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
50	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
51	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	7:00
52	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	7:05
53	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
54	Johnatan Cañaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
55	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	7:11
56	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	8:54
57	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	9:09
58	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	9:19
59	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
60	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
61	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
62	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
63	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X Pro	9:57
64	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
65	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
66	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
67	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
68	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
69	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
70	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
71	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
73	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	11:03
74	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
75	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	11:56
76	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	12:44
77	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	14:55
78	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
79	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	15:02
80	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	15:03
81	Giovanni Visconti	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
82	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
83	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
84	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
85	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
86	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
87	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
88	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
89	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
90	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
91	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
92	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
93	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
94	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
95	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
96	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
97	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
98	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
99	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
100	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
101	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
102	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
103	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	15:18
104	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	17:47
105	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	18:27
106	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	18:47
107	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
108	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
109	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
110	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
111	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
112	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
113	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
114	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
115	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	19:00
116	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Pro	22:07
117	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	22:53
118	August Jensen	Delko	s.t.
119	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
120	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
121	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Pro	s.t.
122	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
123	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	23:22
124	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
125	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	26:37
126	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
127	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
128	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	s.t.
129	Francesco Di Felice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
130	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
131	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
132	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	27:06
133	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
134	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
135	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
136	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
137	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
138	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
139	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	28:43
140	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú	30:22
141	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X Pro	30:26
142	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	30:38

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Wednesday, July 14: Stage 1, Alghero - Sassari, 157.6 km

Diego Ulissi wins the first stage.

Weather at the finish city of Sassari at 3:00 PM, local time: 24C (75F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 27 km/hr (17 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Diego Ulissi's UAE Team Emirates.

The first stage of Settimana Ciclista Italiana, 157.6 km from Alghero to Sassari, saw Diego Ulissi take first place in a sprint.

UAE Team Emirates patiently monitored the race, staying safe in the main group. With the breakaway pulled back at 15km to go the race erupted on the Scala di Giocca. Here Ulissi, just 5km from the finish, crested the hill in third position, conserving energy for the final sprint in which he got the better of Alberto Bettiol (Italian national team) and Giovanni Aleotti (Bora-Hansgrohe).

Ulissi: “It was a demanding stage, with a tough finish that saw many quality riders contending for the victory. Today I felt good and I gave my best, also trying to attack on the climb. The last 500 meters, being slightly uphill, were perfect for my characteristics. My legs are good and I hope for a great week together with the whole team: the team did a great job today, supporting me all the way“.

Tomorrow the second stage will take the riders from Sassari to Oristano in 185.7km, with the last of the 3 Categorised climbs of the day set 60km from the finish.

Complete results:

157.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.881 km/hr

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	3hr 40min 31sec
2	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
3	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
4	Felix Grossschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
6	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
7	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
8	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
9	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
10	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
11	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
12	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
13	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
14	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
15	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
16	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	@ 7sec
17	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
18	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:10
19	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:36
20	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
21	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:45
22	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	0:53
24	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	0:55
25	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	0:59
26	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
27	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	1:11
28	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
29	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
30	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
31	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
32	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
33	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
34	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
35	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
36	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
37	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
38	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
39	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
40	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
41	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
42	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
43	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
44	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
45	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
46	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
47	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
48	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	1:17
49	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:18
50	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	1:25
51	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	1:11
52	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	2:31
53	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	3:00
54	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	4:03
55	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	4:03
56	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	s.t.
57	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
58	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
59	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
60	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
61	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
62	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
63	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
64	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
65	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
66	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
67	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
68	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	5:09
69	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
70	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	5:31
71	Johnatan Canaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	1:11
72	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	6:50
73	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
74	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	9:09
75	Giovanni Visconti	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
76	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
77	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
78	August Jensen	Delko	s.t.
79	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	s.t.
80	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
81	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
82	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
83	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
84	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
85	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
86	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
87	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
88	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
89	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
90	Arturo Gravalos	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
91	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
92	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
93	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
94	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	s.t.
95	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
96	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
97	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
98	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
99	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
100	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
101	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
102	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
104	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
105	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
106	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
107	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
108	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
109	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
110	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
111	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
112	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	9:24
113	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	12:33
114	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	12:53
115	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
116	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	s.t.
117	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
118	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
119	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
120	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
121	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	s.t.
122	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
123	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
124	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
125	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
126	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
127	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
128	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
129	Francesco di Felice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
130	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
131	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
132	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
133	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
134	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
135	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
136	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
137	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	13:06
138	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	14:30
139	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú	16:09
140	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	16:13
141	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	s.t.
142	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	16:25

GC after stage 1:

1	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	3hr 40min 21sec
2	Alberto Bettiol	Nazionale Italiana	@ 4sec
3	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	0:06
4	Felix Grossschartner	Bora-hansgrohe	0:10
5	Giulio Ciccone	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
6	Sep Vanmarcke	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
7	Gianni Moscon	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
8	Ben Hermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
9	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
10	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
11	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
12	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
13	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
14	Fausto Masnada	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
15	Paul Double	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
16	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	0:17
17	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
18	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	0:20
19	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:46
20	Davide Rebellin	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
21	Alexandr Riabushenko	UAE Team Emirates	0:55
22	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Krists Neilands	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:03
24	Rune Herregodts	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	1:05
25	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:09
26	Barnabas Peak	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
27	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	1:21
28	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
29	Eduard Prades	Delko	s.t.
30	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
31	Giacomo Garavaglia	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
32	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
33	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
34	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
35	Lluis Mas	Movistar	s.t.
36	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
37	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
38	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
39	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
40	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
41	Enrico Battaglin	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
42	Julian Mertens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
43	Tsgabu Grmay	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
44	Andrii Ponomar	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
45	Alessandro Fedeli	Delko	s.t.
46	Santiago Umba	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
47	Iuri Filosi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
48	Tanel Kangert	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
49	Johnatan Canaveral	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
50	Cristian Munoz	UAE Team Emirates	1:27
51	Sebastian Berwick	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:28
52	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	1:35
53	Gino Mäder	Bahrain Victorious	2:41
54	Alex Colman	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	3:10
55	Anton Palzer	Bora-hansgrohe	4:13
56	Adriano Brogi	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
57	Kristian Kulset	Uno-X	s.t.
58	Garikoitz Bravo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
59	Francesco Zandri	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
60	Raul Colombo	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
61	Luca Covili	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
62	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
63	Lucas De Rossi	Delko	s.t.
64	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
65	Marco Tizza	Amore & Vita	s.t.
66	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
67	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
68	Delio Fernandez	Delko	s.t.
69	Paul Wright	MG.K vis VPM	5:19
70	Juan Jose Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
71	Luca Wackermann	Eolo-Kometa	5:41
72	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	7:00
73	Romain Hardy	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
74	Cédric Beullens	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	9:19
75	Giovanni Visconti	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
76	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
77	Aaron Verwilst	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
78	August Jensen	Delko	s.t.
79	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X	s.t.
80	Sander De Pestel	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
81	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
82	Raffaele Radice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
83	Gabriel Cullaigh	Movistar	s.t.
84	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
85	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
86	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
87	Elia Viviani	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
88	Igor Boev	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
89	Andrea Guardini	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
90	Arturo Gravalos Lopez	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
91	Daniel Savini	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
92	Inigo Elosegui	Movistar	s.t.
93	Mikel Alonso	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
94	Iver Skaarseth	Uno-X	s.t.
95	Dmitriy Strakhov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
96	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
97	Joe Dombrowski	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
98	Mattia Frapporti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
99	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	s.t.
100	Riccardo Stacchiotti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
101	Luca Pacioni	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
102	Juraj Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Kristian Yustre	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
104	Paolo Simion	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
105	Emanuele Onesti	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
106	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
107	Pascal Ackermann	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
108	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú	s.t.
109	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
110	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
111	Alessandro Monaco	Bardiani CSF Faizanè	s.t.
112	Filippo Ganna	Nazionale Italiana	9:34
113	Stefano Pirazzi	Amore & Vita	12:43
114	Stefano Di Benedetto	Work Service Marchiol	13:03
115	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
116	Lars Saugstad	Uno-X	s.t.
117	Jakub Mareczko	Vini Zabú	s.t.
118	Yousef Mirza	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
119	Davide Appollonio	Amore & Vita	s.t.
120	Niccolo Salvietti	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
121	Paolo Toto	Amore & Vita	s.t.
122	Mattia Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
123	Alessandro Iacchi	Vini Zabú	s.t.
124	Sam Bewley	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
125	Michele Scartezzini	Nazionale Italiana	s.t.
126	Fabio Di Guglielmo	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
127	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú	s.t.
128	Dzmitry Zhyhunou	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
129	Francesco Di Felice	MG.K vis VPM	s.t.
130	Federico Burchio	Work Service Marchiol	s.t.
131	Mikel Aristi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
132	Ibai Azurmendi	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
133	Evgeny Shalunov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
134	Alexandre Delettre	Delko	s.t.
135	Emil Dima	Giotti Victoria-Savini Due	s.t.
136	Sasha Weemaes	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise	s.t.
137	Christian Danilo Pase	Work Service Marchiol	13:16
138	Evaldas Siskevicius	Delko	14:40
139	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú	16:19
140	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	16:23
141	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X	s.t.
142	Edoardo Martinelli	MG.K vis VPM	16:35