2019 Giro della Toscana - Memorial Alfredo Martini (1.1), Italy
91st edition: September 18, 2019
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Pontedera - Pontedera, 204.4 km
Giovanni Visconti wins in Pontadera.
Weather at the start/finish city of Pontedera at2:00 PM, local time: 28C (83F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 8 km/hr (5 mph). No rain is forecast.
The Race: Here's the report from second-place Egan bernal's Team INEOS.
Egan Bernal marked an impressive return to racing action with second place at the Giro della Toscana.
With six weeks off the bike following his Tour de France success, the Colombian powered his way into a four-man break after a strong acceleration on the Monte Serra climb.
With Pierpaolo Ficara (Italy) distanced heading into the final kilometre, Bernal held his nerve and was able to claim a podium finish, taking the runner-up spot behind Giovanni Visconti (Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia-KTM).
Team INEOS had numbers in the group behind, with Eddie Dunbar and Diego Rosa on hand to mark attacks on the run into Pontedera.
Dunbar picked up sixth at the finish, while Rosa had kicked off the late attacks by splitting the group on the final climb.
An impressive all-round team effort saw Filippo Ganna and Jonathan Castroviejo driving the pace into the final 50km, chasing down the day’s early break.
Complete results:
204.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.615 km/hr
| 1 | Giovanni Visconti | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | 5hr 9min 35sec |
| 2 | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | s.t. |
| 3 | Nikolay Cherkasov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 4 | Pierpaolo Ficara | Italy | @ 13sec |
| 5 | Davide Gabburo | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | 51 sec |
| 6 | Edward Dunbar | Team INEOS | 53 sec |
| 7 | Andrea Vendrame | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 58 sec |
| 8 | Merhawi Kudus | Astana | s.t. |
| 9 | Warren Barguil | Arkea-Samsic | s.t. |
| 10 | Ivan Rovny | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 11 | Romain Combaud | Delko-Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 12 | Manuele Mori | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 13 | Simone Velasco | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 14 | Alejandro Osorio | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 15 | Hideto Nakane | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 16 | Yuriy Natarov | Astana | s.t. |
| 17 | Natnael Berhane | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 18 | Jon Irisarri Rincon | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 19 | Miguel Florez | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 20 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
| 21 | Javier Moreno | Delko-Marseille Provence | s.t. |
| 22 | Anthony Rappo | IAM Excelsior | s.t. |
| 23 | Davide Formolo | Italy | s.t. |
| 24 | Diego Rosa | Team INEOS | s.t. |
| 25 | Andrea Garosio | Bahrain-Merida | s.t. |
| 26 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 27 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 28 | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 29 | Simone Petilli | UAE Team Emirates | 1:06 |
| 30 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:22 |
| 31 | Riccardo Ciuccarelli | Sangemini-MG.Kvis | s.t. |
| 32 | Umberto Orsini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
| 33 | Gabriele Benedetti | Italy | s.t. |
| 34 | Simon Pellaud | IAM Excelsior | s.t. |
| 35 | Gianni Pugi | Sangemini-MG.Kvis | s.t. |
| 36 | Bart De Clercq | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 37 | Matteo Badilatti | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 38 | Samuele Zoccarato | IAM Excelsior | s.t. |
| 39 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 40 | Giulio Ciccone | Italy | s.t. |
| 41 | Brice Feillu | Arkea-Samsic | s.t. |
| 42 | Anthony Delaplace | Arkea-Samsic | s.t. |
| 43 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 44 | Guillaume Martin | Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 45 | Delio Fernandez Cruz | Delko-Marseille Provence | 6:53 |
| 46 | Francesco Bongiorno | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 47 | Joel Suter | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 48 | Lorenzo Rota | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
| 49 | Antonio Di Sante | Sangemini-MG.Kvis | 7:57 |
| 50 | Dario Puccioni | Sangemini-MG.Kvis | s.t. |
| 51 | Sebastian Schönberger | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 52 | Alexandre Balmer | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 53 | Ivan Martinelli | D'Amico-UM Tools | 7:57 |
| 54 | Nikita Stalnov | Astana | 10:14 |
| 55 | Zhandos Bizhigitov | Astana | s.t. |
| 56 | Mauricio Moreira | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 57 | Ivan Santaromita | Nippo-Vini Fantini | s.t. |
| 58 | Aleksander Vlasov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 59 | Yevgeniy Gidich | Astana | s.t. |
| 60 | Edwin Avila | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 61 | Antonio Nibali | Bahrain-Merida | s.t. |
| 62 | Rubén Plaza | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 63 | Aleksey Rybalkin | Gazprom-RusVelo | 10:34 |
| 64 | Franco Orocito | D'Amico-UM Tools | 10:34 |
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