Double joy for Soudal Quick-Step, as Rémi Cavagna takes the final stage.

Mauro Schmid became the first Swiss rider to add his name to the roll of honour at the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, wrapping up the general classification of the 38th edition thanks to a rock-solid display on the stage 5 individual time trial in Carpi, won by teammate Rémi Cavagna.

It’s the second stage race success in the career of the 23-year-old from Bülach, and it follows the one he took last year at the Belgium Tour, in his first season with the Wolfpack. Schmid enjoyed an excellent week in Italy, showing amazing consistency over the event’s five stages, concluding every single one of these in the top 10, so it came as no surprise that in addition to the GC win, he also received the points jersey.

“It feels special that my first win of the year came in the form of a stage race. I wasn’t sure I could survive the climbs, but I went better than expected these days. Two stages and the GC – we couldn’t be happier!”, Mauro said after delivering the squad’s 17th victory of the season. “I suffered a bit today, because I went too hard in the middle part and this made me nervous, but I calmed down near the finish because in the end I had quite some seconds left in the overall standings. It was a hard week, but we can be proud of how we rode as a team.”

Rémi Cavagna capped off Soudal Quick-Step’s great outing at Coppi e Bartali the same way he started the whole thing, with a victory. After attacking from the peloton and producing an outstanding solo effort to capture the opening stage, the “TGV of Clermont-Ferrand” now took the spoils in the time trial, where nothing and no one could stop him from racking up his tenth pro victory.

We are all super happy with how things went for us this week!

“This time trial was my biggest goal here. It was a technical course, but I didn’t take any risks and just pushed hard on the straight roads so I could gain seconds there. I’m delighted with this performance, which netted my first ITT victory of the season after that close second in Algarve. The fact that Mauro finished first in the GC is the cherry on the cake. I feel the form is there and now I look forward to Pais Vasco”, said Rémi, the only rider to average more than 50km/h in Saturday’s time trial.

 

Photo credit: ©Sirotti

Race details

1 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
22:12
2 Michael Hepburn
Team Jayco AlUla
0:18
3 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
0:19
4 Joel Suter
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:25
5 Leo Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:27
6 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
0:29
7 Mathias Vacek
Trek - Segafredo
0:35
8 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
0:41
9 Michael Leonard
INEOS Grenadiers
0:42
10 James Shaw
EF Education-EasyPost
0:43
22 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
1:16
28 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
1:25
66 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
2:19
1 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
16:19:55
2 James Shaw
EF Education-EasyPost
0:16
3 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
0:22
4 Mark Padun
EF Education-EasyPost
1:06
5 Leo Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
1:19
6 Domenico Pozzovivo
Israel - Premier Tech
1:35
7 Ben Zwiehoff
BORA - hansgrohe
1:52
8 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
1:55
9 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
1:57
10 Gianluca Brambilla
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
2:10
16 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
3:07
38 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
22:41
39 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
22:58
56 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
41:48
96 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
1:15:24
1 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
28 pt
2 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
13 pt
3 Domenico Pozzovivo
Israel - Premier Tech
12 pt
4 James Shaw
EF Education-EasyPost
11 pt
5 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
10 pt
6 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
10 pt
7 Alexis Guerin
Bingoal WB
10 pt
8 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
10 pt
9 Mark Padun
EF Education-EasyPost
7 pt
10 Felix Engelhardt
Team Jayco AlUla
7 pt
1 Alexis Guerin
Bingoal WB
28 pt
2 Lennert Teugels
Bingoal WB
24 pt
3 Marco Murgano
Team Corratec
23 pt
4 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia
GW Shimano-Sidermec
16 pt
5 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
14 pt
6 Andrea Garosio
EOLO-Kometa
12 pt
7 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
10 pt
8 Alessandro Fancellu
EOLO-Kometa
10 pt
9 Veljko Stojnić
Team Corratec
8 pt
10 Luca Covili
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
8 pt
11 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
8 pt
13 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
5 pt
15 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
4 pt
1 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
16:20:17
2 Leo Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:57
3 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
1:33
4 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
1:35
5 Tijmen Graat
Jumbo-Visma
1:50
6 Felix Engelhardt
Team Jayco AlUla
1:59
7 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Jumbo-Visma
2:31
8 Fernando Tercero Lopez
EOLO-Kometa
2:46
9 Davide Piganzoli
EOLO-Kometa
4:43
10 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
5:17
16 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
22:36
22 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
41:26
1 EF Education-EasyPost 49:00:46
2 Jumbo-Visma 6:30
3 Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè 12:10
4 Soudal - Quick Step 13:19
5 EOLO-Kometa 14:34
6 Israel - Premier Tech 18:03
7 Trek - Segafredo 20:10
8 Bingoal WB 22:39
9 BORA - hansgrohe 34:48
10 Team Jayco AlUla 35:44

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