Schmid extends his buffer

Schmid extends his buffer

Mauro Schmid defended his overall lead at this week’s Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, after a complicated stage 3 which took the peloton to Forli – the town of Caterina Sforza, one of Renaissance Italy’s most influential and powerful women.

Monte Cavallo (4.7km, 7.2%) with its tricky gravel roads sections was the day’s main attraction, the hardest climb on a circuit that the peloton had to tackle several times. It was there with 20 kilometers to go that three riders jumped clear, just as the gradient stiffened, opening a hefty gap over the stretched-out peloton. Mauro found himself part of the reduced chasing group, taking some long pulls on the descent to claw back time as the leading trio was driving hard to expand their advantage.

An old-school finish, on the Forli velodrome, awaited the riders at the end of Thursday’s 140 kilometers, and it was Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) who prevailed there, 25 seconds clear of the chasers. Schmid concluded in fifth place, enough to keep the leader’s jersey ahead of the penultimate stage – in addition to the points one – and even increase his lead over the next rider in the general classification to eight seconds.

 

Photo credit: ©Sirotti

Race details

1 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
3:29:06
2 Domenico Pozzovivo
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
3 Mark Padun
EF Education-EasyPost
0:00
4 Felix Engelhardt
Team Jayco AlUla
0:25
5 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
0:25
6 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:25
7 Natnael Tesfatsion
Trek - Segafredo
0:25
8 Milan Vader
Jumbo-Visma
0:25
9 Leo Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:25
10 Floris De Tier
Bingoal WB
0:25
37 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
1:20
63 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
8:39
64 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
8:39
69 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
12:07
116 Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step
20:31
126 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
20:31
1 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
11:51:36
2 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:08
3 James Shaw
EF Education-EasyPost
0:12
4 Gianluca Brambilla
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:15
5 Mark Padun
EF Education-EasyPost
0:36
6 Domenico Pozzovivo
Israel - Premier Tech
0:37
7 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
0:38
8 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
0:57
9 Natnael Tesfatsion
Trek - Segafredo
1:10
10 Felix Engelhardt
Team Jayco AlUla
1:13
19 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
2:03
41 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
14:34
48 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
20:04
59 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
26:10
77 Stan Van Tricht
Soudal - Quick Step
38:02
118 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
1:00:33
1 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
20 pt
2 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
10 pt
3 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
10 pt
4 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
10 pt
5 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
10 pt
6 Domenico Pozzovivo
Israel - Premier Tech
8 pt
7 Mark Padun
EF Education-EasyPost
7 pt
8 Natnael Tesfatsion
Trek - Segafredo
6 pt
9 Rick Pluimers
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
6 pt
10 James Shaw
EF Education-EasyPost
5 pt
1 Marco Murgano
Team Corratec
23 pt
2 Didier Merchan
GW Shimano-Sidermec
21 pt
3 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia
GW Shimano-Sidermec
16 pt
4 Lennert Teugels
Bingoal WB
14 pt
5 Andrea Garosio
EOLO-Kometa
12 pt
6 Alessandro Fancellu
EOLO-Kometa
10 pt
7 Alexis Guerin
Bingoal WB
8 pt
8 Veljko Stojnić
Team Corratec
8 pt
9 Luca Covili
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
8 pt
10 Florian Lipowitz
BORA - hansgrohe
8 pt
11 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
5 pt
17 James Knox
Soudal - Quick Step
2 pt
1 Walter Calzoni
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
11:51:44
2 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
0:30
3 Sean Quinn
EF Education-EasyPost
0:49
4 Felix Engelhardt
Team Jayco AlUla
1:05
5 Leo Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
1:05
6 Tijmen Graat
Jumbo-Visma
1:05
7 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Jumbo-Visma
1:05
8 Fernando Tercero Lopez
EOLO-Kometa
1:13
9 Alex Martín Gutiérrez
EOLO-Kometa
2:00
10 Mathias Vacek
Trek - Segafredo
2:23
19 William Junior Lecerf
Soudal - Quick Step
19:56
23 Martin Svrček
Soudal - Quick Step
26:02
1 EF Education-EasyPost 35:35:27
2 Jumbo-Visma 2:12
3 Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè 5:05
4 Trek - Segafredo 6:37
5 EOLO-Kometa 6:43
6 BORA - hansgrohe 11:21
7 Israel - Premier Tech 11:22
8 Team Jayco AlUla 12:11
9 Bingoal WB 12:37
10 Soudal - Quick Step 12:52

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