Quick-Step Floors’ Elia Viviani sprinted to victory on the 152.5km second stage of the Adriatica Ionica Race in Italy today.
The Italian completed the stage in 3:49:09, beating UAE Team Emirates’ Simone Consonni (Italy) and Israel Cycling Academy’s Mihkel Räim (Estonia) in a bunch sprint.
Quick-Step Floors’ Elia Viviani sprinted to victory on the 152.5km second stage of the Adriatica Ionica Race. Photo: Tour Down Under/John Veage
With the victory, Viviani took the race lead, 10 seconds clear from teammate Niki Terpstra (Netherlands) and 18 seconds ahead of compatriot UAE Team Emirates’ Simone Consonni in third.
View more results below.
Stage two
1. Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 3:49:09
2. Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
3. Mihkel Räim (Est) Israel Cycling Academy
4. Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
5. Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani-CSF
6. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
7. Simone Velasco (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia
8. Sergey Shilov (Rus) Gazprom-RusVelo
9. Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
10. Paolo Toto (Ita) Sangemini-MG.Kvis
*Selected
55. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
76. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data
77. Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
88. Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
General classification
1. Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 4:14:28
2. Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors +0:10
3. Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates +0:18
4. Edward Ravasi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates +0:24
5. Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
6. Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
7. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo +0:26
8. Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
9. Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
10. Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo +0:29
*Selected
45. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data +2:13
66. Jay Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data +3:47
67. Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
73. Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data +4:25
