Sam Bennett ha vinto la prima edizione della Race Torquay, corsa australiana di categoria 1.1 che fa da ponte tra il Tour Down Under e la Cadel Evans Road Race in programma domenica prossima.

L’irlandese della Deceuninck Quick Step, perfettamente pilotato da quel maestro che è Michael Morkov, ha battuto in volata Giacomo Nizzolo e Alberto Dainese. Per il brianzolo sul palco anche la curiosa soddisfazione di sentirsi fare gli auguri di buon compleanno (oggi sono 31) dallo speaker e dai tanti tifosi assieparti.

La corsa è stata animata dalla fuga di Daryl Impey e di Dries Devenyns che hanno pedalato per lunghissimi chilometri con una manciata di secondi di vantaggio sul gruppo. Fatale per loro il grande lavoro delle squadre dei velocisti, in particolare quello della Cofidis.

ORDINE D'ARRIVO

1 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:01:26
2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:00:00
3 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb 0:00:00
4 Kaden Groves (Aus) Mitchelton - Scott 0:00:00
5 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00:00
6 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:00
7 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:00
8 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:00
9 Roger Kluge (GER) Lotto Soudal 0:00:00
10 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis 0:00:00
11 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:00
12 Marco Haller (AUT) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00:00
13 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Esp) CCC Team 0:00:00
14 Erik Baska (Svk) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:00:00
15 Nicholas White (Aus) Team BridgeLane 0:00:00
16 Martin Laas (Est) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:00:00
17 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:00
18 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:00
19 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis 0:00:00
20 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:00:00
21 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:00
22 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:07
23 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team 0:00:09
24 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:09
25 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) CCC Team 0:00:09
26 Benjamin Hill (Aus) Team BridgeLane 0:00:09
27 Samuel Jenner (Aus) Team BridgeLane 0:00:11
28 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00:11
29 Hermann Pernsteiner (AUT) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00:11
30 Elliot Schultz (Aus) Nazionale Australia 0:00:11
31 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:11
32 Godfrey Slattery (Aus) Nazionale Australia 0:00:11
33 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:11
34 Danilo Wyss (SUI) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:00:11
35 Michel Ries (Lux) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:11
36 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:11
37 Kilian Frankiny (SUI) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:11
38 Carter Turnbull (Aus) Nazionale Australia 0:00:11
39 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:00:11
40 Juraj Sagan (Svk) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:00:11
41 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) CCC Team 0:00:11
42 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:11
43 Max Kanter (GER) Team Sunweb 0:00:11
44 André Greipel (GER) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:11
45 Kenneth Vanbilsen (Bel) Cofidis 0:00:11
46 Shane Archbold (NZl) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00:11
47 Juan Pedro Lopez Perez (Esp) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:21
48 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:21
49 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:21
50 Simon Geschke (GER) CCC Team 0:00:21
51 Tom Scully (NZl) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:24
52 Michael Schwarzmann (GER) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:00:24
53 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:26
54 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton - Scott 0:00:26
55 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton - Scott 0:00:26
56 Fabian Lienhard (SUI) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:26
57 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos 0:00:26
58 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Cofidis 0:00:29
59 Dion Smith (NZl) Mitchelton - Scott 0:00:29
60 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00:33
61 Santiago Buitrago Sanchez (Col) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00:35
62 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:38
63 Rick Zabel (GER) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00:41
64 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama - FDJ 0:00:49
65 Jonas Rutsch (GER) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:52
66 Florian Stork (GER) Team Sunweb 0:00:52
67 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:52
68 Alastair Christie-Johnston (Aus) Team BridgeLane 0:00:52
69 Koen De Kort (Ned) Trek - Segafredo 0:00:52
70 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:52
71 Ayden Toovey (Aus) Team BridgeLane 0:00:52
72 Thomas Benton (Aus) Nazionale Australia 0:00:52
73 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:52
74 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:52
75 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00:52
76 Stefan De Bod (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:00:54
77 Lachlan Morton (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:54
78 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00:54
79 João Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:01:03
80 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:01:03
81 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Ineos 0:01:06
82 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:09
83 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton - Scott 0:01:24
84 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 0:01:24
85 Samuele Battistella (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:01:42
86 Ide Schelling (Ned) Bora - Hansgrohe 0:01:42
87 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:02:23
88 Mihkel Räim (Est) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:02:35
89 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Lotto Soudal 0:02:35
90 Christopher Lawless (GBr) Team Ineos 0:03:26
91 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:03:38
92 Rasmus Tiller (Nor) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:04:56
93 Blake Quick (Aus) Nazionale Australia 0:05:43
94 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:06:06
95 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis 0:08:19
96 Josef Cerný (Cze) CCC Team 0:08:19
97 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton - Scott 0:08:19
98 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:08:21
99 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling Team 0:08:22
DNF Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step
DNF Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal
DNF Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Matthew Holmes (GBr) Lotto Soudal
DNF Samuel Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton - Scott
DNF Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain - McLaren
DNF Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
DNF Mickaël Delage (Fra) Groupama - FDJ
DNF Alex Dowsett (GBr) Israel Start-Up Nation
DNF Mathias Le Turnier (Fra) Cofidis
DNF Marco Mathis (GER) Cofidis
DNF Jensen Plowright (Aus) Team BridgeLane
DNF Steele Von Hoff (Aus) Nazionale Australia
DNF Conor Leahy (Aus) Nazionale Australia
DNS Tyler Lindorff (Aus) Team BridgeLane