Christian Scaroni concludes the 197-kilometer Romagna Tour with his fifth seasonal victory. The Astana XDS rider crossed the finish line in Castrocaro solo, leaving Ivan Cobo (Kern Pharma) 50" behind and his teammate Simone Velasco 1'33" back, who led the chasing group and secured the podium spot ahead of Christen (Q36.5), Brambilla, and Pinarello. Garibbo, who had initially attacked with Scaroni but then had to surrender to the Brescia rider's pace, finished with an honorable eighth place.

THE RACE - After about ten kilometers from the start, with attacks and counter-attacks, five riders broke away: Kevin Pezzo Rosola (General Store - Essegibi - F.Lli Curia), Riccardo Archetti (Team Technipes #inEmiliaRomagna), Leonardo Meccia (Team Technipes #inEmiliaRomagna), Marco Merola (Sam - Vitalcare - Dynatek) and Matteo Baseggio (S.C. Padovani Polo Cherry Bank). Pedaling by mutual agreement, the leading group managed to build a lead of over 4'00", but upon entering the Castrocaro circuit, the peloton strongly reacted and halved the deficit. On the first climb to Le Volture di Romagna, Marco Merola lost contact and was quickly caught by the group.

As kilometers passed, Leonardo Meccia also lost the wheels of the breakaway, and the peloton, driven by XDS Astana and Q36.5, approached the escapees whose fate was now sealed: Baseggio and Archetti were caught, soon after Pezzo Rosola, and the group came back together 67 kilometers from the finish. Badilatti took the fourth mountain prize of the day.

Q36.5 was the protagonist at this stage of the race: Brescia rider Walter Calzoni gained courage and attacked. His advantage was initially just a handful of seconds but approaching the new passage near the finish line, it grew to over a minute.

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FINAL STANDINGS

1 Scaroni Christian XDS Astana Team 04:42:03

2 Cobo Iván Equipo Kern Pharma 00:51

3 Velasco Simone XDS Astana Team 01:33

4 Christen Fabio Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team ,,

5 Brambilla Gianluca Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team ,,

6 Pinarello Alessandro VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè ,,

7 Iribar Unai Equipo Kern Pharma ,,

8 Garibbo Nicolò Team UKYO ,,

9 Okamika Ander Burgos Burpellet BH ,,

10 Tercero Fernando Team Polti VisitMalta ,,