Tre Valli Varesine 2019 [LAST 20 KM]

October 8, 2019

Tre Valli Varesine 2019 – Saronno – Varese : 197,8 km

The Tre Valli Varesine is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Varese, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually the first and most important race of Trittico Lombardo, which consists of three races held around the region of Lombardy on three consecutive days.

Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) capitalised on his late season form with victory in Tre Valli Varesine. The Vuelta a Espana winner attacked with 500m to go after Luis León Sánchez’s (Astana) late move was nullified with just under a kilometer to go.

There was no response when Roglič immediately countered, with the Slovenian finishing clear of Giovanni Visconti and last year’s winner Toms Skujinš to take his second win in three days after claiming the Giro dell’Emilia last weekend.

The race was overshadowed when a chase group were sent the wrong way on the finishing circuit as they clawed back time Sánchez with just over 10km to go. The group contained a host of pre-race favourites including Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), Davide Formolo (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Daniel Martin (UAE Team Emirates), but by the time they had realized the error and turned back it was too late, with the main field replacing them as Sánchez’s closest rivals on the road.

The controversy didn’t stop there with Sánchez forced to bunny hop a traffic island after a moto and race vehicle inexplicably blocked the road soon after. The Astana rider survived the incident and bravely hung on before vicious accelerations from Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) and Gianni Moscon (Team Ineos) finally brought him to heel.

Latour, Moscon and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) were quickly joined by Roglič, but the Vuelta winner used his momentum, and his obvious form, to draw out an insurmountable lead. By the time Fuglsang began to give a half-hearted chase Roglič was sitting up to celebrate his late season form and ahead of this weekend’s Il Lombardia he looks like the rider to beat.

“Again I’m happy with the finish and that I won. The team did again a great job controlling the race for me from the very beginning. And then in the end I was lucky with the guys who went the wrong way,” the Jumbo Visma rider said at the finish.

“It’s amazing. Like I said in the Giro dell’Emilia. I’m just enjoying it. It would be nice to go on holiday but we have Lombardia. We’ll see about that race. I’m relaxed and I’m enjoying things. We’ll see how it goes.”

How it unfolded

Michael Gogl (Trek-Segafredo), Umberto Marengo (Neri Sottoli), Jose Herrada (Cofidis), and Davide Ballerini (Astana) formed the day’s main break, but on a newly devised finishing circuit Herrada was the first to yield on the third ascent of the Via Montello climb.

Marengo was the next rider to lose contact as the peloton increased their pace and the break began to splinter further. Only Gogl and Ballerini and remained with 40km to go, but soon enough Ballerini was alone as David Gaudu (FDJ) attacked from the peloton and brought George Bennett and a string of riders with him.

By the time Ballerini was caught the new lead group contained Gaudo, Rudy Mollard (FDJ), Diego Ulissi, Dan Martin (UAE Team Emirates), Eddie Dunbar (Team Ineos), Bennett, Sanchez (Astana), Michael Woods (EF Education First), Formolo, Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida), Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb), and Mathias Frank (A2GR La Mondiale).

The group held the main field at 28 seconds, but on the Montello climb Sanchez took flight as Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team struggled to remain on terms. By the time the Dutch squad had brought the chase group to within sight, Sanchez had established a near 40-second lead but the race changed dramatically when Formolo followed a race moto through the wrong turn at a roundabout.

The move cost him and his companions the chance to compete for the win but left Team Ineos and Jumbo-Visma with numbers to play in the final.

With Fuglsang marking everything in sight, Sanchez looked on course to take the win but he buckled in the last two kilometres after an excellent stint on the front from Salvatore Puccio.

When Latour and then Moscon accelerated, it looked as though Fuglsang would have the measure of both riders as he loomed on their shoulders, but Roglic – the last rider to make contact in the four-man move – dove past the trio before soloing to another win.

Results :
1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:40:46
2 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm 0:00:03
3 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo
4 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
5 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) Ef Education First
6 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
7 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
8 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Ineos
9 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
10 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
11 Pierre Latour (Fra) Ag2r la Mondiale
12 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar Team
13 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) Ag2r la Mondiale
14 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Bardiani Csf
15 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Biesse Carrera
17 Tanel Kangert (Est) Ef Education First
18 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Ineos
19 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana pro Team
20 Mattia Bais (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli Asd
21 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb
22 Hugh John Carthy (GBr) Ef Education First 0:00:33
23 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana pro Team 0:00:45
24 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos 0:00:54
25 Jonathan Lastra Martinez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga 0:01:35
26 Simone Velasco (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm
27 Miguel Eduardo Florez Lopez (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
28 Eduard Prades Reverter (Spa) Movistar Team
29 Simone Petilli (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
30 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga
31 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
32 Clement Champoussin (Fra) Ag2r la Mondiale 0:01:38
33 Sebastian Schoenberger (Aut) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm 0:01:46
34 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
35 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:02:40
36 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
37 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-Fdj
38 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
39 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
40 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
41 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
42 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana pro Team
43 Nathan Brown (USA) Ef Education First
44 Jan Polanc (Slo) Uae Team Emirates
45 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Uae Team Emirates 0:04:13
46 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:04:58
47 Davide Gabburo (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm
48 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:19
49 Simon Clarke (Aus) Ef Education First
50 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
51 Francois Bidard (Fra) Ag2r la Mondiale
52 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-Fdj 0:07:15
53 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
54 Mikael Cherel (Fra) Ag2r la Mondiale
55 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-Fdj
56 Alexander Aranburu Deba (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga
57 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida
58 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
59 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
60 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-Fdj
61 Daniel Martin (Irl) Uae Team Emirates
62 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:07:32
63 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga 0:08:20
64 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
65 Francesco Romano (Ita) Bardiani Csf
66 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm
67 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga
68 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm
69 Ben Gastauer (Lux) Ag2r la Mondiale
70 Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (Eri) Team Dimension Data
71 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Ineos
72 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
73 Danilo Wyss (Swi) Team Dimension Data
74 Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-Fdj
75 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
76 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
77 Marco Canola (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
78 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Movistar Team
79 Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Col) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Michael Gogl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo
DNF Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Ineos
DNF Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
DNF Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team
DNF Jaime Castrillo Zapater (Spa) Movistar Team
DNF Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team
DNF Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
DNF Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
DNF Laurens De Plus (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma
DNF Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
DNF Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida
DNF Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana pro Team
DNF Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana pro Team
DNF Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana pro Team
DNF Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana pro Team
DNF Valerio Conti (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
DNF Manuele Mori (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
DNF Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) Uae Team Emirates
DNF Mathias Frank (Swi) Ag2r la Mondiale
DNF Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Brent Van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal
DNF Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
DNF Martin Alexander Salmon (Ger) Team Sunweb
DNF William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-Fdj
DNF Sebastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-Fdj
DNF Sean Bennett (USA) Ef Education First
DNF Michael Woods (Can) Ef Education First
DNF Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Dimension Data
DNF Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Team Dimension Data
DNF Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Team Dimension Data
DNF Gino Mader (Swi) Team Dimension Data
DNF Jon Irisarri Ricon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga
DNF Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros Rga
DNF Awet Andemeskel (Eri) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Nathan Earle (Aus) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Ruben Plaza (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy
DNF Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani Csf
DNF Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani Csf
DNF Luca Covili (Ita) Bardiani Csf
DNF Umberto Orsini (Ita) Bardiani Csf
DNF Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Bardiani Csf
DNF Jhon Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Col) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNF Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNF Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNF Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
DNF Artem Nych (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Petr Rikunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Aleksei Rybalkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Evgeny Shalunov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Sergei Shilov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
DNF Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
DNF Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
DNF Mattia Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
DNF Umberto Marengo (Ita) Neri Sottoli Selle Italia Ktm
DNF Ruben Dario Acosta Ospina (Col) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Joan Bou Company (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Nicola Bagioli (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Hideto Nakane (Jpn) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Alejandro Osorio Carvajal (Col) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Filippo Zaccanti (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane’
DNF Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Cycling Academy