Bagioli takes QuickStep's second breakthrough win of Catalunya

BARCELONA SPAIN MARCH 27 Andrea Bagioli of Italy and Team QuickStep Alpha Vinyl celebrates winning the stage on the podium ceremony after the 101st Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2022 Stage 7 a 1387km stage from Barcelona to Barcelona VoltaCatalunya101 WorldTour on March 27 2022 in Barcelona Spain Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo MorenoGetty Images
Andrea Bagioli (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) wins stage 7 victory in Montjuïc Park (Image credit: Gonzalo Arroyo MorenoGetty Images)

Just two days after Ethan Vernon (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) claimed his first win of his career in a bunch sprint  in the Volta a Catalunya, his Italian teammate Andrea Bagioli netted his own breakthrough debut victory at WorldTour level on the final stage in Barcelona.

As an amateur Bagioli was a winner of races as prestigious like the Ronde de l’Isard – which, he told Italian website Tuttobiciweb allowed him to get the call-up from his current Quick Step squad to turn pro in 2020 – and the Piccolo Giro di Lombardia. 

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Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.