Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Merida) took the win in the pre-race Criterium at the Adriatica Ionica Race in Venice. The German out-paced Alvaro Hodeg (Deceuninck-Quick Step) with Sep Vanmarcke (EF-Education First) in third.
"My team worked smoothly," Bauhaus said. "We were on time to take the leading positions in the bunch, so I picked Hodeg's wheel and overtook him eventually. It's my very first victory with Team Bahrain after a tough race."
Deceuninck-Quickstep rode an aggressive race, controlling a five-man breakaway with Kristian Sbaragli (Dimension Data), Aaron Van Poucke (Sport Vlaanderen), Enrico Barbin (Bardiani-CSF), Alex Kirsch (Trek-Segafredo) and Sjoerd Van Ginneken (Rompoot-Charles), only allowing the escapees 30 seconds lead before bringing them back with 12 laps to go.
"We decided to push the pace from the very beginning and we did, but I wasn't so brilliant at the end. I will try again tomorrow or in the final stage in Trieste," Hodeg said.
The Adriatica Ionica Race continues on Thursday with a 186km stage from Favaro Veneto to Grado with 23km of dirt roads to shake up the GC.
Full Results
| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain-Merida | 1:43:36 |
| 2 | Alvaro Hodeg (Col) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| 3 | Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First | |
| 4 | Davide Martinelli (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| 5 | Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First | |
| 6 | Boy van Poppel (Ned) Roompot-Charles | |
| 7 | Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| 8 | Roberto Ferrari (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 9 | Rui Oliveira (Por) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 10 | Florian Senechal (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| 11 | Jordi Warlop (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 12 | Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team | |
| 13 | Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana Pro Team | |
| 14 | Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| 15 | Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| 16 | Simone Velasco (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| 17 | Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data | |
| 18 | Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| 19 | Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Italy | |
| 20 | Matteo Malucelli (Ita) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 0:00:09 |
| 21 | Matteo Busato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| 22 | Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| 23 | Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Bardiani CSF | 0:00:11 |
| 24 | Mattia Bais (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | |
| 25 | Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data | |
| 26 | Marco Canola (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| 27 | Markel Irizar (Spa) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 28 | Rasmus Fossum Tiller (Nor) Dimension Data | |
| 29 | Julius van den Berg (Ned) EF Education First | |
| 30 | Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 31 | Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida | |
| 32 | Nicolas dalla Valle (Ita) Italy | |
| 33 | Alberto Dainese (Ita) Italy | |
| 34 | Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain-Merida | 0:00:20 |
| 35 | Giovanni Aleotti (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | 0:00:35 |
| 36 | Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo | 0:00:52 |
| 37 | Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida | 0:00:56 |
| 38 | Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy | 0:00:57 |
| 39 | Davide Bais (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | |
| 40 | Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Dimension Data | 0:01:29 |
| 41 | Eduard Prades (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| 42 | Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| 43 | Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Movistar Team | |
| 44 | Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| 45 | Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo | |
| 46 | Manuele Mori (Ita) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 47 | Enrico Barbin (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| 48 | Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates | |
| 49 | Mathias De Witte (Bel) Roompot-Charles | 0:01:47 |
| 50 | Aaron Verwilst (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| 51 | Danilo Wyss (Swi) Dimension Data | |
| 52 | Charles Planet (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Yevgeniy Gidich (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Yuriy Natarov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team | |
| DNF | Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain-Merida | |
| DNF | Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida | |
| DNF | Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida | |
| DNF | James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| DNF | Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep | |
| DNF | Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Education First | |
| DNF | Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First | |
| DNF | Moreno Hofland (Ned) EF Education First | |
| DNF | James Whelan (Aus) EF Education First | |
| DNF | Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Daniele Bennati (Ita) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team | |
| DNF | Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data | |
| DNF | Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data | |
| DNF | Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo | |
| DNF | Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo | |
| DNF | Alex Frame (NZl) Trek-Segafredo | |
| DNF | Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo | |
| DNF | Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE Team Emirates | |
| DNF | Rory Sutherland (Aus) UAE Team Emirates | |
| DNF | Michele Gazzoli (Ita) Italy | |
| DNF | Gregorio Ferri (Ita) Italy | |
| DNF | Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Italy | |
| DNF | Emanuele Barison (Ita) Italy | |
| DNF | Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| DNF | Miguel Eduardo Florez Lopez (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| DNF | Fausto Masnada (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| DNF | Daniel Muñoz Giraldo (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| DNF | Kevin Rivera Serrano (CRc) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | |
| DNF | Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| DNF | Michael Bresciani (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| DNF | Alessandro Pessot (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| DNF | Daniel Savini (Ita) Bardiani CSF | |
| DNF | Alan Banaszek (Pol) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| DNF | Xavier Cañellas Sanchez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| DNF | Mauricio Moreira (Uru) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| DNF | Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| DNF | Joel Nicolau Beltran (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | |
| DNF | Matteo Badilatti (Swi) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Conor Dunne (Irl) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Nathan Earle (Aus) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Guy Sagiv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy | |
| DNF | Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Sebastian Schönberger (Aut) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Roberto González (Pan) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Etienne van Empel (Ned) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Dayer Quintana (Col) Neri Sottoli–Selle Italia–KTM | |
| DNF | Joan Bou Company (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| DNF | Filippo Zaccanti (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| DNF | Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| DNF | Ivan Santaromita (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane | |
| DNF | Pieter Weening (Ned) Roompot-Charles | |
| DNF | Arjen Livyns (Bel) Roompot-Charles | |
| DNF | Sjoerd van Ginneken (Ned) Roompot-Charles | |
| DNF | Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Roompot-Charles | |
| DNF | Jesper Asselman (Ned) Roompot-Charles | |
| DNF | Christophe Noppe (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| DNF | Thomas Sprengers (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| DNF | Aaron Van Poucke (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| DNF | Thimo Willems (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| DNF | Mathias Van Gompel (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | |
| DNF | Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Umberto Poli (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Péter Kusztor (Hun) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Oliver Behringer (Swi) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Sam Brand (GBr) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | David Lozano Riba (Spa) Team Novo Nordisk | |
| DNF | Emanuele Amadio (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | |
| DNF | Jonathan Milan (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | |
| DNF | Massimo Orlandi (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli | |
| DNF | Nicola Venchiarutti (Ita) Cycling Team Friuli |
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