Another aggressive day for Bardiani-CSF 7 Saber at the Giro d’Italia. In the third stage, from Plovdiv to Sofia, Manuele Tarozzi spent 170 kilometres in the breakaway alongside Alessandro Tonelli and Diego Pablo Sevilla, with the trio only being caught by the peloton in the final 400 metres.

The Italian rider attacked from the opening kilometres, animating the stage on Bulgarian roads and winning both the intermediate sprint in Dolna Banja and the Red Bull KM located 13 kilometres from the finish. The leading trio held an advantage close to four minutes for much of the day, resisting the work of the sprinters’ teams until the very end.

In the finale, despite the breakaway riders trying to increase the pace again after the Red Bull KM, the peloton only managed to catch them just before the finish line, setting up the final sprint in Sofia. Bardiani-CSF 7 Saber once again secured a solid result, with Enrico Zanoncello finishing tenth and Filippo Magli thirteenth. Stage victory went to French rider Paul Magnier.

RESULTS:

1.Paul Magnier (FRA/Soudal-Quick Step) – 4:09:42

2.Jonathan Milan (ITA/Lidl-Trek) – s.t.

3.Dylan Groenewegen (NED/Unibet Rose Rockets) – s.t.

4.Madis Mihkels (EST/EF Education-EasyPost) – s.t.

5.Matteo Malucelli (ITA/XDS-Astana) – s.t.

6.Erlend Blikra (NOR/Uno-X Mobility) – s.t.

7.Pascal Ackermann (GER/Jayco-AlUla) – s.t.

8.Davide Ballerini (ITA/XDS-Astana) – s.t.

9.Tobias Lund Andresen (DAN/Decathlon-CMA CGM) – s.t.

10.Enrico Zanoncello (ITA/Bardiani-CSF-7Saber) – s.t.