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06/10/2019

CRO Race. Stage 6. Davide Villella finishes 2nd overall, Astana wins the team classification

The sixth stage of 2019 CRO Race finished today in Zagreb after 154 km of racing. The victory at the final stage was played from the day breakaway with late attack of Italian rider Alessandro Fideli, who managed to make it to the finish.

After six stages Italian rider of Astana Pro Team Davide Villlella finished the race at the second place of general classification, 22 seconds behind the overall winner Adam Yates from Great Britain, Spanish Víctor de la Parte concluded the final podium. Kazakh rider Andrey Zeits took final fourth place.

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06/10/2019

Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli. Hugo Houle animates the race with late attack

Being part of a seven-man-breakaway in today’s final, Hugo Houle showed the team colors at the Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli, the second Italian classic of this weekend. But he and the other escapees got reeled in during the final local lap, and another breakaway was created without any Astana riders. This group made it to the finish line, with Sonny Colbrelli being the fastest rider of the select group, taking the win just in front of Alejandro Valverde and Jack Haig. Davide Ballerini was the first Astana rider to finish in the second group.

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05/10/2019

CRO Race. Stage 5. Davide Villella is second at queen stage, Vadim Pronskiy takes white jersey

The CRO Race reached its decisive phase with the queen 5th stage of the race to the top of the first category climb in Platak. Astana Pro Team did a solid and aggressive race, while Davide Villella was able to finish second, just 10 seconds behind the stage winner Adam Yates. Another Astana’s rider Andrey Zeits was 7th, while team’s trainee Vadim Pronskiy took the white jersey of the best young rider.

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05/10/2019

Giro dell’Emilia. Jakob Fuglsang is 8th atop Madonna di San Luca

The famous one-day race Giro dell’Emilia in Bologna has opened the final week of the Italian classic races, which will end next Saturday with the last monumental race of the season Il Lombardia.

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04/10/2019

CRO Race. Stage 4. Yevgeniy Gidich still leads the general classification before the queen stage tomorrow

Fourth stage of CRO Race finished today with another massive sprint in Gorski Kotar after 155 km of racing.

Kazakh rider of Astana Pro Team Yevgeniy Gidich finished 9^th, behind of stage winner Dušan Rajović from Serbia, and keeps the red jersey of the general classification leader.