Covi claims narrow Giro del Veneto win in reduced sprint
The Italian took his tenth career victory and his first in 18 months, beating Anthon Charmig and Benoît Cosnefroy.
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Alessandro Covi (Jayco AlUla) won the 89th Giro del Veneto in Vicenza, taking the sprint from a reduced group after 167.9km from Verona.
Charmig (Uno-X Mobility) was second and Cosnefroy (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) third, with Fabio Christen fourth and Christian Scaroni fifth.
Eight riders went clear after 30km, with Tommaso Nencini (Solution Tech NIPPO Rali), Francesco Carollo and Giacomo Garavaglia (both Swatt Club), Kevin Pezzo Rosola and Thomas Rossetti (both General Store), Leonardo Volpato (Campana Imballaggi), and Riccardo Lorello and Andrea Scarso (S.C. Padovani) establishing a buffer over the peloton.
Scarso was dropped and caught with 76km remaining, with Nencini and Pezzo Rosola distanced with 53km to go. The move was over with 44km left, as UAE Team Emirates-XRG had taken taken up the chase through António Morgado and Pavel Sivakov.
Andrea Pietrobon (Polti VisitMalta) attacked from the peloton inside the last 40km, but his move was snuffed out not long afterwards.
The race was decided over five ascents of Monte Berico (1.1km at 6.9%). Brandon McNulty attacked twice in the finale, first with Jonas Abrahamsen, Christian Scaroni and Fabio Christen with 14km to go, and again 4km later.
In between, Christen had tried to press clear with Marc Hirschi, and he went again with 6km to go. Sergio Samitier countered, but the move was caught with McNulty controlling on the front for UAE and Cosnefroy.
It all came down to a kick inside the last metres, with Covi hanging on after his well-timed kick to the line ahead of Charmig.
Race result: 2026 Giro del Veneto
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