CRO Race 2022

Fellow Italians Sacha Modolo (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane) and Mirco Maestri (EOLO-Kometa) claimed second and third respectively in the 223 kilometre stage. Milan's ...

As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters. 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. He would finish the stage in the same time as MIlan and so remains an overall contender. However the Slovenian’s advantage never quite stretched far enough on the flatter segment that followed. No less than four domestiques, headed by 2021 Giro d’Italia runner-up Gianpaolo Caruso, strung things out notably on the upper part of the ascent. [Jonathan Milan](https://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/jonathan-milan/) of [Bahrain Victorious ](https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/teams/uci-worldtour/2022/bahrain-victorious/)won the rain-soaked stage 1 of the [CRO Race ](https://www.cyclingnews.com/cro-race/)from Osijek to Ludbreg in Croatia, the 21-year-old Italian using his powerful late acceleration to take a small bunch sprint by several bike lengths.