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Hamburg - Hamburg, 216.4 km

Elia Viviani (left, green shoulders) races Arnaud Démare for the line.

The race: Here's the report from winner Elia Viviani's Quick-Step team.

Elia Viviani took his first success in the national champion jersey at the 23rd EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg, where he became just the second rider in history to win the one-day race twice. Just like in 2017, Viviani outsprinted Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) after jumping from the Frenchman's wheel where he was left following a long and impressive lead out of a strong Quick-Step Floors delegation consisting of Michael Mørkøv and Fabio Sabatini, in a hectic finale disrupted by a crash occurred with 1500 meters to go.

"I was second in the Cadel Evans Race, Gent-Wevelgem and RideLondon, so to finally win a World Tour one-day race this year feels incredible. It's also my first victory in the beautiful maglia tricolore, which is something special that I will remember for the rest of my life", a delighted Elia said after netting Quick-Step Floors' 55th success of the season.

The 216.4km-long race was animated until the last 20 kilometers by a five-man breakaway group which took off minutes after the start, only to get reeled in before the third and final ascent of the 400m Waseberg hill, whose 10% average gradients were used by some riders as springboard in a desperate attempt to foil the sprinters' plans, only for the teams of the peloton's fast men to dully control the gap and nullify the move inside the last six kilometers.

Davide Martinelli, Michael Mørkøv and Fabio Sabatini formed a high-speed lead-out train for Elia Viviani, drilling the pace at the front from three kilometers to go and stretching the reduced bunch as they kept their leader in a good position, from which the Italian capitalized on Quick-Step Floors' excellent work, taking a dominant victory ahead of Demare and Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates).

"The team did again a perfect and impressive job: Iljo pulled the entire day, in his first race since June, then we had Rémi and Kasper for the hilly part of the race, where they kept things together, before Davide, Michael and Saba took over. We studied the closing part of the race yesterday evening and knew we had to be in the front for the last three kilometers, which were really technical. It's a pleasure to be part of this team, the best in the world, and I feel really luck to be a member of the Wolfpack", said Elia, before taking us through the last kilometer.

"With 400 meters left, I was on Demare's wheel, who had Guarnieri in front of him, and that was the best position to find myself in. All that I had to do was to wait for the best moment to launch my sprint and power past my opponent, and this was inside the last 150 meters, 50 meters later than in 2017. Getting this victory bodes well before flying to Spain next week for La Vuelta", concluded the 29-year-old Italian, who tops the individual win classification this season, with 15 victories to his name.

Complete results:

216.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.396 km/hr

1	VIVIANI Elia	Quick-Step Floors	4hr 46min 1sec
2	DÉMARE Arnaud	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
3	KRISTOFF Alexander	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
4	DEGENKOLB John	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
5	TRENTIN Matteo	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
6	NIZZOLO Giacomo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
7	MODOLO Sacha	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
8	ARNDT Nikias	Team Sunweb	s.t.
9	BONIFAZIO Niccolo	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
10	SAGAN Peter	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	ROELANDTS Jürgen	BMC	s.t.
12	CONSONNI Simone	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
13	TLEUBAYEV Ruslan	Astana	s.t.
14	DE BUYST Jasper	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
15	ROJAS José Joaquín	Movistar	s.t.
16	KOCH Jonas	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
17	GOŁAŚ Michał	Sky	s.t.
18	DE WITTE Mathias	Veranda's Willems-Crelan	s.t.
19	BENOOT Tiesj	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
20	GUARNIERI Jacopo	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
21	HOLLENSTEIN Reto	Katusha-Alpecin	@ 5sec
22	LIVYNS Arjen	Veranda's Willems-Crelan	s.t.
23	GREIPEL André	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
24	SABATINI Fabio	Quick-Step Floors	0:11
25	MØRKØV Michael	Quick-Step Floors	0:13
26	BURGHARDT Marcus	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
27	POLITT Nils	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
28	MEZGEC Luka	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
29	PORSEV Alexander	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
30	BERHANE Natnael	Dimension Data	s.t.
31	FRANCZAK Paweł	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	0:19
32	THOMSON Jay Robert	Dimension Data	0:21
33	CHÉREL Mickaël	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
34	RESTREPO Jhonatan	Katusha-Alpecin	s.t.
35	NYCH Artem	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
36	IMPEY Daryl	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
37	BAKELANTS Jan	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
38	PETERS Nans	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
39	BATTAGLIN Enrico	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
40	ROSSKOPF Joey	BMC	s.t.
41	GIDICH Yevgeniy	Astana	s.t.
42	JAUREGUI Quentin	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
43	PALUTA Michał	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
44	SHILOV Sergey	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
45	BAK Lars Ytting	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
46	BARBERO Carlos	Movistar	s.t.
47	VERVAEKE Louis	Team Sunweb	s.t.
48	KOREN Kristijan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
49	OWSIAN Łukasz	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
50	BOHLI Tom	BMC	s.t.
51	DE TIER Floris	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
52	STANNARD Ian	Sky	s.t.
53	BOEV Igor	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
54	CHEVRIER Clément	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
55	SIEBERG Marcel	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
56	GASTAUER Ben	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
57	GERRANS Simon	BMC	s.t.
58	ZEITS Andrey	Astana	s.t.
59	KOZONTCHUK Dmitry	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
60	BOOKWALTER Brent	BMC	0:28
61	SINKELDAM Ramon	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
62	DE KORT Koen	Trek-Segafredo	0:32
63	RAST Gregory	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
64	DAVIES Scott	Dimension Data	s.t.
65	TRATNIK Jan	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
66	GARCIA Ivan	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
67	COLBRELLI Sonny	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
68	TOLHOEK Antwan	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
69	MARCATO Marco	UAE-Team Emirates	0:45
70	GONÇALVES José	Katusha-Alpecin	0:47
71	KNEES Christian	Sky	s.t.
72	HANSEN Adam	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
73	DE MARCHI Alessandro	BMC	s.t.
74	LÓPEZ David	Sky	s.t.
75	ROWE Luke	Sky	s.t.
76	MORTON Lachlan	Dimension Data	s.t.
77	LE GAC Olivier	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
78	DUIJN Huub	Veranda's Willems-Crelan	s.t.
79	TEUNS Dylan	BMC	s.t.
80	BIZHIGITOV Zhandos	Astana	s.t.
81	BOLE Grega	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
82	HOFSTEDE Lennard	Team Sunweb	s.t.
83	ALBASINI Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
84	TROIA Oliviero	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
85	O'CONNOR Ben	Dimension Data	s.t.
86	HINDLEY Jai	Team Sunweb	s.t.
87	MEYER Cameron	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
88	PEDRERO Antonio	Movistar	0:58
89	SCHILLINGER Andreas	Bora-hansgrohe	1:01
90	STORER Michael	Team Sunweb	1:22
91	BONO Matteo	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
92	MARTINELLI Davide	Quick-Step Floors	1:31
93	BENEDETTI Cesare	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
94	FERRARI Roberto	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
95	VAN POPPEL Danny	LottoNL-Jumbo	1:35
96	KOZHATAYEV Bakhtiyar	Astana	1:40
97	REIJNEN Kiel	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
98	BAUER Jack	Mitchelton-Scott	1:58
99	ASGREEN Kasper	Quick-Step Floors	2:07
100	DUCHESNE Antoine	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
101	LUTSENKO Alexey	Astana	2:19
102	ACKERMANN Pascal	Bora-hansgrohe	2:49
103	SCHWARZMANN Michael	Bora-hansgrohe	3:19
104	FIRSANOV Sergey	Gazprom-RusVelo	4:15
105	GODRIE Stan	Veranda's Willems-Crelan	s.t.
106	CLARKE William	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
107	SOLER Marc	Movistar	s.t.
108	MAGNUSSON Kim	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
109	VENTER Jaco	Dimension Data	4:21
110	CLARKE Simon	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
111	RENSHAW Mark	Dimension Data	s.t.
112	DOCKER Mitchell	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
113	MCLAY Daniel	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
114	VAN BREUSSEGEM Elias	Veranda's Willems-Crelan	5:32
115	AGNOLI Valerio	Bahrain-Merida	s.t.
116	FRÖHLINGER Johannes	Team Sunweb	s.t.
117	ANACONA Winner	Movistar	6:35
118	FERNÁNDEZ Rubén	Movistar	s.t.
119	GRADEK Kamil	CCC Sprandi Polkowice	s.t.
120	MOSER Moreno	Astana	s.t.
121	DEIGNAN Philip	Sky	s.t.
122	WAGNER Robert	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
123	POLJANSKI Pawel	Bora-hansgrohe	6:42
124	BONNET William	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
125	ARMIRAIL Bruno	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
126	HEPBURN Michael	Mitchelton-Scott	10:23
127	SUTHERLAND Rory	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
128	LEEZER Tom	LottoNL-Jumbo	s.t.
129	HOFLAND Moreno	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
130	ALAFACI Eugenio	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
131	CRADDOCK Lawson	EF Education First-Drapac	s.t.
132	CAVAGNA Rémi	Quick-Step Floors	s.t.
133	SHALUNOV Evgeny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
134	VENTURINI Clément	Ag2r La Mondiale	12:26

Course map:

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Start list with back numbers, August 18, 2018:

	QUICK-STEP FLOORS
1	VIVIANI Elia
2	CAVAGNA Rémi
3	ASGREEN Kasper
4	KEISSE Iljo
5	MARTINELLI Davide
6	MORKOV Michael
7	SABATINI Fabio
	AG2R LA MONDIALE
11	BAKELANTS Jan
12	CHEREL Mickaël
13	CHEVRIER Clement
14	GASTAUER Ben
15	JAUREGUI Quentin
16	PETERS Nans
17	VENTURINI Clément
	ASTANA
21	LUTSENKO Alexey
22	KOZHATAYEV Bakhtiyar
23	GIDICH Yevgeniy
24	BIZHIGITOV Zhandos
25	TLEUBAYEV Ruslan
26	MOSER Moreno
27	ZEITS Andrey
	BAHRAIN-MERIDA
31	AGNOLI Valerio
32	BOLE Grega
33	BONIFAZIO Niccolo
34	COLBRELLI Sonny
35	GARCIA Ivan
36	KOREN Kristjan
37	NIBALI Antonio
	BMC
41	BOHLI Tom
42	BOOKWALTER Brent
43	DE MARCHI Alessandro
44	GERRANS Simon
45	ROELANDTS Jurgen
46	ROSSKOPF Joey
47	TEUNS Dylan
	BORA-HANSGROHE
51	ACKERMANN Pascal
52	BENEDETTI Cesare
53	BURGHARDT Marcus
54	POLJANSKI Pawel
55	SAGAN Peter
56	SCHILLINGER Andreas
57	SCHWARZMANN Michael
	GROUPAMA-FDJ
61	ARMIRAIL Bruno
62	DEMARE Arnaud
63	GUARNIERI Jacopo
64	LE GAC Olivier
65	BONNET William
66	DUCHESNE Antoine
67	SINKELDAM Ramon
	LOTTO-SOUDAL
71	BAK Lars Ytting
72	BENOOT Tiesj
73	GREIPEL André
74	HANSEN Adam
75	HOFLAND Moreno
76	SIEBERG Marcel
77	DE BUYST Jasper
	MITCHELTON-SCOTT
81	ALBASINI Michael
82	MEYER Cameron
83	TRENTIN Matteo
84	MEZGEC Luka
85	IMPEY Daryl
86	BAUER Jack
87	HEPBURN Michael
	MOVISTAR
91	ANACONA Winner Anrew
92	BARBERO Carlos
93	PEDRERO Antonio
94	VALLS Rafael
95	SOLER Marc
96	ROJAS Jose Joaquin
97	FERNANDEZ Rubén
	DIMENSION DATA
101	MORTON Lachlan David
102	RENSHAW Mark
103	O'CONNOR Ben Alexander
104	DAVIES Scott
105	THOMSON Jay Robert
106	VENTER Jacobus
107	BERHANE Natnael
	EF EDUCATION FIRST-DRAPAC
111	CLARKE Simon
112	CLARKE William
113	CRADDOCK Lawson
114	DOCKER Mitchell
115	MAGNUSSON Kim
116	MCLAY Daniel
117	MODOLO Sacha
	KATUSHA-ALPECIN
121	BELKOV Maxim
122	BIERMANS Jenthe
123	HOLLENSTEIN Reto
124	GONCALVES Jose
125	POLITT Nils
126	RESTREPO Jhonatan
127	SPILAK Simon
	LOTTO NL-JUMBO
131	BATTAGLIN Enrico
132	LEEZER Tom
133	LINDEMAN Bertjan
134	VAN POPPEL Danny
135	WAGNER Robert
136	DE TIER Floris
137	TOLHOEK Antwan
	TEAM SKY
141	GOLAS Michal
142	DEIGNAN Philip
143	INTXAUSTI Benat
144	KNEES Christian
145	LOPEZ GARCIA David
146	ROWE Luke
147	STANNARD Ian
	TEAM SUNWEB
151	ARNDT Nikias
152	VERVAEKE Louis
153	HINDLEY Jai
154	FROHLINGER Johannes
155	HOFSTEDE Lennard
155	STAMSNIJDER Tom
157	STORER Michael
	TREK-SEGAFREDO
161	ALAFACI Eugenio
162	DE KORT Koen
163	DEGENKOLB John
164	GOGL Michael
165	NIZZOLO Giacomo
166	RAST Grégory
167	REIJNEN Kiel
	UAE-TEAM EMIRATES
171	BONO Matteo
172	SUTHERLAND Rory
173	CONSONNI Simone
174	FERRARI Roberto
175	KRISTOFF Alexander
176	MARCATO Marco
177	TROIA Oliviero
	CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE
181	FRANCZAK Pawel
182	GRADEK Kamil
183	KOCH Jonas
184	KUMP Marko
185	OWSIAN Lukasz
186	PALUTA Michal
187	TRATNIK Jan
	GAZPROM-RUSVELO
191	PORSEV Alexander
192	NYCH Artem
193	KOZONTCHUK Dmitriy
194	FIRSANOV Serguei
195	SHALUNOV Evgeny
196	SHILOV Sergey
197	BOEV Igor
	VERANDA'S WILLEMS-CRELAN
201	DUYN Huub
202	DE WITTE Mathias
203	LIVYNS Arjen
204	VAN BREUSSEGEM Elias
205	GODRIE Stan