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Juan Ayuso (UAE Staff Emirates-XRG) secured the general victory at Tirreno-Adriatico, ending safely within the peloton on the ultimate stage in San Benedetto del Tronto.
He beat Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) to the well-known trident trophy by 35 seconds after the Italian scored three bonus seconds on the day’s intermediate dash following arduous work by his crew to carry the early break again early.
Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious) rounded out the general podium, dropping two seconds and one place to Ganna after ending third on the dash. He ended up 36 seconds down on Ayuso.
Stage honours for the seventh day on the Race of the Two Seas have been taken by Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) because the peloton raced residence for one last bunch dash. The Italian sprinted from 200 metres out after a powerful lead out from Simone Consonni.
Milan headed off a late burst by Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), whereas Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) rounded out the rostrum behind the main duo.
Additional again, a multi-rider crash took out a number of hopefuls, together with Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), and Gijs Leemreize (Picnic-PostNL).
“I’m completely happy to get this second victory. I’ve to say at all times because of my teammates. They did an ideal lead out. It was a bit robust within the climb the place I’ve to say I suffered a bit, however we made it by to the end line. We’re completely happy,” Milan stated after the stage.
“I additionally need to say that I’m sorry that Jasper crashed within the last. It’s a very dangerous crash that occurred in the previous few hundred metres. I hope no-one is de facto dangerous.
“However, all-in-all, for me it was a very good Tirreno. I’m actually completely happy that we achieved the second victory after the crash that I had some days in the past. Additionally, in these final two days it wasn’t tremendous straightforward for me on the climbs, so I’m completely happy.”
The way it unfolded
Following Saturday’s Queen stage, the ultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico can be one suited to the sprinters, taking the peloton 147km from Porto Potenza Picena to the normal end city of San Benedetto del Tronto.
The day would carry only one climb, the 8.4km, 4.7% hill at Ripatransone after 57km, whereas a lot of the rest of the stage can be taken up by 5 laps of the pan-flat 14.6km ending circuit.
It might take 10km after the flag dropping for the break of the day to type, with Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) driving the transfer away from the peloton.
The previous World Champion can be joined out entrance by Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Accommodations), Lucas Hamilton (Ineos Grenadiers), Bjoern Koerdt (Picnic-PostNL), and mountain classification chief Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè).
Ineos Grenadiers settled into work on the head of the peloton, whereas up the street, the five-man break raced to a 1:40 lead. The British crew, doubtless eyeing bonus seconds for Filippo Ganna on the day’s intermediate dash, ramped up the tempo on the method to Ripatransone, bringing the hole down below 30 seconds because the race hit the climb.
The arduous tempo noticed a lot of the break introduced again with 96km left to run, although Van der Poel battled on solo with 6km of the climb remaining. He wouldn’t final to the highest, nevertheless, because the Ineos-led peloton dragged him again at 92km to go.
The peloton rolled excessive massed all collectively, with Ineos nonetheless main the best way and 46.4km to race till the group hit the intermediate dash. Off the rear, sprinters together with Olav Kooij and Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) battled to get again on after getting dropped on the climb.
Ineos continued to guide down the descent and onto the ending circuit, bringing the peloton to the intermediate dash. There, the crew’s ploy earlier pair off, with their lead-out delivering Ganna to first place for 3 bonus seconds.
Jonathan Milan took second place, leaving Ganna’s GC rival Antonio Tiberi in third with one bonus second and boosting Ganna up into second place total.
From there, the main target turned to the ending dash – one reserved for the specialists somewhat than a battle for seconds among the many GC contenders. Groups together with Uno-X Mobility, Visma-Lease a Bike, Jayco-AlUla, Israel-Premier Tech, Soudal-QuickStep and Lidl-Trek all flowed to the entrance through the closing circuits, battling for place forward of the ultimate kilometres.
There can be nobody crew in management as soon as the peloton received there, nevertheless. Jayco-AlUla regarded probably the most organised at 2km to go along with three males in entrance of Dylan Groenewegen.
Ganna got here again to the entrance in time for the ultimate kilometre, placing in a single final massive effort for the week. He peeled off to go away Consonni and Milan main by the ultimate chicane and onto the ending straight.
Groupama-FDJ have been among the many groups making an attempt to maneuver up with the US crew, whereas Uno-X and Tudor battled for the spot on Milan’s wheel. Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech) launched the dash on the right-hand facet of the street, however Consonni took discover and pulled off to let Milan hearth.
Tord Gudmestad was developing and round Stewart along with his Decathlon AG2R teammate Bennett in his wheel, but it surely wasn’t to be for the Irishman as Milan had sufficient in his legs to carry off the late problem and win once more, taking the factors classification within the course of.
Outcomes
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