2021 Tirreno - Adriatico (World Tour), Italy

56th edition: March 10 - 16, 2021

Tirreno-Adriatico podium history | 2020 edition | 2022 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7

2021 Tirreno-Adriatico map. Total distance: 1,109.1 km. Average stage length: 138.6 km

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Tuesday, March 16: 7th & Final Stage, San Benedetto del Tronto 10.1 km individual time trial

Stage 7 map & profile | Stage 7 photos

Tadej Pogacar on his way to winning the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico. RCS photo

The Route: This is an individual time trial of 10.1 km, with a different route than previous years. Starting from the ‘Riviera delle Palme’ stadium, the stage takes the railway underpass and merges onto the ‘traditional’ route, in the opposite direction. After descending towards Porto d’Ascoli and arriving in Piazza Salvo d’Acquisto, the stage takes a U-turn and proceeds northbound along the sea. The route briefly takes the opposite roadway after km 6 of racing. Past the port, the course heads towards Grottammare, runs around the old stadium and then continues southbound, heading for the finish. The stage is largely played out on wide and straight tarmac roads.

Final Kilometres
The last 3 km run along wide and mainly straight roads, with many 90-degree turns. There is one last double bend 300 m before the finish line, which sits on 8m wide tarmac.

Weather at San Bendetto del Tronto at 12:45 PM, local time: 13C (56F), partly cloudy, with the wind frm the north at 16 km/hr (9 mph). There is a 25% chance of rain in the early afternoon, but as the day progresses, the forecast is for just a 1% - 8% chance of rain.

The race: The first rider off was last-place in the GC rider Attilio Viviani (Cofidis) at 1:00 PM, local time.

Here's the report from 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico winner Tadej Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates:

Tadej Pogačar put in a confident display to close out his victory in Tirreno-Adriatico. Having claimed a solo win at Prati di Tivo on stage 4 and taking the blue leaders jersey, the 22 year old put in a strong defence to extend his overall lead on stage 5.

With a buffer of 1’15’’ over his nearest rival Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) coming into the final day, the Slovenian time-trial champion knew he had to do a good performance to keep the lead on the 10km course around San Benedetto del Tronto.

The stage honours went to Van Aert with Pogačar coming in 4th, 12" behind the winner.

Along with the overall, Pogačar also takes the mountains classification and the award for the best young rider.

The win at Tirreno-Adriatico adds to Pogačar’s blistering start to the season: starting with his win at UAE Tour, where the squad also claimed the team classification. Pogačar will now take a short break before taking aim at the Tour of the Basque Country and the Ardennes classics.

Pogačar: “It’s been a hard week of racing. This is one of the most prestigious one-week races so I’m really happy to get the win. I felt the hard week in the legs today but I’m happy with my ride. Now I’ll take a rest and build up towards Basque Country.”

Complete results:

Stage 7 photos

10.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 54.595 km/hr

1	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	11min 6sec
2	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	@ 6sec
3	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 11sec
4	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	12
5	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	16
6	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	18
7	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	24
8	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	26
9	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	27
10	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	28
11	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	30
13	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	32
14	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	33
15	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	35
16	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	36
17	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
18	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
19	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	37
20	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
21	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	38
22	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	39
23	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	40
24	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
25	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	42
26	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
27	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	44
28	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
29	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	45
30	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	46
31	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
32	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	47
33	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
34	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	48
35	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
36	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
37	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	50
38	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
39	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
40	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	51
41	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
42	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	52
43	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
44	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
45	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
46	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
47	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
48	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
49	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	53
50	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	54
51	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
52	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	55
53	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
54	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
55	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
56	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
57	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	56
58	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
59	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	57
60	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
61	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
62	Marc Soler	Movistar	58
63	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	59
64	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
65	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
66	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	1:00
67	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	1:01
68	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
69	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:02
70	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
71	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:03
72	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
73	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	1:05
74	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
75	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
76	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
77	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	1:07
78	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
79	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	1:09
80	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	1:10
81	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	1:11
82	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	1:13
83	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	1:14
84	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	1:15
85	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
86	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	1:16
87	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
88	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	1:17
89	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
90	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
91	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	1:18
92	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
93	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	1:19
94	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	1:20
95	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
96	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	1:21
97	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
98	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:22
99	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
100	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
101	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
102	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
103	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
104	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:24
105	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
106	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
107	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:25
108	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	1:26
109	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	1:27
110	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	1:28
111	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	1:29
112	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
113	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:30
114	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	1:31
115	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
116	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
117	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
118	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	1:33
119	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	1:34
120	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
121	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	1:35
122	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	1:36
123	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:37
124	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
125	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
126	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	1:38
127	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
128	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
129	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
130	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
131	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:40
132	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
133	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
134	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
135	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:42
136	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
137	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	1:44
138	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
139	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	1:48
140	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
141	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	1:50
142	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
143	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
144	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	1:52
145	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
146	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:55
147	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	1:57
148	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
149	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:58
150	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	2:00
151	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	2:01
152	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	2:02
153	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:06
154	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:08
155	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	2:11
156	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:11
157	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:19
158	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	2:22
159	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	2:24

Final GC after stage 7:

• GC winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Mountains classification winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification winner: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Team classification winner: Astana-Premier Tech

1,109.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.688 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	26hr 36min 17sec
2	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	@ 1min 3sec
3	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	3:57
4	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	4:13
5	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	4:37
6	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:54
7	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	5:00
8	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	5:50
9	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	6:30
10	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	7:45
11	Marc Soler	Movistar	7:59
12	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	9:39
13	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	12:06
14	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	12:22
15	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	12:39
16	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	14:07
17	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	14:20
18	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	14:27
19	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	14:58
20	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	15:06
21	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	15:25
22	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	16:48
23	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	17:11
24	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	17:12
25	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	17:31
26	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	17:50
27	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	18:57
28	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	19:18
29	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	19:55
30	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	20:48
31	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	20:54
32	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	20:57
33	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	21:55
34	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	22:01
35	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	22:12
36	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	22:52
37	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	25:31
38	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	25:51
39	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	26:17
40	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	26:42
41	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	26:54
42	Davide Villella	Movistar	26:58
43	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	28:25
44	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	29:20
45	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	30:18
46	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	30:45
47	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	30:59
48	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	31:17
49	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	31:52
50	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	33:00
51	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	34:59
52	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	35:34
53	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	35:54
54	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	36:17
55	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	36:53
56	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	37:07
57	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	37:08
58	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	37:13
59	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	38:05
60	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	38:25
61	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	38:31
62	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	38:42
63	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:44
64	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	40:07
65	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	40:16
66	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	40:38
67	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	40:42
68	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	41:34
69	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	41:36
70	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	42:27
71	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	42:53
72	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	43:36
73	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	43:50
74	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	44:04
75	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	44:15
76	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	44:25
77	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	44:38
78	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	44:39
79	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	44:45
80	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	45:05
81	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	45:15
82	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	45:20
83	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	45:59
84	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	46:37
85	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	47:27
86	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	48:28
87	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	48:30
88	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	49:12
89	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	49:13
90	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	49:29
91	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	49:34
92	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	49:58
93	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	50:08
94	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	50:43
95	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	50:43
96	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	50:55
97	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	51:05
98	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	51:12
99	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	51:14
100	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	52:07
101	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	53:24
102	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	53:42
103	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	54:00
104	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	54:28
105	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	54:51
106	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	54:58
107	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	55:10
108	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	55:33
109	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	55:35
110	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	56:14
111	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	56:37
112	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	56:38
113	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	58:49
114	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	59:01
115	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	59:17
116	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	1:00:27
117	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:00:40
118	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	1:02:42
119	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	1:03:43
120	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	1:04:00
121	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	1:04:35
122	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	1:06:00
123	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:06:04
124	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	1:06:10
125	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
126	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	1:06:25
127	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:06:33
128	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	1:07:02
129	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:07:28
130	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	1:07:31
131	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	1:07:35
132	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:08:05
133	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	1:08:21
134	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	1:09:07
135	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	1:10:30
137	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:11:06
138	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:11:09
139	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	1:11:31
140	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	1:11:33
141	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	1:12:14
142	Albert Torres	Movistar	1:12:49
143	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	1:13:07
144	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:13:51
145	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	1:14:18
146	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	1:14:37
147	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	1:16:56
148	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:18:18
149	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	1:18:19
150	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	1:18:36
151	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	1:19:06
152	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:20:36
153	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	1:22:02
154	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	1:24:08
155	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	1:25:26
156	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	1:30:21
157	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	1:32:10
158	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	1:34:34
159	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	1:38:47

Stage 7 map & profile:

Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

Stage 7 photos

GC leader Tadej Pogacar checks out the course before the race start. RCS photo

Vincenzo Nibali was 36th in the time trial. Sirotti photo

Joao Almeida was 7th, at 24sec. Sirotti photo

World time trial champion Filippo Ganna was third, at 11sec. Sirotti photo

Stefan Küng was second in the stage, 6 seconds slower than winner Wout van Aert. Sirotti photo

Mikel Landa was 79th in the time trial, but finished third in the GC. Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar's 4th place in the time trial was good enough to make him the winner of the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico. Sirotti photo

Stage winner Wout van Aert looks perfect on a bike. Sirotti photo

Wout van Aert has just finished his ride. Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar just after finishing his ride. Sirotti photo

Stage winner Wout van Aert. Sirotti photo

The final GC podium, from left: Wout van Aert (2nd), Tadej Pogacar (1st) & Mikel Landa (3rd). Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar, winner of the 2021 Tirreno-Adriatico. Sirotti photo

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Monday, March 15: Stage 6, Castelreimondo - Lido di Fermo, 169 km

Stage 6 map & profile | Stage 6 photos

Mads Würtz Schmidt wins stage 6. RCS photo

The route: Wavy at first, the route then levels out and eventually takes an uncomplicated closing circuit (one large lap and 4 small laps). Upon reaching the Fermo area, the stage passes over the finish and takes the long lap, climbing all the way to Fermo, dropping towards Tre Archi and passing over the finish again.

Final Kilometres: Four short laps follow, featuring a brief ascent up the first kilometre of the Capodarco climb. The route then heads towards San Marco, eventually reaching the finish. The home straight is on flat tarmac (8.5 m wide).

Weather at the city of Fermo, near the finish, at 12:50 PM, local time: 12C (54F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 13 km/hr (8 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: The stage began st 12:14. There were three non starters: Timo Roosen (Jumbo-Visma), Ivan García (Movistar) and Michael Gogl (Qhubeka-Assos). That should leave 165 riders in the starting peloton.

Here's the organizer's stage six summary:

The pace today was fast all stage, averaging 47.2 kph for the first hour, and 45.7 kph for the first two, and 45.645 kph for all 3h42’09” of the stage, making it the fouth fastest in-line stage ever at Tirreno Adriatico. If you’ve ever made the mistake of starting your constitutional jog with an all-out sprint, and grinding rapidly to a halt, you will admire, as I do, the ability of the professional road racer to ride from flag drop at the better part odf 50 kph for 60 minutes, and still be racing hard four hours later.

Israel Start-Up Nation’s 26-year-old Dane, Mads Würtz Schmidt, showed his ability  do just that today, joining the first doomed breakaway of the day -with Nathan Van Hooydonck (TJV) and Ryan Mullen (TFS) at kilometre two – and then integrating another attack at kilometre 23 that, this time, got away, alongside Simone Velasco (GAZ), Jan Bakelants (IWG), Brent Van Moer (LTS), Nelson Oliveira (MOV) and Emīls Liepiņš (TFS). At km 24, they had a 30″ advantage. This grew to 1’50” at km 26, when the shape of the stage to come had been established. At km 29 the gap was 4’07”.

Now, most were expecting a bunch sprint today. One of the few who wasn’t was bunch sprinter Davide Ballerini, who said before the stage. “I think yesterday’s effort will still be in the legs for a lot of riders in the group, and today is not easy, either, with the climbs and the wind.”

The headline acts have put on a series of great shows here, but today they waited in the wings while one or two less well known talents occupied centre stage, Würtz Schmidt first among them.

Borrowing the mountain leader’s Maglia Verde from Tadej Pogačar, he took maximum points on the Monte San Giusto pimple after 62.km, to move into 2nd place in that competition, which was already mathematically secure on the race leader’s shoulders yesterday.

With 71 km to go, the gap was 5’20”. With 50 km to go, it was down to 3’54”. With 31 km to go, they led by 3’06” which meant that, if Chapatte’s famous theorem is right – that if a breakaway has one minute per 10 km remaining, it can stay away to the end – the stage was in the balance. With 20 km to go and the gap still at 2’45”, it was clear: one of the six breakaway riders was destined to win the stage. But which one? Logically, Trek – Segafredo’s Latvian sprinter Emīls Liepiņš, unless someone else could invent something on the final lap.

On the little climb up to San Marco delle Paludi, Oliveira accelerated to 530 Watts, according to the live data, distancing the Latvian. Würtz Schmidt then took over ensure it was definitive.

The problem now was the Oliveira (who has finished 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th in the Elite World time trial championships), Würtz Schmidt (junior and under-23 world time trial champion in 2011 and 2015, respectively) and Van Moer – 2nd in the Under-23 world  time trial championships in 2018 – seemed so similar in their abilities that they seemed to cancel each other out, even if the 1.91 m Van Moer towered over the others.

Bakelants led them under the flamme rouge, then pulled off, stranding Oliveira at the front. The Portuguese veteran gave Würtz Schmidt the perfect lead-out. Van Moer tore out of his slipstream and came alongside, but the Belgian weakened first, leaving Würtz Schmidt to claim his first WorldTour win, and his first in-line stage as a pro.

Born in 1994, the same year as his compatriot Søren Kragh Andersen, and a year before Mads Pedersen, Würtz Schmidt was eight years old when he started racing, and took on Søren and the other Mads in all the age categories. In 2012, on the Danish national team, they won almost every Nations’ Cup race, including the Jr Paris-Roubaix and the Peace Race in Czech Republic, won by Niklas Eg, with Søren Kragh second on GC. After 6 years without a win, he uttered a truth about professional sport in his post-stage interview when he said after the stage not that victory was a joy, but that it came as a huge relief.

On the final ramp, Filippo Ganna (IGD) dropped out of the back of the peloton. He fnished the stage 145th, more than 10 minutes after the stage winner. Resting his legs for another titanic effort in tomorrow’s traditional final 10 km TT?

As for the race leader’s jersey, it looks very safe indeed on Tadej Pogačar’s shoulders.

Complete results:

Stage 6 photos

169 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.645 km/hr

1	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	3hr 42min 9sec
2	Brent van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
3	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
4	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
5	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
6	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	@ 25sec
7	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	1:09
8	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
9	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
10	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
11	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
12	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
13	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
14	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
15	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
16	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
17	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
18	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
19	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
21	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
22	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
23	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
24	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
25	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
26	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
27	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
28	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
29	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
30	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
31	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
32	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
33	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
34	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
36	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
37	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
38	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
39	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
40	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
41	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
42	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
43	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
44	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
45	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
46	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
47	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
48	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
49	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
50	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
51	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
52	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
53	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
54	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
55	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
56	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
57	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
58	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
59	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
60	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
61	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
62	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
63	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
64	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
65	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
66	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
67	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
68	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
69	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
70	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
71	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
72	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
73	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
74	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
75	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
76	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
77	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
78	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
79	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
80	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
81	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
82	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
83	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
84	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
85	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
86	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
87	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
88	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
89	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
90	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
91	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
92	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
94	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
95	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
96	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
97	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
98	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
99	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
100	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
101	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
102	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
103	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
104	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
105	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
106	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	1:30
107	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	1:33
108	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	1:37
109	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	1:39
110	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:40
111	Nico Denz	Team DSM	1:46
112	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	1:46
113	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
114	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
115	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	1:52
116	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	2:11
117	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:50
118	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
119	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
120	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
121	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
122	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
123	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
124	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
125	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
126	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
127	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
128	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
129	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	2:53
130	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
131	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
132	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
133	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	3:09
134	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	3:13
135	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
136	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	3:25
137	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	3:32
138	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	4:32
139	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	5:39
140	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
141	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
142	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	10:08
143	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
144	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
145	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
146	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
147	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	10:31
148	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
149	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
150	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
151	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
152	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
153	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
154	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
155	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
156	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	12:01
157	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
158	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
159	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
160	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
161	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
162	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
163	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
164	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.

GC after stage 6:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Mountains classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Team classification leader: Astana Premier Tech

1,099 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.629 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	26hr 24min 59sec
2	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	@ 1min 15sec
3	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	3:00
4	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	3:30
5	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	3:54
6	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	4:30
7	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:42
8	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	5:03
9	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	5:54
10	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	6:58
11	Marc Soler	Movistar	7:13
12	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	8:46
13	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	11:26
14	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	11:55
15	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	12:15
16	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	13:08
17	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	13:34
18	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	13:40
19	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	14:16
20	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	14:23
21	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	14:41
22	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	15:36
23	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	15:49
24	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	16:27
25	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	16:48
26	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	16:56
27	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	17:59
28	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	18:43
29	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	18:54
30	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	19:44
31	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	20:08
32	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	20:20
33	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	21:06
34	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	21:21
35	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	21:27
36	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	21:42
37	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	24:51
38	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	25:10
39	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	25:25
40	Davide Villella	Movistar	25:32
41	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	25:41
42	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	26:03
43	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	28:01
44	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	28:02
45	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	29:27
46	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	29:31
47	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	29:49
48	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	29:57
49	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	30:57
50	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	32:09
51	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	32:25
52	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	34:27
53	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	34:44
54	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	34:55
55	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	35:43
56	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	35:46
57	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	36:23
58	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	36:25
59	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	36:59
60	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	37:43
61	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	37:47
62	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	37:58
63	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	37:59
64	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	38:01
65	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	38:45
66	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	39:23
67	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:30
68	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:48
69	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	40:10
70	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	41:10
71	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	41:26
72	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	42:34
73	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	42:53
74	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	42:54
75	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	42:57
76	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	43:07
77	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	43:13
78	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	43:15
79	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	43:34
80	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	43:49
81	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	43:56
82	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	44:05
83	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	44:21
84	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	44:22
85	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	45:57
86	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	46:31
87	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	47:17
88	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	47:27
89	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	47:48
90	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	48:03
91	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	48:10
92	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	48:38
93	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	48:56
94	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	49:15
95	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	49:17
96	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	49:34
97	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	49:47
98	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	50:10
99	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	50:20
100	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	50:56
101	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	51:31
102	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	52:02
103	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	52:46
104	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	52:49
105	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	53:22
106	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	53:23
107	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	54:19
108	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	54:25
109	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	54:30
110	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	54:33
111	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	54:43
112	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	55:04
113	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	55:31
114	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	55:35
115	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	57:24
116	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	57:56
117	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	57:58
118	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	58:36
119	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	59:08
120	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	59:15
121	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	1:01:23
122	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	1:02:11
123	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	1:02:20
124	Max Kanter	Team DSM	1:02:57
125	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	1:03:14
126	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:04:34
127	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:04:36
128	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	1:05:05
129	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:05:15
130	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	1:05:16
131	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	1:05:25
132	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:05:29
133	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	1:05:39
134	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	1:05:55
135	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	1:06:17
136	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:06:22
137	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	1:06:32
138	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	1:07:31
139	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	1:07:51
140	Nico Denz	Team DSM	1:08:18
141	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:09:10
142	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	1:09:45
143	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:10:03
144	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	1:10:23
145	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	1:10:49
146	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	1:11:15
147	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	1:11:43
148	Albert Torres	Movistar	1:11:56
149	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	1:13:14
150	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:13:31
151	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	1:14:16
152	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	1:15:51
153	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:16:24
154	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	1:17:08
155	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	1:17:36
156	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	1:18:26
157	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:18:58
158	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	1:20:34
159	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	1:22:59
160	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	1:24:00
161	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	1:29:04
162	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	1:31:07
163	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	1:32:22
164	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	1:36:57

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

Stage 6 photos:

Opening ceremonies. Androni Gicaottoli is presented before the stage start. Sirotti photo

Mikel Landa before the race. Sirotti photo

World champion Julian Alaphilippe grabs his bike. Sirotti photo

It's time to race. RSA photo

Headed to the coast.

More than 160 riders still in the race.

Cruising along the beach. Race leader Tadej Pogacar is staying near the front with several teammates close by. Sirotti photo

Another shot of the peloton racing along the coast. Sirotti photo

Stefan Küng tries to get away. Sirotti photo

Here they come...

Mads Würtz Schmidt wins stage 6. Sirotti photo

Stage winner Mads Würtz Schmidt. Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar remains the GC leader. Sirotti photo

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Sunday, March 14: Stage 5, Castellalto - Castelfidardo, 205 km

Stage 5 map & profile | Stage 5 photos

Mathieu van der Poel wins stage 5. RCS photo

The route: This stage takes a long ride up the Adriatic coast before tackling a tough finale. Starting in Castellalto, the route descends across the urban centre, all the way to the valley floor. The first 100 km are raced on wide and straight roads, mainly along the coast. Upon reaching Castelfidardo, the route takes a first pass through the Selva della Battaglia and then enters the closing circuit, to be covered 4 times. The circuit (approx. 23 km) is a succession of climbs and descents, with just one short flat stretch, roughly halfway. The first ‘wall’ (where KOM points will be awarded upon each pass) has gradients of around 18% over long stretches in the final part.

The final kilometres undulate continuously, with two-figure uphill gradients past San Rocchetto. The last kilometre across urban Castelfidardo is fairly complex, as the route rises steadily and markedly all the way to the home straight, on tarmac road.

Weather at the finish city of Castelfidardo at 12:40 PM, local time: 14C (58C), light rain, with the wind from the west at 13 km/hr (8 mph). Intermittent rain should continue through the afternoon.

The race: The stage began at 11:12 AM.

Here's the organizer's stage 5 summary:

Before the stage, Wout Van Aert said words to the effect of, “If I’m going to win this race, every stage is important, but this is the hardest.” Tadej Pogačar’s mantra was “Gain as much time as possible on Van Aert before the final time trial.” No one spoke to Mathieu Van Der Poel (AFC) about his GC plans, for the simple reason that yesterday’s stage left him 64th at 20’24”. But he was the powerbroker, and the way he interpreted the role today will keep cycling fans talking for years. 

Peter Sagan, by the way, 148th in GC, joked, “Really, I don’t know what I’m doing here!” He was referring to his recent bout of Covid-19, and his consequent lack of condition. But perhaps it was important he was here. After all, he won a very similar stage in 2013 – stage six, Porto Sant’Elpidio-Porto Sant’Elpidio (209 km), the second half of racing took place in heavy rain, over two circuits with repeated climbs of the demanding “muri” with gradients of 27%. They cost Chris Froome the race lead that day. He never got it back.

If that stage is little remembered, today’s well be talked about decades from now as the expression of three fundamental principals – of life, of liberty, and the vigorous pursuit of Mathieu Van Der Poel.

It was a stage in three parts. Part one lasted 45 km, until the breakaway formed. Continuous attacks and counterattacks pushed the average up to an eye-watering 57.4 kph for the first 30 minutes. The five riders who finally stole away were Filippo Ganna, Davide Ballerini, Pello Bilbao, Robert Stannard and Jonas Rickaert. Even so, the average speed for the first hour was 55 kph. Their lead reached a maximum of 4’30” before the peloton reacted. Even so, the catch came early, with 56.5 km still to ride.

The hilly final circuit, 23.6 km long, started at Crocetta, with 99.3 km to go. Each of the four laps held three forbidding ramps in store. Van Der Poel was already taking his first turn at the front ten kilometres before the catch. Egan Bernal was more circumspect. With 56.1 km go to, on the climb before Crucetta, he darted away, quickly joined by Higuita, Pogacar, Van der Poel and Van Aert. As the group gelled, Van Der Poel seemed to be doing the lion’s share of the work at the front. However, the stage took a bizarre turn when Van Der Poel, descending, and with an energy bar or something similar in his mouth,  opened a gap, then rode away. Astonishing.

The other four were quickly joined by about 20 chasers. With 50 km left, Pogačar took a left hand bend too wide and shipped his chain. He need a push off by a spectator, and a chase to get back into the group. Meanwhile, Mathieu Van Der Poel’s advantage grew and grew, from 40" with 44 km to go, and 53" with 42 km to go, up to 2’13” with 29 km left and 3’20” with 18 km still to ride.

At that point, he seemed assured of an extraordinary showpiece victory.

That was before Pogačar darted out of the main chasing group. He bridged across to a trio of riders with no interest in GC – Felline, Soler and De Marchi – then set off alone, perhaps in search of nothing more than a few more seconds’ advantage over his GC rival Van Aert. In the first 3 km of his attack, he gained on 5 seconds on the Flying Dutchman. It could even have been statistical error in the satellite timing mechanism.

Then the gap began to collapse. In the next five kilometres, he gained 13 seconds per kilometre, reducing Van Der Poel’s lead from 3’15” to 2’10”. However, then, the gap began to fall. In the next five kilometres, he gained 13 seconds per kilometre, reducing Van Der Poel’s lead from 3’15” to 2’10”. One of the most compelling pursuit races many of us have ever seen was under way.

From 10 to 5 km to go, Pogačar made up 52 more seconds, just over 10″ per kilometre. In the next 2.5 km, it was 12" per kilometre.

That left a gap of 48 seconds with 2.5 km to go. He gained 20 seconds in the next 500m, which left a gap of 28 seconds 2 km to go. He gained 6 seconds over the next 500m, and 6 seconds over the 500m after that, which left a gap of 16 seconds with 1 km to go. With 500m remaining, the gap was still 13 seconds. Running on vabour, Van Der Poel had been holding something back. It was enough to win the stage by 10 seconds.

If, yesterday, Tadej gave us a masterclass in gap management, today, Mattieu Van Der Poel offered us the opposite. His inspired madness kept us all on the edge of our seats. Meanwhile, a few days ago, some were wondering if Wout Van Aert, third today, albeit at 49″, could win every stage here. Now Tadej Pogačar looks utterly dominant. What else is this unforgettable Tirreno Adriatico going to serve up? Whatever it is, four people are certain to be involved: Bernal, Van Aert, Van Der Poel and Tadej Pogačar.

Complete results:

Stage 5 photos

205 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.666 km/hr

1	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	4hr 48min 17sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	@ 10sec
3	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	@ 49sec
4	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	1:26
5	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	2:07
6	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
7	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	2:18
8	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
9	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	2:25
10	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	2:45
11	Marc Soler	Movistar	3:31
12	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	3:37
13	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	3:39
14	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
15	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
16	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	3:51
17	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:00
18	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	4:17
19	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
20	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	4:20
21	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	5:02
22	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	8:08
23	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	8:54
24	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	9:39
25	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
26	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	11:10
27	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
28	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
29	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
30	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	11:36
31	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	11:45
32	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	13:49
33	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
34	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
35	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
36	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
37	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
38	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
40	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
41	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
42	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
43	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
44	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
45	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
46	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
47	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
48	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
49	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
50	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
51	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
52	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
54	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
56	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
58	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
59	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
60	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
61	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
63	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
64	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
65	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
66	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	13:53
67	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
68	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
69	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	14:09
70	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
71	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	15:59
72	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
73	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
74	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	16:02
75	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
76	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
77	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
78	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
79	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	16:58
80	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	17:07
81	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	19:32
82	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
83	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
84	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	19:34
86	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
87	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	21:10
88	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
89	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
90	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
91	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
92	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
93	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
94	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
95	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	22:41
96	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
97	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
98	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
99	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
100	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
101	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
102	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
103	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
104	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
105	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
106	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
107	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
108	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	24:56
109	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
110	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
111	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	s.t.
112	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
113	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
114	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
115	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
116	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
117	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
118	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
119	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
120	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
121	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
122	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
123	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
124	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
125	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
126	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
127	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
128	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
129	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
130	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
131	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
132	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	s.t.
133	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
134	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
135	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	27:53
136	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
137	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
138	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
139	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
140	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	s.t.
141	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
142	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
143	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
144	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
145	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
146	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
147	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
148	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
149	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
150	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
151	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
152	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
153	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
154	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
155	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
156	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
157	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
158	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
159	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
160	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	s.t.
161	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
162	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
163	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
164	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
165	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
166	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
167	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
168	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	s.t.

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Mountains classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Team Classification leader: Astana-Premier Tech

930 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.979 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	22hr 41min 41sec
2	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	@ 1min 12sec
3	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	3:00
4	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	3:30
5	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	3:54
6	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	4:30
7	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:42
8	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	5:03
9	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	5:54
10	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	6:58
11	Marc Soler	Movistar	7:13
12	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	8:46
13	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	11:26
14	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	11:55
15	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	12:15
16	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	13:08
17	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	13:34
18	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	13:40
19	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	14:16
20	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	14:23
21	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	14:41
22	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	14:49
23	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	15:15
24	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	15:36
25	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	15:49
26	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	16:27
27	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	16:48
28	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	17:59
29	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	18:43
30	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	18:54
31	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	19:44
32	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	20:08
33	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	20:20
34	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	20:29
35	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	21:21
36	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	21:27
37	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	21:42
38	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	24:22
39	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	24:51
40	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	25:10
41	Davide Villella	Movistar	25:32
42	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	25:45
43	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	26:34
44	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	28:02
45	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	28:08
46	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	28:25
47	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	29:27
48	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	29:31
49	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	29:57
50	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	30:28
51	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	30:57
52	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	32:25
53	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	32:55
54	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	33:55
55	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	34:27
56	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	34:42
57	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	34:44
58	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	35:43
59	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	35:46
60	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	36:20
61	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	36:25
62	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	36:59
63	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	37:43
64	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	37:58
65	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	37:59
66	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	38:45
67	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	39:23
68	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:30
69	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	40:10
70	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	41:09
71	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	41:26
72	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	42:15
73	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	42:19
74	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	42:34
75	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	42:53
76	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	42:57
77	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	43:07
78	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	43:13
79	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	43:15
80	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	43:34
81	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	43:49
82	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	44:05
83	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	44:21
84	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	44:22
85	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	45:31
86	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	45:41
87	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	45:54
88	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	45:57
89	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	46:22
90	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	46:26
91	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	46:34
92	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	46:47
93	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	47:17
94	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	47:27
95	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	47:48
96	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	48:10
97	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	49:15
98	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	49:17
99	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	49:34
100	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	49:43
101	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	49:47
102	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	50:12
103	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	51:08
104	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	51:31
105	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	51:41
106	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	52:02
107	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	52:15
108	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	52:46
109	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	53:23
110	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	53:52
111	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	53:54
112	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	54:33
113	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	54:37
114	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	54:43
115	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	55:01
116	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	55:12
117	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	55:14
118	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	55:43
119	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	56:12
120	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	56:17
121	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	57:24
122	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	57:58
123	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	58:12
124	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	58:32
125	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	58:47
126	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	59:11
127	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	59:15
128	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	59:31
129	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	1hr 0min 27sec
130	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	1:01:23
131	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	1:02:20
132	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	1:02:21
133	Max Kanter	Team DSM	1:02:57
134	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:03:59
135	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	1:04:23
136	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:04:34
137	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	1:05:15
138	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:05:15
139	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	1:05:16
140	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	1:05:17
141	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	1:05:39
142	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	1:05:55
143	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	1:06:16
144	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	1:06:17
145	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	1:06:32
146	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:07:02
147	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	1:07:08
148	Albert Torres	Movistar	1:07:26
149	Nico Denz	Team DSM	1:07:41
150	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:08:06
151	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	1:08:14
152	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	1:08:15
153	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:08:19
154	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	1:09:04
155	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:09:10
156	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	1:09:31
157	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	1:10:49
158	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	1:11:33
159	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	1:11:35
160	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	1:12:07
161	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:13:00
162	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:13:44
163	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	1:14:38
164	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	1:15:51
165	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	1:18:12
166	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	1:20:15
167	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	1:26:05
168	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	1:31:54

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Map of the final circuit, to be ridden four times

Stage 5 profile

Stage 5 photos:

Race leader Tadej Pogacar waits for the stage start. Sirotti photo

Peter Sagan. Sirotti photo

Mathieu van der Poel before the stage start. Sirotti phot

The riders begin the stage. Note the warm clothing the race director is wearing. RCS photo

Race leader Tadej Pogacar trying to stay out of trouble. Sirotti photo

Mathieu van der Poel with 15 kilometers to go. RCS photo

Lovely day for a bike race in sunny Italy. The peloton is doing one of the final circuits. Sirotti photo

Mathieu van der Poel wins the stage. Sirotti photo

Race leader Tadej Pogacar finished 10 seconds after Van der Poel. Sirotti photo

Van der Poel just after the stage. Sirotti photo

Stage winner Mathieu van der Poel. Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar will start stage 6 in the race leader's blue jersey. Sirotti photo

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Saturday, March 13: Stage 4, Terni - Prati di Tivo, 148 km

Stage 4 map & profile | Stage 4 photos

Tadej Pogacar wins the stage.

The route: Culminating in a summit finish, this short but challenging stage will take the peloton to the highest altitude (1,450 m) at the Prati di Tivo KOM. After climbing up to Forca di Arrone, the route reaches the Piana Reatina, passes through Rieti, tackles the Sella di Corno climb, and then takes a long descent to the outskirts of L’Aquila. After Passo Capannelle (‘Superior’ category summit), a long descent (approx. 30 km) follows. The roads are ever-bending, with two well-lit tunnels along the route. The last 14 km rise steadily towards the ski resort.

The closing climb (14.5 km) has a 7% average gradient (with peaks topping out at 12%) and 22 hairpin bends. The slopes are sharper in the first part, touching the steepest gradients in Pietracamela, where the intermediate sprint is set. The final three kilometres have a steady 7% pitch. The home straight (approx. 200 m) is on 7 m wide tarmac.

Weather at the town of Pietracamela, near the finish at 1:40 PM, local time: 12C (53F), fair, with the wind from the west at 11 km/hr (7 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: 170 riders began the stage at 12:05. Not starting: Manuel Beletti (Eolo-Kometa).

Here's the race summary from 2nd place Simon Yates' Team BikeExchange:

Defending champion Simon Yates took his chances in the final of today’s summit finish stage in Tirreno-Adriatico, chasing down a late attack by Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Team Emirates), before having to settle for a bittersweet second place.

The Brit began clawing his way up to Pogacar in what was a nail-biting finale but was caught short, with the line coming too soon, leaving the the 28-year-old to resign to second place, just six seconds behind the new race leader Pogacar.

The action packed final 10kilometres saw multiple general classification favourites launching attacks one after the other but Yates bided his time in the group, ‘playing the game’ before picking his moment to go in pursuit of the sole leader.

In the end, Pogacar proved to be the strongest and smartest on the day, successfully holding off the chase to take the stage honours.

Simon Yates – 2nd stage 4:
“It was good today; I am off GC so we were only going for the stage. I tried to play the game, I tried to get other GC guys to bring back any gaps, bring back any guys that were trying to get away and in the end the mistake was trying to play the game for too long as Pogacar he was gone.

“I tried to go across and close the gap a little bit, but he was already long gone, I didn’t really get any time on him after the initial acceleration. It was tough to win the stage, but the sensations are good, so I am feeling quite happy.

“I am off the GC from stage two, but that is racing, sometimes you make mistakes, and I will make more in the future don’t worry. We will see how tomorrow goes now."

Matt White – Head Sport Director:
“Very pleasing signs today. We came here as part of our preparation for the Giro d’Italia and what we saw was a very impressive climb from Simon. Not quite good enough to catch Pogacar but at the end of the day this is Simon’s first race of the season."

Complete Results:

Stage 4 photos

148 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.375 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	3hr 51min 24sec
2	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	@ 6sec
3	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	29
4	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
5	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	31
6	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	35
7	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	42
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
9	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	45
10	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
11	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	58
12	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	1:17
14	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	1:27
15	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
17	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:44
18	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	2:05
19	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	2:06
20	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	3:03
21	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
22	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
23	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
24	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	3:47
25	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	4:00
26	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	4:03
27	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	4:03
28	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
29	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
30	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:19
31	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
32	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:41
33	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
34	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	4:58
35	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
36	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	5:14
37	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:43
38	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
39	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
40	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
41	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	6:24
42	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	6:55
43	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	7:04
44	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	7:31
45	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	8:46
46	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
47	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	8:55
48	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
49	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	9:40
50	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
51	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
52	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
53	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	10:22
54	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
55	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	10:53
56	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
57	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
58	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	11:31
59	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	14:19
60	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
61	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
62	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
63	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
64	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
65	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
66	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
67	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
68	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
69	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
70	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	15:00
71	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
72	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
73	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	15:46
74	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
75	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
76	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
77	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
78	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
79	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
80	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
81	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
82	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
83	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
84	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
85	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
86	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
87	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
88	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	17:29
89	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	17:35
90	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
91	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
92	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
93	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
94	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
95	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
96	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
97	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
98	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
99	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
100	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
101	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
102	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	20:30
103	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
104	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
105	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
106	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
107	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
108	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
109	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
110	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
111	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
112	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	21:23
113	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
114	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	21:31
115	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	22:53
116	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
117	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
118	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
119	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
120	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
121	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
122	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
123	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
124	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
125	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
126	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
127	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
128	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
129	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
130	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	s.t.
131	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
132	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
133	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
134	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
135	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
136	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
137	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	s.t.
138	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
139	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
140	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
141	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
142	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
143	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
144	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
145	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
146	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
147	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
148	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
149	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
150	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
151	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
152	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
153	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
154	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
155	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
156	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
157	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
158	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
159	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
160	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
161	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
162	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
163	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
164	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
165	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
166	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
167	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	s.t.
168	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	24:28
169	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
170	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Mountains classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

725 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.527 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	17hr 53min 21sec
2	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	@ 35sec
3	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
4	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	38
5	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	41
6	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	45
7	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	55
8	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	1:03
9	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	1:12
10	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	1:25
11	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	1:26
12	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	1:27
13	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	1:37
14	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:44
15	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	1:59
16	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	2:15
17	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	2:27
18	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	2:41
19	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	3:24
20	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	3:32
21	Marc Soler	Movistar	3:45
22	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	4:13
23	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:29
24	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	4:42
25	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	4:57
26	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	5:08
27	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	5:31
28	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	5:58
29	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	6:04
30	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	6:43
31	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	7:01
32	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	7:12
33	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	7:38
34	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	8:30
35	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	8:56
36	Davide Villella	Movistar	9:33
37	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	9:34
38	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	10:32
39	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	10:49
40	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	11:05
41	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	11:25
42	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	11:48
43	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	12:12
44	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	13:05
45	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	14:16
46	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	15:01
47	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	15:03
48	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	15:25
49	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	15:45
50	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	16:06
51	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	16:11
52	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	16:15
53	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	16:16
54	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	16:38
55	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	17:45
56	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
57	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	18:16
58	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	18:39
59	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	18:41
60	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	18:56
61	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	19:03
62	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	20:05
63	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	20:19
64	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	20:24
65	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	20:35
66	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	20:56
67	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
68	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	21:41
69	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
70	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	22:00
71	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
72	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	22:09
73	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	22:39
74	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	23:03
75	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	23:13
76	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	23:14
77	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	23:37
78	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	23:57
79	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	24:12
80	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	24:50
81	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	25:24
82	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	25:33
83	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	25:44
84	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	26:04
85	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	26:38
86	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	26:47
87	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	26:48
88	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	27:08
89	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	27:09
90	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	27:16
91	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	27:24
92	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	27:40
93	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	28:22
94	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	28:29
95	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	28:30
96	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	28:40
97	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	28:48
98	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	30:05
99	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	30:36
100	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	30:41
101	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	30:57
102	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	31:14
103	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	31:25
104	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	31:45
105	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	31:55
106	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	32:08
107	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	32:11
108	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
109	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	32:31
110	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	32:36
111	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	32:40
112	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	32:46
113	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	33:05
114	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	33:11
115	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	33:19
116	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	33:41
118	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	34:02
119	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	34:18
120	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	34:30
121	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	34:31
122	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	34:38
123	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	35:31
124	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	36:33
125	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	36:51
126	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	37:25
127	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	37:26
128	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	37:49
129	Max Kanter	Team DSM	38:04
130	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	38:45
131	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	39:00
132	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	39:02
133	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	39:03
134	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	39:12
135	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	39:41
136	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	40:16
137	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	40:21
138	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	40:22
139	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	40:24
140	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
141	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	40:25
142	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	40:29
143	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	40:37
144	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	40:42
145	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	40:46
146	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	41:21
147	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	41:23
148	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	41:24
149	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	41:26
150	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	41:39
151	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	41:41
152	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	42:15
153	Albert Torres	Movistar	42:33
154	Nico Denz	Team DSM	42:48
155	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	42:59
156	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	43:17
157	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	43:43
158	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	43:45
159	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	44:11
160	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	44:17
161	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
162	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	45:10
163	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	45:54
164	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
165	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	46:48
166	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	48:01
167	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	50:22
168	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	52:25
169	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	54:04
170	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	58:15

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

Stage 4 photos:

Lotto-Soudal riders pick up their bikes to start the stage. Sirotti photo

Mathieu van der Poel picks up his bike. Sirotti photo

GC leader Wout van Aert heads to the start. Sirotti photo

Stage 4 begins. RSA photo

Tadej Pogacar takes the stage and the GC lead. Sirotti photo

Joao Almeida was sixth. Sirotti photo

Wout van Aert in his last moment in the blue jersey. He finished ninth. Sirotti photo

Geraint Thomas finished 12th. Sirotti photo

Tadej Pogacar is the new owner of the race leader's blue jersey. Sirotti photo

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Friday, March 12: Stage 3, Monticiano - Gualdo Tadino, 219 km

Stage 3 map & profile | Stage 3 photos

Mathieu van der Poel wins stage three. RCS photo

The route: The stage is initially wavy, while the second part is essentially flat. After a brief opening circuit in Chiusdino, the route crosses the Siena area, passing Murlo and Asciano, reaches Cortona and then enters Umbria, taking in the only categorised climb of the day in Poggio della Croce. After dropping into Gubbio, the road flattens and straightens out all the way to the finish.

The closing kilometres are wavy at first, then run essentially uphill. There is a sharp left-hander at the last kilometre, followed by a succession of wide bends leading into the home straight, which rises slightly with gradients nearing 4%. The finish line lies on an 8 m wide asphalt straight.

Weather at the finish city of Gualdo Tadino at 1:50 PM, local time: Rain, 11C (51F), with the wind from the south at 24 km/hr (15 mph). The rain is expected to continue through the afternoon.

The race: We still have 175 riders, who started today's stage at 11:03 AM. Soon after the start Tom Bohli (Cofidis) abandoned.

Here's the report from third-place Davide Ballerini's Deceuninck-Quick Step team:

One day after tasting victory in Chiusdino, where Julian Alaphilippe seized the moment, Deceuninck – Quick-Step were once again in the spotlight, this time on the longest stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico. Labelled by the organisers as being a perfect opportunity for sprinters. The stage was in fact more complicated, with the rolling terrain in the first 100 kilometers playing into the favour of the breakaway, who at one point enjoyed a whooping nine-minute lead.

Sensing the danger, our team sent Kasper Asgreen, Alvaro Hodeg and Bert Van Lerberghe to take over the reins, and the three did another fine job, slicing the gap to just five minutes in the space of 20 kilometers. Once other teams decided to chip in, it became clear the escapees would be brought back, but they continued to put in a stern display, getting caught only three kilometers from home.

Zdenek Stybar emerged at the head of the peloton, with Julian Alaphilippe on his wheel, who was working for Davide Ballerini. The World Champion slowed down on purpose with 800 meters to go, allowing the former Czech national champion to pull clear and put 30 meters between him and the group. That prompted a move from other riders, who chased down Zdenek, reeling him in inside the last 500 meters.

Then Alaphilippe upped the tempo and launched Ballerini, and the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad winner produced another solid sprint that netted him his fifth podium of the season, behind Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) and Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Alaphilippe remained on the overall podium of the race, while João Almeida moved up a place in the GC and is sitting seventh before the Prati di Tivo summit finish.

“It was an intense finale and I was on the wheel of Julian when he let a gap open and Styby tried his chance. Unfortunately, the others reacted, so we focused again on the sprint, but just as we came out of the last corner another rider came in front of us just as we were preparing to accelerate and we had to break. Despite this, I could still get a top 3 finish, which is a good result given the conditions. The race has four more stages and we’ll continue to try and be upt there and get some more good results”, Davide said in Gualdo Tadini.

Complete results:

Stage 3 photos

219 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.518 km/hr

1	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	5hr 24min 18sec
2	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
3	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
4	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
5	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
6	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
7	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	s.t.
8	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
9	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
10	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
11	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
12	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
13	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
14	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
15	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
16	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
17	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
18	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
19	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
20	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
21	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
22	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
23	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
24	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
25	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
26	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
27	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
28	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
29	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
30	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
31	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
32	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
33	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
34	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
35	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
36	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
37	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
38	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
39	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
40	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
41	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
42	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
43	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
44	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
45	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
46	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
47	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
48	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 18sec
49	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	19
50	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	20
51	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
52	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
54	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
55	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
56	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
58	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
59	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	s.t.
60	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
61	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	26
62	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	29
63	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
64	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
65	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
66	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
67	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	38
68	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	42
69	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	48
70	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	52
71	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
72	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
73	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	56
74	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
75	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	1:05
76	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:08
77	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
78	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
79	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
80	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	1:13
81	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	1:29
82	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
83	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
84	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
85	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:37
86	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
87	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
88	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
89	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
90	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	1:44
91	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
92	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	1:51
93	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
94	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	2:04
95	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
96	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	2:12
97	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
98	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	2:20
99	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
100	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
101	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
102	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
103	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
104	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
105	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
106	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
107	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
108	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
109	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
110	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
111	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
112	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
113	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
114	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
115	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
116	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
117	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
118	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
119	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
120	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	2:25
121	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
122	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
123	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	2:28
124	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:33
125	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
126	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
127	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
128	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	2:36
129	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	2:38
130	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
131	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
132	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
133	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
134	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	2:42
135	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	3:11
136	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	3:20
137	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
138	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
139	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
140	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
141	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	3:47
142	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
143	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	3:53
144	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
145	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
146	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	4:23
147	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:40
148	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
149	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	4:42
150	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
151	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	4:44
152	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	4:52
153	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
154	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
155	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
156	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	5:25
157	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	5:47
158	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	7:36
159	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	7:46
160	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	7:50
161	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
162	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
163	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
164	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
165	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
166	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	9:03
167	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	9:49
168	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
169	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	9:57
170	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	16:00
171	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	16:16

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Mountains classification leader: Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo-Kometa)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE-Team Emirates)
• Team classification leader: Deceuninck-Quick step

577 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.127 km/hr

1	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	14hr 1min 47sec
2	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	@ 4sec
3	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	10
4	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	19
5	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	20
6	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
7	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
8	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
9	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
10	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
12	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
13	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
14	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
15	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
16	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
17	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
18	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
19	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
20	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
21	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	31
22	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
23	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
24	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
25	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	36
26	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	37
27	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	38
28	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	39
29	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
30	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	40
31	Davide Villella	Movistar	48
32	Marc Soler	Movistar	52
33	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
34	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	54
35	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	58
36	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:00
37	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	1:02
38	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
39	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	1:16
40	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	1:20
41	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	1:24
42	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:28
43	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	1:46
44	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	1:49
45	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	1:57
46	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	2:02
47	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	2:05
48	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	2:09
49	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	2:34
50	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	2:40
51	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
52	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	2:42
53	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	2:50
54	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:53
55	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	2:54
56	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	3:11
57	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	3:12
58	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	3:20
59	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	4:13
60	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	5:02
61	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	5:15
62	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	5:20
63	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	5:44
64	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:52
65	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	6:05
66	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
67	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	7:56
68	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	8:31
69	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	9:28
70	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
71	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
72	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
73	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
74	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
75	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	9:48
76	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
77	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
78	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
79	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	9:57
80	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	10:36
81	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	10:41
82	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	10:57
83	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	11:05
84	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
85	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	11:12
86	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	11:19
87	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	11:32
88	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
89	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	11:35
90	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
91	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
92	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	11:40
93	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	11:48
94	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
95	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
96	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
97	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
98	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
99	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	11:52
100	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	11:55
101	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
102	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	11:56
103	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	12:04
104	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	12:06
105	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
106	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	12:40
107	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	12:48
108	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:51
109	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	13:04
110	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	13:08
111	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	13:15
112	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	13:16
113	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	13:21
114	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	14:00
115	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	14:08
116	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	14:20
117	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	14:42
118	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	15:06
119	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	15:21
120	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
121	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
122	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	16:02
123	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	16:17
124	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	16:19
125	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	16:27
126	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	16:29
127	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	16:58
128	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	17:00
129	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	17:05
130	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	17:33
131	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	17:38
132	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	17:39
133	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
134	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	17:41
135	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
136	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	17:42
137	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	17:46
138	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	17:54
139	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	17:59
140	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	18:03
141	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	18:31
142	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	18:38
143	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	18:39
144	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	18:40
145	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	18:41
146	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
147	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	18:43
148	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	18:56
149	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	18:58
150	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	19:08
151	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	19:32
152	Nico Denz	Team DSM	20:05
153	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	20:24
154	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	20:34
155	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	21:00
156	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	21:02
157	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	21:34
158	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
159	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	21:38
160	Albert Torres	Movistar	22:13
161	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	22:27
162	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	23:07
163	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	23:11
164	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
165	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	23:51
166	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	24:05
167	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	25:18:
168	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	26:04
169	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	29:42
170	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	31:21
171	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	35:32

Stage 3 map & profile

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

Stage three pictures:

Race leader Wout van Aert (in blue jersey) and his Jumbo-Visma team are presented before the race start. Sirotti photo

World champion Julian Alaphilippe and his Deceuninck-Quick Step team before the stage begins. Sirotti photo

The pack leaves the start town of Monticiano. Sirotti photo

The peloton at km 80, with a break of five riders 8min 40sec up the road. RCS photo

The pack heads from Tuscany to Umbria. Sirotti photo

Not exactly sunny Italy today. Sirotti photo

But still beautiful, nonetheless. Sirotti photo

Here they come.... Sirotti photo

Mathieu van der Poel is the fastest. Sirotti photo

Not the usual stage win pose. Sirotti photo.

Van der Poel celebrates. Sirotti photo

Stage winner Mathieu van der Poel. Sirotti photo

Wout van Aert remains in the GC leader's blue jersey. Sirotti photo

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Thursday, March 11: Stage 2, Camaiore - Chiusdino, 202 km

Stage 2 map & profile | Stage 2 photos

World champion Julian Alaphilippe wins stage two. RCS photo

The route: This stage is wavy and undulating, especially in the second part. Starting in Camaiore and cutting through the Pisa plain, the route passes Pisa, Ponsacco and Lajatico, and then reaches Volterra. Once in the Siena area, the stage takes in some milder or sharper undulations through Rosia, Casciano di Murlo and Monticiano (including a categorised climb in Poggio alla Croce). Past the plain of San Galgano Abbey, the route heads up towards the finish in Chiusdino.
The final kilometres run mostly uphill, with several bends. The finish sits on 7 m wide tarmac.

Weather at the finish city of Chiusdino at 1:40 PM, local time: 13C (56F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 10 km/hr (6 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: 175 riders began stage two at 11:17.

Here's the report from third-place Wout van Aert's Jumbo-Visma team:

Wout van Aert has finished third in the second stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. On the vicious uphill finish in Chiusdino, the leader of Team Jumbo-Visma had to acknowledge his superiority to Julian Alaphilippe and Mathieu van der Poel. Van Aert remained leader in the general classification of the Italian stage race.

The stage had a flat start. Six riders led for a long time until the riders were confronted with some altitude metres. At about thirty kilometres from the finish a strong quartet got away during the climb of the Poggio alla Croce. Joao Almeida was the last one to be caught at about 300 metres from the finish. World champion Alaphilippe proved to have the best punch uphill

Van Aert was satisfied with his third place. “As expected, it was a very hard day today. When Thomas started the battle for victory in the last kilometre, I was already pretty much at my limit. Alaphilippe attacked and immediately put me at a few lengths. I squeezed out the best possible sprint. Third place was the maximum I could achieve in this sprint. I was able to pick up some bonus seconds. That’s a good thing in defending my leader’s jersey."

Much respect once again went to the work of his teammates. “We were put under pressure by some guys who are dangerous for the general classification. The team was set up not to react to every attack. We stayed calm and didn’t let ourselves get caught out. The team controlled the race all day long. Fortunately, in the final I had two strong teammates near me who could speed up towards the end. Hats off to the team. I have confidence in this strong formation for the coming days.”

Complete Results:

Stage 2 photos

202 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.195 km/hr

1	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5hr 1min 32sec
2	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
3	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
4	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
5	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
7	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
8	Greg van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
9	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
10	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
11	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
12	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
15	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
16	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
17	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
18	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
19	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
21	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
22	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
25	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
26	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
28	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
29	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
30	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
31	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
32	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
33	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
34	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
35	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
36	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
37	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	11
38	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
39	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
40	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
41	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	16
42	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
43	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	19
44	Davide Villella	Movistar	28
45	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
46	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	31
47	Marc Soler	Movistar	32
48	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
49	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
50	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	34
51	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
52	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
53	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	40
54	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
55	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	42
56	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
58	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:03
59	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	1:22
60	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
61	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
63	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
64	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	1:42
65	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	2:22
66	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
67	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	2:55
68	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	5:51
69	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	9:08
70	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
71	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
72	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
73	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
74	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
75	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
76	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
77	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
78	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
79	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
80	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
81	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
82	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
83	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
84	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
85	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
86	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
87	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
88	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
89	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
90	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
91	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
92	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
93	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
94	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
95	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
96	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
97	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
98	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
99	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
100	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
101	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
102	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
104	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
105	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
106	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
107	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
108	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
109	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	11:15
110	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
111	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	s.t.
112	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
113	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
114	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
115	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
116	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
117	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
118	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
119	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
120	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
121	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
122	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
123	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
124	Albert Torres	Movistar	11:57
125	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:35
126	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	13:17
127	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
128	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	15:01
129	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
130	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
131	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
132	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	s.t.
133	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
134	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
135	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
137	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
138	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	s.t.
139	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
140	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
141	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
142	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
143	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
144	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
145	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
146	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
147	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
148	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
149	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	s.t.
150	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
151	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
152	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
153	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
154	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
155	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
156	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
157	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
158	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
159	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
160	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
161	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
162	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
163	Lawson Craddock	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
164	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
165	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
166	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	17:54
167	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
168	Tom Bohli	Cofidis	s.t.
169	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
170	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
171	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
172	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
173	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
174	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
175	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Mountains classification leader: Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo-Kometa)
• Points classification leader: Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Team classification leader: Deceuninck-Quick step

358 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.501 km/hr

1	Wout Van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	8hr 37min 35sec
2	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	@ 4sec
3	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	8
4	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	11
5	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	13
6	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	14
7	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
8	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
9	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
10	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
11	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
13	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
15	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
16	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
17	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
18	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
19	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
20	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
21	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
22	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
23	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
24	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
25	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
26	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
27	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
28	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
29	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
30	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
32	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
33	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
34	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
35	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
36	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	25
37	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
38	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
39	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
40	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	30
41	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
42	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	33
43	Davide Villella	Movistar	42
44	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	45
45	Marc Soler	Movistar	46
46	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
47	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
48	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	48
49	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
50	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
51	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	54
52	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
53	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	56
54	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
55	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
56	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:06
57	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	1:17
58	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	1:34
59	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	1:36
60	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
61	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
62	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	1:56
63	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	2:15
64	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	2:36
65	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
66	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	2:49
67	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	4:51
68	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	6:05
69	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	9:22
70	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
71	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
72	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
73	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
75	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
76	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
77	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
78	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
79	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
80	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
81	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
82	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
83	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
84	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
85	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
87	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
88	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
89	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
90	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
91	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
92	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
93	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
94	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
95	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
96	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
97	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
98	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
99	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
100	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
101	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
102	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
103	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
104	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
105	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	10:01
106	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	10:42
107	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	10:50
108	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	11:10
109	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	11:25
110	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	11:29
111	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
112	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
113	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
114	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
115	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
116	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
117	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
118	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
119	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
120	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
121	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
122	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	12:28
123	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	12:49
124	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	13:31
125	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	13:31
126	Albert Torres	Movistar	14:17
127	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	14:44
128	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	15:09
129	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	15:12
130	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	15:13
131	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	15:15
132	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
133	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
134	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
135	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
137	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
138	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
139	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
140	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
141	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	s.t.
142	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
143	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
144	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
145	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
146	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
147	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
148	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
149	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
150	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
151	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
152	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
153	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
154	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	15:33
155	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	15:36
156	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	16:13
157	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	16:14
158	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
159	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
160	Lawson Craddock	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
161	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
162	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	16:40
163	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	17:16
164	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	17:58
165	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	18:08
166	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
167	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
168	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
169	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
170	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
171	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	19:07
172	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	19:10
173	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
174	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	19:47
175	Tom Bohli	Cofidis	21:23

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

Stage 2 photos:

Starting ceremonies, Team Gazprom-RusVelo is presented. Sirotti photo

The peloton has left Camaiore. Sirotti photo

A tight squeeze down an Italian street. Ag2r photo

Just a few kilometers into the stage with Jumbo-Visma leading. RCS photo

A beautiful Italian scene. Getty photo

Julian Alaphilippe takes the stage. Photo: Beel Wout/Getty Sport

Alaphilippe enjoys the moment. Photo: Beel Wout/Getty Sport

Stage winner Julian Alaphilippe. Sirotti photo

Wout van Aert remains the GC leader. Sirotti photo

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Wednesday, March 10: Stage 1, Lido di Camaiore - Lido di Camaiore, 156 km

Stage 1 map & profile

Wout van Aert takes the stage with Caleb Ewan second.

The route: The stage is divided into two circuits. In the first 90 kilometres, the route covers 3 laps of the Monte Pitoro circuit (approx. 24 km), climbing up from Stiava and descending into Camaiore. After the third pass, the route takes three nearly full laps of a large and flat 29 km circuit running from Pietrasanta to Lido di Camaiore, heading for a sprint finish in Lido di Camaiore.

The final kilometres are perfectly flat and straight, with just two bends in the closing part. The finish line lies on an 8 m wide tarmac road.

Weather at the city of Pietrasanta, 107 km into the stage at 1:30 PM, local time: 12C (54F), fair, with the wind from the southwest at 13 km/hr (8mph). There is a 2% chance of rain.

The race: 175 riders began stage one at 12:38 PM.

Here's the report from stage winner Wout van Aert's Jumbo-Visma team:

Wout van Aert has managed to win the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. On the boulevard of Lido di Camaiore he finished off Caleb Ewan and Fernando Gaviria in the bunch sprint.

Six escapees were given allowed to gain an advantage by the peloton. Ten kilometres before the finish the leaders were caught by the large group. In the streets of the start and finish town of Lido di Camaiore, Van Aert started his sprint early. The competition was unable to come alongside. Through his victory in the opening stage of the Italian race the Team Jumbo-Visma leader starts Thursday in the leader’s jersey. For Van Aert it is the first victory on the road in 2021 and the fourth for the team.

Van Aert reacted happily surprised. “Of course we were going for the win. I just didn’t expect to win directly today in this strong field. I was positioned perfectly by the team. I had decided not to wait too long because it was a high speed sprint. Fortunately, I was able to hold it until the finish line. I am very happy that my sprinters legs are back. A nice bonus are the bonification seconds. That gives me a few extra seconds ahead of a lot of guys. I want to achieve the highest possible result in the general classification.”

Many thanks therefore went to his teammates. “Both in Strade Bianche and today we rode as a strong team. The guys dropped me off well in the sprint. It makes me proud that I was able to finish the team’s work. We now maneuver ourselves into a great starting position for the rest of the week. We are riding with high morale and have a lot of confidence for what is to follow in the coming days.”

Complete results:

156 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.277 km/hr

1	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	3hr 36min 17sec
2	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
3	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
4	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
5	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
6	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
7	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
8	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
9	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	s.t.
10	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
11	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
13	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
14	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
15	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
17	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
18	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
19	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
20	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
21	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
22	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
23	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
24	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
25	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
26	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
27	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
28	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
29	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
30	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
31	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
32	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
33	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
34	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
36	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
37	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
38	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
39	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
41	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
42	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
43	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	s.t.
44	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
45	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
46	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
47	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
48	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
49	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
50	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
51	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
52	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
53	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
54	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
55	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
56	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
57	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
58	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
59	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
60	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
61	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
62	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
63	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
64	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
66	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
67	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
68	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
69	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
70	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
71	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
72	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
73	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
74	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
75	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
76	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
77	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
78	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
79	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
80	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
81	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
82	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
83	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
84	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
85	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
86	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
87	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
88	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
89	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
90	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
91	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
92	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
93	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
94	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
95	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
96	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
97	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
98	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
99	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
100	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
101	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
102	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
103	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
104	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
105	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
106	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
107	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
108	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
109	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
110	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
111	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
112	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
113	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
114	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
115	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
116	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
117	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
118	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
119	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
120	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
121	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
122	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
123	Mads Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
124	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
125	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
126	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
127	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
128	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
129	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
130	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
131	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
132	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
133	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
134	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
135	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
136	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
137	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
138	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
139	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
140	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
141	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
142	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
143	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
144	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
145	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
146	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
147	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
148	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
149	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	@ 18sec
150	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	21
151	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	39
152	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
153	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	52
154	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	59
155	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
156	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
157	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
158	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
159	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
160	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
161	Lawson Craddock	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
162	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	1:02
163	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
164	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:20
165	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	1:25
166	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	1:28
167	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	1:42
168	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	1:48
169	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	2:01
170	Albert Torres	Movistar	2:06
171	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	2:07
172	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	2:43
173	Tom Bohli	Cofidis	3:15
174	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	s.t.
175	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	4:32

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Mountains classification leader: Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo-Kometa)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Mattia Bais (Androni Giocattoli)
• Team classification leader: Deceuninck-Quick Step

1	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	3hr 36min 7sec
2	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	@ 4sec
3	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	6
4	Simone Velasco	Gazprom-RusVelo	7
5	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	8
6	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	10
7	Luka Mezgec	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
8	Tim Merlier	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
9	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
10	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
11	Ivan Garcia	Movistar	s.t.
12	Hugo Hofstetter	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
13	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
14	Max Kanter	Team DSM	s.t.
15	Lukasz Wisniowski	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
16	Matteo Malucelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
17	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
18	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
19	Adrien Petit	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
20	Niccolo Bonifazio	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
21	Manuel Belletti	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
22	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
23	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
24	Robert Stannard	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
25	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
27	Matteo Moschetti	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
28	Davide Martinelli	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
29	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
30	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
31	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
32	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
33	Jack Bauer	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
34	Pieter Vanspeybrouck	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
35	Marco Canola	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
36	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
37	Bert Van Lerberghe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
38	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
39	Sergio Higuita	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
40	Gianni Vermeersch	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
41	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
42	Alex Aranburu	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
43	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
44	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
45	Fabio Sabatini	Cofidis	s.t.
46	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
47	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
48	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
49	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
50	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
51	Gorka Izagirre	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
52	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Natnael Tesfazion	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
54	Ivan Rovny	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
55	Fabio Felline	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
56	Hugo Houle	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Jan Bakelants	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
58	Michael Schär	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
59	Julien Simon	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
60	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
61	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
62	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
63	Guillaume Boivin	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
64	Ilnur Zakarin	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
65	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
66	Petr Vakoc	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
67	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
68	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
69	Victor De La Parte	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
70	Jan Polanc	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
71	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
72	Lorrenzo Manzin	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
73	Diego Rosa	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
74	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
75	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
76	Daniel Oss	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
77	Mark Padun	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
78	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
79	Ryan Mullen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
80	Nikias Arndt	Team DSM	s.t.
81	Simon Clarke	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
82	Domenico Pozzovivo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
83	Joris Nieuwenhuis	Team DSM	s.t.
84	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
86	Marc Soler	Movistar	s.t.
87	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
88	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
89	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
90	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
91	Davide Villella	Movistar	s.t.
92	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
93	Eduardo Sepulveda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
94	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
95	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
96	Timo Roosen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
97	Tim Wellens	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
98	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
99	Roman Kreuziger	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
100	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
101	Denis Nekrasov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
102	Nico Denz	Team DSM	s.t.
103	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar	s.t.
104	Pavel Kochetkov	Gazprom-RusVelo	s.t.
105	Jenthe Biermans	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
106	Emil Vinjebo	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
107	Emils Liepins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
108	Loic Vliegen	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
109	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
110	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
111	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
112	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
113	Greg Van Avermaet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
114	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
115	Simon Yates	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
116	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
117	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
118	Marcus Burghardt	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
119	Andrey Zeits	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
120	Daniel Muñoz	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
121	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
122	Cristian Rodriguez	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
123	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
124	Mads Schmidt	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
125	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
126	Mark Christian	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
127	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
128	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
129	John Archibald	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
130	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
131	Simon Carr	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
132	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
133	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
134	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
135	Michael Gogl	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
136	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
137	Julian Alaphilippe	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
138	Robert Gesink	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
139	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
140	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
141	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
142	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
143	Manuele Boaro	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
144	Dimitri Claeys	Qhubeka-Assos	s.t.
145	Michael Hepburn	Team BikeExchange	s.t.
146	Kasper Asgreen	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
147	Zdenek Stybar	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
148	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
149	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Cofidis	28
150	Tosh Van der Sande	Lotto Soudal	31
151	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	49
152	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
153	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:02
154	Guy Niv	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:08
155	Xandro Meurisse	Alpecin-Fenix	1:09
156	Paul Martens	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
157	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
158	Sebastian Langeveld	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
159	Niki Terpstra	Total Direct Energie	s.t.
160	Alex Howes	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
161	Lawson Craddock	EF Education-Nippo	s.t.
162	Attilio Viviani	Cofidis	1:12
163	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
164	Otto Vergaerde	Alpecin-Fenix	1:30
165	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	1:35
166	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	1:38
167	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	1:52
168	Davide Bais	Eolo-Kometa	1:58
169	Jempy Drucker	Cofidis	2:11
170	Albert Torres	Movistar	2:16
171	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	2:17
172	Thomas Scully	EF Education-Nippo	2:53
173	Tom Bohli	Cofidis	3:25
174	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	s.t.
175	Samuele Rivi	Eolo-Kometa	4:42

Stage one map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile

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Start list with back numbers, March 9, 2021:

BEX	TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE
1	YATES Simon Philip
2	BAUER Jack
3	HEPBURN Michael
4	JUUL JENSEN Christopher
5	MEZGEC Luka
6	STANNARD Robert
7	ZEITS Andrey
DS	WHITE Matthew
DS*	ALGERI Vittorio
ACT	AG2R CITROEN TEAM
11	VAN AVERMAET Greg
12	BOUCHARD Geoffrey
13	CALMEJANE Lilian
14	PETERS Nans
15	SCHÄR Michael
16	VENDRAME Andrea
17	WARBASSE Lawrence
DS	JANNEL Didier
DS*	KASPUTIS Arturas
AFC	ALPECIN-FENIX
21	VAN DER POEL Mathieu
22	MERLIER Tim
23	MEURISSE Xandro
24	RICKAERT Jonas
25	VAKOC Petr
26	VERGAERDE Otto
27	VERMEERSCH Gianni
DS	LEYSEN Bart
DS*	ROODHOOFT Christophe
ANS	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI - SIDERMEC
31	BAIS Mattia
32	BISOLTI Alessandro
33	MALUCELLI Matteo
34	MUÑOZ GIRALDO Daniel
35	PELLAUD Simon
36	SEPULVEDA Eduardo
37	TESFAZION Natnael
DS	ELLENA Giovanni
DS*	SPEZIALETTI Alessandro
APT	ASTANA - PREMIER TECH
41	FUGLSANG Jakob
42	ARANBURU DEBA Alex
43	BOARO Manuele
44	FELLINE Fabio
45	HOULE Hugo
46	IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
47	MARTINELLI Davide
DS	MARTINELLI Giuseppe
DS*	CENGHIALTA Bruno
TBV	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
51	LANDA MEANA Mikel
52	BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA Pello
53	CARUSO Damiano
54	CAPECCHI Eros
55	PADUN Mark
56	TRATNIK Jan
57	WRIGHT Fred
DS	ŠTANGELJ Gorazd
DS*	PELLIZOTTI Franco
BOH	BORA - HANSGROHE
61	SAGAN Peter
62	ALEOTTI Giovanni
63	BODNAR Maciej
64	BURGHARDT Marcus
65	FABBRO Matteo
66	KONRAD Patrick
67	OSS Daniel
DS	RADOCHLA Steffen
DS*	VALACH Jan
COF	COFIDIS
71	VIVIANI Elia
72	BOHLI Tom
73	DRUCKER Jean-Pierre
74	HAAS Nathan
75	SABATINI Fabio
76	VANBILSEN Kenneth
77	VIVIANI Attilio
DS	DAMIANI Roberto
DS*	FERNANDEZ BUSTINZA Bingen
DQT	DECEUNINCK - QUICK STEP
81	ALAPHILIPPE Julian
82	ALMEIDA João
83	ASGREEN Kasper
84	BALLERINI Davide
85	HODEG CHAGUI Alvaro Jose
86	ŠTYBAR Zdenek
87	VAN LERBERGHE Bert
DS	BRAMATI Davide
DS*	PEETERS Wilfried
EFN	EF EDUCATION - NIPPO
91	HIGUITA GARCIA Sergio Andres
92	BETTIOL Alberto
93	CARR Simon
94	CRADDOCK G Lawson
95	HOWES Alex
96	LANGEVELD Sebastian
97	SCULLY Tom
DS	SOUTHAM Tom
DS*	VANMARCKE Ken
EOK	EOLO-KOMETA CYCLING TEAM
101	BELLETTI Manuel
102	ALBANESE Vincenzo
103	ARCHIBALD John
104	BAIS Davide
105	CHRISTIAN Mark
106	RIVI Samuele
107	ROPERO MOLINA Alejandro
DS	ZANATTA Stefano
DS*	HERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ Jesus
GAZ	GAZPROM-RUSVELO
111	ZAKARIN Ilnur
112	CANOLA Marco
113	KOCHETKOV Pavel
114	KREUZIGER Roman
115	NEKRASOV Denis
116	ROVNY Ivan
117	VELASCO Simone
DS	KONYCHEV Dmitri
DS*	SEROV Aleksandr
GFC	GROUPAMA - FDJ
121	PINOT Thibaut
122	GENIETS Kévin
123	KÜNG Stefan
124	LUDVIGSSON Tobias
125	MADOUAS Valentin
126	MOLARD Rudy
127	THOMAS Benjamin
DS	JOLY Sebastien
DS*	VAUGRENARD Benoit
IGD	INEOS GRENADIERS
131	BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley
132	CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan
133	GANNA Filippo
134	KWIATKOWSKI Michal
135	PUCCIO Salvatore
136	SIVAKOV Pavel
137	THOMAS Geraint
DS	COOKSON Oliver
DS*	CIONI Dario David
IWG	INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY - GOBERT
141	BAKELANTS Jan
142	DE GENDT Aime
143	HIRT Jan
144	PASQUALON Andrea
145	ROTA Lorenzo
146	VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter
147	VLIEGEN Loïc
DS	PIVA Valerio
DS*	VISBEEK Aike
ISN	ISRAEL START-UP NATION
151	BOIVIN Guillaume
152	NIV Guy
153	BIERMANS Jenthe
154	CIMOLAI Davide
155	DE MARCHI Alessandro
156	HOFSTETTER Hugo
157	SCHMIDT Mads Würtz
DS	SØRENSEN Nicki
DS*	PRIDHAM Cherie
TJV	JUMBO-VISMA
161	VAN AERT Wout
162	AFFINI Edoardo
163	FOSS Tobias S.
164	GESINK Robert
165	MARTENS Paul
166	ROOSEN Timo
167	VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
DS	ENGELS Addy
DS*	VAN DONGEN Arthur
LTS	LOTTO SOUDAL
171	WELLENS Tim
172	DE BUYST Jasper
173	EWAN Caleb
174	FRISON Frederik
175	KLUGE Roger
176	VAN DER SANDE Tosh
177	VAN MOER Brent
DS	AERTS Mario
DS*	FRISON Herman
MOV	MOVISTAR TEAM
181	GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
182	CATALDO Dario
183	OLIVEIRA Nelson
184	SERRANO Gonzalo
185	SOLER Marc
186	TORRES BARCELO Albert
187	VILLELLA Davide
DS	SCIANDRI Maximilian
DS*	LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo
ARK	TEAM ARKEA - SAMSIC
191	QUINTANA Nairo
192	BOUDAT Thomas
193	PICHON Laurent
194	GUERNALEC Thibault
195	LEDANOIS Kevin
196	OWSIAN Lukasz
197	ROSA Diego
DS	HINAULT Sebastien
DS*	SOENEN Flavien
DSM	TEAM DSM
201	BARDET Romain
202	ARNDT Nikias
203	DENZ Nico
204	HAMILTON Christopher
205	KANTER Max
206	NIEUWENHUIS Joris
207	TUSVELD Martijn
DS	WEST Philip
DS*	WINSTON Matthew
TQA	TEAM QHUBEKA ASSOS
211	POZZOVIVO Domenico
212	CLARKE Simon
213	GOGL Michael
214	LINDEMAN Bert-Jan
215	CLAEYS Dimitri
216	VINJEBO Emil
217	WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
DS	MICHAELSEN Lars
DS*	REDANT Hendrik
TDE	TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE
221	TERPSTRA Niki
222	BONIFAZIO Niccolò
223	DE LA PARTE Victor
224	MANZIN Lorrenzo
225	PETIT Adrien
226	RODRIGUEZ MARTIN Cristian
227	SIMON Julien
DS	LEBRETON Lylian
DS*	LOISEAU Alexis
TFS	TREK - SEGAFREDO
231	NIBALI Vincenzo
232	CICCONE Giulio
233	LIEPINS Emils
234	MOSCHETTI Matteo
235	MULLEN Ryan
236	SIMMONS Quinn
237	SKUJINS Toms
DS	ANDERSEN Kim
DS*	BAFFI Adriano
UAD	UAE TEAM EMIRATES
241	POGACAR Tadej
242	FORMOLO Davide
243	GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
244	MAJKA Rafal
245	OLIVEIRA Ivo
246	POLANC Jan
247	RICHEZE Maximiliano Ariel
DS	HAUPTMAN Andrej
DS*	MARZANO Marco