After an inaugural time trial won by Filippo Ganna on Monday March 6, it’s time for the second stage of the Italian race on Tuesday.
Second day of racing on the Tirreno Adriatico this Tuesday, March 7. This 209 km long second stage from Camaiore to Follonica offers a relatively flat route and ends with a 21.4 km loop with a 1.3 km climb at 6% at 10 km from the finish. If this last small climb could allow riders like van Aert, van der Poel or even Alaphilippe to attempt an attack, the sprinters seem to be the big favorites of the day. Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal Quick-Step), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco AlUla), Fernando Gaviria (Movistar Team), Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Nacer Bouhanni (Team Arkéa-Samsic), Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and other Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) will try to win this stage.
In the standings, Italian time trial champion Filippo Ganna wears the leader’s blue jersey after crushing the 11.5km time trial in the streets of Camaiore. The former world champion in the discipline was ahead of the German Lennard Kamna by 28 seconds and the young American Sheffiel by 31s. Among the favorites, Joao Almeida is 7th while riders like Hindley, Roglic, Vlasov and Tao Geoghegan Hart finish in the top 20.
Here is the classification of the Tirreno Adriatico after the inaugural time trial this Monday, March 6
- Filippo Gana
- Lennard Kamna +28s
- Magnus Sheffield +31s
- Michael Hepburn +33s
- Brandon Mcnulty +36s
- Thymen Arensman+39s
- Joao Almeida +41s
- Andreas Leknessund +41s
- Casper Pedersen +47s
- Wilco Kelderman +48s
Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Quick-Step), Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Lorenzo Rota (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën Team), Axel Zingle, Victor Lafay (Cofidis) or even Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma, Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Peter Sagan (Total Energy), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco AlUla), Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal Quick-Step), Fernando Gaviria (Movistar Team), Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan Team) Nacer Bouhanni (Team Arkea-Samsic) Ben O’Connor (AG2R Citroën Team), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Mikel Landa, Damiano Caruso, Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious), Jai Hindley, Aleksandr Vlasov (BORA-hansgrohe), William Martin (Cofidis), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Tao Geoghegan Hart, Thymen Arensman (INEOS Grenadiers), Primoz Roglic, Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma), Enric Mas (Movistar Team), Warren Barguil, Christian Rodriguez (Team Arkéa-Samsic), Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Joao Almeida, Adam Yates, Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) and other Lorenzo Fortunato (EOLO-Kometa).
The runners have an appointment with seven stages in this mythical race. Regarding the course, there will be something for everyone with a first time trial stage then stages for sprinters and finally for the punchy climbers of this Tirreno-Adriatico
- Stage 1 Lido di Camaiore-Lido di Camaiore (ITT), 11.5 KM
- Stage 2 Camaiore-Follonica, 209 KM
- Stage 3 Follonica-Foligno, 216 KM
- Stage 4 Greccio-Tortoreto, 219 KM
- Stage 5 Morro d’Oro-Sarnano-Sassotetto, 168 KM
- Stage 6 Osimo Stazione-Osimo, 194 KM
- Stage 7 San Benedetto del Tronto-San Benedetto del Tronto, 154 KM
Founded in 1966, this Tirreno-Adriatico event attracts Grand Tour winners like Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali or Tadej Pogacar.
- 2012: Vicenzo Nibali
- 2013: Vicenzo Nibali
- 2014 : Alberto Contador
- 2015 : Nairobi Quintana
- 2016: Greg Van Avermaet
- 2017: Nairobi Quintana
- 2018: Michal Kwiatkowski
- 2019: Primoz Roglic
- 2020: Simon Yates
- 2021: Tadej Pogacar
- 2022: Tadej Pogacar