Tirreno-Adriatico 2023 – Stage 7 [LAST 10 KM]

March 12, 2023

Tirreno-Adriatico 2023 – Stage 7 – San Benedetto del Tronto – San Benedetto del Tronto : 154 km

This early-season stage race is traditionally held around early March and offers both Classics specialists and Grand Tour riders a chance to hone their form. Tirreno-Adriatico is, in many ways, a mini Grand Tour. The race runs from the Tyrrhenian sea on Italy’s west coast to the Adriatic on its east coast, crossing the hills and mountains that litter the country’s interior along the way. It also features two time trials that typically bookend the race – a team time trial on day one and an individual time trial on the final day. In recent years, organisers have scrapped the team time trial in favour of a single individual time trial. Riders cover all manner of terrain across the seven days of racing, from flat stages along the coast to mountain stages in the high peaks of the Apennines. The organisers have experimented with the route a lot over the last decade, particularly with the stages that snake their way through the mountains.

Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) sailed through the final stage of the 2023 Tirreno-Adriatico to claim the overall victory as Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) sprinted to his second stage win of the race.

A hectic run-in after circuits of San Benedetto del Tronto proved tricky for the lead-outs but after a surge from Filippo Ganna (Ineos) in the final kilometre, none other than Mathieu van der Poel found a clear lane to line out the riders and so deliver Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Philipsen to the sprint win over Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) and Alberto Dainese (Team DSM).

Two sprint victories at Tirreno-Adriatico secured Philipsen a role as a contender for next Saturday’s Milan-San Remo.

It was touch and go for the sprinters as a persistent eight-man breakaway held off the peloton until three kilometres to go. A series of turns and tightening roads squeezed out Intermarché-Circus-Wanty and Soudal-Quickstep’s Fabio Jakobsen, while last year’s stage winner Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) came up too late to finished fourth.

Safely ensconced in the peloton, Roglič won the overall classification and mountains classification and so lifted the spectacular trident winner’s trophy for a second time in his career.

João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) finished second overall at 18 seconds, with Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) third at 23 seconds.

Results :

Final General Classification :