Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 – Stage 7 [FULL STAGE]

March 10, 2024

Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 🇮🇹 – Stage 7 – San Benedetto del Tronto – San Benedetto del Tronto : 154 km

Tirreno-Adriatico is an Italian WorldTour one-week stage race that runs from March 4-10. The race began in 1966 and is one of the two premier ‘dress rehearsal’ races in riders’ preparations for their larger goals in the Classics and the Grand Tours, alongside Paris-Nice, which runs at the same time. Wedged between Strade Bianche and Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico comes at a crucial time in the calendar when riders are beginning to approach their peak. Traditionally, the race is run between the two seas on either side of the Italian peninsula. On the west is the Tirreno Sea and on the east is the Adriatic Sea, hence the name Tirreno-Adriatico. Between those two coasts, the route varies quite a bit, but generally has the same breakdown of the type of stages to expect. Typically, the race has several flat stages, a time trial typically on the opening or closing day, a couple of rolling stages and one mountain top finish.

Jonas Vingegaard completed a first-ever Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico double for Visma-Lease a Bike, celebrating a dominating victory in Italy as Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) won the final stage on the San Benedetto del Tronto seafront.

The 154km final stage was always going to be about the sprinters and their teams dominated the high-speed final lap after the break was caught.

Uno-X let a gap go in the final kilometre and Søren Wærenskjold surged towards the finish but Lidl-Trek closed down the gap and then Milan produced the speed and power to win the sprint, beating Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X) and Davide Cimolai (Movistar).

Vingegaard won stage 5 and 6 in the Apennines of Abruzzo and Le Marche and so was able to finish calmly in the peloton and savour his overall victory.

He finished 1:24 ahead of Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), with Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) third overall at 1:52, as Vingegaard lifted the trident winner’s trophy.

Milan hugged teammate Simone Consonni after he went to the front in the kilometre to chase down Wærenskjold. It was a team victory and a significant part was thanks to Consonni.

“Your last win is always the most special but this one is,” Milan said.

“It was a hard and tough day. It was a high pace all day. It was impressive the work the guys did for me and so I wanted to finish this race with another win.”

“It was really tough to catch the Uno-X rider in the last kilometre. For a moment I thought he’d make it to the finish but my teammate Simone Consonni did a fantastic leadout for me. It was impressive.”

“We knew the beginning of the stage would be hard and we didn’t want the break to get a big gap. There were super strong riders up the road and so we had to push a lot. That made for the super high speed.”

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