Tirreno-Adriatico 2020, Filippo Ganna flies to San Benedetto del Tronto! Simon Yates wins the race



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Filippo ganna dominate the final stopwatch of the Tirreno – Adriatico 2020. The Italian champion of the discipline covered the 10.05 km of San Benedetto del Tronto with a record time of 10’42 ”, clearly surpassing the previous record of Fabián Cancellara. Starting in the early stages of the race, the Ineos Grenadiers rider stayed in the hot seat until the end, from where he witnessed the trials of his rivals, who nevertheless never managed to worry him except at the first intermission. But it is in the second phase that the 24-year-old Piedmontese clearly made the difference, closing with 18 ″ of advantage over Victor Campenaerts (Cycling NTT Pro). Third day, after a mistake that took a few seconds, Rohan dennis (Ineos Granaderos) 26 ″ behind his teammate.

In the final the challenge becomes for the general classification, but there are no major revolts, with Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) who quite easily manages to defend his Azzurra Maglia to conquer this edition of the Corsa dei Due Mari, the first Briton in history after his twin’s joke last year. Behind him, recovering a position from the start is the compatriot Geraint thomas (Grenadiers of Ineos), 17 seconds apart, with Rafał Majka (Bora-hansgrohe) to complete the final podium. The best of the Italians, with a beautiful sixth place at 1’18 “behind the winner, is Fausto Masnada (Deceuninck-QuickStep), lie Gianluca Brambilla (Trek-Segafredo) closed the race in ninth position.

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