Euskaraz irakurri: Pidcock, nagusi gizonezkoen Strade Bianche klasikoan; Pello Bilbao, zazpigarren

Thomas Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) won the Strade Bianche men’s category this Saturday March 4 with a show of strength in a attack that began more than 40 kilometers from the finish linecutting the advantage with the escapees in a ride that stretched to the finish line with a pace that no one could stand.

The champion crossed the finish line with both arms raised, celebrating a consecration victory for his 23 years in this ‘sterrato classic’, his first great classic, in which the French Valentine Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) and the Belgian Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma) completed the podium, after crossing the finish line 20 and 22 seconds behind the Briton respectively. the basque cyclist Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) was seventh 1’04” behind Pidcock.

The 184-kilometre route began smoothly, interspersing the recognizable white dirt roads that give the competition its name with the road sections. Among the dust generated by the wheels, emerged ivan romero (Movistar), in his Strade Bianche debut, to lead the first considerable breakaway, 91 kilometers from the finish line. they accompanied him De Marchi (Jayco AlUla) and Bystrom (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), almost five minutes behind the peloton in which the favorites were riding, crouching down waiting for the right moment to take the key pedal stroke.

While the peloton cut down the escapees, with Iván Romero fighting to maintain the escape, his compatriot fell carlos rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) with 63 kilometers to go that, although he was able to rejoin easily, did not quite re-engage at the pace of the candidates for victory.

Romero, at 19 years old, could not stand the pace that he himself had imposed and fell from the head of the race just two kilometers before the protagonist of the afternoon in Siena began his particular exhibition. He attacked on a Pidcock descent, with speed, taking advantage of the slope to break away from the pack in the gravel. In a flash he was placed wheel to wheel with De Marchi and Bystrom, who had claimed leadership of the escape until the arrival of the young Briton, who he did not stop shooting. Thomas Pidcock’s attack provoked a van der poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who tried to surprise with an unsuccessful attack, but which caused Pello Bilbao to follow in his wake and form a new small group that was only twenty seconds behind the head of the race.

But the race was already seen for sentencing. This is how Pidcock wanted it, who hardly cared to look back, knowing that with that pace it was impossible for someone to hunt him down. All the changes came from behind the leader. The squads came together, cut time, moved away again.

Pidcock managed the last climbs of Colle Pinzuto and entered the last kilometer with almost thirty seconds to spare, cheered by the Italian public who celebrated the victory of a new pearl of cycling, who at 23 years old already treasures a stage of the Tour de France and a Strade Bianche, as well as a cyclo-cross world championship or a gold medal at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games in the cross-country modality.

Classification:

1 – PIDCOCK Thomas (Ineos) 4:31:41

2 – MADOUAS Valentin (Groupama) + 0:20

3 – BENOOT Tiesj (Jumbo) + 0:22

4 – COSTA Rui (Intermarché) + 0:23

5 – VALTER Attila (Jumbo) mt

6 – MOHORIC Matej (Bahrain) + 0:34

7 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain) + 1:04

8 – GRÉGOIRE Romain (Groupama) + 1:18

9 – FORMOLO Davide (UAE) + 1:23

10 – KRON Andreas (Lotto) + 1:35

Source: Eitb

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