Victories for Tadej Pogacar and Lotte Kopecky at Strade Bianche 2024
Euskaraz irakurri: Tadej Pogacar eta Lotte Kopecky garaile, Strade Bianche lasterketan
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) won the 2024 men’s Strade Bianche in devastating fashion after attacking alone with 81 kilometers to go.
Pogacar won with more than two and a half minutes ahead of Toms Skujinš (Lidl-Trek), second, and Maxim van Gils (Lotto-Dstny), third. None of them have been able to do anything to worry the great Slovenian champion.
Pogacar, which won the race for the second time In his career, he was intractable from the moment he attacked and left the peloton behind, and he claimed victory showing an insulting superiority over the rest.
Second victory for Kopecky
Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) won the women’s Strade Bianche for the second time in her career, distancing herself from Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) on the steep climb of Via Santa Caterina, in the last kilometer of the route
TO 10 kilometers from the finish line, Kopecky had attacked from a group of five. Longo Borghini chased her and caught up, and both runners headed towards Siena.
Longo Borghini led the final climb, but Kopecky overtook her with explosive acceleration to raise their arms in Piazza del Campo. Your teammate Demi Vollering she beat Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) in the sprint for third place.
Men’s race classification
1 – POGACAR Tadej (UAE) 5:19:45
2 – SKUJINŠ Toms (Lidl) + 2:44
3 – VAN GILS Maxim (Lotto) + 2:47
4 – PIDCOCK Thomas (INEOS) + 3:50
5 – MOHORIC Matej (Bahrain) + 4:26
6 – COSNEFROY Benoît (AG2R) + 4:39
7 – FORMOLO Davide (Movistar) + 4:41
8 – MARTINEZ Lenny (Groupama) + 4:48
9 – ZANA Filippo (Jayco) + 4:49
10 – LAPORTE Christophe (Visma) + 5:17
Women’s race classification
1 – KOPECKY Lotte (SD Worx) 3:55:43
2 – LONGO BORGHINI Elisa (Lidl) + 0:04
3 – VOLLERING Demi (SD Worx) + 0:26
4 – NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna (Canyon) mt
5 – VAN ANROOIJ Shirin (Lidl) + 0:40
6 – FAULKNER Kristen (EF Education) + 0:41
7 – MARKUS Riejanne (Team Visma) + 1:01
8 – CHABBEY Elise (Canyon) + 1:54
9 – YOU Marianne (Visma) mt
10 – MUZIC Évita (FDJ) mt
Source: Eitb
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