Tadej Pogačar stormed to a historic fourth consecutive victory at Il Lombardia after launching an unanswerable attack on the slopes of the Colma di Sormano climb.

Pogačar rode solo for 48 kilometres to the finish line in Como to take his 25th individual victory of the season. The win also saw the Slovenian equal Fausto Coppi’s record of four straight Lombardia victories and capped a remarkable year in which he recently won the road world title in Zurich.

With 84 kilometres to go the lead group were onto the slopes of the Madonna di Ghisallo climb. The pace was gradually beginning to ramp up in the peloton behind them with UAE Team Emirates lined out at the head of the bunch. Tadej Pogačar was well placed alongside his teammate Rafal Majka as the UAE train gradually cut into the breakaways advantage. The leader’s gap had been cut by a minute as the peloton began to ascend the Ghisallo.

The lead group’s advantage stood at just one minute as the Sormano began with 54 kilometres to the finish. Meanwhile back down the road it was over to Yates and Pavel Sivakov for UAE. Pogačar sat ominously in third wheel as Yates went to work and began to shred the time gap to the front of the race. Sivakov soon took over as the peloton snaked through Sormano’s series of hairpins and cut the gap to 30 seconds.

Sivakov soon swallowed up the remnants of the break. Just as the peloton made contact with the last men standing, Arensman and Xandro Meurisse of Alpecin-Deceuninck, it was over to Pogačar and he attacked instantly. A trademark explosive acceleration saw him quickly open up a gap over Remco Evenepoel, Movistar’s Enric Mas and Lennert van Eeetvelt of Lotto Dstny, the only riders capable of even attempting to follow.

1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, in 06:04:58
2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step, + 03:16
3. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek, + 04:31
4. Ion Izagirre (Esp) Cofidis, + 04:34
5. Enric Mas (Esp) Movistar,
6. Pavel Sivakov (Fra) UAE Team Emirates,
7. Lennert van Eetvelt (Bel) Lotto Dstny, all at same time
8. Neilson Powless (Usa) EF Education-EasyPost, + 04:58
9. David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ,
10. Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck, all at same time

Source link

Tadej Pogačar storms to fourth consecutive Il Lombardia victory after 48km solo breakaway

3 Wild CTR Cashouts + Bonus Pic

Avocado Toast

Grilled Chicken with Quinoa and Spinach

Donate

Privacy Policy

Related posts