Tour De France Champion Jonas Vingegaard Wins The Weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico Race – News18

SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy: Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard secured general victory within the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race on Sunday after profitable the 2 large climbing levels.

Showing sturdy early season type, the Danish rider with the Visma crew has now received each races he’s entered in 2024, after additionally taking the general title and profitable three of the 4 levels within the Gran Camino in Spain final month.

It was additionally a powerful response to Tadej Pogacar’s dominating win within the Strade Bianche final weekend. Pogacar completed second behind Vingegaard on the Tour the final two years after profitable biking’s largest race in 2020 and 2021. The pair probably received’t race towards one another once more till this 12 months’s Tour begins in Florence, Italy, on June 29.

Vingegaard completed 1 minute, 24 seconds forward of Spanish rider Juan Ayuso and 1:52 forward of Jai Hindley, the 2022 Giro d’Italia champion from Australia.

Vingegaard received the fifth and sixth levels.

With American rider Matteo Jorgenson profitable the Paris-Nice stage race on Sunday, Visma grew to become the primary crew to win Paris-Nice and the Tirreno-Adriatico in the identical 12 months.

Italian rider Jonathan Milan with Lidl-Trek received the seventh and remaining Tirreno stage in a dash end for his second victory of the race after additionally taking the fourth leg. Alexander Kristoff and Davide Cimolai completed second and third, respectively.

The subsequent main race is the Milan-San Remo subsequent Saturday, though Vingegaard doesn’t plan to enter the only-day traditional.

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