Pogacar Wins Strade Bianche For Record Fourth Time

Strade Bianche starts and ends successful Siena and features uneven gravel connected Tuscany's celebrated white, chalky roads, including nan Monte Sante Marie section.

Pogacar made his decisive move there, conscionable arsenic he did 2 years ago, and erstwhile Seixas attacked astir 18km from nan finish, only Del Toro went pinch him, refusing to thief nan young French prima pursuit down his team-mate.

Jan Christen vanished conscionable up of Britain's Tom Pidcock to guarantee location were 3 UAE riders successful nan apical six.

"I'm ace happy," said Pogacar. "I was chasing really difficult connected nan steepest portion of nan climb connected Sante Marie.

"But I said to myself, 'I will spell each retired to nan apical and past spot if [Seixas] tin span aliases he will make a gap'. In nan extremity I saw that it's enough, and I knew that Isaac and Jan [were there] also, truthful this helped a lot."

In nan 133km women's race, 7 riders arrived together astatine nan Via Santa Catarina, nan last climb up to nan Piazza del Campo finish, and they were soon whittled down to four.

Elisa Longo Borghini led astir of nan measurement up nan climb but went into nan penultimate area shoulder-to-shoulder pinch Franziska Koch and Katarzyna Niewiadoma, earlier 32-year-old Chabbey darted down nan wrong to declare triumph up of Niewiadoma, pinch Koch finishing third.