As it happened: Italian sprint star takes final stage as Isaac Del Toro takes Tirreno-Adriatico 2026 overall

1. Jonathan Milan (ITA) Lidl-Trek 3:04’54”
2. Sam Welsford (AUS) Ineos Grenadiers
3. Laurenz Rex (BEL) Soudal-QuickStep
4. Oded Kogut (ISR) NSN
5. Pavel Bittner (CZE) Picnic-PostNL
6. Tobias Lund Andresen (DEN) Decathlon-CMA CGM
7. Anders Foldager (DEN) Jayco-AlUla
8. Arnaud De Lie (BEL) Lotto-Intermarche
9. Giovanni Lonardi (ITA) Polti-VisitMalta
10. Ivan Garcia Cortina (ESP) Movistar all S.T.

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2026-03-15T14:41:55.528Z

Isaac Del Toro was caught up in the late crash but he rolled across the line with no worries as they were well inside the final 3km as he crossed the line with most of his teammates.

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Jonathan Milan wins stage 7 of Tirreno-Adriatico for the third year in a row!

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400 metres to go and Abrahamsen is caught with Milan coming up very fast.

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500 metres to go with Abrahamsen still leading with Ganna controlling the peloton.

Ganna hits the front for Ineos Grenadiers and that is bringing the gap to Abrahamsen down dramatically.

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Abrahamsen has nine seconds with 2km to go.

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Premier Tech)
Edward Planckaert (Alpecin-Premier Tech)
Ayco Bastiaens (Soudal-QuickStep)

Magnier may have also been involved.

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The peloton makes a big acceleration for the first tight corner.

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Just 3km to go with Bahrain Victorious and Tudor taking over on the front. Abrahamsen has 11 seconds on the peloton.

2026-03-15T14:30:54.972Z

Visma-Lease a Bike, Pinarello-Q36.6, Picnic-PostNL and Ineos Grenadiers all now come back to the front with 4km to go to try and bring Abrahamsen back again.

Abrahamsen riding very well and is holding 10 seconds on the bunch with the peloton’s chase stalling.

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Louis Vervaeke (Soudal-QuickStep) leads the chase of Abrahamsen with 6km to go, the big Norwegian has 10 seconds on the bunch.

Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility)

He was led out by a teammate as he goes solo now with 7km to go. Alessandro Tonelli (Polti-VisitMalta) tried to follow but didn’t get very far.

2026-03-15T14:27:08.895Z

VIsma-Lease a Bike, Pinarello-Q36.5, Picnic-PostNL, Decathlon-CMA CGM, Ineos Grenadiers and UAE Team Emirates-XRG lead the peloton with 8km to go.

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Picnic-PostNL moving up for Bittner as they still search for their first win of the season.

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Ineos Grenadiers are trying to move up the left side of the peloton to set up Welsford.

Visma-Lease a Bike take over control at the front of the peloton with Decathlon-CMA CGM, Polti-VIsitMalta, Alpecin-Premier Tech and UAE Team Emirates-XRG battling to join them.

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UAE Team Emirates-XRG leading the peloton.

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One lap to go in Tirreno-Adriatico 2026.

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Covi and De Bondt are caught.

The Jayco-AlUla duo are working well and have opened up a little bit more of a gap but they are just ahead and not really challenging the bunch.

Dries De Bondt (Jayco-AlUla)
Alessandro Covi (Jayco-AlUla)

Decathlon-CMA CGM shutting it down immediately with Paul Lapeira. Ayco Bastiaens (Soudal-QuickStep) helping the chase, too.

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The race has settled into the familiar pattern of the build up towards a bunch sprint.

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2026-03-15T14:07:25.133Z

Bike change for Ivan Garcia Cortina (Movistar)

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Decathlon-CMA CGM and UAE Team Emirates-XRG lead the peloton with 25km to go.

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Two laps of the circuit to go.

The race is all together for the first time in a very long time.

2026-03-15T13:56:13.263Z

De Lie, Zimmermann, Slock, Artz, Mozzato, Balmer and Sevilla make it back to the peloton after a hellish chase since being dropped on the climb.

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De Lie and co are now 52 seconds back.

Soudal-QuickStep, Tudor and Decathlon-CMA CGM now take the front to pace for their sprinters.

2026-03-15T13:46:37.726Z

Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) needed to take the maximum five points in the intermediate sprint to take the points jersey from Del Toro but instead only took two leaving him two points behind the race leader.

Dries De Bondt (Jayco-AlUla)

The Belgian goes for the second time today but doesn’t last long. Uno-X Mobility now getting involved in some new moves.

Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

He is rapidly chased and caught before he congratulates Jorgenson.

1. Jorgenson 5pts 3″
2. Van Aert 3pts 2″
3. T. Johannessen 2pts 1″
4. Roglič 1pt

Jorgenson now jumps over Pellizzari in the GC to take second in GC.

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De Lie and co are now just 47 seconds behind the peloton.

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2.5km to go until the intermediate sprint.

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De Lie has teammates, Huub Artz, Liam Slock and George Zimmermann with him as well as Sevilla, Alexandre Balmer (Solution Tech-Nippo-Rali) and Luca Mozzato (Tudor) at one minute and 20 seconds behind the peloton.

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The average speed after two hours of racing is 45.5kph. This is absolutely rapid and that is with almost all of the 1100 metres of elevation done as well.

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Azparren caught by the Visma-Lease a Bike led peloton as they really have the pace very high with Tim Rex leading the train of yellow and black.

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Some interesting news coming out of the race is that Javier Romo (Movistar) allegedly grabbed the neck of Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) after stage 6 yesterday. The news was reported yesterday on Het Laatste Nieuws, Feltet and Velora.

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2026-03-15T13:25:51.824Z

Bike change for De Lie, his day going from bad to worse!

Xabier Azparren (Pinarello-Q36.5)

He launched across to Covi who just sat up and now the Spaniard leads solo just five seconds ahead of the peloton with four laps to go. The next time across the finish line is the intermediate sprint.

2026-03-15T13:24:17.861Z

Visma-Lease a Bike may actually be working for Jorgenson to have a go at the bonus seconds in the intermediate sprint as he sits one second behind Pellizzari in the GC.

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Visma-Lease a Bike have the entire team on the front of the peloton, interestingly.

Covi has 10 seconds on the peloton with one minute 51 seconds back to the De Lie group.

Alessandro Covi (Jayco-AlUla)

The Italian rider with the odd coloured shoes launches. Timo Kielich (Visma-Lease a Bike) thought about joining him but he was told to pace on the front of the bunch, instead.

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De Lie is almost two minutes behind the peloton.

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Van der Poel finally pulls off the front with Soudal-QuickStep taking over the pacing.

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The peloton finally makes contact with the back of the lead group with Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) doing the work in the chase so he can support his leader, Del Toro.

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The peloton appears to be about 10 seconds off the back of the lead group now.

Van der Poel is still pushing hard with Lund Andresen in this lead group, Van der Poel is just dragging the winner of stage 3 to the finish here with no other pure sprinters aside from maybe Van Aert.

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Another abandon, Mattia Stenico (Bardiani CSF-7 Saber)

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The race enters the finishing circuit for five laps in San Benedetto del Tronto.

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The descending is done and the flat roads begin. You can immediately tell this as the gap between the lead group and the peloton has shrunk to 18 seconds.

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Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) is waving for the camera motorbike to go further away as he believes that the moto is assisting Van der Poel.

Van der Poel still leads the way with no teammates at all in the group with him. The peloton now 34 seconds down with De Lie’s group now at one and a half minutes.

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Magnier and Milan are in the peloton with Welsford and, we believe, Philipsen who seems to have been distanced by the front group.

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Ineos Grenadiers pushing hard in the peloton just 26 seconds behind the Van der Poel led front group.

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De Lie is over a minute down on the lead group. Pavel Bittner (Picnic-PostNL) is also off the back.

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It appears that Philipsen has been dropped by his teammate, Van der Poel. The former world champion is still riding very hard still, though.

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Pellizzari also right up to the front of the front group.

1. Van der Poel 5pts
2. Del Toro 3pts
3. Roglič 2pts
4. Jorgenson 1pt

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Van der Poel continues to lead the front group with still about 25 seconds on the chasing pack.

2026-03-15T12:47:15.155Z

Van Aert recovered very well and did manage to get to the front group before the race split.

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Around 20 seconds splitting the lead group and the rest of the peloton led by Ineos Grenadiers.

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Breakaway caught with 92km to go.

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Tobias Lund Andresen (Decathlon-CMA CGM) is still in the lead group who are just about to catch the break.

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De Bondt has recovered well with González and Azparren still out front as a trio. Only by nine seconds, though.

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Van der Poel still obliterating the peloton. Philipsen is still in this front group.

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2026-03-15T12:41:11.867Z

Ineos Grenadiers have really been caught out with Sam Welsford out the back. Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) has also lost touch.

2026-03-15T12:40:16.814Z

Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) abandons the race.

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About 30 riders or less are now moving away from the rest of the peloton.

2026-03-15T12:38:50.689Z

Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Intermarche), Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), Madis Mihkels (EF Education-EasyPost) and more are really struggling with this pace.

2026-03-15T12:38:08.049Z

Philipsen is starting to drop back through the group as Van der Poel is absolutely hammering the tempo on the front.

2026-03-15T12:37:37.536Z

Out front, Azparren is pushing hard with González as De Bondt is starting to really hurt.

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Pellizzari has missed the split with race leader Del Toro on the back wheel of Philipsen.

2026-03-15T12:36:22.587Z

Ineos Grenadiers having to close the gap to a very select group at the front of the peloton.

2026-03-15T12:35:59.604Z

Van der Poel hits the front with Philipsen on the front. They are absolutely flying up the Ripatransone climb. Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor) and Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) right at the front. Multiple riders losing touch.

2026-03-15T12:34:12.203Z

Alpecin-Premier Tech seem to be really testing the legs of some of the purer sprinters with almost the entire team on the front. Some gaps are starting to appear in the bunch as well.

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Jasper Philipsen speaking to TV before today… “It is a tough finish with some climbs in the middle but we’ll see. It should be a nice day. We are a week in and legs are tired, I feel good and made a good step and I’m looking forward to today. I am also looking forward to Milan-Sanremo next week.”

2026-03-15T12:29:49.550Z

The riders are about to start the final climb of the race, the Ripatransone. Around 9km long at about 5% average gradient.

The very high speed in the peloton has seen the gap drop to under two minutes up to the breakaway.

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Multiple teams are working together at the head of the peloton.

Alpecin-Premier Tech
Lidl-Trek
UAE Team Emirates-XRG
Picnic-PostNL
Soudal-QuickStep

2026-03-15T12:05:05.049Z

The riders have started climbing the first ascent of the two on the menu today. This first one is not categorised. Only five, three, two and one points available today. Diego Pablo Sevilla (Polti-Visit Malta) just needs to finish to win the green KOM jersey.

The gap has grown rapidly and now sits at almost four minutes for De Bondt, Azparren and González.

2026-03-15T11:47:25.424Z

The chaser was Carlos Samudio (Solution Tech-Nippo-Rali). The rider from Panama wasn’t able to join his fellow Panamanian and teammate, González, in the break and is now in the peloton once more.

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A new move accelerates out of the peloton to try and join the leaders.

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The trio get a gap of 40 seconds over the peloton.

Xabier Azparren(Pinarello-Q36.5)
Dries De Bondt (Jayco-AlUla)
Roberto Carlos González (Solution Tech-Nippo-Rali)

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2026-03-15T11:36:56.627Z

Andreas Kron (Uno-X Mobility) is the latest rider to fall victim to illness and doesn’t start today.

Racing begins for the final stage at Tirreno-Adriatico 2026!

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Just 4.2km of neutral today.

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The riders are in the neutralised zone.

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Sign on is almost complete and interviews are done, the riders are ready for one final stage at this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico.

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2026-03-15T11:10:55.819Z

It has been a very difficult few days for local hero, Pellizzari, who feared abandoning due to tendon issues but has pushed through to likely finish second in the final GC…