The 2017 Tirreno–Adriatico was a
road cycling
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stage race
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that took place between 8 and 14 March. It was the 52nd edition of the
Tirreno–Adriatico
Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of th ...
and was the seventh event of the
2017 UCI World Tour
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.
The race was won for the second time in three years by Colombian rider
Nairo Quintana, riding for the .
Quintana took the race lead after winning the queen stage of the race to
Monte Terminillo
Monte Terminillo is a massif in the Monti Reatini, part of the Abruzzi Apennine range in central Italy. It is located some 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome and has a highest altitude of .
It is a typical Apennine massif, both f ...
, and maintained it to the end of the race, ultimately winning by 25 seconds over rider
Rohan Dennis
Rohan Craig Dennis (born 28 May 1990) is an Australian former cyclist, who competed professionally in the track cycling, track and road bicycle racing, road disciplines of the sport for five different teams.
Having been a member of the Australi ...
, who won the final individual time trial stage as well as being part of the opening stage-winning team time trial. The podium was completed by 's
Thibaut Pinot
Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023, spending his entire career with . Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finis ...
, a further 11 seconds in arrears of Dennis.
In the race's other classifications, 's
Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-c ...
won the points classification after two stage victories, a second-place stage finish and a third place; rider
Davide Ballerini won the mountains classification, while
Bob Jungels
Bob Jungels (born 22 September 1992) is a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in Rollingen, Mersch, Luxembourg, Jungels competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2015 Tour de France, 2015, as pa ...
() overtook
Egan Bernal for the victory in the young rider classification, overhauling him in the final time trial. Quintana's won the teams classification with
Jonathan Castroviejo also placing in the top ten overall.
Teams
As Tirreno–Adriatico is a
UCI World Tour
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event, all eighteen
UCI WorldTeam
A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...
s were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 22-team peloton.
Route
The route of the 2017 Tirreno–Adriatico was announced on 15 December 2016. The sixth stage, initially due to be held over was extended to , as a result of sub-standard road conditions.
Stages
Stage 1
;8 March 2017 —
Lido di Camaiore
Lido may refer to:
Geography
* Lido (Belgrade), a river beach on the Danube in Belgrade, Serbia
* Venice Lido, an 11-kilometre-long barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Italy
* Ruislip Lido, a reservoir and artificial beach in Ruislip ...
to Lido di Camaiore, ,
team time trial
A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events).
The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
(TTT)
For the second year in succession, sealed victory on the opening day, as the American team recorded a time some 16 seconds faster than their closest rivals, . Leading the team over the line was Italian rider
Damiano Caruso
Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . A stage winner at both the 2021 Giro d'Italia and the 2021 Vuelta a España, Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national ...
, which enabled him to receive the first blue jersey for the general classification leader. The team's overall contenders
Tejay van Garderen and
Rohan Dennis
Rohan Craig Dennis (born 28 May 1990) is an Australian former cyclist, who competed professionally in the track cycling, track and road bicycle racing, road disciplines of the sport for five different teams.
Having been a member of the Australi ...
were amongst the sextet at the finish, taking an early advantage over their rivals.
The team time trial was marred by a crash suffered by rider
Gianni Moscon, when his front wheel disintegrated at high speed. Moscon fell to the tarmac, suffering abrasions, but was able to remount. After the stage,
Geraint Thomas
Geraint Howell Thomas, ( , ; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam , Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and ...
stated to the media that two other team members suffered broken wheels during the stage; ultimately finished 1 minute, 41 seconds down on the time of the .
Stage 2
;9 March 2017 — Camaiore to
Pomarance,
The day's breakaway consisted of
Davide Ballerini and
Raffaello Bonusi from ,
Hugo Houle (), 's
Alan Marangoni
Alan Marangoni (born 16 July 1984) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2018 for the , , and teams.
Personal
Born on 16 July 1984, in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Marangoni resides in Coti ...
,
Mirco Maestri for , and
Charles Planet (). This sextet managed to gain around four minutes on the peloton, but after the climb to
Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
History
...
their advantage had been cut in half; with to go, a crash in the peloton took down several riders including
Caleb Ewan
Caleb Ewan (born 11 July 1994) is an Australian road and track bicycle racer who rode for UCI WorldTeam . A sprinter, Ewan has a style similar to that of Mark Cavendish, taking an extremely low position that offers him an aerodynamic advantage ...
() and
Jurgen Van den Broeck
Jurgen Van den Broeck (born 1 February 1983) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the , , and squads. Van den Broeck specialised in the time trial discipline, having been Junior World Ch ...
(). Ewan was later forced to abandon, and joined teammate
Roger Kluge
Roger Kluge (born 5 February 1986) is a German professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . Kluge left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the silver ...
on the sidelines after he had abandoned earlier in the day.
With to go the leaders were in sight of the peloton with , , and carrying out the tempo at the front of the group; this started a wave of counter-attacks from the main field, with attacks from
Iuri Filosi (), and pairing
Gianni Moscon and
Michał Kwiatkowski
Michał Kwiatkowski ( , born 2 June 1990) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Kwiatkowski is seen as a strong all rounder, with good sprinting, time-trialling and climbing abilities allowing hi ...
. Inside of remaining, 's
Bob Jungels
Bob Jungels (born 22 September 1992) is a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Born in Rollingen, Mersch, Luxembourg, Jungels competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2015 Tour de France, 2015, as pa ...
and
Geraint Thomas
Geraint Howell Thomas, ( , ; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam , Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and ...
() attacked on the 16% steep climb towards Pomarance, pulling
Tim Wellens
Tim Wellens (born 10 May 1991) is a Belgium, Belgian professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Since turning professional in 2012, and coming from a family of professional cyclists, Wellens has taken almost for ...
(), and duo
Tejay van Garderen and
Damiano Caruso
Damiano Caruso (born 12 October 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . A stage winner at both the 2021 Giro d'Italia and the 2021 Vuelta a España, Caruso was also the 2008 under-23 Italian national ...
– in the leader's blue jersey – away with them. With Thomas pulling clear of Jungels,
Nairo Quintana () countered to the group of pursuers; Thomas was able to stay clear until the end, winning the stage by nine seconds from
Tom Dumoulin
Tom Dumoulin (; born 11 November 1990) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He has won the Giro d'Italia and nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Champion ...
of .
Stage 3
;10 March 2017 —
Monterotondo Marittimo to
Montalto di Castro,
A group of riders that included
Andriy Hrivko (),
Alexis Gougeard (),
Mattia Frapporti (),
Mirco Maestri and
Luca Wackermann (),
Iuri Filosi and
Kohei Uchima () broke clear of the peloton in the early kilometres, with a gap of over three minutes ahead of the day's only categorised climb, at
Scansano
Scansano is a town and comune, of medieval origin, in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany, central Italy. The area which Scansano lies within is called Maremma.
Scansano area is home to the production of Morellino di Scansano, a type of wine.
...
. Just as he had done the previous day, Maestri took maximum points at the pair of intermediate sprint points on the route, but the peloton was still pulling the breakaway back, and the field was as one again, with around remaining.
There was a crash in the final kilometres of the stage that took down 's main sprinter,
Fernando Gaviria
Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is well known as a sprinter (cycling), sprinter. Riding for the Colombian national cycling team, ...
, and delaying numerous other riders as well – with the crash coming within the final , all riders in the group were given the same time as the stage winner. At the finish, the world champion
Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-c ...
() took his first victory of the season, edging out
Elia Viviani
Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional Cycle sport, cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . On 10 May 2015, Viviani won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia, win ...
() and
Jürgen Roelandts
Jürgen Roelandts (born 2 July 1985) is a Belgium, Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2020, for the , and squads. He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, .
Care ...
() in a sprint to the line. With race leader
Greg Van Avermaet () among those that were delayed by the Gaviria crash, he ceded the race lead – for the third leader in as many days – to teammate
Rohan Dennis
Rohan Craig Dennis (born 28 May 1990) is an Australian former cyclist, who competed professionally in the track cycling, track and road bicycle racing, road disciplines of the sport for five different teams.
Having been a member of the Australi ...
.
Stage 4
;11 March 2017 — Montalto di Castro to
Monte Terminillo
Monte Terminillo is a massif in the Monti Reatini, part of the Abruzzi Apennine range in central Italy. It is located some 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome and has a highest altitude of .
It is a typical Apennine massif, both f ...
,
Stage 5
;12 March 2017 —
Rieti
Rieti (; , Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina region.
T ...
to
Fermo
Fermo (; ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo.
Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway.
History
The oldest huma ...
,
Stage 6
;13 March 2017 —
Ascoli Piceno
Ascoli Piceno (; ; ) is a (municipality) and capital of the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Italy, Italian region of Marche.
Geography
The town lies at the confluence of the Tronto, River Tronto and the small Castellano (river), River Castell ...
to
Civitanova Marche
Civitanova Marche () is a (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about east of Macerata.
Geography
Civitanova Marche borders the municipalities: Montecosaro, Porto San ...
,
Stage 7
;14 March 2017 —
San Benedetto del Tronto
San Benedetto del Tronto is a city and ''comune'' in Marche, Italy. Part of an urban area with 100,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most densely populated areas along the Adriatic Sea coast. It is the most populated city in Province of Ascoli P ...
to San Benedetto del Tronto, ,
individual time trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...
(ITT)
Classification leadership table
In the 2017 Tirreno–Adriatico, four jerseys were awarded. The
general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages except for the individual time trial: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The leader of the general classification received a blue jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Tirreno–Adriatico, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.
The second classification was the
points classification
The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points c ...
. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Unlike in the
points classification in the Tour de France
The points classification () is a secondary competition in the Tour de France, which started in 1953. Points are given for high finishes in a stage and for winning intermediate sprints, and these are recorded in a points classification. It is co ...
, the winners of all stages – with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification – were awarded the same number of points. Points were also won in intermediate sprints; five points for crossing the sprint line first, three points for second place, two for third and one for fourth. The leader of the points classification was awarded a red jersey.
There was also a
mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either Superior-, or single-category, with more points available for the more difficult, Superior-category climb,
Monte Terminillo
Monte Terminillo is a massif in the Monti Reatini, part of the Abruzzi Apennine range in central Italy. It is located some 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome and has a highest altitude of .
It is a typical Apennine massif, both f ...
. For Monte Terminillo, the top seven riders earned points; on the other climbs, only the top four riders earned points. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a green jersey.
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. Only riders born after 1 January 1992 were eligible; the young rider best placed in the general classification was the leader of the young rider classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.
Final classification standings
General classification
Points classification
Mountains classification
Young rider classification
Teams classification
References
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