Simon Yates Time Trials to Tirreno-Adriatico Victory
Yates does enough in final time trial to secure overall victory, Filippo Ganna is fastest
Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) produced a great performance in the Time Trial, enough to hold off Geraint Thomas (Ineos), who only managed to regain 22 of the 39 seconds needed to beat Yates as overall winner.
Yates, who specializes in climbing, finished 17th on the final 10km time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto.
Posting the fourth fastest time on the stage, Thomas overhauled Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) to finish second overall and Majka third.
2020 Tirreno-Ardriatico Stage 8 Top 10
1 Filippo Ganna (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers 0:10:42
2 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) NTT Pro Cycling 0:00:18
3 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:26
4 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:28
5 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:33
6 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:34
7 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:39
8 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel) CCC Team 0:00:40
9 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain McLaren
10 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00:42
2020 Tirreno-Ardriatico Overall Top 10
1 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 32:07:34
2 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:17
3 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:29
4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:56
5 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana Pro Team 0:00:58
6 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:01:18
7 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:01:41
8 Michael Woods (Can) EF Pro Cycling 0:02:12
9 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:02
10 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:03:10