Roglic closes in on Tirreno-Adriatico Title with 3rd stage win

Defending champion Primoz Roglic on Saturday won a third straight stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, consolidating his chance of overall victory a day before the Italian stage race ends

A little over six months after a crash in a sprint in the Spanish Vuelta ended his 2022 season, the 33-year-old Slovenian dominated his rivals in a sprint on the cobbled streets of the village of Osimo.

Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart was in second place ahead of Portugal's Joao Almeida.

The sixth stage spans 193km and is interspersed with short steep climbs.

Roglic has no margin for error leading Almeida by 18sec and Geoghegan Hart by 23sec going into Sunday's finale on a palm-strewn promenade on the Adriatic coast.

The final stage of 154km is largely flat.

VIDEO: 2023 Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 6 Highlights

2023 Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 6 Top 10

1  ROGLIC Primož Jumbo-Visma 4:49:17
2  GEOGHEGAN HART Tao INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
3  ALMEIDA João UAE Team Emirates 0:00
4  MAS Enric Movistar Team 0:00
5  LANDA Mikel Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
6  CICCONE Giulio Trek - Segafredo 0:03
7  CARTHY Hugh EF Education-EasyPost 0:09
8  WOODS Michael Israel - Premier Tech 0:09
9  PIDCOCK Thomas INEOS Grenadiers 0:20
10  VAN AERT Wout Jumbo-Visma 0:20

2023 Tirreno-Adriatico  GC after Stage 6

1 ROGLIC Primož TJV 25:06:21 
2 ALMEIDA João UAD 0:18
3 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao IGD 0:23 
4 KÄMNA Lennard BOH 0:34
5 CICCONE Giulio TFS 0:37
6 MAS Enric MOV 0:41
7 LANDA Mikel TBV 0:56
8 CARTHY Hugh EFE 0:57
9 VLASOV Aleksandr BOH 1:10
10 PINOT Thibaut GFC 1:11