Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 Stage 7

March 16, 2025 The race concludes on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in San Benedetto del Tronto, the traditional finish for Tirreno-Adriatico. The last climbing of the race tops out on the climb to Ripatransone 90KM from the finish. We should see a bunch sprint after 5 laps of a 14.5KM circuit through San Benedetto del Tronto. A group of five got clear including Kévin Vauquelin of Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck, Manuele Tarozzi of VF-Group Bardiani CSF-Faizanè, Lucas Hamilton of Ineos, and Bjorn Koerdt of Picnic-PostNL. Ineos were chasing in hopes of pulling the break back before the Intermediate Sprint at 43.5KM to go. If Filippo Ganna could get the bonus seconds on offer, they would be enough for him to move up from third to second overall. The chase was effective and they had the break at 90 seconds with 108KM to go. Laurens De Plus of Ineos set a hard pace up to Ripatransone and only van der Poel was left out front with 5.5KM still to climb. He too was caught with 92KM to go but Ineos continued to push the pace. Ineos led the peloton off the climb and to the sea front. The speed ramped back up with 46KM to go in anticipation of the Intermediate Sprint. A full lead out from Ineos was challenged by Lidl-Trek and Bahrain Victorious. Antonio Tiberi of Bahrain Victorious needed to hold his GC and Jonathan Milan was only 2 sprint points away from taking the Ciclamino Jersey back from Tom Pidcock. Ganna went full steam toward the line and got the bonus seconds, officially moving him to second overall. Milan led him out and did enough to get second place with Tiberi taking third. Ineos got what they wanted and relinquished the front to the sprint teams like Lidl-Trek and Visma-Lease a Bike. Nerves noticeably became more strained with 16KM to go on their way to the bell lap. There was a lot more motion in the bunch to move up and with 4KM to go, there were seven teams across the road, charging toward the final corners to keep their position. Ganna repaid the favor to Milan and led Lidl-Trek through 1KM to go with a hard and long pull. Edward Theuns of Lidl-Trek took over and dropped Milan off with 225M to go. Jake Stewart of Israel-Premier Tech got a run on Milan but when the big man got on the pedals, he would not be stopped. Tord Gudmestad led out Sam Bennett of Decathlon AG2R but he could not overhaul Milan by the line. Milan took the win with Bennett in second and Olav Kooij of Visma-Lease a Bike in third. There was no stress for Juan Ayuso of UAE-XRG on the final day and he sealed the GC win by 35 seconds over Ganna and 36 seconds to Tiberi.