Alaphilippe Takes Tirreno-Adriatico Stage Six Victory
18 March 2019 03:33
Julian
Alaphilippe of Deceuninck Quick Step has won the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico.
The race of
the two seas had Adam Yates in the leader’s jersey for a 195km stage from Matelica
to Jesi.
Davide Ballerini (Astana), Ben King
(Dimension Data), Gijs Van Hoecke (CCC Team), Mirco Maestri (Bardiani-CSF), Igor
Boev (Gazprom-Rusvelo), José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) and Dayer Quintana (Neri
Sottoli-Selle Italia-KTM) broke early with Boev, first over the only climb with
142kms to go which meant that Alexy Lutsenko won the KOM competition.
After 75kms, the break had a lead of
2.30 and as the rain came down, it was still at 2.30 with 107.4kms remaining.
The break was
still around the 2.30 mark thirty kilometres later and down to 1.47 when Miroc
Maestri was first to the first sprint to keep him handily poised in the sprint
competition, just behind Adam Yates.
Onto the
three laps of 12.6km closing circuit in the town of Jesi and the break were
still 2.01 away.
Maestri took
the second sprint as the gap dropped to 1.38 to lead the competition by four
points from Adam Yates.
Rojas and
Ballerini battled on and were five seconds ahead with 4.5kms left.
Ballerini was
the last man and caught with 3.2kms to go and the sprint teams started to move
forward.
Deceuninck
Quick Step sent two to the front and it was Julian Alaphilippe who won in 4.42.11
ahead of Davide Cimolai and Elia Viviani.
Adam Yates
keeps his lead going into the final stage which is a time trial.
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