Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) soloed to victory in Milano-Torino, striking out in the final kilometre on the famous Superga climb to take his second victory of the 2026 season.
The Briton jumped clear of a select lead group on the climb overlooking Turin, with his rivals offering no answer to his scathing acceleration.
Behind him, Tobias Halland Johanessen (Uno-X Mobility) was best of the rest, the Norwegian rolling in for second place at four second down. Past winner Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) couldn’t replicate his triumph from four years ago, instead rounding out the podium at a margin of five seconds.
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“Primož is hard to read, he’s always in the saddle,” he said about dealing with tough opponents in the finale. “So I was expecting him to be good there, and I was hesitating to attack near the end because everyone was looking pretty strong. But I knew at one point I had to go.”
How it unfolded
Milano-Torino, usually one of the more changeable race routes of the one-day Classics, stuck with the climber-friendly parcours for its 106th edition with a 174km route taking the peloton from Rho in Lombardy to the Superga climb in Piedmont.
A largely pan-flat opening 150km would give way to two major tests in the final in the form of two ascents of the Superga (4.9km at 9.1%) overlooking Turin, with the second ascent playing host to the race’s decisive summit finish.
Without much to battle over until the final kilometres of the day, it was no surprise that a lower profile group of riders got away early on in the break of the day. Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) was joined in the move by Patrick Konrad (Lidl-Trek), Valentin Ferron (Cofidis), Andrea Pietrobon…
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