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Fastest time recorded on Poggio set by Van der Poel at Milan-San Remo

Fastest time recorded on Poggio set by Van der Poel at Milan-San Remo


Milan-San Remo resulted in the second fastest edition on record for the 114-year-old Italian Monument, thanks to strong tailwinds on the Ligurian coast of the Mediterranean. A combination of those winds, good legs and extreme motivation propelled Mathieu van der Poel into the record books with the fastest time ever on the climb of the Poggio di Sanremo. His solo attack across the top of the final climb catapulted him to a solo victory on Via Roma.

Van der Poel blasted his way up the 3.7km Poggio in 5 minutes, 38 seconds. That was a robust eight full seconds faster than the previous record, 5:46, set by Italian Giorgia Furlan, who won the 1994 race. Furlan’s scorching time was almost bettered the next year by winner Laurent Jalabert, who covered the same climb in 5:49.

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