As it happened: Juan Ayuso wins Tirreno-Adriatico as Jonathan Milan dominates final sprint and avoids late crash

Hello and welcome to the Cyclingnews live report for the stage 7 of Tirreno-Adriatico 2025.

After the mountain finish of stage 6 to Frontignano, today’s stage 7 passes mostly along the Adriatic coast. 

The 147km stage starts in Porto Potenza Picena and ends in San Bendetto del Tronto.

The stage includes a short and then a longer climb after 45km but then the riders cover five laps of a 14.5km along the seafront. 

We’re expecting a sprint royale, with Jonathan Milan, Olav Kooij, Paul Magnier, Mathieu van der Poel, Sam Bennett, Dylan Groenwegen and other others, to fight for the stage victory. 

Juan Ayuso and UAE Team Emirates seem in control of the GC but there could be a battle for the mid-stage time bonus as Antonio Tiberi, Filippo Ganna and Derek Gee fight for the final podium places. 

Tiberi is second overall, 37 seconds down on Ayuso but Ganna is only one second down on his fellow Italian, with Gee at four seconds from Ganna. 

There’s an intermediate sprint after103km, with time bonuses of 3, 2 and 1 second. 

There are also time bonuses of 10,6 and 4 seconds awarded at the finish but they will surely be swept up by the sprinters. Unless Ganna rides super aggressively.  

After a short neutralised sector, the stage is underway! 

Cyclingnews was at the summit finish of Tirreno-Adriatico on Saturday to see Juan Ayuso wins stage 6 and take the race lead from Ganna. 

It was a controlled and impressive effort from the young Spaniard, who appears back to his best. 

This is our stage report. 

Tirreno-Adriatico: Juan Ayuso wins stage 6 summit finish, takes race lead 

Mathieu van der Poel is one of the riders to try an early attack but he is soon caught.  

Perhaps the Dutchman is looking for a last hard day out before he rests up and prepares for next Saturday’s Milan-San Remo.

We spoke too soon! Van der Poel has attacked again and other riders have joined him.

MvdP has four partners in crime in the break: Kévin Vauquelin (Arké -B&B Hotels), Lucas Hamilton (Ineos Grenadiers), Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) and 20-year-old Britain Björn Koerdt (Team Picnic PostNL)

The peloton seems to be letting them go…