In an edition for the ages, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won his second Milan-San Remo title, outsprinting Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) after the trio had broken away from the peloton on the race’s penultimate climb of the Cipressa.
That initial break had been forged by an acceleration from Pogačar that only van der Poel, Ganna and young Frenchman Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) were able to follow. Although Grégoire soon yielded to Pogačar’s fearsome tempo, van der Poel hung tight to his wheel, while Ganna kept fighting his way back up to his two rivals despite being dropped by them on the Cipressa and the final climb of the Poggio.
