Cycling: Michal Kwiatkowski celebrates overall victory at Tirreno-Adriatico

Polish professional cyclist Michal Kwiatkowski won the overall standings at the stage race Tirreno-Adriatico. On the seventh and final stage, an individual time trial over 10.1 kilometres in San Benedetto del Tronto, the 27-year-old rider from Team Sky took eleventh place to claim the lead in the overall standings.

He achieved this in front of Damiano Caruso (Italy/BMC Racing) and his team mate Thomas Geraint from Great Britain. Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome (Sky) finished 34th in 13:31 minutes behind Kwiatkowski. Place.

For Kwiatkowski, it was the second success of the year after winning the Algarve Tour in February,”I am very happy to have won one of the most beautiful races of the year. I would like to thank the whole team for their great support throughout the week,”said Kwiatkowski.

Australian time trial specialist Dennis Rohan (BMC Racing) clinched the stage victory on the Adriatic coast in 11:14 minutes. Rohan was only four seconds faster than Dutchman Jos van Emden (LottoNL-Jumbo). The Spaniard Jonathan Castroviejo (Sky) finished third with an eight-second gap.

Lennard Kämna (Wedel/Sunweb) came in 21st as the best German with a gap of 25 seconds behind. and improved by nine places to 94th place in the final ranking. Four-time time trial world champion Tony Martin (Cottbus/Katusha-Alpecin) disappointed to 22nd place. In the overall standings Martin is in 47th place with a gap of 19:52 minutes behind Kwiatkowski, the best German driver.