The 2025 editions of the boys’s Strade Bianche and Strade Bianche Ladies could not have thrown up a lot in the way in which of shock on the high of Saturday’s two podiums.
World champion Tadej Pogačar triumphed as soon as once more within the males’s race, securing the third title of his profession with an 18km solo transfer to win by over a minute in Siena.
Over within the ladies’s race, Demi Vollering delivered the unsurprising outcome, the Dutchwoman forsaking former teammate and coach Anna van der Breggen with the profitable transfer on the ultimate ramp into the Tuscan metropolis.
However regardless of the relative predictability of the headline outcomes of the ‘sixth Monument’, there was lots extra to digest, absorb, and stare upon on Saturday afternoon, with the race proving as soon as once more to be among the many most lovely on the calendar.
We have compiled a number of the greatest photographs from the 2 races, placing all of them collectively in our definitive Strade Bianche 2025 gallery. Scroll on to view the most effective of what this 12 months’s Strade Bianche needed to provide.
World champion Tadej Pogačar rolls to the beginning of the race, relaxed forward of his bid for a 3rd victory
The ladies’s peloton passes by way of considered one of numerous picturesque spots early in tha race
UAE Staff Emirates-XRG have been unsurprisingly a serious presence on the entrance for Pogačar
A main viewing spot of the ladies’s race for this fortunate prepare driver
The boys’s peloton unfold out down the highway because the riders battle by way of a hilly gravel sector
In all places you look within the hills round Siena throws up a good looking background for racing
UAE as soon as once more main the cost within the males’s race, this time on a tough downhill gravel sector
Together with the hills and the gravel, the Tuscan Cypress bushes are a visible calling card of Strade Bianche
Dry circumstances and packed gravel meant that it was one other dusty version of the ‘sixth Monument’
Vollering’s puncture on the San Martino in Grania sector did not hinder her later experience to glory in Siena
A TV helicopter swoops in for a view of the motion as Florian Vermeersch leads the peloton
At instances, the motion was barely seen within the midst of the mud kicked up by riders and race automobiles
At the very least the riders on the head of the lengthy race convoy have been in a position to take pleasure in a dust-free day
Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock on the assault on the head of the race
Tadej Pogačar will get up after a high-speed crash – scraped up however in a position to get again within the race and win
FDJ-Suez supremacy as Demi Vollering and Juliette Labous lead the stays of the ladies’s peloton
Pogačar and Pidcock have been the category of the boys’s subject, however just one man may triumph in Siena
Within the ladies’s race, victory got here right down to a battle between two former teammates in Demi Vollering and Anna van der Breggen
Pello Bilbao and Magnus Cort lead the chase behind Pogačar and Pidcock however this group could be resigned to battling over minor placings
Pogačar going solo – a well-recognized sight at Strade Bianche and in numerous different races on the calendar
Tom Pidcock was pressured to confess defeat after Pogačar shot off the entrance 18km from the end
The Slovenian followers have been excited to see Pogačar within the lead
Mavi Garcia and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot have been within the break of the day and later battled for the rostrum
Pogačar was left bloodied and battered by a mid-race crash, however even that did not cease him from soloing to victory
The ultimate act of the ladies’s race – Vollering leaves Van der Breggen behind on the ultimate ramp into Siena
Vollering celebrates her second profession Strade Bianche win, the most important results of her time with FDJ-Suez to this point
Within the males’s race, Pogačar raced to the road in central Siena alone in entrance of hundreds of packed followers
Pogačar’s victory salute was extra emphatic than standard after his comeback from the crash
Vollering exhibits off her spoils, a hefty trophy for the race win
Pogačar provides yet one more to his unending assortment. How large is his trophy cupboard at this level?
Race winner Vollering and her FDJ-Suez teammate Marie Le Internet share a joyous second on the rostrum
The boys’s remaining podium – Tadej Pogačar, Tom Pidcock, and Tim Wellens
The ladies’s remaining podium – Demi Vollering, Anna van der Breggen, and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
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