Race Preview: Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 🇮🇹
Everything you need to know about the upcoming 60th edition of the 'Race of the Two Seas'. Juan Ayuso, Jonathan Milan, Mathieu van der Poel, and Tom Pidcock headline a strong start list.
Hi everyone,
We’re starting today with a Tirreno-Adriatico preview written by the amazing Joe Morgan. If you don’t know Joe, I strongly recommend that you check out his work on Substack. He writes the most comprehensive yet accessible previews I’ve ever seen, and it’s a true pleasure to share his work here.
Today we’ll also have a Brandon McNulty story, and Strade Bianche content later on this evening. Tomorrow we’ll have a big interview with Visma Lease a Bike’s Grischa Niermann, so there’s lots going on.
Have a great day
Daniel 🫶
Known as the ‘Race of the Two seas’, the 60th edition of Tirreno-Adriatico begins on March 10 on the coast of the Tyrrhenian sea, and sees the peloton travel across Italy to the shores of the Adriatic Sea concluding on March 17.
Running parallel to Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico has become one of the most prestigious one-week races on the UCI WorldTour calendar, often seeing many of the world’s best riders in attendance. Tirreno-Adriatico is essentially a mini Giro d’Italia, and with the Italian grand tour coming up in around two months, this race is the perfect warm-up event for those eyeing La Corsa Rosa in May.
The 2025 edition follows a similar format to the previous couple of years, beginning a pan-flat individual time trial at Lido di Camaiore. A couple of stages for the sprinters and puncheurs follow, before the races only mountain top finish on stage 6. The race concludes with one last stage for the sprinters, finishing in San Benedetto del Tronto where the 2025 winner of Tirreno-Adriatico will be crowned.
With no Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard, Primož Roglič or Remco Evenepoel at this year’s race, we should have a wide open battle for the blue jersey.
Race Schedule
Stage 1 | Lido di Camaiore - Lido di Camaiore - 9.9km | Monday 10 March
Stage 2 | Camaiore - Follonica - 189km | Tuesday 11 March
Stage 3 | Follonica - Colfiorito (Foligno) - 239km | Wednesday 12 March
Stage 4 | Norcia - Trasacco - 184km | Thursday 13 March
Stage 5 | Ascoli Piceno - Pergola - 196km | Friday 14 March
Stage 6 | Cartoceto - Frontignano - 166km | Saturday 15 March
Stage 7 | Porto Potenza Picena - San Benedetto del Tronto - 147km | Sunday 16 March
2024 Edition
Jonas Vingegaard was the outright favourite to take the title in last year’s edition, and the two-time Tour de France winner well and truly delivered the goods. A dominant performance on stage 5 with a nearly 30 kilometre solo attack and winning the stage by over a minute, illustrated that nobody was ever going to beat the Dane. Vingegaard backed up this performance by cruising to victory on the summit finish up Monte Petrano the following day to seal the first Tirreno-Adriatico title of his career.
Juan Ayuso was Vingegaard’s closest challenger, and after surprisingly winning the opening time-trial, the Spanish rider looked to pose a serious threat to the Dane. Whilst he was no match on the climbs in the end, Ayuso was still best of the rest, and alongside Jai Hindley, rounded out the podium.
There were four hotly contested sprints in the race, with three different winners. Jasper Philipsen and Phil Bauhaus won stages two and three respectively with powerful and well-timed sprints whilst Jonathan Milan took stages four and seven, and in the process wrapped up the points classification.
2024 Podium
Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
Juan Ayuso 🇪🇸 (UAE Team Emirates)
Jai Hindley 🇦🇺 (BORA-hansgrohe)
Teams
There will be 24 teams in the 2025 edition of Tirreno-Adriatico, with 7 riders in each line-up. In total, 168 riders are set to be on the start line of the time-trial on stage one consisting of:
All 18 UCI WorldTour Teams
Alpecin-Deceuninck 🇧🇪, Arkéa-B&B Hotels🇫🇷, Bahrain-Victorious🇧🇭, Cofidis🇫🇷, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale🇫🇷, EF Education-EasyPost🇺🇸, Groupama-FDJ🇫🇷, INEOS Grenadiers🇬🇧, Intermarché-Wanty🇧🇪, Lidl-Trek🇺🇸, Movistar Team🇪🇸, Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe🇩🇪, Soudal Quick-Step🇧🇪, Team Jayco AlUla🇦🇺, Team Picnic PostNL🇳🇱, Team Visma | Lease a Bike🇳🇱, UAE Team Emirates-XRG🇦🇪, and XDS Astana Team🇰🇿.
Six UCI Continental Teams
Israel Premier Tech🇮🇱, Uno-X Mobility🇳🇴, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team🇨🇭, Team Polti VisitMalta🇮🇹, Tudor Pro Cycling Team🇨🇭, and VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè🇮🇹.
Key Riders
(Based on provisional startlists dated Friday)
General Classification
Juan Ayuso 🇪🇸 (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
Previous best at Tirreno-Adriatico: 2nd in 2024
Last year’s runner-up will no doubt have the ambition of going one step further in 2025. Juan Ayuso, like almost every other UAE rider, has started 2025 with a bang, recently winning the Faun Drome Classic after a gutsy 40 kilometre solo attack. The Spaniard is bang in form and seems to be the man to beat in this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico.
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