Milan – Sanremo 2013

Milan – Sanremo 2013
Host country	Italy
Competition period	17th March 2013
overall length	298 km 246 km
Starting field	200 in 25 teams (135 of which arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Gerald Ciolek 5:37:20 h 2. Peter Sagan same time 3. Fabian Cancellara same time
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The 104th cycling classic Milan – Sanremo took place on March 17th, 2013. For the first time in its history, the race was not held on a Saturday, as usual, but on a Sunday. It was part of the UCI World Tour 2013 and the fourth race within it. The race was originally supposed to take place on the same track as the year before, but due to snowfall on the Passo del Turchino , the race was shortened by 52 kilometers to 246 kilometers. The winner was the German Gerald Ciolek from the South African team MTN Qhubeka .

Attendees

ProTeams Ag2r (ALM) Team Argos-Shimano (ARG) Astana Pro Team (AST) Blanco (BLA) BMC Racing Team (BMC) Cannondale Pro Cycling (CAN) Euskaltel Euskadi (EUS) FDJ (FDJ) Garmin Sharp (GRS) Katusha (KAT)	Lampre-Merida (LAM) Lotto Belisol (LTB) Movistar (MOV) Omega Pharma-Quick Step (OPQ) Orica GreenEdge (OGE) RadioShack Leopard (RLT) Team Saxo-Tinkoff (TST) Sky ProCycling (SKY) Vacansoleil-DCM (VCD)
Professional Continental Teams Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela (AND) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox (BAR) Team Europcar (EUC)	IAM Cycling (IAM) MTN Qhubeka (MTN) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia (VIN)

The 19 ProTeams were entitled to start . In addition, the organizer gave wildcards to six Professional Continental Teams . Each team competed with eight drivers.

Favorites

The top favorite was the Slovak Peter Sagan from the Italian cycling team Cannondale Pro Cycling , after winning two stages in the Tirreno – Adriatico stage race a week earlier , one in a mass sprint and one from a group. If a large group crosses the finish line, former winners Matthew Goss , Mark Cavendish , and Alessandro Petacchi as well as André Greipel would be favorites. Gerald Ciolek had outsider chances after finishing third and fourth at Tirreno-Adriatico. Other favorites besides the 2008 winner were Fabian Cancellara , World Champion Philippe Gilbert , Vincenzo Nibali and the Norwegians Thor Hushovd and Edvald Boasson Hagen .

Race course

In bad weather, a group of six around Lars Ytting Bak , Maxim Belkow , Filippo Fortin , Pablo Lastras , Matteo Montaguti and Diego Rosa was able to pull away shortly after the start . Due to snowfall on the Passo del Turchino , the race had to be interrupted after 118 km in Ovada . The drivers were taken to Cogoleto by bus , from where it was 126 km to the finish. In the further course, another mountain was bypassed with the Le Mànie. The race resumed at 3:00 p.m. The leading group started the race with a lead of 7:10 minutes on the main field. The last breakaway was caught 33 kilometers from the finish. Other drivers then attacked. In the descent from Poggio, the group around Sylvain Chavanel , Peter Sagan , Fabian Cancellara , Ian Stannard , Gerald Ciolek and Luca Paolini took the lead. The main field followed at a short distance. Sagan attacked two kilometers from the finish, but Cancellara was able to close the gap. Then Stannard tried. This time Sagan did the follow-up work and Stannard was caught just before the devil's rag. Gerald Ciolek won the final sprint of the group of six. After Erik Zabel 12 years ago, a German won the trip into spring again .

Result

#	driver	team	time
1.	Gerald Ciolek	MTN Qhubeka	5:37:20 h (43.754 km / h)
2.	Peter Sagan	Cannondale	same time
3.	Fabian Cancellara	RadioShack Leopard	same time
4th	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma	same time
5.	Luca Paolini	Katusha	same time
6th	Ian Stannard	Sky ProCycling	same time
7th	Taylor Phinney	BMC Racing Team	same time
8th.	Alexander Kristoff	Katusha	+ 0:14 min
9.	Mark Cavendish	Omega Pharma	same time
10.	Bernhard Eisel	Sky ProCycling	same time

Web links

• Official website (Italian and English)
• Milan – Sanremo 2013 in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RCS Sport clarifies move of Milan-San Remo and Giro di Lombardia to Sundays velonews.com of November 29, 2012
2. ↑ Preview 104. Milan – Sanremo radsport-news.com from March 16, 2013
3. ↑ Live ticker. Milan – San Remo radsport-news.com
4. ↑ Cycling - Ciolek wins Milan – San Remo ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. eurosport.yahoo.com of March 17, 2013