Santiago Buitrago, the best Colombian in the Tirreno-Adriatico individual time trial

Santiago Buitrago he was the best Colombian rider in the first stage of the Tirreno Adriatico. The Bahrain-Victorious runner clocked 13.38 in the individual time trial and finished 35th on the day, 1:10 behind INEOS Grenadiers’ Italian Filippo Ganna, who won the fraction with a time of 12:28. The podium was completed by Lennard Kämma from Bora Hansgrohe and Magnus Sheffiled, also from the British team.

The cyclist from Bogotá is one of the centerpieces of the Bahrain Victorious of the 58th edition of the Tyrrhenian Adriatic and his season started off on the right foot as at the Vuelta a Andalucía he finished third overall, being overtaken by UAE Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogacar and his team-mate Mikel Landa. In his first appearance in the Italian race, he showed strong pace and was his team’s second fastest rider in the time trial.

The other Colombian quota is over Fernando Gaviria of the Movistar team, who was in position 141 of the day, 2:02 behind Filippo Ganna and Juan Sebastián Molano of UAE Team Emirates, who was in position 151, 2:15 behind the Italian INEOS Grenadiers cyclist.

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