2026 Strade Bianche Results & Recap
2026 Strade Bianche is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Tadej Pogačar (UAD) went into Strade Bianche as the hottest of favorites and fully lived up to that billing with another superlative performance on the white roads of Tuscany. After attacking on the Monte Sante Marie sector of gravel with 80km to the finish, the world champion quickly opened up a two-minute on the chasers and managed that buffer well all the way into the finish to claim a record-breaking fourth win in this race, which also meant that he began the season with a victory for the seventh year in a row.
While Pogačar was a class apart, 19-year-old Paul Seixas (DCT) highlighted that he is shaping up as the next big thing and – whisper it! – the best racer that France has produced since the days of Bernard Hinault and Laurent Fignon. Seixas was the last rider to hold Pogačar's wheel on Sante Marie and fully deserved his second place finish.
It came after he attacked from the group chasing the Slovenian on the second ascent of the Pinzuto gravel sector, with 25km remaining. Isaac Del Toro (UAD) went with the Frenchman. With his teammate up the road and heading for victory, the Mexican had an armchair ride into the finish and it looked odds on for a UAE 1-2. Yet, on the final Santa Caterina climb into Siena, Seixas proved the strongest and finished alone in second place, with Del Toro third.
The chase group behind battled hard for fourth place, which eventually went to Romain Grégoire (GFC), ahead of Gianni Vermeersch (RBH), and another UAE rider in Jan Christen, while Tom Pidcock was 7th, ahead of American Matteo Jorgenson.
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