2020 Milan–San Remo | |
Series: | 2020 UCI World Tour |
Race No: | 8 |
Season No: | 21 |
Date: | 8 August 2020[1] |
Stages: | 1 |
Distance: | 305 |
Unit: | km |
Time: | 7h 16' 09" |
First: | Wout van Aert |
First Nat: | BEL |
Second: | Julian Alaphilippe |
Second Nat: | FRA |
Third: | Michael Matthews |
Third Nat: | AUS |
Previous: | 2019 |
Next: | 2021 |
The 2020 Milan–San Remo was scheduled to be held on 21 March 2020, but was postponed to 8 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The postponement was made by RCS Sport on 6 March.[2] It was the 111th edition of the Milan–San Remo one-day cycling classic in Northern Italy, and part of the 2020 UCI World Tour calendar.[3]
Belgian rider Wout van Aert of, who had won the 2020 Strade Bianche a week earlier, beat French rider Julian Alaphilippe, the defending champion, of, in a two-up sprint to take the victory, after the duo had broken away from the peloton on the ascent of the Poggio.[4]
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and eight UCI ProTeams were invited to the race. Each of the twenty-seven teams entered six riders each that made up the 162 riders that participated in the race, of which 149 riders finished.[5] [6]
UCI WorldTeams
UCI ProTeams