'Underdone' Evans claims Tirreno titleAustralia's 2009 world road race champion Cadel Evans won the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race following Tuesday's final stage, a 9.3km time-trial around San Benedetto del Tronto, won by Swiss Fabian Cancellara.
Having taken the overall race lead on Sunday and consolidated it with victory on Monday, Evans was in a strong position coming into the final time-trial.
However the BMC team leader, a former two-time runner-up in the Tour de France, took plenty of risks early on, coming close to potential disaster on several tight bends.
In the end the Australian, who only kicked his season off two weeks ago, did enough to finish 11secs ahead of Dutchman Robert Gesink of Rabobank, who leapfrogged Italian Michele Scarponi into second place.
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