CYCLING – SANTIAGO Buitrago put Team Bahrain Victorious in the top 10 yesterday in the sixth and penultimate stage of the 61st Tirreno-Adriatico race in Italy.
Buitrago was amongst several riders who trailed winner Isaac Del Toro of UAE Team Emirates-XRG to the finish after 188km of battles. He took sixth place, 11 seconds behind Del Toro.
Teammate Pello Bilbao made it into the best 20, while Edoardo Zambanini finished 31st. Completing the Bahrain Victorious cast in the leg were Fran Miholjevic in 49th, Attila Valter in 58th, Antonio Tiberi in 70th, and Roman Ermakov in 73rd.
Following yesterday’s results, Buitrago climbed three places to seventh on the general classification (GC), where he was a minute and 49 seconds behind overall leader Del Toro. Zambanini, meanwhile, powered into the top 10 in the best young rider rankings in eighth, while Tiberi dropped to 10th.
The Bahrain Victorious squad improved one spot to fifth in the teams’ classification heading into today’s final stage, which will be over 142km starting from Civitanova Marche to San Benedetto del Tronto.
Also yesterday in Europe, Bahrain Victorious’s Damiano Caruso was their best finisher in 54th in a shortened seventh and penultimate stage of the 84th Paris-Nice race in France.
Caruso was followed by teammate Lenny Martinez in 58th, and Kameil Gradek and Phil Bauhaus in 74th and 75th, respectively.
In the GC, Martinez maintained his position in fifth overall, while he is also third amongst the best young riders and ninth in the King of the Mountain ranking.
The event’s eighth and final leg will be held today starting and finishing in Nice and covering a distance of 129.2km.
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