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After more than six hours of racing, Alpecin-Deceuninck\u2019s Jasper Philipsen beat Michal Mathews (Jayco AlUla) to the finish line by an eyelash and became the first sprinter to win the race since Arnaud D\u00e9mare in 2016. Pre-race favorite Tadej Poga\u010dar finished third.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philipsen\u2019s first Monuments victory was made possible by a slowdown in the final 500m by the lead group as they started attacking each other and by teammate Mathieu van der Poel\u2019s stellar work in bringing Philipsen\u2019s group to the front. Mathews was the first to attack, with Poga\u010dar and Mads Peterson (Lidl-Trek) in his wake, and seemed to have the race wrapped up. But then the 26-year-old Belgian produced a powerful move to catch up to Mathews and threw his bike at the finish line to nip the Australian by the smallest of margins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was happy that Mathieu was there in the front because I knew that he could follow the attacks, and that I wasn\u2019t able to,\u201d Philipsen said after the race. \u201cI could follow at a small distance but I was happy that they hesitated for a bit. I have to be thankful to Mathieu that he could hold it all together and we could sprint.\u201d This was also the fastest ever edition of the race, with the winner timed at an average speed of 46.1 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA sprint after 300km is really strange and my legs exploded a bit,\u201d Philipsen admitted, \u201cbut I\u2019m happy that I just had 5cm to beat Matthews. This feels amazing but I haven\u2019t realized it yet. It\u2019s one of the best races, so this is amazing. A minute after the finish, that\u2019s when I realized I\u2019d won.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf99Standing ovation for Jasper Philipsen \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MilanoSanremo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MilanoSanremo<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CA_Ita?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CA_Ita<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HGAlq3w1a\">pic.twitter.com\/7HGAlq3w1a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Milano Sanremo (@Milano_Sanremo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Milano_Sanremo\/status\/1769095039257346427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That it came down to a sprint finish was down to the failure by Poga\u010dar\u2019s UAE Team Emirates to have enough riders at the front of the peloton to soften up his rivals on the final two climbs of the race, the Cipressa (5.6km @ 4.1%) and the legendary Poggio di Sanremo (3.6km @ 3.7%). Their work actually began on the third-from-last climb, the short but relatively steep Capo Berta (1.7km @ 7%, with sections of up to 9%). That\u2019s where six UAE riders, including Poga\u010dar, surged to the front of the peloton and upped the already fast pace to try and tire the Slovenian\u2019s rivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They took 1 minute off the lead of what remained of a 10-rider breakaway as riders dropped from the back of the group like ripe fruit from a tree. But when the peloton reached the Cipressa, Poga\u010dar was alone at the front, with no UAE rider in sight. He was soon joined by teammate Isaac del Toro, the youngest rider in the race, and the 20-year-old Mexican put in an excellent shift, reducing the peloton further, until he was relieved by Tim Wellens. The Belgian also worked hard, but it was not enough to weaken Poga\u010dar\u2019s rivals, so that when on the descent from the Poggio the Slovenian made the last of his five attempts to break away on his own, he was soon joined by van der Poel, Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers) and several others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When they reached sea level, 2022 Milan\u2013San Remo winner Matej Mohori\u010d\u00a0(Bahrain Victorious) made a desperate run for the line, opening a gap of about 50m, but in vain. By this time van der Poel, the race\u2019s defending champion, had realized that the race would end in a sprint and that Philipsen was still going strong. So he took control of the pursuing group and brought his teammate into position to take a historic victory, with Poga\u010dar completing the podium. But the two-time Tour de France winner was not happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We had a plan and we stuck to it, but we missed a bit, maybe 10% we missed on the Cipressa and after,&#8221; he said after the race. &#8220;So in the end the team had to wait too long on the Poggio, so [the race] wasn\u2019t too hard. I tried with two attacks. I had incredible legs, but this year [the race] wasn\u2019t hard enough for it to be a climber\u2019s race. I did everything that I could to be in third place. I think in this situation I couldn&#8217;t have done much better. 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