Stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 had been designed by race organizer RCS Sport as a 239-kilometer ride from Follonica to Colfiorito. The stage route included a HC climb shortly before the finish line.

The weather conditions turned out to be harsh for the professional cyclists participating in this year’s Race of the Two Seas as the riders had to struggle with heavy rainfall during the stage.

The poor weather conditions apparently had a demotivating influence on the riders in the peloton as the early break of the day – which had featured Davide Bais (Team Polti-VisitMalta) and Lorenzo Conforti (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizane) – was caught with 144 kilometers left. 

A courageous duo featuring Dries de Bondt and Andrea Pietrobon launched a late attack in the stage and the breakaway hopefuls had an advantage of three minutes over the main peloton with thirty kilometers remaining.

The final part of the stage was, however, the most challenging – so the riders in the big peloton group increased their speed to reel in the riders in the breakaway, thereby hoping to set up other riders for a wet but beautiful stage victory in Colfiorito before entering the warm comfort of the modern first-class team busses.

De Bondt and later Pietrobon were eventually caught on the Valico di Colfiorito climb with approximately ten kilometers left of the stage.

Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) and Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) immediately counterattacked, which caused the peloton to get stretched out. Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) later thried his luck together with Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ). Other riders joined and a split occurred in the peloton, which, later regrouped. 

Healy used his Irish sprit to attack again with five kilometers left as did Filippo Ganna (Ineos-Grenadiers) and Thomas Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team).

All attackers had been caught with just five hundred meters remaining and Andrea Vendrame launched his sprint effort for Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale.

Andrea Vendrame won stage 3 ahead of Thomas Pidcock and Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ). 

Filippo Ganna leads the general classification ahead of Juan Ayuso and Antonio Tiberi.

Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) lost valuable time in the general classification after finishing almost eighteen minutes behind stage winner Vendrame in today’s stage.

Thursday’s stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 will take the riders 190 kilometers from Norcia to Trasacco. RCS Sport has chosen mountainous terrain for the stage 4 route, though the final part of the stage will be flat.

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