The 2025 editions of the boys’s Strade Bianche and Strade Bianche Women could not have thrown up a lot in the way in which of shock on the high of Saturday’s two podiums.
World champion Tadej Pogačar triumphed as soon as once more within the males’s race, securing the third title of his profession with an 18km solo transfer to win by over a minute in Siena.
Over within the ladies’s race, Demi Vollering delivered the unsurprising consequence, the Dutchwoman abandoning former teammate and coach Anna van der Breggen with the successful transfer on the ultimate ramp into the Tuscan metropolis.
But regardless of the relative predictability of the headline outcomes of the ‘sixth Monument’, there was loads extra to digest, soak up, and stare upon on Saturday afternoon, with the race proving as soon as once more to be among the many most lovely on the calendar.
We’ve compiled a number of the finest pictures from the 2 races, placing all of them collectively in our definitive Strade Bianche 2025 gallery. Scroll on to view the perfect of what this 12 months’s Strade Bianche needed to provide.
World champion Tadej Pogačar rolls to the beginning of the race, relaxed forward of his bid for a 3rd victory
The ladies’s peloton passes by means of certainly one of numerous picturesque spots early in tha race
UAE Team Emirates-XRG had been unsurprisingly a significant presence on the entrance for Pogačar
A main viewing spot of the ladies’s race for this fortunate practice driver
The males’s peloton unfold out down the highway because the riders battle by means of a hilly gravel sector
Everywhere you look within the hills round Siena throws up a wonderful background for racing
UAE as soon as once more main the cost within the males’s race, this time on a difficult downhill gravel sector
Along with the hills and the gravel, the Tuscan Cypress timber are a visible calling card of Strade Bianche
Dry situations and packed gravel meant that it was one other dusty version of the ‘sixth Monument’
Vollering’s puncture on the San Martino in Grania sector did not hinder her later trip to glory in Siena
A TV helicopter swoops in for a view of the motion as Florian Vermeersch leads the peloton
At occasions, the motion was barely seen within the midst of the mud kicked up by riders and race automobiles
At least the riders on the head of the lengthy race convoy had been in a position to take pleasure in a dust-free day
Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock on the assault on the head of the race
Tadej Pogačar will get up after a high-speed crash – scraped up however in a position to get again within the race and win
FDJ-Suez supremacy as Demi Vollering and Juliette Labous lead the stays of the ladies’s peloton
Pogačar and Pidcock had been the category of the boys’s area, however just one man may triumph in Siena
In the ladies’s race, victory got here all the way down to a battle between two former teammates in Demi Vollering and Anna van der Breggen
Pello Bilbao and Magnus Cort lead the chase behind Pogačar and Pidcock however this group could be resigned to battling over minor placings
Pogačar going solo – a well-known sight at Strade Bianche and in numerous different races on the calendar
Tom Pidcock was compelled to confess defeat after Pogačar shot off the entrance 18km from the end
The Slovenian followers had been excited to see Pogačar within the lead
Mavi Garcia and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot had been within the break of the day and later battled for the rostrum
Pogačar was left bloodied and battered by a mid-race crash, however even that did not cease him from soloing to victory
The last act of the ladies’s race – Vollering leaves Van der Breggen behind on the ultimate ramp into Siena
Vollering celebrates her second profession Strade Bianche win, the largest results of her time with FDJ-Suez thus far
In the boys’s race, Pogačar raced to the road in central Siena alone in entrance of hundreds of packed followers
Pogačar’s victory salute was extra emphatic than ordinary after his comeback from the crash
Vollering exhibits off her spoils, a hefty trophy for the race win
Pogačar provides yet one more to his endless assortment. How massive is his trophy cupboard at this level?
Race winner Vollering and her FDJ-Suez teammate Marie Le Net share a joyous second on the rostrum
The males’s last podium – Tadej Pogačar, Tom Pidcock, and Tim Wellens
The ladies’s last podium – Demi Vollering, Anna van der Breggen, and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot