Race leader Del Toro finally gets a stage at Tirreno-Adriatico

After two runner-up finishes earlier in the race, Isaac Del Toro finally took a stage win on the penultimate day of Tirreno-Adriatico, strengthening his overall lead with one likely sprint stage to go. Stage 6 paid a visit to the home roads of second-overall Giulio Pellizzari who was determined to reward his fans on the short climb into Camerino, but the 22-year-old was gathered up in the last kilometre, where Matteo Jorgenson led Del Toro out for the stage.

Many others tried to spoil UAE's control over the race, including Richard Carapaz with a characteristic long-range attack with about 60 km to go, then a forceful Visma-Lease a Bike in the run-in to the finale, but Del Toro and his cronies were cool and calm in the face of repeated attacks.

With one stage to go, Del Toro leads the race by 42 seconds over Pellizzari, and Jorgenson is third just one second further back, having lost out on a couple of bonus seconds to a fast-finishing Tobias Halland Johannessen who's up to fourth.

[race_result id=3 stage_id=90069 count=5 gc=0 year=2026]

[race_result id=3 stage_id=90069 count=5 gc=5 year=2026]