Strade Bianche Photo Gallery: Later today (Saturday), the peloton, men’s and women’s, hits the gravel roads of Siena on the Strade Bianchi. To whet your appetite for the white roads Classic, PEZ photographer, John Thomson has emptied his photo files to compile his favorite Strade Bianche shots.
Siena in the sun 2019
John Thomson says: “I will miss Strade Bianche again this year (and the last two year), but I have put together a gallery with a lot of unseen shots from the wet 2018 and the dry 2019 editions. 2018 was a great race with most of the riders without glasses and more mud than a lot of cyclocross races. Camera was a Nikon D3 with a zone focused 20mm f4 lens and a Canon flash in manual mode. Siena city views were shot with a Fuji X70. Van der Poel was shot with a Ricoh GR II and Canon flash.”
Wout riding to 3rd place with his glasses off is my favorite shot from 2019
Siena from above
Vintage Bianchi on the streets of Siena
Snow in Siena two days before the race
Tiesj Benoot riding to the win in 2018
Piazza del Campo two days before the race
Wout battling to a 3rd place
Early morning race set up on Piazza del Campo
Alaphilippe about to make his winning move past Fuglsang in 2019
Via Santa Caterina in the early morning
It wouldn’t be Italy without a Pez Negroni
or some glam at Milan Fashion Week
Yves Lampaert 11th in 2019
Rising star Tadej Pogačar 30th
Tom Skujins 9th
Peter Sagan 8th in 2018
Alejandro Valverde 4th
Pierre Latour 19th
Marcus Burghardt 15th
Andrey Amador 18th
Daniel Oss 12th
Gianni Moscon 14th
Stefan Küng 16th
Top photog Tim De Waele and moto driver Kim Tiebergyn
Annemiek Van Vleuten won in 2019
The legend Marianne Vos 7th
Anna van der Breggen won in 2018
Elisa Longo Borghini 3rd
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak 4th
Vita Heine champion of Norway 47th
Ellen van Dijk 9th
Emilia Fahlin 59th
Hannah Barnes 51st
Luca Bettini wearing the #1 photo bib ready for a wet race
Giovanni Visconti 5th in 2018 with the cheering tifosi
Tom Dumoulin 21st
Michal Kwiatkowski won in the previous year 2017
Michael Schar with Greg Van Avermaet and Philippe Gilbert
Greg Van Avermaet was 2nd in the previous year 2017
Matej Mohoric 11th
Simon Clarke 17th
Stijn Devolder 28th
Iljo Keisse 52nd, after the finish with soigneur Yankee Germano
Alexandr Riabushenko OTL after the finish
Alex Howes 43rd after the finish
Fernando Gaviria 49th after the finish
Mathieu van der Poel (at Namur) has Strade Bianche in his sights
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