The 2022 Milan–San Remo was a
road cycling
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one-day race that took place on 19 March 2022 in northwestern Italy. It was the 113th edition of the
Milan–San Remo
Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...
cycling classic
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. Originally the eighth event on the
2022 UCI World Tour
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calendar, it became the sixth event after the cancellation of the
Tour Down Under
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and the
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
In a similar move to the one that won
Jasper Stuyven
Jasper Stuyven (born 17 April 1992) is a Belgian professional bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is considered to be a Classic cycle races, classics specialist, and has won several major races including the ...
the
previous edition,
Matej Mohorič
Matej Mohorič (born 19 October 1994) is a Slovenian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Mohorič turned professional in 2014. He won the Slovenian National Road Race Championships in 2018 and 2021, and the U ...
attacked on the descent of the
Poggio di San Remo with under to go and soloed to the win.
Anthony Turgis, who had attacked in the final kilometre to try to bridge the gap to Mohorič, stayed ahead of the chasing group to finish second, with
Mathieu van der Poel
Mathieu van der Poel (born 19 January 1995) is a Belgian-born Dutch professional Cycle sport, cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam . He competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, mountain biking, Gravel cycling, gravel and road bicyc ...
winning the sprint for third from the aforementioned group.
Teams
All eighteen
UCI WorldTeam
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s and the top two
UCI ProTeams from the 2021 season, and , were automatically invited. The next best ProTeam from the 2021 season, also received an automatic invitation, while four additional UCI ProTeams received wild card invitations. Among these teams was , but on 1 March 2022, the
UCI revoked the licences of Russian and Belarusian teams due to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Twenty-four teams participated in the race. Of these teams, and , with six riders each, were the only teams to not enter a full squad of seven riders.
was reduced to six riders with one non-starter. Of the 165 riders who took part in the race, 159 finished.
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Result
References
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