2010 Tirreno–Adriatico
| 2010 UCI World Ranking, race 3 of 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 10–16 March | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 1,229 km (763.7 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 30h 52' 32" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
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(Acqua & Sapone) |
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| Second |
Michele Scarponi (ITA)
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(Androni Giocattoli) | |
| Third |
 Cadel Evans (AUS)
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(BMC Racing Team) | |
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Points |
Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
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(Acqua & Sapone) |
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Mountains |
 Dmytro Grabovskyy (UKR)
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(ISD–NERI) |
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Youth |
 Robert Gesink (NED)
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(Rabobank) |
| Team | Lampre–Farnese Vini | ||
The 2010 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 45th running of the Tirreno–Adriatico stage race. It started on 10 March and finished on 16 March. The race started in Livorno and ended San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Stefano Garzelli after gaining 2 seconds in intermediate sprints in the last stage which tied him for first with Michele Scarponi; Garzelli held the tiebreaker, combined stage finishes.
Twenty-two teams started the race. These included sixteen UCI ProTour teams, including the provisionally-licensed Lampre–Farnese Vini, and six UCI Professional Continental teams. These teams, along with three others, also contested Milan–San Remo.
The 22 teams participating in the race were:
The race of two seas began with a mostly flat stage from Livorno on the Tyrrhenian coast to Rosignano Solvay. The riders took a finishing circuit in the arrival town, seeing the finish line twice.
A lone rider from ISD–NERI comprised this stage's major breakaway. Dmytro Grabovskyy slipped away early and quickly built an advantage of over five minutes. The peloton, battered by the freezing rain that almost kept the stage from being run at all, was content to let him stay away until the 40 km (25 mi) to go mark, when the Liquigas–Doimo and Garmin–Transitions teams set to bringing him back in the hopes of setting up a potential mass sprint finish for their top sprinters Daniele Bennati and Tyler Farrar.
Grabovskyy was caught with 22 km (14 mi) left to race, and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Pablo Urtasun took the opportunity to counter-attack, being joined after a short while by Niki Terpstra from Team Milram. They were away until the 8 km (5.0 mi) to go mark, and another move took shape when they were caught, including Terpstra's team leader Linus Gerdemann and Matti Breschel. Despite never holding even ten seconds advantage over the main field, and not having an appreciable gap over them at the finish line, they were able to contest the stage among themselves and deny the pure sprinters the chance. Gerdemann came around Pablo Lastras' early leadout to take the stage win and the first blue jersey as race leader. With the time bonus at the finish line, he became the first leader of the race with a four second advantage over Lastras. Gerdemann was also awarded the red jersey as points classification leader; Lastras wore it during stage two.
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