Tadej Pogacar is the new world champion on the road among professionals. On the Zurich circuit, Alaphilippe, Almeida and Skjelmose immediately out. Bilbao also falls and retires shortly after. The race comes to life with 100 km to go, when Pogacar takes off and immediately creates a gap. The Slovenian resumes the escape in front of him, detaches the last fugitive Pavel Sivakov with 50 km to go and wins the rainbow jersey in the same year in which he also won the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France as, in the past, only Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche have done.

Behind him there is a small group fighting for the podium. A super Ben O'Connor anticipates the sprint and finishes second at 34 seconds, third Mathieu Van der Poel, only fifth Remco Evenepoel. Italy did badly, never a protagonist.

Order of arrival:

1 POGAČAR Tadej Slovenia 6:27:30

2 O'CONNOR Ben Australia 0:34

3 VAN DER POEL Mathieu Netherlands 0:58

4 SKUJIŅŠ Toms Latvia ,,

5 EVENEPOEL Remco Belgium ,,

6 HIRSCHI Marc Switzerland ,,

7 HEALY Ben Ireland 1:00

8 MAS Enric Spain 1:01

9 SIMMONS Quinn United States 2:18

10 BARDET Romain France ,,

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