Strade Bianche Photo Gallery: At long last the 2020 race season will restart. The first big race will be the Strade Bianche, over the gravel roads of Siena on August the 1st. 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 this 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.”
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Wout riding to 3rd place with his glasses off is my favorite shot from 2019
Siena from above
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Vintage Bianchi on the streets of Siena
Snow in Siena two days before the race
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Tiesj Benoot riding to the win in 2018
Piazza del Campo two days before the race
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Wout battling to a 3rd place
Early morning race set up on Piazza del Campo
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Alaphilippe about to make his winning move past Fuglsang in 2019
Via Santa Caterina in the early morning
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It wouldn’t be Italy without a Pez Negroni
or some glam at Milan Fashion Week
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Yves Lampaert 11th in 2019
Rising star Tadej Pogačar 30th
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Tom Skujins 9th
Peter Sagan 8th in 2018
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Alejandro Valverde 4th
Pierre Latour 19th
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Marcus Burghardt 15th
Andrey Amador 18th
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Daniel Oss 12th
Gianni Moscon 14th
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Stefan Küng 16th
Top photog Tim De Waele and moto driver Kim Tiebergyn
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Annemiek Van Vleuten won in 2019
The legend Marianne Vos 7th
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Anna van der Breggen won in 2018
Elisa Longo Borghini 3rd
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Chantal van den Broek-Blaak 4th
Vita Heine champion of Norway 47th
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Ellen van Dijk 9th
Emilia Fahlin 59th
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Hannah Barnes 51st
Luca Bettini wearing the #1 photo bib ready for a wet race
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Giovanni Visconti 5th in 2018 with the cheering tifosi
Tom Dumoulin 21st
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Michal Kwiatkowski won in the previous year 2017
Michael Schar with Greg Van Avermaet and Philippe Gilbert
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Greg Van Avermaet was 2nd in the previous year 2017
Matej Mohoric 11th
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Simon Clarke 17th
Stijn Devolder 28th
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Iljo Keisse 52nd, after the finish with soigneur Yankee Germano
Alexandr Riabushenko OTL after the finish
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Alex Howes 43rd after the finish
Fernando Gaviria 49th after the finish
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Mathieu van der Poel (at Namur) has Strade Bianche in his sights
