The 19-year-old Ligurian leaves everyone behind at Villa di Villa and repeats himself after the success in 2025″: “I finally feel better”
Lorenzo Mark Finn returns to success with one of the great long-range actions with which he made himself known, see the successes at the Junior World Cup (2024) and Under 23 (2025). The 19-year-old Ligurian, who races for the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe rookies, won the Belvedere Trophy, classic for Under 23s, today in Villa di Villa (Treviso) for the second consecutive sprint. Finn made the decisive lunge 30 km from the end: a consecutive encore at the Belvedere, a feat that had been missing for 66 years, since the days of Claudio Zanchetta (1959-1960), and which brought success back to a reigning world champion 46 years after the last time, signed by Gianni Giacomini in 1980. On the podium, at 1’20” the British Smith (Visma) and Bambagioni (Technipes) “First of all, I have to thank the team – the words of Lorenzo Finn – because they raced hard and kept me covered until the decisive moment. I started at the point I had planned in the morning technical meeting and I am satisfied that I carried out the plan. I had a bit of a slow start to the season, now I’m starting to feel the right sensations. A Pogačar victory? For me Tadej is an inspiration: I started 30 kilometers from the finish line and I realized how difficult it is to achieve. He often sprints even further from the finish line, what he does is impressive. Chapeau.”
