Marce Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) wins stage 2 Tirrreno Adriatico

Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) powers to his first win of the season in stage 2 Tirreno-Adriatico.

 He got a perfect leadout after a nasty crash that took out most of the riders along while he outsprinted world champion Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) in Fallonica and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) to win stage 2 crash marred finishing in the final circuit.

                     How it stage two unfolded

 167km route started in Camaiore and was a day for the sprinters. Aside from the climb of Montemagno at the start of the stage, the rest was a flat, southward route to the finish city, where the peloton completed three 8.3km laps in Follonica.

 Notably absent from the sprint stage was Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data), who crashed and broke a rib during the team time trial. He finished the opening stage outside the time limit, and race officials deemed him ineligible to start the second stage.

Top Ten General Classification Result

 1, Patrick Bevin (NZl) BMC Racing Team 4:34:43,  
2, Damiano Caruso (Italy) BMC Racing Team,
3, Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) BMC Racing Team,  
4, Rohan Dennis (Australia) BMC Racing Team ,   
5, Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:04,
 6, Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) Team Sky 0:00:09,  
7, Geraint Thomas (Great Britain) Team Sky,     8, Salvatore Puccio (Italy) Team Sky,
9, Chris Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky,
 10, Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain) Team Sky.