Overview
- Tadej Pogacar claimed his first Classicissima on March 21 after crashing roughly 32–33 km from the finish near the Cipressa.
- He beat Tom Pidcock by a narrow margin in a shoulder-to-shoulder sprint on the Via Roma after a high-speed duel down the Poggio.
- The victory is his 11th Monument overall and the fourth different Monument on his record.
- Having trained repeatedly in the San Remo area for years, he said he can stop those regular winter trips and joked about coming back only to eat focaccia.
- International coverage praised the performance and noted that Paris–Roubaix remains the major Monument missing, which he plans to target in the coming weeks.