FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - The 217.5-km Stage 10 from Saint-Flour to Albi - July 15, 2019 - Team Jumbo-Visma rider Wout Van Aert of Belgium wins the stage. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
SANREMO, Italy (Reuters) - Belgian Wout van Aert won the Milan-Sanremo 'Monument' classic, beating defending champion Julian Alaphilippe of France in a tight sprint finish after 305km on Saturday.
Team Jumbo-Visma rider Van Aert, who won the Strade Bianche classic last Saturday, was the only rider able to follow Alaphilippe's brutal attack in the ascent to the Poggio, some seven km from the finish.
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