Malori won ahead of the top three time trialists in the world, Cancellara, Wiggins and Martin. The Italian is a strong time-trialist having been Italian champion in 2011 but this is a huge result as he powered around the 9.1 kilometre course.
Contador was 29th on the day, 2 seconds behind Quintana so will need to improve in the discipline before the Tour de France. His overall lead was never in doubt however with those 2 great stage victories putting him back in the spotlight as possible threat to Froome in July.
Tirreno-Adriatico 2014 Results 7th stage
1 Adriano Malori (Italy) 10:13
2 Fabian Cancellara (Switserland) + 0.06
3 Bradley Wiggins (gbr) + 0.11
4 Tony Martin (Germany) + 0.15
5 Tom Dumoulin (The Netherlands) + 0.19
6 Alex Dowsett (gbr) + 0.20
7 Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) + 0.22
8 Manuel Quinziato (Italy) + 0.23
9 Stijn Devolder (Belgium) + 0.24
10 Luke Durbridge (Australia) + 0.26
GC after 7th stage
1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain)
2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (col) + 2:05
3 Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic) + 2:14
4 Jean-Christophe Peraud (France) + 2:39
5 Julian David Arredondo Moreno (Colombia) + 2:54
6 Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy) + 3:04
7 Robert Kiserlovski (Croatia) + 3:09
8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spain) + 3:16
9 Michele Scarponi (Italy) s.t.
10 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spain) + 3:19
Tirreno-Adriatico 2014 stage 7: Images
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