{"id":3324,"date":"2026-10-11T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/how-seixas-dropped-everyone-on-the-civiglio\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:01:55","slug":"how-seixas-dropped-everyone-on-the-civiglio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/how-seixas-dropped-everyone-on-the-civiglio\/","title":{"rendered":"How Seixas dropped everyone on the Civiglio, minute by minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Como, 16:29. Il Lombardia passes under the finish banner for the first time and the six from the morning break are still out front: Sylvain Moniquet, Michael Leonard, Julien Bernard, George Bennett, Louis Vervaeke and Ben O&#8217;Connor. Behind them, some twenty-five riders, with Giulio Pellizzari pulling for Remco Evenepoel. Then comes the Civiglio: 4.2 kilometres at 9.7%, the top 16.7 kilometres from the finish. Where Il Lombardia was decided we measured in the <a href=\"\/en\/where-seixas-won-il-lombardia-forty-eight-seconds-all-of-them-uphill\/\">analysis of the numbers<\/a>; how it ended is in the <a href=\"\/en\/paul-seixas-wins-il-lombardia-solo-aged-twenty\/\">news story<\/a>. This is the how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The UAE train<\/h2>\n\n\n<aside class=\"nota wp-block-fagianata-nota\" id=\"nota-01\">\n\t<p class=\"nota__titolo\">01 \u00b7 THE BREAK AT THE FOOT<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__cifra\">43\u2033<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__testo\">The six breakaway riders&#8217; lead over the favourites at 16:28, 23 kilometres from the finish. Eight minutes later, on the Civiglio, they had been caught.<\/p>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the foot of the climb the break still has <mark>43\u2033<\/mark><sup class=\"rimando\"><a href=\"#nota-01\">01<\/a><\/sup>, and UAE take over at the front of the group: Adam Yates, then Brandon McNulty and Isaac Del Toro. On Del Toro&#8217;s wheel sits Paul Seixas, then Evenepoel and Giulio Ciccone. Pellizzari, who has done the work so far, is dropped at 16:33. Further up, Leonard and Moniquet try to leave their breakaway companions, but their lead melts away bend after bend. The favourites are all in the first ten wheels, and nobody moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not an attack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 16:35 Seixas goes. It is not an attack: it is a progression, a pace that rises and never comes down again. On his wheel are McNulty, Del Toro, Tom Pidcock, Ciccone and Enric Mas; Evenepoel is starting to suffer. A minute later the group swallows Leonard and Moniquet, and the break that had been out front for more than four hours is over.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"nota wp-block-fagianata-nota\" id=\"nota-02\">\n\t<p class=\"nota__titolo\">02 \u00b7 ONE AT A TIME<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__cifra\">3\u2032\u20133\u203236\u2033<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__testo\">From Seixas\u2019s change of pace to the moment he is alone, depending on the clock of the live reports. In between, Evenepoel, Del Toro, McNulty, Pidcock and Ciccone crack.<\/p>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there Seixas does nothing new, and that is exactly the others&#8217; problem: the pace stays where it is, and whoever cannot hold it goes. Evenepoel first. Then Del Toro and McNulty, the two who were setting the pace for him a minute earlier. At 16:38 only Pidcock and Ciccone are left on his wheel, with Mas a few metres behind. Pidcock cracks. Ciccone holds on until 1,300 metres from the top, where he is already 9 seconds down, and he never gets them back: at 16:40 Seixas is alone. Since the first change of pace, <mark>3\u2032\u20133\u203236\u2033<\/mark><sup class=\"rimando\"><a href=\"#nota-02\">02<\/a><\/sup> have gone by. After the finish he put it like this: from the attack on, \u201cit was like an individual time trial all the way to the finish\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The top, and after<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind, the race falls apart. Del Toro is in crisis; Evenepoel finds himself in a small group with McNulty, Jarno Widar, Oscar Onley and Ben Healy. Mas gets back to Ciccone, 24 seconds behind the leader; Pidcock and Filippo Zana are at 40. At the top Seixas has 30 seconds on Ciccone and Mas: 21 of them taken in the last 1,300 metres alone. Zana and Pidcock cross at 46\u2033, Evenepoel&#8217;s group, with Michael Storer, at 1\u203210\u2033.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"nota wp-block-fagianata-nota\" id=\"nota-03\">\n\t<p class=\"nota__titolo\">03 \u00b7 THE SECOND SAN FERMO<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__cifra\">6\u203217\u2033<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"nota__testo\">Seixas\u2019s time on the second ascent, the fastest of all, with Zana 10\u2033 slower and Mas 14\u2033. On the first ascent the fastest had been Pellizzari, in 6\u203210\u2033, with the whole group on his wheel.<\/p>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the descent Ciccone and Mas claw back a few seconds; the sums are in the <a href=\"\/en\/where-seixas-won-il-lombardia-forty-eight-seconds-all-of-them-uphill\/\">analysis<\/a>. Then comes San Fermo della Battaglia for the second time, and there Seixas is the fastest of all again: <mark>6\u203217\u2033<\/mark><sup class=\"rimando\"><a href=\"#nota-03\">03<\/a><\/sup>. Mas, who shakes off Ciccone on the climb, takes 14 seconds longer. In Como Mas finishes 48\u2033 back, Ciccone 1\u203205\u2033, Evenepoel 1\u203220\u2033. The times on the other climbs, with watts per kilo and the wind at the top, are on the <a href=\"\/en\/races\/il-lombardia-2026\/\">race page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group metodo-pezzo has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"etichetta wp-block-paragraph\">The Civiglio record<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the evening of the race a comparison has been doing the rounds: Seixas faster than the Poga\u010dar of 2022 on the Civiglio. The times change from one site to the next, from 11\u203234\u2033 to 11\u203259\u2033 for Seixas and from 12\u203212\u2033 to 12\u203232\u2033 for Poga\u010dar, because everyone measures the Civiglio their own way, from 3.87 to 4.2 kilometres. The gap, though, is always the same: Seixas ahead by 30\u201338 seconds. And the Poga\u010dar \u201cof two years ago\u201d never rode the Civiglio: in 2024 the road was closed by a landslide, and in 2023 and 2025 Il Lombardia finished in Bergamo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>RCS Sport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilombardia.it\/live\/\">Il Lombardia 2026 live<\/a>: times, gaps and the San Fermo timings.<\/li><li>The Civiglio record: Escape Collective, <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/seixas-broke-pogacars-climbing-record-with-il-lombardia-winning-attack\/\">\u201cSeixas broke Poga\u010dar&#8217;s climbing record with Il Lombardia-winning attack\u201d<\/a>; IDL Pro Cycling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/il-lombadria-strava-analysis-shows-2026-paul-seixas-outshines-2022-tadej-pogacar-on-the-civiglio\">the Strava analysis<\/a>; Watts2Win, <a href=\"https:\/\/watts2win.eu\/en\/segment\/252\">the Civiglio segment<\/a>; CyclingUpToDate, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/mind-boggling-watts-and-new-time-record-pogacar-and-mas-demolish-civiglio\">Poga\u010dar in 2022<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seixas does not attack: he lifts the pace and holds it, and the others crack one at a time, in just over three minutes. At the top he has 30\u2033, on San Fermo he is still the fastest. And the Civiglio record: by how much he beat Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_fagianata_traduzione":3369,"fagianata_corsa":"il-lombardia-2026","notizia_livello":"","notizia_paese":"","notizia_numero":"","notizia_numero_detto":"","fagianata_via":"","disciplina":"","fagianata_anno":0,"_fagianata_indice":"","fagianata_tappa":0,"fagianata_tappa_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"protagonisti":[230,231,232],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","formato-analisi"],"fagianata_protagonisti":["paul-seixas","enric-mas","giulio-ciccone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"protagonisti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafagianata.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/protagonisti?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}