Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo) continued his fast start to his final season in the professional peloton by picking up his third win of 2016 at Strade Bianche on Saturday, out-foxing Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep) in Siena’s Piazza del Campo.
On Sunday morning, Cancellara lined up with his former Mapei teammates Paolo Bettini and Andrea Tafi, as well as some 2,500 amateur riders, to take part in the Gran Fondo Strade Bianche. The Swiss will return to competitive action at Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday, as he puts the finishing touches to his preparations for his last tilt at the Spring Classics.
Cancellara has seven Monuments to his name – three wins apiece at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, as well as the 2008 Milan-San Remo – and he is determined to add to that figure this year.
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“Who has won more classics than me? Merckx, Hinault. That makes me happy,” Cancellara told L’Équipe. [Cancellara has, in fact, won more Monuments than Bernard Hinault’s five, but fewer than Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Costante Girardengo, Fausto Coppi, Sean Kelly and Rik Van Looy – ed.]
“All of that’s in my pocket… But there’s still a little bit of space in that pocket. San Remo, Flanders, Roubaix – it’s not a secret, I want to win them this year. I want to go down in history.”
After landing the Flanders-Roubaix double in 2010, Cancellara spoke of his desire to win all five of cycling’s Monuments in his career, but he never participated in Liège-Bastogne-Liège or the Tour of Lombardy in the intervening period.
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