Mathieu van der Poel's Alpecin-Fenix team has shared the Dutch rider's data for Strade Bianche on Saturday, including his final winning sprint/attack up Via Santa Caterina.
The Dutch rider was in the all-star breakaway that he whittled down to just three - with Egan Bernal and Julian Alaphilippe - when he attacked on the final gravel sector of the race.
Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), Wout van Aert (Jumbo Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) were just three of the riders that Van der Poel left for dust.
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Once he had split the breakaway on the final section of gravel, Van der Poel then rode with Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Alpahilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) until the final kilometre.
And once inside the last kilometre he attacked from the front on steep ramp of Via Santa Caterina; not looking back even once and riding away to such an impressive victory in the 184km race into Siena.
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According to the data shared by his team; for a distance of 186km Van der Poel had a normalised power of 398 Watts.
The final 60km of the race took 1½ hours and Van der Poel had a normalised power of 439 watts.
The gravel sector at Le Tolfe, with 13km to go, is where Van der Poel attacked, with only Alaphilippe able to hold him and Bernal getting across to them.
On that sector Van der Poel put in a 60-second effort of 738 watts, an incredible burst after so many gravel sectors and climbs so deep into the race.
And on the final sprint into Siena that won him the race,
Van der Poel put out an average of 1,004 watts for 20 seconds, with a maximum
heart rate of 186 beats.
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