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SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy -- Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland won the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race on Tuesday when Italy's former amateur world champion Francesco Chicchi took the final stage.
Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara took the Tirreno-Adriatico title by 16 seconds from Italy's Enrico Gasparotto.
Cancellara, the two-time defending world time-trial champion with Team CSC, finished with a 16-second advantage on Enrico Gasparotto of Italy.
Thomas Lovkvist of Sweden finished third overall, 40 seconds behind.
Liquigas rider Chicchi won the 176-kilometer leg around San Benedetto del Tronto in four hours, 50 minutes, 50 seconds.
Chicchi held off Sicilian rider Danilo Napolitano with Mark Cavendish of Britain third in a sprint finish.
Chicchi won the under-23 race at the 2002 worlds in Zolder, Belgium.
The Tirreno-Adriatico race is a warmup for Saturday's 99th Milan-San Remo race, the opening single-day classic of the cycling season. E-mail to a friend 
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