Kaden Groves confident the win is coming after another Tirreno-Adriatico podium

Tirreno Adriatico 2022 - 57th Edition - 7th stage San Benedetto del Tronto - San Benedetto del Tronto 159km - 13/03/2022 - Kaden Groves (AUS - Team BikeExchange - Jayco) - Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA - Israel - Premier Tech) - Phil Bauhaus (GER - Bahrain Victorious) - photo Tommaso Pelagalli/SprintCyclingAgency©2022
Kaden Groves (BikeExchange-Jayco) hangs head after a close-run third while winner Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious) roars in celebration (Image credit: Sprint Cycling Agency)

Two podium results at Tirreno-Adriatico have left Kaden Groves (Team BikeExchange) confident that after rebounding from an injury-interrupted 2021 he is now ready to compete among, and perhaps even soon beat, some of the top sprinters in the peloton.

After delivering two second places and a third at the 2.Pro ranked Tour of Oman, the 23-year-old then took to his first WorldTour podium on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico. Groves added another third place finish on the final day of racing, having worked hard to find a last moment gap in a messy stage 7 sprint where the top three finishers were only separated by a wheel.

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