Jonas Vingegaard won cycling's Tirreno-Adriatico on Sunday as local favourite Jonathan Milan claimed the final stage on the San Benedetto del Tronto seafront in a bunch sprint.

Milan pipped Alexander Kristoff to the line after a high-tempo 154 kilometres race around the Adriatic coast resort as Vingegaard made sure of overall victory.

Double Tour de France winner Vingegaard did the hard work by winning the previous two mountain stages in convincing manner, and there was kittle chance of the Dane giving up his lead of one minute and 24 seconds on Sunday.

Those two stage wins also secured the King of the Mountains jersey for Visma rider Vingegaard, who is looking in hot form in a year where he will attempt a hat-trick of Tour victories.

"It's one of the biggest wins of my career, I'm really happy to have won two stages as well as the blue jersey (for the overall winner)," said Vingegaard.

"I really like racing in Italy. I like the country, the food, everything. I won't rule out trying to win the Giro d'Italia one day."

Milan said he was delighted to have won two stages as well as the points jersey.

"Now we've got the classics coming up and we'll be at the start of Milan-San Remo with a very strong team... time will tell if I can win it one day," he added.

Vingegaard's winning margin over Spanish climber Juan Ayuso in second place was 1min 24sec with Australian former Giro winner Jai Hindley third at 1min 52sec.

Rounding out the top five were top placed Italian rider Isaac del Toro and another Australian climber Ben O'Connor.

UAE's Ayuso said the all-round showing of his team was motivating.

"We got a stage win, and two places in the top five, so that's quite good and we'll keep pushing and see what the future brings," said the 21-year-old.

Sunday's stage started with climbs which could have isolated the sprinters in the peloton but an early break led by Ben Healy was caught just as the bell sounded for the last 14km lap of San Benedetto del Tronto.

And with the riders jostling for position Milan gave the local fans something to smile about with his second stage win of the race.