It was another good day for Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian.

Friday started with a change of plans at the Corsa Rosa: what should have been a brutal 200km queen stage was altered due to the bad weather conditions, which prompted the organisers to take out the Col du Grand Saint-Bernard climb and reduce the distance to just 75 kilometers.

Having featured in the breakaway twenty-four hours before, Ilan Van Wilder produced another convincing ride, staying with the group of favourites until the last kilometer, when a series of accelerations led to some cracks in the maglia rosa group, while up the road Einer Rubio (Movistar) was soloing to victory from the breakaway. Without panicking, the Belgian rode his own tempo and crossed the line only a few seconds behind the GC contenders, jumping two places in the ranking ahead of the race’s penultimate weekend.

“It was a strange day, with the stage getting shortened and us traveling by bus to a different location before properly starting it a couple of hours later. I felt pretty good and managed to hang in there even when the others increased the tempo and rode hard on the final climb. I am really satisfied that at the end of the day I managed to make up some places in the standings”, said Ilan, who is 14th overall now.

 

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Race details

1 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
2:16:21
2 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
0:06
3 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
0:12
4 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
1:01
5 Valentin Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
1:29
6 Hugh Carthy
EF Education-EasyPost
1:29
7 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:35
8 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
1:35
9 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
1:35
10 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
1:35
16 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
1:51
84 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
20:56
120 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
21:14
1 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
51:20:01
2 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:02
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:22
4 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
0:42
5 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
1:28
6 Lennard Kämna
BORA - hansgrohe
1:52
7 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
2:32
8 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:45
9 Laurens De Plus
INEOS Grenadiers
3:08
10 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
3:13
14 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
6:24
80 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
1:38:28
106 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
2:14:53
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
164 pt
2 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
88 pt
3 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
71 pt
4 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
68 pt
5 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education-EasyPost
56 pt
6 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
51 pt
7 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
51 pt
8 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
44 pt
9 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
39 pt
10 Alessandro De Marchi
Team Jayco AlUla
37 pt
40 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
11 pt
57 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
5 pt
1 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
114 pt
2 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
104 pt
3 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
68 pt
4 Karel Vacek
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
36 pt
5 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
31 pt
6 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
30 pt
7 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Trek - Segafredo
30 pt
8 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
25 pt
9 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
24 pt
10 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22 pt
1 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
51:20:23
2 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
0:20
3 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:23
4 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
4:50
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
6:02
6 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
9:01
7 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
11:56
8 Valentin Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22:47
9 Laurens Huys
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
23:46
10 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
27:10
1 Jumbo-Visma 153:56:55
2 INEOS Grenadiers 4:02
3 Bahrain - Victorious 9:15
4 UAE Team Emirates 12:08
5 EF Education-EasyPost 21:27
6 BORA - hansgrohe 23:45
7 Israel - Premier Tech 35:36
8 Astana Qazaqstan Team 40:47
9 AG2R Citroën Team 51:08
10 Groupama - FDJ 56:51

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