Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel spends first day in pink

Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel spends first day in pink

Remco Evenepoel collected his 18th Grand Tour leader’s jersey at the end of stage 2, which travelled from Tortona to San Salvo, over a mainly flat 202km course. Only the second reigning World Champion to top the Giro d’Italia general classification this century, the 23-year-old was resplendent in the famed maglia rosa during Sunday’s journey in the province of Chieti, flanked at all times by his Soudal Quick-Step teammates.

The day belonged to a five-man breakaway until twenty kilometers to go, when the group was reabsorbed by the peloton. The finale was far from being a quiet one, due to a crash that took many riders down just four kilometers from the line. Luck was on Evenepoel’s side, who escaped the incident and concluded with the reduced main group, from where Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious) sprinted to victory.

“We did well to stay out of trouble. That was the plan and I’m glad it worked out, although that crash wasn’t nice at all. Fortunately, I wasn’t caught in that incident”, said Remco right after the stage. “Apart from that, it was a pretty quiet day, one which was special, as I got to wear the pink jersey for the first time in my career. I enjoyed every single moment, and it was really nice to receive a lot of encouragement from the fans on the side of the road.”

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
4:55:11
2 David Dekker
Team Arkéa Samsic
0:00
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
4 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
5 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
0:00
6 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
7 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
0:00
8 Niccolò Bonifazio
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
9 Jake Stewart
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
10 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
26 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
27 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
36 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
69 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
0:19
147 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
0:34
164 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
2:11
171 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
2:16
172 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
2:16
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
5:16:29
2 Filippo Ganna
INEOS Grenadiers
0:22
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:29
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:43
5 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:43
6 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:55
7 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:55
8 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
0:59
9 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
1:00
10 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
1:05
16 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
1:23
22 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
1:31
83 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
2:49
124 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
3:29
147 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
3:54
164 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
4:40
169 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
5:13
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
50 pt
2 David Dekker
Team Arkéa Samsic
35 pt
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
25 pt
4 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
18 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
15 pt
6 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
14 pt
7 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
14 pt
8 Stefano Gandin
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
12 pt
9 Filippo Ganna
INEOS Grenadiers
12 pt
10 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
12 pt
1 Paul Lapeira
AG2R Citroën Team
6 pt
2 Thomas Champion
Cofidis
4 pt
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
3 pt
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
2 pt
5 Mattia Bais
EOLO-Kometa
2 pt
6 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
1 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
5:16:29
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:29
3 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
1:00
4 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
1:17
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
1:31
6 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:37
7 Stefano Oldani
Alpecin-Deceuninck
1:56
8 Michel Hessmann
Jumbo-Visma
1:56
9 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:02
10 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
2:04
1 UAE Team Emirates 15:51:30
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:13
3 Soudal - Quick Step 0:32
4 Groupama - FDJ 1:32
5 BORA - hansgrohe 1:38
6 Team Jayco AlUla 1:40
7 Jumbo-Visma 2:02
8 Bahrain - Victorious 2:28
9 Trek - Segafredo 2:40
10 EF Education-EasyPost 2:56

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