Remco Evenepoel extends Giro d’Italia overall lead

Remco Evenepoel extends Giro d’Italia overall lead

Remco Evenepoel didn’t have any problems when it came to retaining the maglia rosa at the end of Monday’s long stage from Vasto to Melfi, which concluded with a small bunch sprint. The day was a pretty straightforward one, with just two classified climbs in the final part and some rain that made the riders extra attentive on the final descent.

Soudal Quick-Step controlled matters with Mattia Cattaneo and Louis Vervaeke, who then led out Remco at the intermediate sprint in Rapolla. The World Champion was first there, snatching three bonus seconds that helped him increase his margin over the closest opponent in the general classification to more than half a minute. From there on, the sprinters’ teams moved to the front and kept setting the tempo until the end, where Michael Matthews (Jayco-Alula) took the win.

“Everything went well today. The stage wasn’t hard and I had a very strong squad by my side the entire time. On the descent, which was wet and tricky, I wanted to have my teammates at the front, setting the tempo as we took on those narrow roads, and they did a great job. It wasn’t my plan at the start of the day to sprint for bonifications, but since I was there I decided to do it, because it didn’t cost me any energy”, said Evenepoel after the stage that brought him a third consecutive pink jersey.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
5:01:41
2 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
0:00
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
4 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
0:00
5 Stefano Oldani
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
6 Sven Erik Bystrøm
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
7 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:00
8 Simone Velasco
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
9 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
0:00
10 Andrea Vendrame
AG2R Citroën Team
0:00
15 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
20 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
24 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
59 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
0:20
60 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
0:20
119 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
9:07
121 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
15:11
122 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
15:11
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
10:18:07
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:32
3 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:44
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:46
5 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:58
6 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:58
7 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
1:02
8 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
1:02
9 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
1:08
10 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
1:18
12 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
1:26
17 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
1:34
52 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
3:12
74 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
5:36
120 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
13:50
151 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
18:43
160 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
19:08
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
53 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
39 pt
3 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
38 pt
4 David Dekker
Team Arkéa Samsic
35 pt
5 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
26 pt
6 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
23 pt
7 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
15 pt
8 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
14 pt
9 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
14 pt
10 Stefano Gandin
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
12 pt
1 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
12 pt
2 Paul Lapeira
AG2R Citroën Team
6 pt
3 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
4 pt
4 Thomas Champion
Cofidis
4 pt
5 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
3 pt
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
2 pt
7 Laurens De Plus
INEOS Grenadiers
2 pt
8 Callum Scotson
Team Jayco AlUla
2 pt
9 Mattia Bais
EOLO-Kometa
2 pt
10 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
1 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
10:18:07
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:32
3 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
1:34
4 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:40
5 Stefano Oldani
Alpecin-Deceuninck
1:59
6 Michel Hessmann
Jumbo-Visma
1:59
7 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:05
8 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
2:07
9 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
2:15
10 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
2:24
1 UAE Team Emirates 30:56:33
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 1:58
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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