Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel enjoys a calm day in Napoli

Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel enjoys a calm day in Napoli

Napoli – the city that gave this year’s Serie A champions – returned at the Corsa Rosa with a 162km stage that despite its hilly first part, was always expected to culminate in a bunch sprint, given the final 30 kilometers, that were completely flat.

Some riders had other ideas and quickly formed a breakaway that made the peloton work hard behind in order to catch them. Despite the fact that only two riders remained off the front with more than twenty kilometers to go, the chasers somehow allowed them to keep a considerable margin which the duo almost carried all the way to the line.

The bunch – where Remco Evenepoel, resplendent in his rainbow jersey, was surrounded by his teammates – found themselves one minute behind with eight kilometers to go, an extra incentive for the breakaway to keep going. It looked like they would make it, only for a late injection of pace at the front of the group to overhaul the duo an agonisingly 300 meters from the line, thus giving the sprinters another opportunity to fight for the win, which went to Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo).

“It was a fast stage, but we remained focused all the time, made sure of being at the front on the descents, so we can be content with how things went. I feel better now and hope that things will continue going in the right direction”, said Remco, who retained his place on the podium ahead of the Campo Imperatore summit finish.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
3:44:45
2 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
3 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
4 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
5 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
0:00
6 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
7 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
0:00
8 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
0:00
9 Lorenzo Rota
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
10 Simone Velasco
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
39 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
41 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
43 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
86 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
98 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
3:04
108 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
3:22
115 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
7:06
119 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
9:50
1 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
22:50:48
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:28
3 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
0:30
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:00
5 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
1:12
6 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
1:26
7 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
1:26
8 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
1:29
9 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
1:30
10 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
1:39
34 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
6:47
36 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
7:41
51 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
12:31
72 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
22:29
122 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
40:36
142 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
49:39
147 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
53:17
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
110 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
99 pt
3 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
83 pt
4 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
54 pt
5 David Dekker
Team Arkéa Samsic
40 pt
6 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
33 pt
7 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
32 pt
8 Stefano Gandin
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
24 pt
9 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
24 pt
10 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
23 pt
17 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
15 pt
1 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
40 pt
2 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Trek - Segafredo
26 pt
3 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22 pt
4 Francesco Gavazzi
EOLO-Kometa
18 pt
5 Alessandro De Marchi
Team Jayco AlUla
15 pt
6 Samuele Zoccarato
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
13 pt
7 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
12 pt
8 Simon Clarke
Israel - Premier Tech
12 pt
9 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
10 pt
10 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
10 pt
1 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
22:50:48
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:28
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:00
4 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:33
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
2:52
6 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
3:35
7 Laurens Huys
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
6:08
8 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
6:27
9 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
6:47
10 Lars van den Berg
Groupama - FDJ
7:52
1 INEOS Grenadiers 68:36:13
2 Jumbo-Visma 1:49
3 Bahrain - Victorious 2:15
4 BORA - hansgrohe 3:22
5 UAE Team Emirates 3:23
6 Trek - Segafredo 4:15
7 EF Education-EasyPost 4:55
8 Soudal - Quick Step 7:01
9 Israel - Premier Tech 11:38
10 Groupama - FDJ 12:00

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