Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel back in the maglia rosa

Giro d’Italia: Evenepoel back in the maglia rosa

Remco Evenepoel took his second stage victory in nine days, showing a lot of grinta on the 35km individual time trial that took place between Savignano sul Rubicone and Cesena. By doing this, the World Champion became the first Belgian in eight years with multiple wins at a single edition of the Giro d’Italia and returned at the top of the leaderboard, just before the first rest day.

It was a hard-fought win for the 23-year-old, on a rain-soaked and pan-flat course, which featured some tricky corners and even cobblestones, that only added to the difficulty of the day. But Evenepoel, victorious also on the opening time trial of the race, produced a strong performance in spite of the conditions, averaging over 50.7km/h and stopping the clock in 41:24, a time which netted him the stage win by a single second.

It feels good to beat some of the best riders in the world and have two victories going into the second week of the race.

“What made things even more special was that I did it on Mother’s Day and my whole family here. It was nice to get their support and see them at the finish. It wasn’t easy today with the rain and the cold temperatures, but I’m happy I could pull it off”, said Evenepoel, the only rider with two victories so far at this Giro, after retaking the maglia rosa.

“In the first part of the time trial I paced myself a bit too hard, and then, in the headwind, my legs didn’t turn as fast as in those opening kilometers. I could also feel the damage from the crashes of this week, and in the end it was quite tight, but I’m delighted I could prevail and claim this beautiful pink jersey. It’s nice to have an advantage in the GC before the mountains and I will try to enjoy every moment in the maglia rosa, but for the moment I’m looking forward to recovering on the first rest day before seeing what the next stages have in store”, added Remco, the first Belgian rider in 22 years to amass four days as leader of the Corsa Rosa.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
41:24
2 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:01
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
0:02
4 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
0:04
5 Bruno Armirail
Groupama - FDJ
0:08
6 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:17
7 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
0:24
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
0:30
9 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:35
10 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
0:42
27 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
1:52
70 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
3:52
71 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
3:54
76 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
4:06
107 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
4:55
111 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
4:59
149 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
6:01
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
34:33:42
2 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:45
3 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:47
4 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
0:50
5 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:07
6 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:07
7 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
1:48
8 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
2:13
9 Lennard Kämna
BORA - hansgrohe
2:37
10 Pavel Sivakov
INEOS Grenadiers
3:00
29 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
12:52
39 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
17:03
41 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
17:50
54 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
30:35
94 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
1:05:32
140 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
1:41:10
145 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
1:43:53
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
113 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
100 pt
3 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
89 pt
4 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
57 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
37 pt
6 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
33 pt
7 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
32 pt
8 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
29 pt
9 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
28 pt
10 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
27 pt
1 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
86 pt
2 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
50 pt
3 Karel Vacek
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
36 pt
4 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
32 pt
5 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Trek - Segafredo
26 pt
6 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
24 pt
7 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22 pt
8 Francesco Gavazzi
EOLO-Kometa
18 pt
9 Warren Barguil
Team Arkéa Samsic
16 pt
10 Alessandro De Marchi
Team Jayco AlUla
15 pt
15 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
9 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
34:33:42
2 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:07
3 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:07
4 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
3:17
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
5:25
6 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
7:27
7 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
12:52
8 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
14:30
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
14:31
10 Michel Hessmann
Jumbo-Visma
18:57
1 INEOS Grenadiers 103:43:30
2 Bahrain - Victorious 6:19
3 EF Education-EasyPost 7:08
4 Jumbo-Visma 8:09
5 UAE Team Emirates 9:38
6 BORA - hansgrohe 9:54
7 Soudal - Quick Step 16:39
8 Groupama - FDJ 25:54
9 Israel - Premier Tech 27:05
10 Movistar Team 28:08

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