Ballerini scores his first Giro d’Italia top 10

Ballerini scores his first Giro d’Italia top 10

Wednesday’s stage was the longest one of the race, 219 kilometers from Camaiore to Tortona, a town inextricably linked with “Il Campionissimo” Fausto Coppi, one of the greatest riders in history, with a total of seven Grand Tours and eight Monuments to his name, and the man who made of the Hour Record a target for future generations, from Anquetil to Merckx and Moser.

Soudal Quick-Step continued Il Giro with just three riders – Davide Ballerini, Pieter Serry and Ilan Van Wilder – and had a rather quiet day as the sprinters’ teams organised the chase behind the breakaway, which they brought back only with five kilometers to go.

The finale was hectic, a crash two kilometers from the line leaving just 20-odd riders in contention. Davide Ballerini was on the right side of this split and the Italian, despite being alone in the hectic finale, had the power to come through and take eighth place in Tortona for his first top 10 at this year’s edition.

 

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Race details

1 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
5:09:02
2 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
3 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
4 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
0:00
5 Stefano Oldani
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
6 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
0:00
7 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
0:00
8 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
9 Simone Consonni
Cofidis
0:00
10 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
86 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
87 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
DNS Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
-05:09:02
DNS Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
-05:09:02
DNS Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
-05:09:02
DNS Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
-05:09:02
1 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
44:35:35
2 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:02
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:22
4 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
0:35
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
2:32
9 Laurens De Plus
INEOS Grenadiers
2:36
10 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
2:48
17 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
12:07
79 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
1:15:15
110 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
1:43:08
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
164 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
128 pt
3 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
100 pt
4 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
88 pt
5 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
64 pt
6 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
60 pt
7 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education-EasyPost
56 pt
8 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
51 pt
9 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
44 pt
10 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
39 pt
36 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
11 pt
1 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
104 pt
2 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
50 pt
3 Karel Vacek
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
36 pt
4 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Trek - Segafredo
26 pt
5 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
24 pt
6 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22 pt
7 Alessandro De Marchi
Team Jayco AlUla
22 pt
8 Veljko Stojnić
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
21 pt
9 Francesco Gavazzi
EOLO-Kometa
18 pt
10 Warren Barguil
Team Arkéa Samsic
16 pt
1 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
44:35:57
2 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
0:13
3 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
2:10
4 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
4:18
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
11:45
6 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
13:23
7 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
16:48
8 Michel Hessmann
Jumbo-Visma
17:50
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
23:52
10 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
25:29
1 INEOS Grenadiers 133:46:54
2 EF Education-EasyPost 6:17
3 Bahrain - Victorious 6:19
4 Jumbo-Visma 8:09
5 UAE Team Emirates 10:45
6 Soudal - Quick Step 17:46
7 BORA - hansgrohe 20:22
8 Groupama - FDJ 27:01
9 Israel - Premier Tech 27:21
10 Astana Qazaqstan Team 33:01

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