Giro d’Italia: Another day, another Ballerini break

Davide Ballerini brought the second week of his home race to a conclusion by booking a place in the day’s breakaway for the second stage running. Having finished fifth Saturday afternoon, the 2021 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad winner rode away from the peloton together with a huge group on the roads he knows some well, and quickly established a seven-minute gap that put the break in pole position for the victory.
On a course that resembled that of the season’s final Monument, Il Lombardia, with four classified ascents and a short cobbled climb just a few kilometers from the line in Bergamo, Davide was one of the main animators. Supported by his fan club, present on the side of the road around 50 kilometers into the stage, the Italian took some long pulls at the front of the group and even had enough resources to win the first intermediate sprint of the day.
His adventure in the breakaway came to an end only with 34 kilometers to go, on the double-digit gradients of Roncola, where a small group – from which Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) eventually took the win – rode away. Our top finisher was Ilan Van Wilder, who showed again his strong condition by coming home together with the main GC contenders and kept his position in the top 20 going into the rest day.
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Race details
1 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
5:13:39 |
2 |
Ben Healy EF Education-EasyPost |
0:00 |
3 |
Marco Frigo Israel - Premier Tech |
0:00 |
4 |
Bauke Mollema Trek - Segafredo |
1:51 |
5 |
Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes Movistar Team |
1:51 |
6 |
Simone Velasco Astana Qazaqstan Team |
2:26 |
7 |
Andrea Pasqualon Bahrain - Victorious |
2:26 |
8 |
Laurens Huys Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
3:10 |
9 |
Vincenzo Albanese EOLO-Kometa |
4:13 |
10 |
François Bidard Cofidis |
4:13 |
14 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step |
6:53 |
68 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step |
14:43 |
73 |
Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step |
16:26 |
1 |
Bruno Armirail Groupama - FDJ |
61:38:06 |
2 |
Geraint Thomas INEOS Grenadiers |
1:08 |
3 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
1:10 |
4 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
1:30 |
5 |
Andreas Leknessund Team DSM |
1:50 |
6 |
Damiano Caruso Bahrain - Victorious |
2:36 |
7 |
Lennard Kämna BORA - hansgrohe |
3:02 |
8 |
Eddie Dunbar Team Jayco AlUla |
3:40 |
9 |
Thymen Arensman INEOS Grenadiers |
3:55 |
10 |
Laurens De Plus INEOS Grenadiers |
4:18 |
16 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step |
7:32 |
65 |
Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step |
1:28:04 |
89 |
Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step |
2:04:22 |
1 |
Jonathan Milan Bahrain - Victorious |
164 pt |
2 |
Derek Gee Israel - Premier Tech |
112 pt |
3 |
Pascal Ackermann UAE Team Emirates |
88 pt |
4 |
Nico Denz BORA - hansgrohe |
75 pt |
5 |
Toms Skujiņš Trek - Segafredo |
71 pt |
6 |
Michael Matthews Team Jayco AlUla |
68 pt |
7 |
Magnus Cort Nielsen EF Education-EasyPost |
56 pt |
8 |
Marius Mayrhofer Team DSM |
53 pt |
9 |
Mark Cavendish Astana Qazaqstan Team |
51 pt |
10 |
Vincenzo Albanese EOLO-Kometa |
46 pt |
14 |
Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step |
40 pt |
63 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step |
5 pt |
1 |
Davide Bais EOLO-Kometa |
144 pt |
2 |
Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes Movistar Team |
116 pt |
3 |
Thibaut Pinot Groupama - FDJ |
114 pt |
4 |
Ben Healy EF Education-EasyPost |
108 pt |
5 |
Toms Skujiņš Trek - Segafredo |
42 pt |
6 |
Karel Vacek Team Corratec - Selle Italia |
36 pt |
7 |
Derek Gee Israel - Premier Tech |
31 pt |
8 |
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka Trek - Segafredo |
30 pt |
9 |
Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz EF Education-EasyPost |
25 pt |
10 |
Aurélien Paret-Peintre AG2R Citroën Team |
22 pt |
52 |
Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step |
2 pt |
1 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
61:39:36 |
2 |
Andreas Leknessund Team DSM |
0:20 |
3 |
Thymen Arensman INEOS Grenadiers |
2:25 |
4 |
Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes Movistar Team |
3:59 |
5 |
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez Bahrain - Victorious |
4:52 |
6 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step |
6:02 |
7 |
Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz EF Education-EasyPost |
12:29 |
8 |
Laurens Huys Intermarché - Circus - Wanty |
20:03 |
9 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre AG2R Citroën Team |
23:20 |
10 |
Filippo Zana Team Jayco AlUla |
27:43 |
1 | Bahrain - Victorious | 184:21:09 |
2 | EF Education-EasyPost | 27:23 |
3 | Israel - Premier Tech | 27:52 |
4 | Jumbo-Visma | 34:00 |
5 | INEOS Grenadiers | 37:31 |
6 | BORA - hansgrohe | 39:17 |
7 | UAE Team Emirates | 39:34 |
8 | AG2R Citroën Team | 47:26 |
9 | Astana Qazaqstan Team | 53:21 |
10 | EOLO-Kometa | 1:08:51 |