Giro d’Italia: Ilan Van Wilder moves up in the standings

Giro d’Italia: Ilan Van Wilder moves up in the standings

Saturday scheduled the penultimate stage of the race – incidentally, one of the toughest individual time trials in history, an 18.6km effort featuring the brutal climb of Monte Lussari. Five kilometers in length and boasting an insane 15.3% average gradient, this feared ascent ended up playing a decisive role in the outcome of the Giro d’Italia, as well as producing some significant chances in the upper echelon of the general classification.

One of these had in the spotlight Soudal Quick-Step’s Ilan Van Wilder, who turned out the time trial of his career so far. The Belgian had a fast start, which put him in the top five at the first checkpoint, and continued in the same vein, averaging a solid 24km/h and stopping the clock in 46:20. The result he scored at the end of the stage which was won by Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) elevated him one place in the standings, up to 12th, ahead of the final stage to Rome, one for the sprinters.

“It has been a very hard Giro d’Italia for us, we had a lot of bad luck and many setbacks after a great start, but we continued to fight and showed that we remain a Wolfpack even with two guys left in the race. I had pretty strong legs on this stage and did my best on a course that I didn’t really like, because the climb was too steep for me. To finish this time trial just outside the top 10 and gain a position in the GC made for quite a good day”, a smiling Ilan said.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
44:23
2 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:40
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:42
4 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
0:55
5 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
0:59
6 Sepp Kuss
Jumbo-Visma
1:05
7 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
1:07
8 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
1:18
9 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:49
10 Jay Vine
UAE Team Emirates
1:53
13 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
2:05
59 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
6:46
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
82:40:36
2 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:14
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:15
4 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
4:40
5 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
5:43
6 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
6:05
7 Eddie Dunbar
Team Jayco AlUla
7:30
8 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
7:31
9 Lennard Kämna
BORA - hansgrohe
7:46
10 Laurens De Plus
INEOS Grenadiers
9:08
12 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
11:58
60 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
2:36:54
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
215 pt
2 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
160 pt
3 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
95 pt
4 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
93 pt
5 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
79 pt
6 Nico Denz
BORA - hansgrohe
77 pt
7 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education-EasyPost
68 pt
8 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
56 pt
9 Marius Mayrhofer
Team DSM
53 pt
10 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
53 pt
53 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
10 pt
1 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
237 pt
2 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
200 pt
3 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
164 pt
4 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
144 pt
5 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
118 pt
6 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
86 pt
7 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
82 pt
8 Davide Gabburo
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
69 pt
9 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
67 pt
10 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
56 pt
50 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
4 pt
1 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
82:41:51
2 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
4:50
3 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
6:16
4 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
9:28
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
10:43
6 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
11:06
7 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
32:07
8 Laurens Huys
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
51:03
9 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
1:06:28
10 Marco Frigo
Israel - Premier Tech
1:23:21
1 Bahrain - Victorious 247:56:00
2 INEOS Grenadiers 16:22
3 Jumbo-Visma 30:40
4 UAE Team Emirates 51:53
5 AG2R Citroën Team 1:21:30
6 BORA - hansgrohe 1:25:31
7 Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:31:44
8 Team Jayco AlUla 1:32:51
9 Israel - Premier Tech 1:51:54
10 EF Education-EasyPost 2:16:51

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