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.
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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 |