Van Wilder finishes 12th overall at Il Giro

Van Wilder finishes 12th overall at Il Giro

For the first time since 2018, the Giro d’Italia concluded in the shadow of the Colosseum, the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, almost 2000 years ago during the reigns of emperors Vespasian and Titus. For once, the riders had the chance to admire the magnificent construction that dominates the center of Rome, as the peloton took it rather easy on the first laps of this final stage, before speeding it up for the last kilometers, when the sprinters’ teams emerged at the front.

In a chaotic finale complicated by the cobblestones, it was Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) who took the victory, while Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) sealed the overall win at this 106th edition. Both Ilan Van Wilder and Pieter Serry came home part of the bunch, and the former wrapped up 12th place on the general classification, a remarkable result for the 23-year-old who came at the start to support World Champion Remco Evenepoel, but changed his plans after his countryman’s exit.

From that moment on, Van Wilder began to gradually move up the standings and in the space of just ten days, he jumped a massive seventeen places in the rankings – a confirmation of his potential, fighting spirit and determination: “We came with big expectations in this Giro, we had two stage wins, the maglia rosa, but we got a big slap in the face when we lost Remco, and as if this wasn’t enough, we continued to lose riders to illness. But even when we carried on in two, we gave our best and we can be proud of ourselves that we made it to Rome. Personally, I am content with my place in the standings, especially as it wasn’t my target three weeks ago.”

“We had a perfect first part of the Giro, but everything changed before and during the second week of the race. It wasn’t easy, but our guys continued to fight and show character. We did good considering all the conditions, Ilan finished up there in the general classification and gained a lot of valuable experience for the future, so we leave with his strong result in the bag, as well as two victories and four pink jerseys, which isn’t bad considering everything”, said Soudal Quick-Step sports director Davide Bramati about our team, one of the only six squads with multiple stage wins at this edition of the Corsa Rosa.

 

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Race details

1 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
2:48:26
2 Alex Kirsch
Trek - Segafredo
0:00
3 Filippo Fiorelli
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
0:00
4 Alberto Dainese
Team DSM
0:00
5 Alexander Krieger
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
6 Jake Stewart
Groupama - FDJ
0:00
7 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
0:00
8 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
9 Arne Marit
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
10 Campbell Stewart
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
19 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
81 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
85:29:02
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
217 pt
2 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
164 pt
3 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
101 pt
4 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
101 pt
5 Pascal Ackermann
UAE Team Emirates
95 pt
6 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
91 pt
7 Nico Denz
BORA - hansgrohe
77 pt
8 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education-EasyPost
68 pt
9 Alberto Dainese
Team DSM
63 pt
10 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
56 pt
56 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
85:30:17
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 256:21:18
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 2:18:52

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