Giro d'Italia

Stage 7: Foligno - Perugia

IT Italy Friday 10 May 2024 38.5 km

Giro d’Italia: Cerny our best rider in the Umbria ITT

Giro d’Italia: Cerny our best rider in the Umbria ITT

Friday brought the longest Giro d’Italia individual time trial in the last nine years, 40.6 kilometers from Foligno to Perugia, where a steep kicker towards the end promised to complicate matters and widen the gaps between the general classification contenders. It was maybe the most important test of the race so far, a test that could easily be split in two completely different parts: a 34km flat one featuring just a couple of tricky corners and the 6km climb that started in the outskirts of Perugia, which averaged 4.2% but included some nasty double-digit gradients in the opening kilometer.

Josef Cerny, a multiple national champion of the discipline, was among the first riders to roll down the start ramp, and the experienced Czech didn’t disappoint. Cerny set the benchmark at both intermediate checkpoints while catching his minute-man, before taking on the hard ascent, where he still had enough left in the legs to record the best provisional time, 54:50, thanks to an impressive 44.4km/h average speed. Josef went on to finish the stage won by Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) as the best placed Soudal Quick-Step rider.

“Today was quite windy. I had some crosswinds in the first part and had to push there, and then I was a bit on the limit on the climb. Overall, the parcours was a beautiful one, but that demanding ascent was a bit too much for me. I am content with my effort and hope for an even better outing in the second ITT of the race”, Josef said after the stage which saw his countryman Jan Hirt remain the team’s highest-ranked rider in the general classification.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
51:44
2 Filippo Ganna
INEOS Grenadiers
0:17
3 Magnus Sheffield
INEOS Grenadiers
0:49
4 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
1:00
5 Maximilian Schachmann
BORA - hansgrohe
1:05
6 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
1:21
7 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
1:45
8 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
1:49
9 Mikkel Bjerg
UAE Team Emirates
1:56
10 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
2:00
27 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
3:06
37 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
4:09
51 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
4:47
53 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
4:51
90 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
6:15
95 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
6:22
130 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step
7:42
160 Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step
9:09
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
24:12:36
2 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
2:36
3 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
2:46
4 Ben O'Connor
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
3:33
5 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
3:42
6 Alexey Lutsenko
Astana Qazaqstan Team
3:49
7 Cian Uijtdebroeks
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:50
8 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
4:11
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
4:41
10 Lorenzo Fortunato
Astana Qazaqstan Team
4:44
13 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
5:22
20 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
6:31
29 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
12:58
109 Pieter Serry
Soudal Quick-Step
55:13
139 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
1:05:57
144 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step
1:07:44
149 Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step
1:08:39
155 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
1:11:08
1 Jonathan Milan
Lidl - Trek
134 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin - Deceuninck
97 pt
3 Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step
89 pt
4 Olav Kooij
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
61 pt
5 Benjamin Thomas
Cofidis
56 pt
6 Filippo Fiorelli
VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè
54 pt
7 Andrea Pietrobon
Team Polti Kometa
48 pt
8 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
42 pt
9 Michael Valgren Andersen
EF Education - EasyPost
40 pt
10 Phil Bauhaus
Bahrain - Victorious
37 pt
15 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
32 pt
57 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
67 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
70 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
1 pt
991 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step
-36 pt
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
54 pt
2 Lilian Calmejane
Intermarché - Wanty
32 pt
3 Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda
BORA - hansgrohe
28 pt
4 Andrea Piccolo
EF Education - EasyPost
18 pt
5 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
16 pt
6 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Lidl - Trek
11 pt
7 Filippo Fiorelli
VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè
10 pt
8 Simon Geschke
Cofidis
9 pt
9 Lorenzo Fortunato
Astana Qazaqstan Team
9 pt
10 Giulio Pellizzari
VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè
8 pt
14 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
991 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step
-2 pt
1 Luke Plapp
Team Jayco AlUla
24:16:18
2 Cian Uijtdebroeks
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:08
3 Antonio Tiberi
Bahrain - Victorious
0:29
4 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
0:59
5 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
1:27
6 Georg Steinhauser
EF Education - EasyPost
2:14
7 Alex Baudin
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
2:21
8 Mauri Vansevenant
Soudal Quick-Step
2:49
9 Davide Piganzoli
Team Polti Kometa
3:16
10 Giovanni Aleotti
BORA - hansgrohe
8:56
47 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
1:02:15
1 INEOS Grenadiers 72:44:56
2 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 7:34
3 Astana Qazaqstan Team 8:31
4 Team Jayco AlUla 10:32
5 Soudal Quick-Step 15:12
6 EF Education - EasyPost 15:21
7 VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè 17:50
8 Movistar Team 18:26
9 BORA - hansgrohe 19:57
10 UAE Team Emirates 22:57

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