Pre-race favorite Jonas Vingegaard on Sunday claimed another stage victory in the Giro d’Italia to cut into Afonso Eulalio’s overall lead.
Vingegaard had won atop the Blockhaus two days ago and he repeated the feat on another uphill finish on the ninth stage.
Vingegaard crossed the line 12 seconds ahead of Felix Gall, at the end of the 184km route from Cervia to the top-category climb up Corno alle Scale. Davide Piganzoli was third, 34 seconds behind his teammate Vingegaard.
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However, Eulalio crossed the line in fifth, 41 seconds behind Vingegaard. The Portuguese rider has an advantage of 2 minutes, 24 seconds over Vingegaard, with Gall 35 seconds further back.
“We are where we wanted to be, obviously,” Vingegaard said. “I’m in a good situation at the moment for GC [general classification] and so far everything is looking good for us, and we’re happy where we are.”
Giulio Ciccone, who narrowly missed out on stage 4, had attacked from the breakaway and appeared set to solo to victory, but there was to be more heartbreak for the Italian.
The peloton had been nearly two minutes behind at the start of the climb, but Gall attacked and Vingegaard stuck to his wheel and they eventually swept past Ciccone with 1.7km remaining.
Gall kept trying to get his rival to come through and do some work, but Vingegaard was happy to sit back until they passed the 1km remaining mark, when the Danish rider came through and immediately gapped the Austrian.
“It’s always nice with a win, something I’m super happy with, my teammates did a super good job and once the win was within reach, we decided on the last climb to maybe try to go for it,” Vingegaard said.
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