Giro d’Italia: Jonas Vingegaard grabs pink jersey with solo summit stage win

Jonas Vingegaard took nan Giro d’Italia leader’s pinkish jersey for nan first clip aft completing a hat-trick of shape wins, arsenic nan title favourite soloed to nan acme to return shape 14, proving excessively beardown for his rivals successful nan Alps.

The Visma-Lease a Bike rider, already successful connected nan acme finishes connected stages 7 and nine, attacked pinch little than 5km near of nan gruelling 133km thrust from Aosta to Pila, and nan Dane now looks group to triumph nan Giro astatine his first attempt.

Austrian Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM) was second, 49 seconds behind, pinch Australian erstwhile victor Jai Hindley taking third.

Jonas Vingegaard crosses nan decorativeness statement astatine Pila. Photograph: Gian Mattia d’Alberto/LaPresse/AP

Portugal’s Afonso Eulalio (Bahrain Victorious), who had hung onto nan pinkish jersey since taking nan wide lead aft shape five, trailed successful almost 3 minutes down Vingegaard, and drops to 2nd place, 2 minutes 26 seconds disconnected nan caller leader.

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