Giro d'Italia 2022 stage 19

Koen Bouwman takes stage and all but seals mountains jersey · Richard Carapaz retains lead ahead of final mountain stage · Jai Hindley 3sec behind; Mikel Landa ...

The Ecuadorian, however, is holding on to that jersey by the narrowest thread. "It was a dream to achieve a win like this." A challenging mountain stage, crossing over to Slovenia and closing with a summit finish. Affini, alongside Cort, was part of the four-man breakaway on Thursday that went all the way to the line where they denied the sprinters. Is this the end of the road for the Australian? Is this advantage to his compatriot Jai Hindley? Only time will tell. The highest-placed rider on general classification is Bouwman, the Dutchman that leads the mountains classification, at 1hr 2min 1sec and so, unsurprisingly, the peloton appeared happy enough to let that group ride off before building up an advantage of almost 12min. Having descended off the Villanova Grotte, the road has started to rise on the approach of the next climb, the category three Passo di Tanamea. Bora-Hansgrohe continue to ride on the front of the peloton. At 10.4km it is far from the longest climb in this year's race, but with an average gradient of 8.9% – including pitches up to 15% – it is one of the most testing. Flick of the left elbow from Koen Bouwman lets Mauro Schmid know it is time for the Swiss to roll on through. Koen Bouwman adds another 40 points to his tally in the mountains classification. As he said earlier in the week, he is "not here to put socks on centipedes." Andrea Vendrame is the fastest man in this group if it comes down to some sort of sprint.

2022 Giro d'Italia - STAGE 19 preview. 177km and the Giro visits Slovenia the home of Roglic & Pogacar, a breakaway should win but the Kolovrat should ...

More importantly, is whether the man himself would want to go for the break. It is actually harder to predict who among the yellow men will be in the breakaway. At 5:48 min, it will still be unsual for the GC contenders to allow Vincenzo Nibali to go in the breakaway. Lilian Calmejane is probably not in the best form of his career but that does not mean he cannot win. Who has enough the strength to go in the breakaway and possibly win the stage? This is the challenge of this stage…

Marano Lagunare - Santuario di Castelmonte 178 km From the beach to a mountain finish via a nasty climb in Slovenia. Just two...

Koen Bouwman (Jumbo-Visma) won stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia from the breakaway following a final turn that saw Andrea Vendrame (Ag2r Citroën) and Attila ...

But anyway the initial plan today wasn’t to go chasing the break but we just changed it out on the road.” But yeah I mean it was a pretty strong breakaway also, I think we just let the gap go out a bit too far. But yeah it just didn’t really work out the way we wanted to.

KOM Koen Bouwman crossed the line first, but only after a bizarre sprint where some riders went the wrong way. The top-3 stayed the same.

Bouwman was the first to start and was the first to take the last corner, 70 metres from the finish. I had to break but it’s great that I was in the best position there. Since moving to Spain and finding out how to use a computer, he has gone from contributor of Daily Distractions at the 2002 Vuelta a España to editor at PezCyclingNews. Bouwman, Schmid, Valter, Vendrame and Tonelli had a lead of more than 8 minutes at the base of the climb, because BORA-hansgrohe had suddenly stopped chasing, and so they knew they were going to fight for the stage win. I knew about the last corner but I didn’t expect it to be that sharp. Bouwman was the stage winner. In the peloton, BORA-hansgrohe set the pace, but Edoardo Zardini was able to escape from the group, but they didn’t get much closer to the break either. The start of the stage from Marano Lagunare was almost flat which encouraged the attacks. It was a great day for Bouwman, who also cemented his win in the KOM competition. Final kilometres The final climb is approx. There was a GC battle, but the top-3 stayed the same. Giro Stage 19 Race Report: Five men were left to fight it out for the stage victory on the steep final climb to Santuario di Castelmonte. It was KOM Koen Bouwman who crossed the line first, but only after a bizarre sprint where some riders went the wrong way.

Richard Carapaz held on to the pink jersey as Dutchman Koen Bouwman won stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia, a mountainous 178-kilometre ride from Marano Lagunare ...

"I knew there was a corner to the left but I didn't know it was this sharp," Bouwman said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Breakaway gets a long leash on penultimate mountain stage as Carapaz-Hindley stalemate continues.

It had little effect, though, on the GC battle, as Hindley and Landa both comfortably parried Carapaz’s main attack halfway up and Landa briefly tried to branch out on his own. The GC battle provided little real excitement, with Porte’s abandon the main news of the day and neither Bora-Hansgrohe nor Ineos Grenadiers able to rattle their respective rivals. An unspoken truce allowed the five to make it back into Italy and onto the second category summit finish climb of Santuario di Castelmonte with no further movement. As soon as they hit the early slopes, Bouwman moved ahead with Valter, Schmid and Tonelli, and although the Italian was briefly dropped, finally all four all passed through the dense lines of Slovenian fans on the upper part of the climb without making any major challenges. While Vendrame was unable to dispute the stage, Mauro Schmid (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) was also annoyed. Stage winner Bouwman, who also wrapped up a mathematical victory in the King of the Mountains classification, did not refer to the incident in initial post-stage comments, saying simply “I knew there was a corner to the left but I didn’t know it was this sharp.