Michael Matthews won Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia – a 213km mostly flat ride from Vasto to Melfi that ended in an uphill sprint. The peloton was strung out over the Cat. 3 and Cat. 4 climbs of Valico dei Laghi di Monticchio and Valico La Croce. And it was left to Matthews and Mads Pedersen to battle it out on the punchy finish. Remco Evenepoel extended his lead in the GC.
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Italy’s Jonathan Milan won a reduced bunch sprint in San Salvo after a late crash split the peloton and caused minor chaos in Stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia. British duo Mark Cavendish and Tao Geoghegan Hart were among the riders disrupted by the incident as Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel stayed out of trouble to retain the pink jersey.
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Jai Hindley became the first Australian to win the Giro d’Italia – proving his near-miss against 2020’s depleted field was no fluke. Bora-Hansgrohe carved apart the GC battle on the penultimate stage on Saturday, cracking pre-race favourite Richard Carapaz in the Dolomites as Hindley opened up a 1’25” lead heading into Sunday. This time there would be no final-day heartbreak for Hindley.
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Jai Hindley expertly rode into the pink jersey on the final big climb of the Giro d’Italia after his stinging attack on the Passo Fedaia cracked race leader Richard Carapaz in devastating fashion. The Australian will take a lead of 1:25 into Sunday’s decisive time trial in Verona after taking a stunning sixth place on Stage 20, won by the Italian Alessandro Covi from the breakaway.
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Dutchman Koen Bouwman doubled up on the Giro d’Italia and secured the blue jersey despite a calamitous finish to Stage 19 that saw Attila Valter and Andrea Vendrame go into the barriers. Nothing separated race leader Richard Carapaz and his pink jersey rivals Jai Hindley and Mikel Landa on a day of GC attrition ahead of Saturday’s decisive day in the Dolomites.
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