Giro d’Italia: Koen Bouwman takes stage after timing sprint to perfection

The Jumbo-Visma rider, who was in the day’s breakaway with his teammate and compatriot Tom Dumoulin, jumped away from the leading group 100 metres from the line on a brutal uphill drag to beat another Dutchman, Bauke Mollema. Italy’s Davide Formolo came home third ahead of Dumoulin.Spain’s Juanpe López retained the overall leader’s maglia rosa after finishing safe in the peloton.

A strong breakaway of seven riders, featuring the former Giro champion Dumoulin and Tour de France stage winner Mollema, had built an advantage of more than six minutes. The peloton was controlled by López’s Trek-Segafredo team as the main contenders stayed quiet. The bunch then upped the pace to prevent Dumoulin making up for theon Tuesday with the Dutch rider having started the stage 8:30 off the pace.

The breakaway group’s lead shrank quickly and Bouwman, hoping to take the maglia rosa, attacked from the front of the race with 42km left, but his move did not stick. On the third-category climb to La Sellatta, Dumoulin tried his luck several times but the sharpest attack came from Formolo.Mollema, Bouwman and Dumoulin caught up with him 1.5km from the top, but on a steep section 9km from the line Dumoulin fell behind.

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