Jonas Vingegaard underlined his status as the top Giro d\u2019Italia favorite Sunday, landing his second stage win in three days atop the summit finish at Fermo.<\/p>\n
The Visma-Lease a Bike rider tracked Felix Gall when the Decathlon CMA GGM rider attacked the GC group with about 2.5km remaining. His hectic pace distanced all of his rivals bar Vingegaard, but left him vulnerable when the Dane made his own surge 900 meters from the line.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard gapped him immediately and romped in 12 seconds clear, landing the 50th victory of his career plus his 11th grand tour stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cFelix did a very strong attack when he attacked and luckily I was able to follow,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the end I tried myself and was able to take the win. It is something I am extremely happy about.\u201d<\/p>\n
His teammate Davide Piganzoli outsprinted Thymen Arensman for third, 34 seconds back, mopping up the final time bonus.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe is a super good guy,\u201d Vingegaard said. \u201cHe is really, really strong. I am super, super happy for Davide. He is a special guy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Overnight race leader Afonso Eul\u00e1lio (Bahrain-Victorious) is another promising young rider and showed great character. He was unable to react when Gall made his play, but mounted a determined fightback and only conceded 41 seconds.<\/p>\n
That sees him 2:24 ahead of Vingegaard heading into Monday\u2019s rest day, making it possible he will remain in pink after Tuesday\u2019s time trial.<\/p>\n
\u2018We didn\u2019t want to pull for the stage today\u2019<\/h2>\nFelix Gall was very aggressive in the finale, and is emerging as Vingegaard\u2019s main challenger (Photo: Luca Bettini \/ AFP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Stage 9 of the Giro was set to be another GC showdown but this just made the breakaway specialists all the more determined to seize their chance.<\/p>\n
Lorenzo Milesi (Movistar), Davide Ballerini (XDS Astana) and Edward Planckaert (Alpecin-PremierTech) were the first aggressors and while the latter dropped back, the other two riders were joined by Jonas Geens (Alpecin\u2013Premier Tech), Martin Marcellusi (Bardiani\u2013CSF Faizan\u00e8), Einer Rubio (Movistar Team), Sakarias Koller L\u00f8land (Uno-X Mobility), Tim Naberman (Picnic PostNL) and Mattia Bais (Polti VisitMalta).<\/p>\n
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Former race leader Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) had big plans and bridged with Ballerini\u2019s teammate Diego Ulissi and Toon Aerts (Lotto Intermarch\u00e9). Once across, Ulissi was selflessly supported by Ballerini, who dragged the group\u2019s advantage to over two minutes.<\/p>\n
However with Decathlon CMA CGM and then Visma chasing hard, Ciccone grew concerned and dropped all bar Rubio 11.7km from the finish. He then jettisoned the Colombian with 7.5km to go. However while his advantage over the GC group was 49 seconds 3km from the line, this lead was threatened when Gall fired off a big move with 2.5km remaining.<\/p>\n
He and Vingegaard caught and dropped Ciccone, with the Dane going solo with a big attack 1.8km out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to pull for the stage today,\u201d he said, confirming Visma hadn\u2019t planned to ride. \u201cWe realized quite quickly that Decathlon wanted to go for the stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is always nice with a win. It\u2019s something I am super happy with. My teammates did a super good job. Once the win was within victory we decided on the last climb to maybe try to go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He did try, he did succeed and now he heads into the rest day in a very strong position.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are where we wanted to be,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cI am in a good situation at the moment for GC. So far everything is looking good for us and we are happy where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2276154194.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 17, 2026 10:57AM Jonas Vingegaard underlined his status as the top Giro d\u2019Italia favorite Sunday, landing his second stage win in three days atop the summit finish at Fermo. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider tracked Felix Gall when the Decathlon CMA GGM rider attacked the GC group with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1940260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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