First Grand Tour victory for Van Garderen, no harmony between GC contenders in the finale. Tomorrow’s stage TV live coverage starts from 13.15.
Ortisei/St. Ulrich, 25 May 2017 – Tejay van Garderen claimed his first Grand Tour victory, outsprinting Mikel Landa in Ortisei at the end of Stage 18 of the Giro100. It was also a spectacular finale among the GC contenders as Nairo Quintana and Vincenzo Nibali attacked in the hills but Tom Dumoulin reigned them in to show his strength. The top three GC riders all gave way to Thibaut Pinot who rode away with Domenico Pozzovivo to move closer to the podium.
STATISTICS
An outright record number of countries are now represented by stage winners in a single edition of the Giro d’Italia: 12 (one more than in 2010)
Tejay van Garderen scored the 12th stage win at the Giro d’Italia for American cyclists. The last one was Taylor Phinney with the prologue in Herning in 2012. Other countries with 12 stage wins at the Giro are Luxemburg and Denmark
Van Garderen is the first American to win a mountain stage at the Giro since eventual overall winner Andy Hampsten in 1988 at Selvino, where, like today the runner up was a Spaniard: Pedro Delgado
This is BMC’s seventh stage win at the Giro and the second this year after Silvan Dillier at Terme Luigiane on stage 6. It’s also Van Garderen’s first win since a mountain stage at last year’s Tour de Suisse in Sölden