CAR\u00cc, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s four out of four for Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n
The Danish rider soloed to victory at the end of the tough 16th stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia to extend his overall lead to more than four minutes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth mountain-top finish in this year\u2019s race and a fourth win for Vingegaard, who triumphed atop Blockhaus, Corno alle Scale and Pila. It was a first victory for him in the leader\u2019s pink jersey, however.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Vingegaard attacked halfway up the top-category slog to the finish in Car\u00ec, with 6.6 kilometers (4 miles) remaining and no one could stay on the Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider’s wheel.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard beat Felix Gall by 69 seconds, with Jai Hindley two seconds further back.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy teammates and myself were very motivated for it \u2014 we wanted to try to win in the pink jersey,\u201d Vingegaard said. \u201cAnd obviously it can also go wrong, so we chose the first option to do it because if we would fail then we would have another one as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very nice, very hard climb,” he added. “It\u2019s a long climb, it took around half an hour I guess. Again, my teammates today did an amazing job … I had to do the rest and I\u2019m happy once again that I can pay off my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Vingegaard is racing in his first Giro in a bid to win all three Grand Tours. He won the Tour de France in 2022 and \u201923 and last year clinched his first Spanish Vuelta title.<\/p>\n
Gall moved into second overall, 4:03 behind Vingegaard. Thymen Arensman is third, 4:27 behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe second place is super nice,\u201d Gall said. \u201cThey (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) showed again who is in charge here, also as a team, and it\u2019s really impressive. And Jonas is, he\u2019s just doing his thing, and yeah\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Afonso Eul\u00e1lio, who had worn pink for nine stages before ceding it atop Pila on Saturday, dropped from second to fifth after cracking on the final climb and crossing the line three minutes after Vingegaard.<\/p>\n
The stage crossed the border into Switzerland, with five classified climbs on the 113-kilometer (70-mile) route from Bellinzona to Car\u00ec.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s 17th stage returns to Italy and is a 202-kilometer (126-mile) route from Cassano d\u2019Adda to Andolo that includes three, third-category climbs.<\/p>\n
The Giro ends on Sunday in Rome. The women\u2019s Giro is from May 30 to June 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAR\u00cc, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s four out of four for Jonas Vingegaard. The Danish rider soloed to victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[48616,27,26,48614,48613,159,48617,48615,21154,21155,21151,21152,26029,4505],"class_list":["post-92771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-afonso-eulalio","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-felix-gall","tag-giro-ditalia-stage-16-vingegaard","tag-italy","tag-jai-hindley","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-rome","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116643260385423053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}