Colombian Egan Bernal wins his first Tour of Italy

Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos), 24, won the cycling Tour of Italy on Sunday May 30, two years after winning the Tour de France.

His Italian teammate Filippo Ganna removed the 21e and last stage, a stopwatch of 30.3 kilometers. The time trial world champion won for the fifth time in a row in this event at the Giro.

In the final standings, Bernal precedes the Italian Damiano Caruso, present for the first time on the podium of a grand tour, and the Briton Simon Yates, winner of the Vuelta 2018.

The Colombian took over from Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart, surprise winner last year and absent this year. He signed the third success for his team since 2018 and the sensational victory of Briton Chris Froome.

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Best Young White Jersey

Bernal, irresistible in the first two weeks, won the 9e and 16e stages, in Campo Felice and Cortina d’Ampezzo. He was the most consistent throughout the three weeks of the race, managing the last stages with the support of a strong team.

Sunday, Ganna, who helped him powerfully throughout the race, justified his status as the best rider of the peloton in the final stage. Despite a puncture that forced him to change bikes near the finish, the Piedmontese beat Frenchman RĂ©mi Cavagna by 12 seconds and Italian Edoardo Affini by 13 seconds.

Cavagna, the French time trial champion, went straight into the last kilometer as he was able to challenge the victory at Ganna.

Winner at an average of 53.787 km / h, Ganna concluded the Giro as he had started on May 8 in Turin with a victory in a time trial.

Bernal added the best young rider white jersey to his outfit. Peter Sagan, for his part, brought back for the first time the cyclamen jersey of the points classification, the Slovakian’s specialty in the Tour de France (seven times green jersey). Frenchman Geoffrey Bouchard won the blue mountain jersey.

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The World with AFP