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Caleb Ewan wins Giro d'Italia stage five, Landa crashes out
Lotto Soudal rider Caleb Ewan surged through to beat Italian Giacomo Nizzolo on the line after favourite Mikel Landa's crash-hit climax on Wednesday. 13 May, 2021 09:51 IST
Australian Caleb Ewan sprinted to victory but one of the main GC favourites Mikel Landa's race is over after a crash-hit climax to stage five of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday.
Australian Caleb Ewan sprinted to victory but one of the main GC favourites Mikel Landa's race is over after a crash-hit climax to stage five of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday.
Lotto Soudal rider Ewan surged through to beat Italian Giacomo Nizzolo on the line alongside the Adriatic resort of Cattolica with Elia Viviani in third place.
Australian Caleb Ewan secured a sprint victory on a chaotic fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.
The Lotto Soudal rider was fastest to the line, outsprinting Italians Giacomo Nizzolo and Elia Viviani - respectively of Team Qhubeka Assos and Cofidis - who completed the podium.
Spain's Mikel Landa did not complete the stage following a fall and is out of the race, and Russian Pavel Sivakov also came off the bike and there are fears that his Grand Tour could be over.
As the riders followed a 177-kilometre course from Modena to Cattolica, Sivakov's title hopes came crashing down as the Ineos Grenadiers rider hit the ground hard with just 15km to go - seemingly touching wheels with a team mate.
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Cycling - Giro d'Italia - Stage 5 - Modena to Cattolica, Italy - May 12, 2021 Lotto Soudal rider Caleb Ewan of Australia wins stage 5 ahead of Qhubeka Assos rider Giacomo Nizzolo of Italy REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
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Australian Caleb Ewan sprinted to victory but one of the main GC favourites Mikel Landa's race is over after a crash-hit climax to stage five of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday.
Lotto Soudal rider Ewan surged through to beat Italian Giacomo Nizzolo on the line alongside the Adriatic resort of Cattolica with Elia Viviani in third place.
Ewan wins Giro fifth stage as contender Landa
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12/05/2021 - 19:46 Caleb Ewan (R) took the sprint finish of the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia Dario BELINGHERI AFP 3 min
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Caleb Ewan won the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday in a sprint finish as Italy's Alessandro De Marchi kept hold of the overall lead and one of the favourites Mikel Landa crashed out.
Lotto-Soudal's Ewan overtook Giacomo Nizzolo to triumph in the final metres of a flat, initially uneventful stage that was suddenly hit by collisions as the race came to its climax in Cattolica on the Adriatic coast.
Ewan wins Giro fifth stage as contender Landa crashes out Lotto-Soudal's Ewan overtook Giacomo Nizzolo to triumph in the final metres of a flat, initially uneventful stage that was suddenly hit by collisions as the race came to its climax in Cattolica on the Adriatic coast. Lotto-Soudal rider Caleb Ewan wins the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia on 12 May 2021. Picture: @giroditalia/Twitter
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CATTOLICA - Caleb Ewan won the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday in a sprint finish as Italy's Alessandro De Marchi kept hold of the overall lead and one of the favourites Mikel Landa crashed out.
Team Qhubeka ASSOS (www.TeamQhubeka.com) sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo stormed to an impressive second place on stage two (179km) of the Giro d'Italia, that finished in Novara on Sunday.
The stage was won by Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) with Elia Viviani following Nizzolo home to complete the podium.
A relatively benign ride by the peloton in towards the finish saw key moments in the final 4km well marshaled by the likes of Bert-Jan Lindeman, Max Walscheid and Victor Campenaerts.
In the finale, Merlier opened up his sprint with around 200m to go and impressively managed to hold off the fast-finishing Nizzolo who was just unable to come around him at the line.
Fourth-place was not enough for Dylan Groenewegen at the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.
The Dutchman narrowly missed out on the podium in the fast finish in Novara in what was his first ride back in the peloton after serving a nine-month suspension.
“I have to be satisfied with fourth place after nine months of absence,” Groenewegen said Sunday. “Still, I am a bit disappointed. I am a winner and always want more. But a fourth-place in my first sprint is certainly not that bad.”
Groenewegen was a late call-up to the Jumbo-Visma squad set for Italy, and Saturday’s opening time trial was his first race since the terrible incident at the Tour of Poland which left Fabio Jakobsen with a swathe of career-threatening injuries. The Dutchman was subsequently suspended for his dangerous move by the UCI, while Jakobsen spent months in hospitals and rehab before making his racing return at the Tour of Turkey last month.