Rohan Dennis is hanging onto the Maglia Rosa while Battaglin takes the stage in Santa Ninfa, Sicily.
Battaglin was able to outsprint both Wellens and Visconti today. Dumoulin is just one second behind. Today’s stage was a flat finish. Chris Froome is in 15th place but there are still more than two weeks to go.
Bianchi celebrated his first win at the 101st Giro d’Italia in Santa Ninfa (Sicily), where Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s Enrico Battaglin impressively outsprinted all his rivals on the uphill finish of the 153 km stage started from Agrigento. Equipped with Oltre XR4, the 28-year-old Italian clinched his third victory at the Giro preceding countryman Giovanni Visconti and Portuguese José Gonçalves, closing in 4:06:33.
Battaglin is no stranger to this kind of feats. Twenty-four hours before the rider from Marostica made the dress reharsal in Caltagirone’s stage, attacking on the final slope before finishing third. Twenty-eitghth in the GC, Battaglin went up to 7th in the Points classification (37). World Tour Team LottoNL-Jumbo and Bianchi can boast 13 seasonal wins, including the Itzulia Basque Country’s GC and Points Classificationsi and Tour de Romandie’s GC, all topped by Primoz Roglic.
OLTRE XR4
Enhanced with the revolutionary Bianchi CV system, the Bianchi Oltre XR4 high-performance aero road racing machine allows rider to hold the most aerodynamic position at higher speeds and for longer, in order to maximize the aerodynamic advantage. The Oltre XR4 was designed to be at the absolute cutting edge of aerodynamics thanks to advanced CFD and Flow Visualization – technologies borrowed straight from aerospace and F1 car design: technology that turns into valuable watts in finishes like Santa Ninfa’s one, where Battaglin came on top.
