Mohoric grabs Giro d’Italia stage 10 as Chaves loses 25 minutes

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Matej Mohoric wins stage 10 giro d'italia 2018

Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) beat Nico Denz (AG2R La Mondiale) in a two-man sprint finish to win the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday as Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) maintained his grip on the overall race lead.

Yates’s team-mate Esteban Chaves had a disastrous day as he was distanced on the opening climb of the 244km stage from Penne to Gualdo Tadino and lost more than 25 minutes to drop out of overall contention having started the day second at 32sec.

Going into Tuesday’s stage they were in the enviable position of occupying the top two positions in the overall standings, meaning tactically they would be able to play two cards in the pink jersey race and increase the pressure on their rivals.

But once Chaves was distanced, the teams of overall hopefuls including Chris Froome, reigning champion Tom Dumoulin, Fabio Aru and Thibaut Pinot, pushed the pace in the peloton to ensure the Colombian never regained contact.

Yates now leads by 41 seconds from Dumoulin with Pinot third at 46sec. Froome, who crashed twice during the first week, is up to 10th at 2:30.

The fast pace set by the peloton meant that an initial 17-man breakaway was swallowed up with still 150km to ride.

Solo attempts by Tony Martin and Marco Frapporti proved futile until finally a late escape by Mohoric and Denz stuck. Their sprint to the line was fiercly contested but Mohoric had the strength to prevail. Sam Bennett won the sprint for third 36sec later.

Giro d’Italia 2018 – stage 10 results (Penne – Gualdo Tadino):

1Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida

6:04:52

2Nico Denz (AG2R La Mondiale)

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3Sam Bennett (Bora-hansgrohe)

+34”

4Enrico Battaglin (LottoNL-Jumbo)

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5Davide Ballerini (Androni-Sidermec-Bottecchia)

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6Mads Würtz Schmidt (Katusha-Alpecin)

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7Francesco Gavazzi (Androni-Sidermec-Bottecchia)

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8Jarlinson Pantano (Trek-Segafredo)

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9Gianluca Brambilla (Trek-Segafredo)

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10José Gonçalves (Katusha-Alpecin)

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11Benjamin King (Dimension Data)

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12Matteo Montaguti (AG2R La Mondiale)

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13Giovanni Visconti (Bahrain-Merida)

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14Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF)

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15Chris Froome (Team Sky)

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16Richard Carapaz (Movistar)

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17Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott)

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18Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb)

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19Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain-Merida)

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20George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo)

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General classification after stage 10:

1Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott)

43:42:38

2Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb)

+41”

3Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ)

+46”

4Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain-Merida)

+01’00”

5Richard Carapaz (Movistar)

+01’23”

6George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo)

+01’36”

7Rohan Dennis (BMC)

+02’08”

8Pello Bilbao (Astana)

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9Michael Woods (EF Education First-Drapac)

+02’28”

10Chris Froome (Team Sky)

+02’30”

11Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe)

+02’37”

12Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana)

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13Ben O’Connor (Dimension Data)

+02’39”

14Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates)

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15Carlos Betancur (Movistar)

+02’49”

16Sam Oomen (Team Sunweb)

+02’57”

17Sergio Henao (Team Sky)

+03’17”

18Maximilian Schachmann (Quick-Step Floors)

+03’40”

19Alexandre Geniez (AG2R La Mondiale)

+04’15”

20Jose Goncalves (Katusha-Alpecin)

+04’35”

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