Giro d'Italia 2024 stage 12 GC Update | Top10 remains equal despite breakaway with Jan Hirt, Domenico Pozzovivo and Juan Pedro López

Everything pointed to stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia 2024 to be an exciting day of cycling from start to finish, and it finally lived up to expectations. Julian Alaphilippe took the win with an attack 125 km from the finish line that kept him in the head of the race until the end of the day, where he crossed the finish line alone. However, the overall classification remained intact in its Top 10, with Tadej Pogacar in the pink jersey, despite dangerous breakaway attempts.

Stage 12 turned out to be, as expected, an unpredictable day. Jan Hirt, Domenizo Pozzovivo, Juan Pedro López and Davide Piganzoli all tried to take advantage of the fact that it was a day suited to the breakaway so as to gain time on the overall classification. Ultimately, this did not work out as Bahrain - Victorious kept the main breakaway group under control and brought it back before the final cloimb.

In the final climb BORA - hansgrohe looked to try and set up an attack, but all the GC riders remained conservative. Hence, no differences were created in the GC as the Top10 all arrived together in a relatively large GC group.

Tadej Pogacar continues in the lead of the Giro, ahead of Daniel Martínez and Geraint Thomas who are 2:40 and 2:56 minutes behind respectively.

OVERALL CLASSIFICATION GIRO D'ITALIA 2024 AFTER STAGE 12:

Rnk Prev ▼▲ Rider Team UCI Time

1 1 - POGAČAR Tadej UAE Team Emirates 20 26″ 45:22:35

2 2 - MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe BORA - hansgrohe 12″ 02:40

3 3 - THOMAS Geraint INEOS Grenadiers 9″ 02:56

4 4 - O'CONNOR Ben Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 4″ 03:39

5 5 - TIBERI Antonio Bahrain - Victorious 04:27

6 6 - BARDET Romain Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 12″ 04:57

7 7 - FORTUNATO Lorenzo Astana Qazaqstan Team 05:19

8 8 - ZANA Filippo Team Jayco AlUla 05:23

9 9 - RUBIO Einer Movistar Team 05:28

10 10 - ARENSMAN Thymen INEOS Grenadiers 05:52

11 11 - HIRT Jan Soudal Quick-Step 05:57

12 12 - STORER Michael Tudor Pro Cycling Team 06:25

13 13 - BAUDIN Alex Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 06:38

14 14 - POZZOVIVO Domenico VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè 07:34

15 15 - CHAVES Esteban EF Education - EasyPost 09:24

16 17 ▲1 PIGANZOLI Davide Team Polti Kometa 11:30

17 18 ▲1 GESCHKE Simon Cofidis 13:58

18 19 ▲1 ALEOTTI Giovanni BORA - hansgrohe 14:15

19 16 ▼3 LÓPEZ Juan Pedro Lidl - Trek 16:07

20 20 - PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 16:11

21 21 - COVILI Luca VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè 16:51

22 24 ▲2 NARVÁEZ Jhonatan INEOS Grenadiers 17″ 20:54

23 22 ▼1 MAJKA Rafał UAE Team Emirates 1″ 21:07

24 23 ▼1 PARET-PEINTRE Valentin Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 13″ 25:18:00

25 27 ▲2 CALMEJANE Lilian Intermarché - Wanty 5″ 29:08:00

26 26 - SCHACHMANN Maximilian BORA - hansgrohe 7″ 30:07:00

27 29 ▲2 QUINTANA Nairo Movistar Team 30:43:00

28 30 ▲2 CARUSO Damiano Bahrain - Victorious 3″ 32:17:00

29 33 ▲4 VALGREN Michael EF Education - EasyPost 8″ 32:51:00

30 31 ▲1 CONCI Nicola Alpecin - Deceuninck 2″ 33:12:00

31 25 ▼6 RIES Michel Arkéa - B&B Hotels 33:45:00

32 28 ▼4 VANSEVENANT Mauri Soudal Quick-Step 35:59:00

33 36 ▲3 SCARONI Christian Astana Qazaqstan Team 36:19:00

34 34 - VALTER Attila Team Visma | Lease a Bike 38:25:00

35 32 ▼3 HAMILTON Chris Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 38:37:00

36 35 ▼1 ZAMBANINI Edoardo Bahrain - Victorious 41:56:00

37 37 - WARBASSE Larry Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 43:03:00

38 38 - VERMAERKE Kevin Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 43:08:00

39 42 ▲3 GROßSCHARTNER Felix UAE Team Emirates 2″ 45:53:00

40 40 - SHEFFIELD Magnus INEOS Grenadiers 1″ 46:00:00

41 39 ▼2 TRATNIK Jan Team Visma | Lease a Bike 9″ 49:52:00

42 44 ▲2 BARTA Will Movistar Team 50:44:00

43 41 ▼2 TONELLI Alessandro VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè 50:46:00

44 48 ▲4 ALAPHILIPPE Julian Soudal Quick-Step 26″ 51:32:00

45 43 ▼2 VELASCO Simone Astana Qazaqstan Team 52:51:00

46 46 - MULUBRHAN Henok Astana Qazaqstan Team 56:43:00

47 45 ▼2 FRIGO Marco Israel - Premier Tech 1″ 59:21:00

48 54 ▲6 MAESTRI Mirco Team Polti Kometa 10″ 01:00:41

49 49 - FERNÁNDEZ Rubén Cofidis 01:02:31

50 52 ▲2 STORK Florian Tudor Pro Cycling Team 01:02:43