Results Giro d'Italia stage 16 - Jonas Vingegaard cements pink jersey battle with triumphant climb to Carì
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Jonas Vingegaard has won stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider was the man to beat in the first summit finish of week 3 at the Corsa Rosa; and he established his dominance with the most convincing victory of his race yet.
Starting in Bellinzona, the stage only had 113 kilometers on the menu, the first 25 of which flat. There was a breakaway going up the road, but comfortably controlled by the pace of Lidl-Trek and UAE Team Emirates - XRG who looked to wait until the first climb of the day to launch their leaders to the head of the race.
As the moment arrived around two dozen riders got a gap over the peloton, but on the ascents of Torre and Leontica (both climbed twice) there was a group forming at the head of the race featuring Giulio Ciccone, Diego Ulissi, Chris Harper, Einer Rubio and Jhonatan Narváez. More riders attempted to be part of it, but were reeled in by the strong pace set by Team Visma | Lease a Bike.
The stage was duly controlled by the Dutch team, who never let the gap escalate as they deployed their men at the head of the peloton with a consistently high pace. Narváez' efforts earned him an ascent to the lead of the points classification; and as the riders drew nearer to the climb to Carì - 11.6 kilometers at over 8% - the front group began tearing itself apart.
Visma launch Vingegaard into another win
Without fail, the Visma leadout functioned once again on the final ascent of the day. With Narváez and Ciccone pulling the plug early on, it was Chris Harper who remained out front, carrying his own GC ambitions in hopes of climbing up into the Top10.
Victor Campenaerts and Davide Piganzoli set a hellish pace that decimated the GC group, with Giulio Pellizzari being the first name to get dropped and lose meaningful time.
Before the halfway mark, Jonas Vingegaard was then launched by the Italian and made his move with over 6 kilometers to go. Felix Gall initially tried to follow the attack, but was unsuccessful in his attempt - dropping back into a chasing group led by Egan Bernal and Thymen Arensman.
Vingegaard rode into his first stage win in the pink jersey, gaining over 1:30 minutes on his rivals and cementing his lead in the overall classification.
Felix Gall was second on the day, beating Thymen Arensman, Jai Hindley and the surging Derek Gee - although the differences between all were very limited.
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- Thats only cause he rides for UAE. In any other team he would be captain in many races atleast. UAE is just to crazymiguel06-11-2026
- He seems to be the rare athlete whose passion and curiosity about life beyond his sport equals his extraordinary achievements in it. It would be great for him to risk less of that life. He seems very grateful and joyful for what he has already attained.
MarkFour06-11-2026 - As much as I admire and even revere Wout, the less I know about his backside the better.MidnightRider06-11-2026
- Ok, Walt 🤣... Vingegaard would be lucky to get on the poduim. He would not beat Seixas or Del Toro, let alone TP. Then there are the Americans...BD06-11-2026
- So, for starters. Cycling is a saturated, static/dying sport in traditional lands, it will not have resurgences like eg running occasionally does because of several obstacular (yes, I know that’s not a word but don’t make me point out the obvious at your expense) factors. Obviously, like almost everything involving money, there is a desire/need/advantage to growth and that can only come from (developing or just testing) new markets. For me, the WC is the obvious and best choice for several reasons, it comes at the end of the season so is less critical season risk wise, it is not a “pro” team race but nation based which makes integration of uncommon participation more natural. It is a vehicle for redistribution (one of a very limited number of available mechanisms to develop new markers fairly) that the fixed calendar doesn’t allow and it helps make budgets fairer over the long run (moving the whole circus to everywhere evens out everyone’s budget as opposed to having everyone always come to the same location.Jumpyjohn06-11-2026
- Sad that a more refreshing article like this, which could generate discussion in a number of directions, gets completely ignored for the importance of debating the level of superiority of one rider into every single last detail, including a majority of totally hypothetical ones. People complain there is no news in the off season and it’s boring but don’t realise how boring it is to review the same old discussion over and over again, several times a day. In fact, you’d almost think this was a rider fan website. Instead of complaining about the FREE (as long as you pay attention to data use if not unlimited coz this site consumes almost as much for loading Youtube) content, the presence of cv of authors (for the missed obvious reason that it makes it easier to insert extra advertising without changing formats), the lack of quality/checking and depth of articles, why not also think about the content, quality and variety of posts that everyone can contribute to? The platform becomes irrelevant when discussion is interesting.Jumpyjohn06-11-2026
- UAE Team Emirates and Pogačar will officially unveil their objectives at the team’s media day, which will take place on December 18 in Benidorm, Spain. New information from the UAE Team: Exceptional recovery remains the cornerstone of success for the Slovenian cannibal-Pogi, whose sporting manager, Matxin, believes he will be even better in 2027 than he has been over the past three seasons.PogiSloFans06-11-2026
- Yeh, but he didn't and RE beat Pog & Del T 👍
leedorney06-11-2026 - Just my opinionleedorney06-11-2026
- Great win.However will the world champions jersey be simply a domestic for the season which will some what tarnish the jersey. I hope he is given free rein to try and win some races.paultryan200206-11-2026
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