Results Gran Piemonte 2026 - Dorian Godon wins for INEOS in reduced sprint after Isaac Del Toro attack is reeled in
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Dorian Godon has won Gran Piemonte 2026, taking the sprint from a reduced front group after defending champion Isaac Del Toro's late attack was caught inside the closing kilometres.
The Netcompany INEOS rider beat Anthon Charmig and Alberto Bettiol to victory in Bra, with Lukas Nerurkar and Quinten Hermans completing the top five after a finale that had briefly appeared to be slipping away from the chasing group.
Del Toro had launched the most dangerous attack of the race on the final ascent of La Morra, accelerating around 18 kilometres from the finish after UAE Team Emirates - XRG had controlled much of the day. Finn Fisher-Black was the only rider able to follow, initially losing contact under another acceleration before fighting his way back to the Mexican.
The pair carried an advantage of around half a minute towards the final 10 kilometres, forcing the chase behind as Team Jayco AlUla and NSN Cycling Team committed riders to bringing them back.
An Isaac del Toro attack wasn't enough to claim victory
Del Toro move puts the favourites under pressure
Del Toro and Fisher-Black remained clear as the race left La Morra, but their advantage steadily came down on the approach to Bra. The attackers were eventually caught before the final kilometre, ending Del Toro's attempt to become the first rider since Philippe Gilbert in 2010 to win Gran Piemonte in consecutive editions.
Del Toro then slipped backwards once the race came together, leaving the quicker finishers to contest the victory.
A crash in the peloton added further disruption in the closing moments, but Godon had made the decisive front selection and delivered when the sprint opened. Charmig crossed the line alongside him in second, with Bettiol taking third.
Nerurkar followed two seconds later in fourth ahead of Hermans, Fred Wright, Afonso Eulalio and Michael Matthews, while Jhonatan Narvaez gave UAE a place in the top 10 in ninth. Pau Marti completed the first ten.
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Much of the earlier race had been shaped by a nine-rider breakaway featuring Davide Ballerini, Valentin Ferron, Santiago Umba, Brieuc Rolland, Manuele Tarozzi, Alex Diaz, German Dario Gomez, Luc Wirtgen and Aless De Bock.
The move established itself after an aggressive opening and remained clear through much of the hillier middle section, although UAE kept the gap under control with help at different stages from Bahrain Victorious and Jayco.
The escape began to fragment once the race reached the finishing circuit. De Bock was the first to disappear, before Wirtgen, Ballerini and Gomez were caught and Rolland, Ferron and Umba followed as the peloton closed in.
UAE then took a firmer grip approaching the final La Morra ascent. Jhonatan Narvaez accelerated as attacks began to split the peloton, setting up Del Toro's subsequent move and the two-man escape with Fisher-Black.
Their resistance ended before the sprint, however, leaving Godon to convert a strong ride through the late selection into his seventh victory of the 2026 season.
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- He won in exactly the same way as others. By being the fastest to complete the stages.mobk08-10-2026
- Very surprised del toro couldn't beat everyone here against lesser competition. He's well on his way to being top 5 in the worldbruins3008-10-2026
- Being the best rider left in the race is pretty much the only way to win in any edition, surely? Seems reductive to say "they only won because the entire peloton wasn't as absolutely stacked as it could've been" - you can only beat who is in front of you.wrsty08-10-2026
- I’m sorry but generally the coverage on your site is first class but this incident highlights something I just don’t get with cycling journalism. This accident should never have been allowed to happen, it comes uncomfortably close to the Finlay Tarling tragedy and two other incidents took place within days of this. I checked all of the cycling websites and you all put out basically the same story. Pidcock gave journalists the perfect opening to blow this sky high, what has the UCI got to say? What is Adam Hansen doing? What do the organisers say? Nothing, you all trot out the same easy quotes taken from Pidcocks interview after the race but do nothing to follow it up. I see it time and time again, journalists taking the easy way out but being outraged when it happens again as it surely will. Riders can’t do this but journalists should be independent and should be able to raise these uncomfortable questions but cyclinguptodate and every other on line publication prefer to take the easy way out. That’s the real tragedy here.Paul53108-10-2026
- Happy to help :-)Mistermaumau08-10-2026
- Well, ok but, it’s also a structural, team, budgeting, direction and all sorts of other issueMistermaumau08-10-2026
- I wouldn’t call it an analogy but maybe his criticism is a little unfair. On the other hand, the fact Cicco made a public affair out of it despite having received all the explanations and proof makes me feel he now deserves being criticised for not accepting there is nothing to discuss.Mistermaumau08-10-2026
- Much as I like him (one of my favourites), I do want to attract a little attention to the coincidence of his recent performances in the current context. Not the first time a rider improves noticeably when there’s a job interview to prepare. In the same lighthearted humour of his, i hope the UCI will let him wear it at home as the rules quite strictly state you can only wear it during participation in the discipline you won in, and we all know how capable they are of interpreting rule interpretation ;-) Also, if it’s going to be retirement (please not), I wouldn’t call that an agreement as somebody will probably feel they didn’t get what they wanted.Mistermaumau08-10-2026
- Agreed. There used to be a team willing to pay though. I take all these figures (that vary enormously according to who is publishing) with handfuls of salt. We don’t know how salaries are treated (especially between a UK employer and Andorran resident), we don’t know how numbers are derived and from where, if deductions have been taken into consideration, etc. but if he returns to Colombia, he’s going to need quite a bit in protection money.Mistermaumau08-10-2026
- And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust. Ah gonna get you too…Mistermaumau08-10-2026
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