Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley became the first Australian winner of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday – and claimed his first-ever Grand Tour GC championship – when he lost just 7 seconds to his closest rival, Richard Carapaz of Ineos Grenadiers, on the final-stage ITT. The victory…
The Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert rider became only the eighth Czech to ever win a stage of a Grand Tour. Jan Hirt also became only the fifth rider from Czechia to win at the Giro d’Italia.
The Bora-Hansgrohe rider beat Juan Pedro López (Trek-Segafredo) to the line. However, López needn’t be too sad about it as he is now the overall leader.