{"id":587619,"date":"2026-05-16T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:22:09","slug":"jhonatan-narvaez-breaks-free-to-claim-his-second-stage-of-2026-giro-ditalia-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587619\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez breaks free to claim his second stage of 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia | Giro d’Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez powered away from his breakaway rivals to win stage eight of the Giro d\u2019Italia on Saturday for his second victory and a third for the injury-decimated UAE Team Emirates XRG.<\/p>\n

Adam Yates, Jay Vine and Marc Soler have all been forced out of the Giro after a gruesome stage three pile up in Bulgaria, but the super-team from the Emirates has refocused impressively.<\/p>\n

A rolling 156km stage starting from Chieti on the Adriatic seemed to favour a breakaway win. Narv\u00e1ez, the Ecuadorian rider who had already won stage four in a sprint<\/a>, was part of a breakaway midway through the day after an original escape had been reeled in. He opened a 32-second gap at the line on Norway\u2019s Andreas Leknessund, of Uno-X Mobility, with another UAE man, Mikkel Bjerg, third.<\/p>\n

Afonso Eul\u00e1lio, who grabbed a sizeable lead on stage five, still heads the general classification ahead of Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> and Felix Gall.<\/p>\n

Race favourite Vingegaard ignited his own Giro title bid on Friday<\/a> on the formidable Blockhaus climb, finishing 13 seconds clear of Gall, while former Giro winner Jai Hindley was a further 49 seconds back in third. On Saturday, Hindley attacked on a climb to the line but crossed the summit with Vingegaard on his wheel, a slender two seconds ahead of the peloton.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s stage nine also starts on the Adriatic and finishes with a steep climb over the final three kilometres where Eul\u00e1lio will again be tested by the big guns. Monday is a day off and Tuesday sees what promises to be a decisive 42km individual time trial along Italy\u2019s west coast. Some 15 riders have pulled out so far, compared with 25 who never made it as far as Rome in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez powered away from his breakaway rivals to win stage eight of the Giro d\u2019Italia on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}