Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard took the overall leader’s pink jersey as he rode away from the rest of the favourites on the final climb to win a mountainous stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia.<\/p>\n
The two-time Tour de France winner claimed his third stage win of the 2026 edition with a superb late attack on the brutal 133km stage through the mountains to Pila.<\/p>\n
His Visma-Lease a Bike team led the peloton from the beginning of the last, toughest climb – a 16.6km drag to the finish line – and gradually reeled in a breakaway group.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard’s team-mate Davide Piganzoli led him to the front and from there he made his move to secure the pink jersey for the first time.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Afonso Eulalio – who had led since stage five – slipped to second overall, nearly two and a half minutes behind. <\/p>\n
“Today we made a plan from the start with the team, and we wanted to control the race, and that’s what my team-mates did,” Vingegaard said.<\/p>\n
“It was really impressive how they rode, and I’m so proud of my team-mates, and I’m proud that I can pay them back – it’s a super nice win.”<\/p>\n
Vingegaard, racing in the Giro for the first time, is aiming to become just the eighth rider to win all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n
He finished 49 seconds ahead of Austrian Felix Gall in second, with former winner Jai Hindley of Australia third on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard took the overall leader’s pink jersey as he rode away from the rest of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600250","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\/600250","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=600250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}