Staff Reporter.
@GiroItalia.
Egan Bernal has won the Giro d’Italia, with Britain’s Simon Yates finishing on the podium in third.
Ineos Grenadiers’ Bernal, 24, adds victory in the three-week Grand Tour to his 2019 Tour de France win.Team Bike Exchange rider Yates claimed his second best result in a Grand Tour after winning the Vuelta a Espana in 2018.
British team Ineos have now triumphed in 12 Grand Tours since their inaugural season as Sky Procycling in 2010.
As expected, Yates was unable to overhaul a time deficit of three minutes 23 seconds on the final day’s 30km time trial into Milan.
His best chance came the previous day during a punishing 166km stage in the Alps, but the 28-year-old instead lost time to Bernal, who dug deep and was assisted up the mountain by a blistering pace set by fellow Colombian rider Daniel Martinez.
Britain’s Hugh Carthy of EF Education-Nippo finished eighth overall after racing well with Bernal and the other contenders across the three weeks.
The final stage of the race was won by Ineos’ Filippo Ganna.
It was a dramatic stage in glorious sunshine, as current world time trial champion Ganna had to swap bikes with two kilometres to go after suffering a puncture.
The 24-year-old still recorded the fastest time but was expected to lose it to Remi Cavagna of Deceuninck-QuickStep, before the Frenchman misjudged a sharp corner near Duomo di Milano at the end of the stage and flipped over his handlebars into the crowd.
Italian Ganna therefore bookends the race with victory after winning the opening stage time trial in Turin.