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Ilnur Zakarin of Katusha soloed to a snow-capped summit finish victory on a chaotic 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Friday that shook up the overall picture. The Russian thereby climbs to third in the overall standings, which is where the now 29-year-old fZakarin wins Giro's first summit finish, bad day for Yates, Lopez
Ilnur Zakarin of Katusha soloed to a snow-capped summit finish victory on a chaotic 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Friday that shook up the overall picture. The Russian thereby climbs to third in the overall standings, which is where the now 29-year-old finished on the 2017 Giro. «I came to the Giro d'Italia to make the top five and I hope it's still possible,» Zakarin said after spraying champagne on the podium. Slovenia's Jan Polanc of Team UAE kept hold of the overall lead as favourites another Slovene Primoz Roglic and Italian Vincenzo Nibali crossed the line together 2min 57sec adrift, with Briton Simon Yates and Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez another two minutes back. «It was a very hard stage, I tried to pace myself on the climb and I'm happy to have managed to defend the maglia rosa,» said Polanc. On this first summit reckoning in a mountain-packed second section of the Giro, the peloton climbed to 2,237m altitude, with Zakarin dropping Spain's Mikel Nieve in the final section and beating him by 35sec at the panoramic finishing post in the Gran Paradiso national park. Movistar pair Mikel Landa and Richard Carapaz came third and fourth on a great day for the Spanish... Read more