Boem Takes Giro Stage Ten Win

19 May 2015 04:27

Nicola Boem of Bardiani CSF has won the tenth stage of the Giro D'Italia.

With Alberto Contador still leading by three seconds from Fabio Aru, as we go into the second week, the 188 remaining riders took on a 200km stage from Civitanova Marche to Forlì.

Oscar Gatto (Androni-Giocattoli), Nicola Boem (Bardiani-CSF), Alessandro Malaguti (Nippo-Vini Fantini), Matteo Busato (Southeast) and Alan Marangoni (Cannondale-Garmin) were the first to break away on a virtually pan flat stage and were 3.30 ahead after 35 kilometres.

Thirty kilometres later and the five Italians clear still had a lead of 3.30 but going through the town of Fano, it was up to 4.30 as the riders made their way down the east Adriatic coast.

The only climb of the day was the category four climb - the Monte di Bartolo with just over 92kms left. This was a climb which was 4.8kms long with 3.5% average gradients and it was Alessandro Malagutti who was first over the summit, ahead of Marangoni and Busato. Something which did not affect Simon Geschke's lead in the KOM competition.

On a beautiful sunny day, the gap stood at 3.37 with 75kms left but did drop to 2.08 before returning to 2.55 with just under sixty kilometres left.

IAM Cycling's Matteo Pelucchi, who was in last place in the general classification, some two hours and thirty eight minutes down, abandoned the race due to suffering with an infected ankle since the second stage.

Oscar Gatto took the three seconds for the intermediate sprint at Santarcangelo de Romaglia and the points for the sprint at Cesena.

This gave them a lead of two minutes over the peloton with 19.3kms to go.

With less then thirteen kilometres to go, Oscar Gatto suffered a mechanical and had to change his bike.

The four took a lead of 1.32 going into the final ten kilometres and under a minute, five kilometres later.

Richie Porte of Team Sky suffered a mechanical and had to be paced back by three Team Sky riders and Michael Matthews but it was looking good for the escapers who were keeping a steady 54 second lead.

Alan Marangoni attacked with 1.4kms left and went under the flam rouge and onto the cobbles ahead. Marangoni led the sprint with 350 metres to go but he could not hold it and Nicola Boem won the stage in 4.26.16 ahead of Busato, Malaguti, Marangoni and Giacomo Nizzolo who was eighteen second down, followed by Modolo, Greipel, Mezgec, Ruffoni and Appollonio.

The motor home dwelling Richie Porte finished 1.04 seconds down on Marangoni and loses about 45 seconds.

Alberto Contador of Tinkoff Saxo stays in the Maglia Rosa with a three second lead over Astana's Fabio Aru.

"I'm really, really happy and wanted a result at this Giro," said Boem. "With 20kms we had the advantage and I could not let the opportunity go. I would like to thank everybody and today I got the big result.

"It was not an easy day," said Contador. "Anything is possible. I had my bad moment and Richie had his today. "Tomorrow, we will look at the stage and take it from there."

Source: DSG