(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 26 - Belgian Dries De Bondt won the 18th
stage of the Giro d'Italia Thursday, a 156km leg from Borgo
Valsugana near Trento to Treviso, outsprinting Italy's Edoardo
Affini, second, and Dane Magnus Cort Nielsen, third, as well as
Italy's Davide Gaburro, fourth.
Ecuador's Richard Carapaz kept the leader's pink jersey.
How they finished:
1. Dries De Bondt (Bel) in 3h21'21" (+13" bonus) 2. Edoardo
Affini (Ita) s.t. (+06" bonus) 3. Magnus Nielsen (Den) s.t.
(+05" bonus) 4. Davide Gabburo (Ita) s.t. (+02" bonus) 5.
Alberto Dainese (Ita) at 00'14" 6. Arnaud Demare (Fra) s.t. 7.
Davide Cimolai (Ita) s.t. 8. Mark Cavendish (GBR) s.t. 9.
Fernando Gaviria (Col) s.t. 10. Simone Consonni (Ita) s.t. 11.
Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) s.t. 12. Lawrence Naesen (Bel) s.t. 13.
Tobias Bayer (Aut) s.t. 14. Andrea Vendrame (Ita) s.t. 15.
Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) s.t.,
General classification:
1. Richard Carapaz (Ecu) in 76h41'15" 2. Jai Hindley (Aus) at
00'03" 3. Mikel Landa (Spa) at 01'05" 4. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
at 05'48" 5. Pello Bilbao (Spa) at 06'19" 6. Jan Hirt (CeR) at
07'12" 7. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) at 07'13" 8. Domenico Pozzovivo
(Ita) at 12'30" 9. Juan Pedro Lopez Perez (Spa) at 15'10" 10.
Hugh John Carthy (GB) at 17'03" 11. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) at
17'46" 12. Santiago Buitrago (Col) at 20'15" 13. Thymen Arensman
(Aus) at 21'56" 14. Lucas Hamilton (Aus) at 23'57" 15. Guillaume
Martin (Fra) at 27'30". (ANSA).