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Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx – Quick-Step) solo's to Giro stage win and Pink Jersey 

Brambilla made his move on the Alpe Di Poti. A white-graveled (strade bianche) climb situated 25km from the end of the stage 8 to Arezzo.

A breakaway was established with 13 riders on the stage early on, including; Biel Kadri (AG2R La Mondiale), Alessandro Di Marchi (BMC), Matteo Montaguti (AG2R La Mondiale), Moreno Moser (Cannondale), Gianluca Brambilla and Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep), Jacobus Venter (Dimension Data), Alexey Tsatevich (Team Katusha), Sean De Bie and Jasha Sutterlin (Movistar), Giancomo Berlato (Nippo-Vini Fantini) and Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin).

Giant-Alpecin took up the chase in the peleton but with 45km to go the gap wasn't coming down and the breakaway realised they could stay away.

Brabilla attacked the peleton and quickly dropped everyone, with only Di Marche and Moser were able to follow.

In the peleton Valverde (Movistar) attacked, but was immediately chased down by Nibali, splintering the rest of the Peleton. Tom Dumoulin (Giant – Alpecin) struggled on the second category climb and was dropped by the Valverde/Nibali attack. Valverde and Nibali continued on, trying to grow the gap to Dumoulin further.

Brabilla maintained his lead on the final descent and run in, into Arezzo much to the delight of the crowd.

In the end the Valverde/Nibali group were 1m 46 secs behine Brabilla.

It was then realsied that Brabila aswell and winning the stage would take the Pnk Jersey too.

Domoulin was the biggest loser of the day, slipping down out of the top GC. However his time loss wasn't huge so he could take back some of the time in tomorrow's 2nd hilly time trial, and could take back the Pink Jersey.

Brabilla thanked his teammate Matteo Trentin who did most of teh work in the breakaway before he attacked. Brabilla had targeted this stage for a potential win and was delighted with his first stage win at the Giro d'Italia.

Tomorrow's stage 9 is a 25 mile time trial with climbing although none of the 3 climbs are categorized.

Giro d’Italia 2016 Stage 8 Result

1 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 4:14:05
2 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:06
3 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:27
4 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 0:01:28
5 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:01:33
6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:41
7 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
8 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Team Sky
9 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge
10 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha

General Classification After stage 8

1 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 33:39:14
2 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:00:23
3 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:33
4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:36
5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:45
6 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:48
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:00:49
8 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0:00:54
9 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:54
10 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:03

Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-Quick-Step) solos to Giro stage win and Pink Jersey

 
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