The Maglia Rosa Stays With Team Sunweb For Another Day

In a fast and hectic stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia, Team Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin (NED) keeps the pink jersey for a sixth consecutive day

As the days second breakaway went clear Team Sunweb immediately set up shop at the front of the bunch to take control of their advantage. When the catch was made, the team had positioned Dumoulin perfectly to be able to follow through with a select group of general classification favourites through to the finish. He finishes the day in 8th place and still leads the Giro d'Italia general classification by 2 minutes 41 seconds.

After the stage Dumoulin said "Today has shown that there aren't going to be anymore rest days for the GC contenders. I expected today to be a little bit easier but it was a really fast and hectic stage. The breakaway went late and there were lots of attacks in the final. The team stayed calm throughout everything and we were there when we needed to be so it was a good day."

Team Sunweb coach Aike Visbeek (NED) added: "Today was a tricky, fast stage. The speeds averaged 50kph in the first two hours so it was really crazy. The team looked after pink really well and controlled things well on the climbs along with Orica. It was once again great team work and I am proud of the teams efforts today."

2017 Giro d'Italia Stage 15 Results

1 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 4:16:51
2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ
4 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
5 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
6 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
8 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb
9 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
10 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo

2017 Giro d'Italia General Classification after Stage 15

1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 63:48:08
2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:02:41
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:03:21
4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:40
5 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:04:24
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:32
7 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:59
8 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 0:05:18
9 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:06:01
10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:07:03