Matej Mohoric wins stage 10 from the day's breakaway at the Giro

Esteban Chaves Giro d'Italia ambitions crushed as he loses major time

After a well-deserved rest day, the peloton started into the longest stage of this year´s Corsa Rosa today. The race took the riders from Penne, a small city in the region of Abruzzo to Gualdo Taldino over 244km, a last minute change added 5km to the race profile.

Right after the start a second category climb awaited the riders, after the descent, the second climb of the day and an intermediate sprint followed. Before the peloton headed into the finale, they had to tackle the third climb of the day as well as another intermediate sprint. The finale ran on a flat open route into the city of Gualdo Taldino. 

It was a fast start into today´s stage with many attacks right after the start. Twelve riders managed to distance themselves from the bunch with an advantage of more than two minutes. After a solo attack of T. Martin it was all back together with 170km to go.

Esteban Chaves had some problems and lost contact with the Maglia Rosa group, and their deficit grew and grew, he ended up losing, over 25 minutes, his Giro ambitions over.

From the breakaway, two riders survived and M. Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) took the win ahead of N. Denz (AG2R).

Some seconds later the reduced bunch headed into the last corner, and Sam Bennett won the sprint out of this group and finished in third place.

VIDEO: 2018 Giro d'Italia Stage 10 Highlights

2018 Giro d'Italia Stage 10 Top 10

1 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 6:04:52 
2 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale   
3 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:34 
4 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) LottoNL-Jumbo   
5 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec   
6 Mads Würtz Schmidt (Den) Katusha-Alpecin   
7 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec   
8 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo   
9 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo   
10 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin

2018 Giro d'Italia GC after Stage 10 

1 Simon Yates (GBR) Mitchelton-Scott 43:42:38 
2 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:41 
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:46 
4 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:00 
5 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 0:01:23 
6 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:36 
7 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:02:08 
8 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team   
9 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:02:28 
10 Chris Froome (GBR) Team Sky 0:02:30