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Spaniard Carlos Verona won stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia with a long-range solo attack on Sunday as former champion Primoz Roglic lost significant time on the rest of his general classification rivals.<\/b><\/p>\n
Slovenian Roglic, one of the pre-race favourites, shipped a minute and a half to the rest of the contenders for the leader’s pink jersey after being dropped on the final climb with over 20km to go.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe rider tumbled from fifth to 10th in the overall standings and is now three minutes 53 seconds behind race leader Isaac del Toro.<\/p>\n
Lidl-Trek rider Verona, 32, held off a chasing pack formed by some of his breakaway companions to secure his first Grand Tour stage win, and only his second pro victory.<\/p>\n
“I certainly didn’t come to the Giro thinking that I could win a stage and I was happy with that,” said Verona, who finished 22 seconds ahead of Florian Stork with Christian Scaroni in third.<\/p>\n
“I was here in full support for [points leader] Mads Pedersen and Giulio Ciccone [who did not start on Sunday after crashing on stage 14].<\/p>\n
“Everything changed yesterday when we lost Cicco. Today is my day. I didn’t want to do it for me but I wanted to do it for the team, knowing how much Giulio had worked for this race.”<\/p>\n
Britain’s Simon Yates of Team Visma-Lease a Bike remains second in the overall standings behind Mexican Del Toro, with the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider taking a lead of one minute and 20 seconds into the final week.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Swiss Marlen Reusser won the final time trial stage at the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas to wrap up overall victory in the Women’s World Tour event. <\/p>\n
It secured back-to-back stage wins for the Movistar rider, who won the general classification by almost two minutes. <\/p>\n
Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini finished second in the general classification with Dutch rider Yara Kastelijn third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n