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Simon Carr won the final stage of the Tour of the Alps as fellow Britons Tao Geoghegan Hart and Hugh Carthy claimed first and second overall.<\/span><\/p>\n Ineos Grenadiers’ Geoghegan Hart, 28, won the first two stages of the race and took overall victory by 22 seconds from EF Education-EasyPost’s Carthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Carthy’s team-mate Carr, 24, went solo to win the final stage by 53 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n Ex-champion Geoghegan Hart is expected to be one of Ineos’ leaders at the Giro d’Italia, which starts on 6 May.<\/span><\/p>\n Geoghan Hart, who won the 2020 Giro, and former Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas are expected to spearhead the Ineos challenge at the first Grand Tour of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n Scotland’s Geoghegan Hart finished four minutes behind Carr on the fifth and final stage, with Ineos content to set a pace that ensured none of the overall contenders could launch an attack from the much-reduced peloton.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Simon Carr (EF Education Easy-Post) 3hr 43min 28sec<\/span><\/p>\n 2. Georg Steinhauser (EF Education EasyPost) +53sec<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Matteo Fabbro (Bora-Hansgrohe) Same time<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Florian Lipowitz (Bora-Hansgrohe) +55sec<\/span><\/p>\n 5. Johannes Kulset (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +1min 21sec<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Ineos Grenadiers) 19hr 29min 50sec<\/span><\/p>\n 2. Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost) + 22sec<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Jack Haig (Bahrain-Victorious) +28 sec<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Jefferson Cepeda (EF Education-EasyPost) +36 sec<\/span><\/p>\n 5. Lorenzo Fortunato (Eolo-Kometa) +38<\/span><\/p>\nStage five result<\/h3>\n
General classification<\/h3>\n