Stage 7

The road

At the start

A sprinters' day across Umbria

Roccaraso rearranged the top ten without touching the top of it: Tom Dumoulin keeps pink, and it is Jakob Fuglsang at twenty-six seconds and Ilnur Zakarin at twenty-eight who are his nearest company now. Today runs over two hundred kilometres to Foligno, the Svolte di Popoli early and the Valico della Somma late — a sprinters' day, on paper. Larry Warbasse does not start; Pelucchi missed the time limit.

How it was won

1. 1191 km to go

   Three parts on the Svolte di Popoli

   Gretsch, Küng and McCarthy surge away on the day's first climb and the peloton splits into three behind them. Wellens beats Cunego to the fourth-place points and takes the blue jersey off him.

2. 25 km to go

   Kittel's puncture

   Five kilometres from the line the fastest man in the race punctures out of the sprint, and Lotto Soudal move up for the other German.

3. 3At the line

   Greipel finds a way through

   Seemingly boxed out of it in the twisting finale, Greipel follows Modolo through the traffic and kicks past Caleb Ewan on the line — six Italians in the top ten and not one of them a winner.

The result