Stage 5

The road

At the start

Agrigento, another climb to the line

Rohan Dennis keeps pink by a second from Tom Dumoulin, with Simon Yates third at seventeen and Tim Wellens up to fourth off yesterday's win in Caltagirone. Today is short — 153 kilometres from Agrigento through the hills of western Sicily — with five categorised bumps in the closing sixty and a sharp rise to the line at Santa Ninfa. A day nobody wins the Giro on.

How it was won

1. 141 km to go

   The break climbs on

   Through Partanna the four leaders hold their advantage as the profile turns hillier and the peloton begins to wind up for an aggressive finale.

2. 26 km to go

   López off the road

   With 5.5km to go Miguel Ángel López slides off the road into the grass — a soft landing, but he never sees his GC rivals again, hemorrhaging time.

3. 3At the line

   Battaglin wins in Santa Ninfa

   After the sharp climb to the line strings out the favourites, Enrico Battaglin times his sprint best to win in Santa Ninfa.

The result