2024 Giro d'Italia Stage 1 Results & Recap
Stage 1 of the 2024 Giro d'Italia is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Narváez wins Giro opener
Louis Barré, Nicolas Debeaumarché, Lilian Calmejane, Andrea Pietrobon, Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, and Filippo Fiorelli established the first breakaway of the Giro after 8 kilometres of action. The six opened up a 2 minute lead before UAE Team Emirates took the reins in the peloton.
The gap widened to almost three minutes on the first KOM climb of the day, where Fiorelli won the sprint for blue jersey points.
Ghebreigzabhier head out alone on the Superga, and Fiorelli, Calmejane, and Pietrobon rejoined him on the descent. The Eritrean pushds on with Calmejane.
The two crossed the line 2 minutes ahead of the peloton, which fell to below 1 minute on the Colle Maddalena. Thymen Arensman and Romain Bardet couldn't keep up with the pace in the pack.
Calmejane shook off Ghebreigzabhier on the climb and reached the summit with a small lead over the peloton. He distanced the group again on the descent, while Maximilian Schachmann, Mikkel Honoré, and Nicola Conci went after him. Alex Baudin, Alessandro De Marchi, Giulio Pellizzari, and Damiano Caruso bridged across. They caught the lone attacker.
Conci attacke to tackle the San Vito climb in first position. Tadej Pogacar gobbles dup the other attackers with Jhonatan Narváez and Julian Alaphilppe in his wheel. Schachmann replaced Alaphilippe and they caught Conci.
Pogacar and Narváez reached the summit together before Schachmann tracked them down in the descent. In the ensuing sprint, Narváez outgunned Schachmann and Pogacar to take the first pink jersey of the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
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