2026 Giro d'Italia Stage 12 Results & Recap
Stage 12 of the 2026 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
Already savoring 8 days in the race leader's pink jersey courtesy of Afonso Eulálio (TBV), Bahrain Victorious's Giro achieved still greater heights when Alec Segaert (TBV) broke away in the final kilometers of the stage into Novi Ligure to take a brilliant solo victory, his first at Grand Tour level.
The Belgian rouleur's powerful move came towards the end of another stage of almost non-stop action that saw a much-reduced peloton head into the closing kilometers. Segaert attacked hard going into a right-hand corner about 3.5km from the finish, using his momentum coming out of it to open up a significant gap.
Team Visma | Lease a Bike were on the front as the Bahrain time trial specialist attacked, but had no interest in responding with no sprinter in their ranks. By the time Uno-X Mobility did take up the chase, it was too late. The celebrating Segaert finished three seconds clear of a group led in by Toon Aerts (LOI), with Thomas Silva (XAT) in third and Ethan Vernon (NSN) fourth.
The stage was topsy turvy from the off. Two 6-rider breaks were chased down early on having opened up quite significant gaps on the coast road so familiar from the finale of the Milan-San Remo one-day Classic.
Another group of 6 formed as the race headed away from the coast and into the hills, opening up a lead of 2 minutes. This evaporated on the cat 3 climb of the Colle Giovo, where Movistar Team set about trying to drop all of the specialist sprinters.
The Spanish squad reeled in the break by the top of that first climb and had pushed the sprinters to their limits. On the subsequent cat 3 ascent of Bric Berton, the likes of Paul Magnier (SOQ), Jonathan Milan (LTK) and Dylan Groenewegen (URR) were dropped for good.
Coming out of the hills, EF Education-EasyPost and NSN Cycling Team kept the pressure high for their fast finishers, while race leader Eulálio took advantage of the reduced numbers up front to jump out of the peloton at the Red Bull KM sprint to take six bonus seconds and boost his overall lead to 33 seconds over Jonas Vingegaard (TVL).
Segaert had assumed the evening before that the stage would be frantic and that the sprinters would be distanced, and he'd consequently picked out the precise spot to launch his attack. That preparation allied to his power paid off in spades.
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