Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) sealed the overall win at the 2026 Giro d'Italia with another dominant mountain-top finish. It is the Dane's first maglia rosa win on his debut and it makes him part of an elite group of eight riders who have won the Giro, Tour de France and Vuelta a España.
Of Vingegaard's five stage wins, his ride to Piancavallo was the most dominant, attacking with 10km out, and putting 1:15 into second-place Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM), stretching out his overall lead to the Austrian to 5:22 with just the processional stage to Rome on Sunday remaining.
It is a first Grand Tour podium for Gall, who finished in a group with Jai Hindley (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Derek Gee-West (Lidl-Trek), Thymen Arensman (Netcompany Ineos) and Egan Bernal. Hindley sealed the final spot on the podium, as Arensman held onto fourth ahead of Gee-West.
One of the narratives before the stage was whether Davide Piganzoli could be catapulated into the white jersey ahead of Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain-Victorious). Visma-Lease a Bike were open about this ambition during the final week. But, aided by teammate Damiano Caruso, Eulálio rallied in style to finish ahead of Piganzoli and confirm the white jersey win and a sixth place overall.
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They may have missed out on the white jersey but Visma have won every summit finish of this Giro, with Vingegaard dominating five of them and Sepp Kuss conquering Friday’s Queen stage.
Vingegaard has become the eighth man to win all three Grand Tours, and now goes to the Tour to face his principal rival Tadej Pogačar and Paul Seixas. It's been said he has reached his best ever form at this Giro. The French roads await in July...
Giro d'Italia 2026 stage 20 results
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With a flat start to the stage, the day's break had a different composition to the elite climbing group on yesterday's Saturday's Queen stage. The break initially included strong rouleurs including stage two winner Guillermo Thomas Silva (XDS Astana), three-time stage runner-up Andreas Leknessund (Uno X Mobility), Jonas Geens (Alpecin-Premier Tech), Axel Huens (Groupama-FDJ United) and Jack Haig (Netcompany Ineos). The quintet were joined by Larry Warbasse (Tudor Procycling) and Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF 7 Saber) with 131km to go to make it seven riders up the road. They were later by stage five winner Igor Arrieta (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Crescioli Ludovico (Team Polti VisitMalta) after the first ascent of the Piancavallo.
On that initial Piancavallo climb, Giulio Ciccone sealed the blue jersey competition, taking the 4 remaining points after the breakaway hoovered up the majority of what was on offer. This made it mathematically impossible for Vingegaard to wrestle the jersey off the back of the Italian. The result has eased the pressure on Lidl-Trek who have endured a disappointing Giro.
