Jonas Vingegaard drops the poker and also wins the sixteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2026, the 113 km Bellinzona – Carì. Solo finish for the Dane – who strengthens his first position in the standings -, second Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM Team), who was about a minute late, third Jai Hindley (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe). A day to forget for Giulio Pellizzari, who broke away at the start of the climb. Today’s stage, the shortest of the 109 edition, was animated by a breakaway of around 13 men.
Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Juan Pedro Lopez and Einer Rubio (Movistar), Chris Harper (Pinarello Q36.5), Alan Hatherly (Jayco AlUla), Jardi van der Lee (EF Education Easypost), Josh Kench (Groupama-FDJ), Filippo Zana (Soudal Quick-Step), Frank van den Broek (Picnic PostNL), Alessandro Tonelli (Polti VisitMalta), Diego Ulissi (XDS Astana) and the UAE Team Emirates-XRG duo Jan Christen-Jhonatahn Narvaez dictated the pace, Visma controlled the race from a distance, without giving too much space to the pacesetters. As the kilometers passed, Ciccone, Rubio, Harper, Narvaez and Ulissi looked for the stage victory, but with the last climb of the day the gap was mended thanks to the work of the teams of the men in the classification. 6 kilometers from the finish line the decisive lunge of Vingegaard, who won his fourth stage. Tomorrow the seventeenth stage, the Cassano d’Adda – Andalo of 202 km.