A month after taking his first ever pro win at the Tour of the Alps, Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) stormed to his first Grand Tour stage win with a solo strike out of the breakaway on stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia.
The 28-year-old Frenchman attacked with 28 km to go in the mountainous stage through the Valle d'Aosta, and he held off the GC riders to get the win in Champoluc. Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates) out-sprinted Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) for second place after the pair had opened up a modest gap to the rest of the GC hopefuls on the day's final climb, although the stage was perhaps less decisive in the pink jersey battle than had been expected.
With bonus seconds accounted for, Del Toro will take a lead of 43 seconds over Carapaz with Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) sitting 1:21 back going into Saturday's stage 20, which will take riders over the fearsome Colle delle Finestre.
[race_result id=13 stage_id=86458 count=10 gc=0 year=2025]
[race_result id=13 stage_id=86458 count=10 gc=10 year=2025]
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