2023 Giro d'Italia by BikeRaceInfo

Stage winner and new GC leader Remco Evenepoel on his stage nine ride. photo: Getty Sport

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Weather at the finish city of Cesena at 2:00 PM, local time: 14C (57F), rain showers, with the wind from the west at 10 km/hr (6 mph). The rain showers are expected to continue all afternoon.

The race: First rider off was Veljko Stojnic (Corretec-Selle Italia) at 1:15 PM.

Here's the report from stage winner and new GC leader Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudal Quick-Step:

Remco Evenepoel took his second stage victory in nine days, showing a lot of grinta on the 35km individual time trial that took place between Savignano sul Rubicone and Cesena. By doing this, the World Champion became the first Belgian in eight years with multiple wins at a single edition of the Giro d’Italia and returned at the top of the leaderboard, just before the first rest day.

It was a hard-fought win for the 23-year-old, on a rain-soaked and pan-flat course, which featured some tricky corners and even cobblestones, that only added to the difficulty of the day. But Evenepoel, victorious also on the opening time trial of the race, produced a strong performance in spite of the conditions, averaging over 50.7km/h and stopping the clock in 41:24, a time which netted him the stage win by a single second.

“What made things even more special was that I did it on Mother’s Day and my whole family here. It was nice to get their support and see them at the finish. It wasn’t easy today with the rain and the cold temperatures, but I’m happy I could pull it off”, said Evenepoel, the only rider with two victories so far at this Giro, after retaking the maglia rosa.

“In the first part of the time trial I paced myself a bit too hard, and then, in the headwind, my legs didn’t turn as fast as in those opening kilometers. I could also feel the damage from the crashes of this week, and in the end it was quite tight, but I’m delighted I could prevail and claim this beautiful pink jersey. It’s nice to have an advantage in the GC before the mountains and I will try to enjoy every moment in the maglia rosa, but for the moment I’m looking forward to recovering on the first rest day before seeing what the next stages have in store”, added Remco, the first Belgian rider in 22 years to amass four days as leader of the Corsa Rosa.

Complete results:

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35 kilometers raced at an average speed of 50.725 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	41min 24sec
2	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 1sec
3	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	0:02
4	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	0:04
5	Bruno Armirail	Groupama-FDJ	0:08
6	Primoz Roglic	Jumbo-Visma	0:17
7	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	0:24
8	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	0:30
9	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates	0:35
10	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	0:42
11	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	0:50
12	Lennard Kämna	BORA-hansgrohe	0:51
13	William Barta	Movistar	0:52
14	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	0:57
15	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	0:59
16	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	1:00
17	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	1:05
18	Michael Hepburn	Jayco-AlUla	1:13
19	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	1:15
20	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	1:16
21	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:17
22	Edward Dunbar	Jayco-AlUla	1:30
23	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	1:39
24	Luis León Sánchez	Astana Qazaqstan	1:41
25	Alex Kirsch	Trek-Segafredo	1:43
26	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	1:45
27	Mattia Cattaneo	Soudal Quick-Step	1:52
28	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	1:54
29	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	1:59
30	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
31	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	2:05
32	Rohan Dennis	Jumbo-Visma	2:08
33	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	2:21
34	Cristian Scaroni	Astana Qazaqstan	2:22
35	Alessandro De Marchi	Jayco-AlUla	2:23
36	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
37	Bob Jungels	BORA-hansgrohe	2:30
38	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	2:40
39	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	2:41
40	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	2:43
41	Charlie Quarterman	Corratec-Selle Italia	2:51
42	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	2:57
43	Vadim Pronskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
44	Derek Gee	Israel-Premier Tech	2:58
45	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	3:00
46	Domenico Pozzovivo	Israel-Premier Tech	3:02
47	Einer Rubio	Movistar	3:06
48	Alessandro Verre	Arkéa-Samsic	3:08
49	Nico Denz	BORA-hansgrohe	3:12
50	Lukas Pöstlberger	Jayco-AlUla	3:16
51	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	3:18
52	Anton Palzer	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
53	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	3:23
54	Daan Hoole	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
55	Mirco Maestri	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
56	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	3:26
57	Erik Fetter	EOLO-Kometa	3:27
58	Jonathan Lastra	Cofidis	3:28
59	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	3:31
60	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	3:32
61	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	3:33
62	Warren Barguil	Arkéa-Samsic	3:38
63	Niklas Märkl	Team DSM	3:38
64	Michel Ries	Arkéa-Samsic	3:42
65	Alan Riou	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
66	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	3:44
67	Alexandre Delettre	Cofidis	3:46
68	Mattia Bais	EOLO-Kometa	3:50
69	Senne Leysen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
70	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	3:52
71	Davide Ballerini	Soudal Quick-Step	3:54
72	Michael Matthews	Jayco-AlUla	3:55
73	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
74	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	3:57
75	Marco Frigo	Israel-Premier Tech	4:06
76	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
77	Laurenz Rex	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	4:07
78	Francesco Gavazzi	EOLO-Kometa	4:09
79	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	4:12
80	Filippo Zana	Jayco-AlUla	4:14
81	Gianni Moscon	Astana Qazaqstan	4:19
82	Alessandro Tonelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	4:20
83	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	4:21
84	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	4:22
85	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	4:27
86	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	Trek-Segafredo	4:29
87	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	4:30
88	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
89	Pascal Ackermann	UAE Team Emirates	4:31
90	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	4:35
91	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	4:37
92	Alex Baudin	Ag2r-Citroën	4:38
93	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	4:41
94	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
95	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	4:43
96	Nicolas Prodhomme	Ag2r-Citroën	4:44
97	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	4:45
98	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
99	Stefano Oldani	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:48
100	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	4:49
101	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:50
102	Thomas Champion	Cofidis	4:52
103	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	s.t.
104	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	4:53
105	Lorenzo Fortunato	EOLO-Kometa	4:54
106	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	4:55
107	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
108	José Joaquin Rojas	Movistar	4:56
109	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	4:58
110	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	4:59
111	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Stefano Gandin	Corratec-Selle Italia	5:01
113	Marius Mayrhofer	Team DSM	5:03
114	Vincenzo Albanese	EOLO-Kometa	5:05
115	Laurens Huys	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	5:06
116	Thomas Gloag	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
117	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	5:07
118	Natnael Tesfazion	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
119	Max Kanter	Movistar	5:08
120	Niccolo Bonifazio	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	5:10
121	Alexander Konychev	Corratec-Selle Italia	5:12
122	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	5:13
123	Callum Scotson	Jayco-AlUla	5:17
124	Sam Oomen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
125	Michel Hessman	Jumbo-Visma	5:20
126	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	5:23
127	Jake Stewart	Groupama-FDJ	5:24
128	François Bidard	Cofidis	5:26
129	Sebastian Berwick	Israel-Premier Tech	5:30
130	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
131	Davide Gabburo	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
132	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	5:31
133	Diego Sevilla	EOLO-Kometa	5:33
134	Veljko Stojnic	Corratec-Selle Italia	5:34
135	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	5:35
136	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	5:39
137	Davide Bais	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
138	Nicolas Dalla Valle	Corratec-Selle Italia	5:43
139	Carlos Verona	Movistar	5:44
140	Campbell Stewart	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
141	Otto Vergaerde	Trek-Segafredo	5:45
142	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
143	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:46
144	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	5:51
145	Cesare Benedetti	BORA-hansgrohe	5:55
146	Karel Vacek	Corratec-Selle Italia	5:56
147	Albert Torres	Movistar	5:57
148	Harm Vanhoucke	Team DSM	s.t.
149	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	6:01
150	Filippo Fiorelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:02
151	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Education-EasyPost	6:04
152	Luca Covili	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:07
153	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
154	Samuele Battistella	Astana Qazaqstan	6:08
155	Henok Mulubrhan	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
156	Alessandro Iacchi	Corratec-Selle Italia	6:10
157	Óscar Rodríguez	Movistar	6:21
158	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
159	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	6:22
160	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:31
161	Martin Marcellusi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	6:37
162	Jonas Iversby Hvideberg	Team DSM	6:44
163	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	6:53

GC after stage 9:

GC leader: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
Mountains classification leader: Davide Bais (EOLO-Kometa)
Points classification leader: Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious)
Best young rider: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)
Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

1,402.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.583 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	34hr 33min 42sec
2	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 45sec
3	Primoz Roglic	Jumbo-Visma	0:47
4	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	0:50
5	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates	1:07
6	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	s.t.
7	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	1:48
8	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	2:13
9	Lennard Kämna	BORA-hansgrohe	2:37
10	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	3:00
11	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	3:09
12	Edward Dunbar	Jayco-AlUla	3:17
13	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	3:21
15	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	3:33
16	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	3:43
17	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	4:07
18	William Barta	Movistar	4:56
19	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	5:25
20	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	5:33
21	Domenico Pozzovivo	Israel-Premier Tech	6:23
22	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	6:23
23	Warren Barguil	Arkéa-Samsic	6:50
24	Einer Rubio	Movistar	7:27
25	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	8:50
26	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	9:28
27	Lorenzo Fortunato	EOLO-Kometa	10:41
28	Luis León Sánchez	Astana Qazaqstan	11:55
29	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	12:52
30	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	12:58
31	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	13:07
32	Jonathan Lastra	Cofidis	13:12
33	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	14:30
34	Filippo Zana	Jayco-AlUla	14:31
35	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	15:57
36	Bruno Armirail	Groupama-FDJ	16:04
37	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	16:27
38	Alessandro Tonelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	16:43
39	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	17:03
40	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	17:19
41	Mattia Cattaneo	Soudal Quick-Step	17:50
42	Michel Hessman	Jumbo-Visma	18:57
43	Luca Covili	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	20:36
44	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	22:58
45	Bob Jungels	BORA-hansgrohe	24:54
46	Marco Frigo	Israel-Premier Tech	25:29
47	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	26:36
48	Mattia Bais	EOLO-Kometa	27:17
49	Laurens Huys	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	27:23
50	Derek Gee	Israel-Premier Tech	27:33
51	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	27:43
52	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	28:52
53	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	29:32
54	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	30:35
55	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	32:43
56	Sam Oomen	Jumbo-Visma	35:40
57	Anton Palzer	BORA-hansgrohe	36:46
58	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	37:22
59	Nicolas Prodhomme	Ag2r-Citroën	37:53
60	Stefano Oldani	Alpecin-Deceuninck	38:58
61	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	40:52
62	Nico Denz	BORA-hansgrohe	41:36
63	Harm Vanhoucke	Team DSM	41:57
64	François Bidard	Cofidis	42:28
65	Vincenzo Albanese	EOLO-Kometa	44:08
66	Vadim Pronskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	44:40
67	Carlos Verona	Movistar	45:21
68	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	45:28
69	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	45:52
70	Callum Scotson	Jayco-AlUla	48:19
71	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	48:24
72	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	50:03
73	Alessandro De Marchi	Jayco-AlUla	50:08
74	Cristian Scaroni	Astana Qazaqstan	50:29
75	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	52:23
76	Davide Bais	EOLO-Kometa	53:50
77	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	54:26
78	Davide Gabburo	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	54:37
79	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	55:49
80	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	56:21
81	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	57:13
82	Rohan Dennis	Jumbo-Visma	57:21
83	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r-Citroën	57:22
84	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	57:45
85	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	57:50
86	Michel Ries	Arkéa-Samsic	58:15
87	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:00:22
88	Michael Matthews	Jayco-AlUla	1:01:27
89	Alessandro Verre	Arkéa-Samsic	1:01:32
90	Sebastian Berwick	Israel-Premier Tech	1:01:58
91	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	Trek-Segafredo	1:02:16
92	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	1:03:46
93	Jake Stewart	Groupama-FDJ	1:05:11
94	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	1:05:32
95	Karel Vacek	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:07:05
96	Natnael Tesfazion	Trek-Segafredo	1:07:11
97	Francesco Gavazzi	EOLO-Kometa	1:07:22
98	Lukas Pöstlberger	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
99	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	1:08:43
100	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Education-EasyPost	1:09:21
101	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:09:29
102	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:11:09
103	Laurenz Rex	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	1:12:37
104	Marius Mayrhofer	Team DSM	1:12:57
105	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	1:13:09
106	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	1:13:21
107	José Joaquin Rojas	Movistar	1:13:31
108	Mirco Maestri	EOLO-Kometa	1:13:32
109	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	1:13:35
110	Thomas Champion	Cofidis	1:14:02
111	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	1:14:14
112	Pascal Ackermann	UAE Team Emirates	1:14:43
113	Samuele Battistella	Astana Qazaqstan	1:14:45
114	Diego Sevilla	EOLO-Kometa	1:16:07
115	Senne Leysen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:16:41
116	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	1:17:33
117	Óscar Rodríguez	Movistar	1:20:10
118	Thomas Gloag	Jumbo-Visma	1:22:14
119	Michael Hepburn	Jayco-AlUla	1:22:49
120	Martin Marcellusi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:23:14
121	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	1:24:00
122	Cesare Benedetti	BORA-hansgrohe	1:24:50
123	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:25:52
124	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	1:26:09
125	Erik Fetter	EOLO-Kometa	1:26:41
126	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	1:28:08
127	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	1:28:33
128	Alex Kirsch	Trek-Segafredo	1:29:03
129	Alex Baudin	Ag2r-Citroën	1:30:09
130	Henok Mulubrhan	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:32:32
131	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	1:32:44
132	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	1:34:08
133	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	1:35:02
134	Albert Torres	Movistar	1:35:17
135	Alexandre Delettre	Cofidis	1:37:20
136	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	1:37:30
137	Niklas Märkl	Team DSM	1:39:21
138	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	1:39:53
139	Max Kanter	Movistar	1:40:51
140	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	1:41:10
141	Charlie Quarterman	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:41:32
142	Niccolo Bonifazio	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	1:41:47
143	Campbell Stewart	Jayco-AlUla	1:42:02
144	Alessandro Iacchi	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:43:42
145	Davide Ballerini	Soudal Quick-Step	1:43:53
146	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	1:44:09
147	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	1:44:58
148	Alexander Konychev	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:45:35
149	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:46:14
150	Alan Riou	Arkéa-Samsic	1:46:30
151	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	1:47:52
152	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:48:25
153	Gianni Moscon	Astana Qazaqstan	1:51:29
154	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain Victorious	1:51:51
155	Otto Vergaerde	Trek-Segafredo	1:52:18
156	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	1:53:46
157	Filippo Fiorelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	1:54:10
158	Jonas Iversby Hvideberg	Team DSM	1:54:51
159	Nicolas Dalla Valle	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:55:19
160	Daan Hoole	Trek-Segafredo	1:56:04
161	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	1:57:51
162	Stefano Gandin	Corratec-Selle Italia	1:58:23
163	Veljko Stojnic	Corratec-Selle Italia	2:01:20