It was a banner day for the Quick-Step Floors team at the 2017 Giro d’Italia as Fernando Gavaria took his second stage win of the race in Messina and his teammate Bob Jungels held on to the maglia rosa.
The Colombian rider of the Quick Step-Floors team bested Italian Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia) and Ireland’s Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) at the end of a 159-km route from Pessara to Messina, the home town of defending champion Vincenzo Nibali.
Gaviria will wear the points classification’s cyclamen jersey on Thursday as his team mate, Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels, retained the overall leader’s maglia rosa.
Slovenian Luka Pibernik raised his arms in celebration when he crossed the finish line, only to realize some 200 metres further on that the riders had to cover an extra lap of the final circuit.
Thursday’s sixth stage takes the peloton over 217km from Reggio Calabria to Terme Luigiane
2017 Giro d’Italia Stage 5 Brief Results:
- Fernando Gaviria (Colombia / Quick-Step) 3:40:11″
- Jakub Mareczko (Italy / Wilier Triestina) ST
- Sam Bennett (Ireland / BORA)
- Andre Greipel (Germany / Lotto)
- Phil Bauhaus (Germany / Sunweb)
- Kristian Sbaragli (Italy / Dimension Data)
- Ryan Gibbons (South Africa / Dimension Data)
- Roberto Ferrari (Italy / UAE Team Emirates)
- Jasper Stuyven (Belgium / Trek)
- Enrico Battaglin (Italy / LottoNL)
- Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (Russia / Katusha)
- Alexey Tsatevich (Russia / Gazprom)
- Adam Yates (Britain / Orica)
- Jan Tratnik (Slovenia / CCC)
- Matteo Montaguti (Italy / AG2R)
- Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy / AG2R)
- Salvatore Puccio (Italy / Team Sky)
- Georg Preidler (Austria / Sunweb)
- Mirco Maestri (Italy / Bardiani Valvole)
- Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky)
2017 Giro d’Italia General Classification After Stage 5:
- Bob Jungels (Luxembourg / Quick-Step) 23:22:07″
- Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky) +6″
- Adam Yates (Britain / Orica) +10″
- Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy / AG2R)
- Vincenzo Nibali (Italy / Bahrain)
- Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands / Sunweb)
- Nairo Quintana (Colombia / Movistar)
- Bauke Mollema (Netherlands / Trek)
- Tejay van Garderen (U.S. / BMC Racing)
- Andrey Amador (Costa Rica / Movistar)
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