Portugal's Joao Almeida grabbed the
lead in the Giro d'Italia on the third stage on Monday.
Ecuador's Jonathan Caicedo broke away and won the 150km stage
from Enna to Etna in Sicily, the first hilly stage on this
year's course.
The big names came in way behind Caicedo apart from Denmark's
Jakob Fuglsang, Poland's Rafal Majka and Sicily's own Vincenzo
'The Shark' Nibali, who managed to limit the arrears from the
Portuguese to 51".
Italy's Giovanni Visconti came second at 21", Belgium's Harm
Vanhoucke third at 30", fourth Dutchman Wilco Kelderman, fifth
Fuglsang, Majka sixth and Nibali seventh.
In the general classification, Kelderman, is 42" from Almeida
(ahead of Caicedo by fractions of a second), then Nibali at 55"
and Pozzovivo at 59"; Fuglsang at 1'13", Kruijswijk at 1'15" and
Majka at 1'26".
Simon Yates came in 3'26" behind the stage winner, and Geraint
Thomas came in 53rd, at 11'17".
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