Giro d'Italia 2025, stage 11: Carapaz wins. Order of arrival and general classification

Castelnovo Ne' Monti, May 21, 2025 - The stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia 2025 rewards Richard Carapaz, who finds his fourth partial victory in a Corsa pink among other things won in 2019. The Ecuadorian, attacking on the last climb of the day, in one fell swoop takes personal satisfaction and sends a strong message in view of a general classification still led by Isaac Del Toro, who wins the group sprint and takes home 6" of discount: for the runner of theEF Education EasyPost we go from yesterday's ninth place to the current sixth. All this with the time trials now all behind us and many mountains on the horizon, the fertile ground for carapaz, especially in the last week. TheUAE Team Emirates-XRG continues to call the shots and not only because of the leadership of the 'crazy horse' Del Toro, called in the next few days to avoid risks and dangers before the decisive exams, those that will definitively establish the internal hierarchies: the certainty today is that Juan Ayuso continues to mark himself closely with Primois Roglic, both quite hidden today in the day that proposed the return of the Corsa pink on 'Alpe San Pellegrino. The stage 12, the Modena-Viadana (Oglio-Po)offers 172 km with a very undulating first part of the track and 2 GPM third category to climb, for 1.700 meters of altitude difference, and a second one totally flat. Breakaway or sprint? The riders have the task of solving the mystery.

The chronicle of stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia 2025

  La Corsa pink starts again from 186 km da Viareggio a Castelnovo Ne' Monti: scheduled 3 GPM and well 3.850 meters of altitude difference that, as expected, immediately tempt escape hunters. In fact, attacks and counter-attacks follow one another without initially forming a good attack. After several attempts, they gain an advantage Mattia Cattaneo (Soudaql Quick-Step) and Yannis Voisard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), with Alessandro Verre (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) to chase. Nothing doing, after they had already tried previously Fabio Van Den Bossche (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Owain Doull (EF Education-EasyPost) e Martin Marcellusi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè), in addition to several shots of Mads pedersen (Lidl-Trek) e Wout van aert (Visma-Lease a Bike). The flying finish line of Borgo a Mozzano rewards Xabier Mikel Azparren (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), started together with Steven Kruijswijk (Visma-Lease a Bike). The situation is reshuffled, always in search of a good escape, on the tear of Barga (3,6 km with an average slope of 6%), on which the group splits: surprisingly he pulls the pink jersey Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), followed by Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious) before the gap is closed from behind. They try on the descent Wout poels (XDS Astana Team) and wilco kelderman (Visma-Lease a Bike), who approach the first ramps of the much feared climb of the'Alpe San Pellegrino (13,7 km with an average slope of8,8% and maximum of 19%). The two leaders await the arrival of a large platoon from the rear, which also includes Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS Astana Team), who crossed the summit first and completely alone: ​​instead they got into difficulty Simon yates (Visma-Lease a Bike), Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Mathias Vacek (Lidl Trek), Thymen Arensmann (Ineos Grenadiers), Davide Piganzoli (Team Polti VisitMalta) and Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), while among the big names the first and only attack is that of Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers). Poels he is back at the head of the race: with him there are Luke Plop (Team Jayco AlUla), Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) e bilbao hair (Bahrain Victorious). The flying finish line of Cerredolo rewards Fortunato before Plapp before the climb begins for the fugitives Toano (11,1 km with an average slope of 4,9% and maximum of 10%): once again the first to pass the summit is the Emilian, increasingly master of the blue jersey. Red Bull Km di Villa Minozzo reward instead Quintana, to which they go 6" of discount: Fortunato must be satisfied with 4" e Bilbao di 2"The race seems to be over in favor of the five leaders, but the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team and especially the Lidl Trek they don't accept it and start to pull, causing the margin of the 5. The situation heats up on the climb of Bismantova stone (5,8 km with an average slope of 5,8% and maximum of 12%). The first blaze among the big names is Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost): The first victim is Fortunato, but now all his almost former escape companions are in the platoon's sights. The Ecuadorian starts again and creates a vacuum, with Del Toro who tries to close in first person, followed as usual by Tiberi. carapaz hill in solitude with a margin of 30" on the group, pulled by theUAE Team Emirates-XRG but without much conviction. After the last uphill stretch, the situation changes thanks to the work of Adam Yates, but the victory goes to carapaz, with Del Toro to win the group sprint, taking 6" of bonus: in third place is placed Julius Ciccone (Lidl Trek).  

Order of arrival stage 11 Giro d'Italia 2025

1) Richard Carapaz (EFE) in 4h35'20" 2) Isaac Del Toro (UAD) +10" 3) Giulio Ciccone (LTK) +10" 4) Tom Pidcock (Q36) +10" 5) Egan Bernal (IGD) +10" 6) Antonio Tiberi (TBV) +10" 7) Juan Ayuso (UAD) +10" 8) Einer Rubio (MOV) +10" 9) Derek Gee (IPT) +10" 10) Diego Ulissi (XAT) +10"

General classification Giro d'Italia 2025

  1) Isaac Del Toro (UAD) in 38h47'01" 2) Juan Ayuso (UAD) +31" 3) Antonio Tiberi (TBV) +1'07" 4) Simon Yates (TVL) +1'09" 5) Primoz Roglic (RBH) +1'24" 6) Richard Carapaz (EFE) +1'56" 7) Giulio Ciccone (LTK) +2'09" 8) Brandon McNulty (UAD) +2'16" 9) Adam Yates (UAD) +2'33" 10) Thymen Arensman (IGD) +2'33"

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