An ambitious attempt by Giulio Pellizzari to shadow top Giro d’Italia favourite Jonas Vingegaard on the Blockhaus saw the Italian contender pay a high price as he was veered off the pace towards the end of the climb.
Pellizzari’s Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe squad initially laid down an important pace at the foot of the climb, with Ben Zwiehoff’s effort enough to sink some significant GC names like Enric Mas (Movistar) and Egan Bernal (Netcompany Ineos).
Fourth at 1:05 at the finish, Pellizzari is now fifth at 4:28. He had already shown he was in solid climbing form on stage 2 of the Giro after he and Lennert van Eetvelt (Lotto-Intermarché) managed to stay with Vingegaard after the Dane attacked on a short but steep late climb. This time round, though, he admitted to journalists, on the much harder Blockhaus, when it came to climbing duels with Vingegaard, Pellizzari reached his upper limit.
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