Roglic loses time as Verona wins Giro stage 15

As former champion Primoz Roglic lost a lot of time to the rest of his general classification rivals, Spaniard Carlos Verona won stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia with a long-range solo attack on Sunday.

With less than 20 kilometers to go, Slovenian Roglic, one of the pre-race favorites, dropped a minute and a half to the rest of the contenders for the leader’s pink jersey.

The 35-year-old Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe rider is now three minutes 53 seconds behind race leader Isaac del Toro after dropping from fifth to 10th overall.

Verona, 32, a breakaway rider for Lidl-Trek, fought back against a chasing pack of his breakaway teammates to claim his second professional victory and his first Grand Tour stage victory.

Verona finished 22 seconds ahead of Florian Stork and Christian Scaroni in third place, “I certainly didn’t come to the Giro thinking I could win a stage,” she said.

After crashing on stage 14 on Sunday, I was standing ovation for points leaders Mads Pedersen and Giulio Ciccone.

When Cicco was lost, “everything changed yesterday.” My day today is today. Knowing how hard Giulio had worked for this race, I knew I didn’t want to do it for myself.

The British rider, Team Visma-Lease a Bike Simon Yates, leads by one minute and 20 seconds heading into the final week of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG competition.

In the Women’s World Tour event, Swiss Marlen Reusser claimed the title of overall champion at the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas.

The Movistar rider, who had almost two minutes to win the general classification, won back-to-back stage victories.