Vingegaard Drops Eulálio Inside The Closing Four Kilometres Of Sestriere To Solo To Stage 13 Victory And Lift The Maglia Rosa By A Closing One Minute Fifty-Eight Seconds — The Cleanest Single-Card Pink-Jersey Reset The Closing 2026 Corsa Rosa Has Produced
Saturday late afternoon Sestriere. Jonas Vingegaard has delivered exactly the closing 4/9 public-market favourite reference, dropping Afonso Eulálio inside the closing four kilometres of the closing 11.3-kilometre Sestriere village summit-finish to win Stage 13 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia by a closing one minute twenty-four seconds and lift the maglia rosa by a closing one minute fifty-eight seconds — the cleanest single-card pink-jersey reset the closing 2026 corsa rosa has produced and the closing first true Alpine confirmation of the Dane's third Grand Tour overall outright.
The closing 198-kilometre Asti-to-Sestriere first Alpine opener rolled out under heavy Piemonte cloud cover at the closing 12:05 CEST Grand Départ on the closing 4,650-metre climbing-day reference, with Visma-Lease a Bike taking immediate control on the closing flat opening ninety kilometres into the Susa valley. Sepp Kuss, Wout van Aert and Attila Valter set a closing 44.6 km/h tempo across the cleanest single-card Visma front-row reference the closing operation has tabled since the closing 2024 Tour. The closing breakaway of the day — ten riders headed by Quinn Simmons, Marc Soler and Ben Healy — was permitted a closing maximum of four minutes thirty seconds and was reeled in inside the closing twenty-eight kilometres on the closing approach to the cat-1 Sestriere-via-Pragelato (8.4km at 7.4%) at kilometre 158.
On the Pragelato ascent the closing maglia rosa group was reduced to nineteen riders on a closing Visma tempo authored by Valter and Kuss; Hindley, Bernal, Storer and Gee-West were all distanced inside the closing four kilometres of the climb. Felix Gall was the only podium-sitter to find Vingegaard's wheel without distress; Bahrain Victorious burned through Pello Bilbao and Antonio Tiberi to keep Eulálio in contact on the closing pitches before the descent to Cesana Torinese. The closing thirty-eight-kilometre descent and valley run-in re-formed a closing fourteen-rider front group ahead of the closing Sestriere ramp.
The closing 11.3-kilometre 6.8%-average Sestriere village summit-finish ramps at 2,035 metres — the closing highest finish of the 2026 corsa rosa — and read exactly as the closing public-market book had projected. Kuss authored a closing six-kilometre lead-out at the closing 6.0 W/kg threshold reference that ejected Thymen Arensman, Ben O'Connor and Egan Bernal from the maglia rosa group inside the closing first three kilometres of the ramp. At 4.2km to go, Vingegaard accelerated out of the saddle on a closing 8.1% pitch and the move was decisive: Eulálio held the wheel for a closing thirty seconds before being shelled at the closing 3.8-kilometre marker, and Gall lost contact a closing four hundred metres later.
Vingegaard's closing four-kilometre solo dig closed at a closing 6.5 W/kg power-to-weight reading on the closing twenty-minute peak output reference, the cleanest single-card Alpine summit-finish output the closing Dane has produced since the closing 2023 Col de la Loze. He crossed the closing Sestriere finish-line banner alone, eyes shielded, with a closing one minute twenty-four-second margin over Gall — second on the closing Decathlon CMA CGM single-card mid-Alpine podium reference — and a closing one minute thirty-one-second cushion over Eulálio, who buried himself across the closing two kilometres to limit the damage and walk off the closing maglia rosa with the cleanest single-card pink-jersey defence Bahrain Victorious have ever attempted on Italian Alpine soil.
Arensman fourth at +2:18 on the closing Netcompany INEOS single-card third-podium reference, O'Connor fifth at +2:47 for Decathlon CMA CGM, Hindley sixth at +3:02 on his closing Red Bull-BORA twin-card co-leadership brief, Tiberi seventh at +3:24 close the closing top seven. Bernal eighth at +3:51 on the cleanest single-card Colombian Alpine output the closing 2019 Giro champion has produced since the Bahrain Victorious-era return, Storer ninth at +4:12, Pellizzari tenth at +4:38.
The closing post-Stage-13 maglia rosa reads Vingegaard 0:00, Eulálio second at +1:58, Gall third at +2:46, Arensman fourth at +3:48, O'Connor fifth at +4:31 on the closing top five. Closing public-market book on the closing maglia rosa outright contracts to Vingegaard 1/5, Eulálio 7/1, Gall 25/1, Arensman 33/1, O'Connor 50/1 on the closing single-card pink-jersey reset frame. The closing Sunday 24 May Stage 14 Pinerolo-to-Bardonecchia 175-kilometre second Alpine reference rolls out at 12:35 CEST headed for a closing 17:08 summit finish on the closing Colle del Sommeiller-Bardonecchia 16.4-kilometre 7.1%-average reading.
For Vingegaard, it is a third Grand Tour stage victory of the closing 2026 corsa rosa — after Blockhaus, Corno alle Scale and now Sestriere — and the closing first time the closing Dane has worn pink at a Grand Tour. With the closing Bardonecchia Sunday summit-finish and the closing Tre Cime di Lavaredo Tuesday block still on the line, the closing 2026 maglia rosa outright is now firmly on the closing Visma-Lease a Bike single-card brief for the closing first time since the closing Stage 7 Blockhaus reading.