Richard Carapaz won the phase 11 Giro D’Italia on Wednesday with a solo ride in the last nine kilometers, and the leader of Isaac del Toro elsewhere in Sprint to the line, completing 10 seconds behind the former Olympic Champion.

The stage was a challenging ride from 186 km from Viareggio to Castelnovo no ‘Monti that had the most punishing sector on Giro – 13.7 km to Alpe San Pellegrino Climbing this year.

EF Education-Easypost’s Carapazwhich continues 32 next week, he had a disappointing trial on Tuesday when he finished nearly three minutes behind the winner of the Dutchman Day editionBut he did to count on an unrelentive mountain stage.

“This phase is quite heavy and many people suffering from the first climb, I had good legs and caught the opportunity to attack in the specified moment” Karapaz said.

“I was not disappointed yesterday. I know that my pour is not my fort. I saved everything I could. It’s something special and emotionally won at this stage I came after a lot of work and I wanted to please my family, friends.”

Although the shovel group led for an almost minute with 15km from which he was going, Carapaz left Peloton behind and attacked them to suffocate them, threaten them with left nine kilometers.

Ecadoran launched for the final processing of 18 seconds in the end kilometer while Bull He led him wrappers, beat Lidl-Trek Giulio Ciccone Who finished the podium.

Del Toro’s UAE team Emirates teammates Juan Ayuso is another in the general classification, 31 seconds behind Antonio Tiberi Bahrain’s victory is over a minute back.

Xds-astana’s Lorenzo Fortunato He continued to dominate the mountains to keep the blue jersey, when he claimed maximum points in two of the three categorized ups on stage 11 and built a 102 point lead.

But the day belonged to Carapaz, who moved from the ninth to sixth in the general classification, to sit a minute and 56 seconds behind Del Toro.

“I’ll try to get to the giro to the end,” Carapaz added. “I won’t stop fighting until we get in Rome.”

Thursday Phase 12 is a flat ride of 172km from Modena to Viadan.