Giro d’Italia 2022, Hirt wins sixteenth stage

Czech Jan Hirt (Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux) wins the sixteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2022, the Salò-Aprica of 202 km with an altitude difference of 5,250 meters and three mountain grand prizes including Mortirolo. Hirt precedes Thymen Arensman (Dsm), third Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) in front of the leader of the general classification Richard Carapaz who remains in the pink jersey with a 3 “advantage over Hindley himself. Vincenzo Nibali closes ninth. flash of Nibali who descends like a rocket giving lessons in trajectories and road holding: an initiative at less than 70 km that ends almost immediately, while in the same moments the other great old man of the Giro, Domenico Pozzovivo, suffers yet another career fall but he gets up immediately, with only some peeling at the elbows.