Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 11 result and updates

Matt Stephens on TNT Sports comms calls it a “swashbuckling” win for the Ecuadorian, which feels accurate. It’s his first win since stage 17 at the Tour de France last summer.

An audacious move, but it really paid off.

1) Richard Carapaz (EF Education – EasyPost), in 4:35:20

3) Giulio Ciccone (Lidl – Trek)

4) Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)

Replays of the sprint for the bonus seconds show that Pidcock attacked first, Bernal following, but del Toro was positioned beautifully going into the final corner and was never really challenged in that final.

A group of lesser GC contenders including Chris Harper and Max Poole cross the line around 1:20 back. Disappointing for Poole, who improved his time deficit with a good time trial yesterday.

The maglia rosa accelerates and extends his lead to 31 seconds over Ayuso with six bonus seconds, while Giulio Ciccone takes four for third place, ahead of Tom Pidcock.

A hugely aggressive, thrilling move by EF pays off and Richard Carapaz has his first stage win at the Giro since 2019, when he won the overall!

Adam Yates leads del Toro up this climb. No one wants to concede any time to Carapaz and at this rate they’ll barely concede any seconds at all.

There’s a brief split at the front of the bunch but Caruso closes it to hop onto teammate Tiberi’s wheel. Ciccone, Simon Yates, Roglic are all there too, as well as del Toro and Ayuso.

Carapaz has lost a little bit of his gap, down to 21 seconds, but there’s only 2km left for him to hold on, and the terrain goes uphill again now. McNulty swings off for UAE after a heroic turn.

Carapaz takes the mountain points at Pietra di Bismantova but it’s the stage win he wants. A reminder that he’s the 2019 Giro champion, and he nearly won the race in 2022 too.

Bonus seconds are on offer at the line and the terrain suits him, with another ramp with 2km to go, hitting a maximum of 8%, and a rise to the finish too.

The rain is falling now. 26 seconds back to the bunch.

Richard Carapaz is riding himself into the top five as it stands. Rafal Majka is on the front as UAE resume control, with none of the other GC contenders ready to blink yet.