Giro d’Italia: Lorenzo Fortunato wins stage 14 as Egan Bernal adds to overall lead

Italy’s Lorenzo Fortunato impressively climbed to his maiden career win on stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia, as Egan Bernal added to his overall lead at the summit of Monte Zoncolan.

Fortunato, riding for Eolo-Kometa, won the 205km stage in five hours 17 minutes 22 seconds.

Colombian Bernal came fourth, but crucially extended his race lead to 93 seconds.

Briton Simon Yates finished sixth and moved up to second overall.

Italy’s Damiano Caruso is third overall, 1:51 back.

Russian Aleksander Vlasov lost more than a minute on Ineos Grenadiers rider Bernal in the pink jersey on the final climb of the mountain stage – which included scaling gradients of over 20% in the final three kilometres.

“I think that I’m in a really good position now. I don’t need to attack on every mountain stage,” said 2019 Tour de France winner Bernal.

“I just need to be calm and patient. Finally I followed Yates and I tried to make an acceleration in the final and I think that I did a good race.”

Sunday’s 15th stage is 147km cross-border circuit between Italy and Slovenia which takes in three climbs.