Omar Fraile (Dimension Data) wins stage 11 in Romagna, Giro d'Itali.

Omar Fraile (Dimension Data) nets his first win of stage 11 in Romagna, Giro d'Italia.

He wins from the four man breakaway in perfect time sprint in the Apennines and with a little change in the general classification result.

 The Spaniard sealed the win in a four-up sprint with Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates), Pierre Rolland (Cannondale-Drapac), and Tanel Kangert (Astana), who finished in that order as the remnants of the large breakaway closed in over the final few hundred metres. Fraile was part of the 25-man move that formed on the first of four climbs, the Passo della Consuma, on the 161km leg from Florence to Bagno di Romana.

An early second-category ascent, it sent the race into chaos and suggested race leader Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) could be in for an exacting day. But Dumoulin and his teammates regained control on the second climb, the Passo della Calla, as Fraile took off with Mikel Landa (Team Sky) to spend the next 70km in a two-man lead group ahead of the rest of the break. Landa was dropped as soon as things came back together out front, on the long second-category Monte Fumaiolo with 35km to go, but Fraile hung tight and went on the attack over the top as the gradients stiffened. Rolland went with him, while Costa bridged across half-way down the final descent and Kangert at the bottom, all the while the rest of the break was a tense 14 seconds back on the flat 2km run to the line. That gap came crashing down in the final few hundred metres as the quartet soft-pedalled, but Fraile produced a powerful sprint, impressive for all his previous efforts, and celebrated wildly beyond the line. "I'd dreamed about a win like this for a long time.

It's great to finally pull it off," he said.

 Dumoulin held onto the maglia rosa, coming across the line in the third group on the road – a select GC group that contained all of the contenders save for Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo), who were dropped when Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) attacked on the steep gradients towards the top of the final climb.

 Top Ten General classification

 1, Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 47:22:07,
2, Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:02:23, 
3, Bauke Mollema (Netherland) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:38,
 4, Thibaut Pinot (France) FDJ 0:02:40  
5, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:47,  
6, Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:03:05,  
7, Bob Jungels (Luxebourg) Quick-Step Floor's 0:03:56, 
8, Tanel Kangert (Estonia) Astana Pro Team 0:03:59,
 9, Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:05,
10, Ilnur Zakarin (Russsia) Katusha-Alpecin 0:04:17