Richard Carapaz (Movistar) wins Giro stage, Italy

Richard Carapaz (Team Movistar)  wins stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia.

He's the first Ecuadoan rider to win a stage in a Giro d'Italia while wearing Maglia Bianca. 

 Richard (Movistar) won stage eight of the attacking late on the summit finish of Montevergine di Mercogliano to make history as the first Ecuadorian to win a Grand Tour stage. Davide Formolo (Bora-Hansgrohe) beat Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) to second place, seven seconds back.

How it unfolded 

The semi-regular finish destination of Montevergine di Mercogliano hosted the Giro’s second stage on mainland Italy - the second summit finish of the race. Danilo Di Luca and Damiano Cunego have taken victory here before, with the most recent victor being Bart de Clerq back in 2011.

As the race headed north hugging the Tyrrhenian coast, several unclassified bumps featured but the day was all about the final climb. While the false flat started 50km out in Salerno (location of the second intermediate sprint, after Agropoli at 110km), the real test began 17.1km from the line.

There was no change in the overall standings after that with Yates maintaining his lead over Tom Dumoulin and teammate Esteban Chaves. 

 Top Ten General classification standings.

1, Simon Yates (Great Britain) Mitchelton-Scott 31:43:12,
2, Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:00:16,
3, Esteban Chaves (Colombia) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:26,
4, Thibaut Pinot (France) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:41,
5, Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:45,
6, Rohan Dennis (Australia) BMC Racing Team 0:00:53,
7, Pello Bilbao (Spain) Astana Pro Team 0:01:03,
8, Richard Carapaz (Ecuador) Movistar Team 0:01:06,
9, Chris Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 0:01:10,
10, George Bennett (New Zealand) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:11