Giro d’Italia

Manuele Boaro, a time trial specialist for the Bahrain-Merida team, won the Point d’Appui for the 2018 Giro d’Italia. He has ridden the Giro four previous times, finishing as high as 46th and as low as 100th. He has also ridden the Vuelta twice. Boaro finished 3 hours, 30 minutes and 5 seconds adrift from the winner.

Provisional winner of the Giro was Chris Froome of Team Sky, and the Lanterne Rouge was Giuseppe Fonzi of Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia. Sander Armee of Lotto Fix All finished with closest time to the median.

The general classification fulcrum placement by stage:

Stage 1: Anthony Roux of Groupama-FDJ.
Stage 2: Nicolas Roche of BMC Racing Team.
Stage 3: Florian Senechal of Quick-Step Floors.
Stage 4: No fulcrum.
Stage 5: Sacha Modolo of EF Education First-Drapac.
Stage 6: No fulcrum.
Stage 7: Igor Anton of Dimension Data.
Stage 8: Ryan Gibbons of Dimension Data.
Stage 9: No fulcrum.
Stage 10: Natnael Berhane of Dimension Data.
Stage 11: Davide Ballerini of Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec.
Stage 12: Natnael Berhane of Dimension Data.
Stage 13: No fulcrum.
Stage 14: No fulcrum.
Stage 15: Davide Villella of Astana Pro Team.
Stage 16: Jacques Janse Van Rensburg of Dimension Data.
Stage 17: No fulcrum.
Stage 18: No fulcrum.
Stage 19: Hugh Carthy of EF Education First-Drapac.
Stage 20: Manuele Boaro of Bahrain-Merida.
Stage 21: Manuele Boaro of Bahrain-Merida.

Fabio Sabatini, gritting his teeth while on the cobbles during the 2008 Paris-Roubaix, via Wikipedia. Sabatini finished dead middle of the 2012 Giro d’Italia.

Fabio Sabatini, riding for Liquigas-Cannondale, finished in the fulcrum position at the end of the Giro d’Italia, giving Italy some comfort after missing the podium while a Canadian won the race and a Spaniard took the Lanterne Rouge.

Sabatini finished in 79th place, 2:59:14 behind the leader.

Canadian Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin won the 21-stage race with a time of 91:39:02, and Spaniard Miguel Minguez Ayala of Eusktel finished the race in the last position, 5:27:06 behind Hesjedal and nearly two and a half hours behind Sabatini, who, by the way, was the Lanterne Rouge at the 2011 Tour de France.

The point d’appui for general classification after each stage:

Stage 1-6: No fulcrum
Stage 7: Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi
Stage 8: Matteo Monteguti
Stage 9: Luke Roberts
Stage 10: No fulcrum
Stage 11: Matthias Frank
Stage 12: No fulcrum
Stage 13: Matthias Brandle
Stage 14: No fulcrum
Stage 15: Francesco Failli
Stage 16: No fulcrum
Stage 17: Simon Ponzi
Stage 18: Simon Ponzi
Stage 19: Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi
Stage 20: Fabio Sabatini
Stage 21: Fabio Sabatini

Simon Ponzi, who finished in the fulcrum position in Stages 17 and 18 backed off the pace during Stage 19 and fell 10 places back of Sabatini by the end of the race.

The point d’appui for each stage:

Stage 1-6: No fulcrum
Stage 7: Fabio Sabatini
Stage 8: Cristiano Salerno
Stage 9: Dominico Pozzovivo
Stage 10: No fulcrum
Stage 11: Frank Schleck
Stage 12: No fulcrum
Stage 13: Taylor Phinney
Stage 14: No fulcrum
Stage 15: Jens Keukeleire
Stage 16: No fulcrum
Stage 17: Matthias Frank (who also hit point d’appui in general classification during Stage 11)
Stage 18: Marco Pinotti (winner of Stage 21)
Stage 19: Guillaume Bonnafond
Stage 20: Victor Cabedo
Stage 21: Matthias Brandle (who also hit point d’appui in general classification during Stage 13)

Point d'Appui

Boaro Wins Fulcrum in 2018 Giro

Italian Sabatini Takes Point d’Appui at Giro