The time trial world champion, the Italian Filippo Ganna (Ineos), won the time trial of the 14th stage of the Giro, Saturday in Valdobbiadene, where the Portuguese Joao Almeida (Deceuninck) reinforced his pink leader's jersey .
Ganna scored his third success since the start of the Giro, at an average of almost 48 km / h on a course laid out in the vineyards of Prosecco (34.1 km).
Almeida, sixth on the stage, took another 16 seconds from his runner-up in the overall standings, the Dutchman Wilco Kelderman.
In the general classification, Almeida, at the head of the Giro since stage 3, is 56 seconds ahead of Kelderman on the eve of the summit finish in Piancavallo.
If the Spaniard Pello Bilbao, Spanish time trial champion, moved back (22nd), the young American Brandon McNulty, 22, was classified third of the stage behind the Australian Rohan Dennis and thus climbs to fourth place in the general classification.
The Italian Vincenzo Nibali, for his part, gave up 1 min 23 sec to Almeida, which pushes him back to 2 min 30 sec in the standings.
He did better, however, than the Danish Jakob Fuglsang, pointed in this stage at 1 min 42 sec from the wearer of the pink jersey and now pushed back to more than four minutes overall.
In addition, Nibali lost his lieutenant awaited in the mountains, the Italian Giulio Ciccone.
The former yellow jersey of the Tour de France 2019, who shows symptoms of bronchitis, has given up taking the start of the stopwatch.
Ganna, 24, had already won the opening time trial in Palermo and then the 5th stage in the middle mountains of Calabria (south).
Winner of the World Championships time trial in Imola (Italy) at the end of September, the Piedmontese has won six times this season, including five times in "qualifying" times.
On Sunday, the Giro returns to altitude in the 15th stage which arrives in the Piancavallo resort after 185 kilometers.
Three second category passes precede the final climb, 14.5 kilometers long and listed in the first category.
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