Cycling - Giro d'Italia - Stage 1 - Budapest to Visegrad, Hungary - May 6, 2022 Alpecin-Fenix's Mathieu Van Der Poel celebrates on the podium wearing the maglia rosa jersey REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Fenix won the first stage of the Giro d'Italia on Friday, beating Biniam Girmay on the final sprint to claim victory on the a 195-km flat ride from Budapest to Visegrad.
In a stage marred by crashes, Dutchman Van der Poel was neck-and-neck with Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert's Girmay but timed his attack to perfection to cross the line first with a time of four hours, 35 minutes and 28 seconds to take the Maglia Rosa.
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