Cycling - Giro d'Italia - Stage 7 - Diamante to Potenza, Italy - May 13, 2022 Jumbo-Visma's Koen Bouwman celebrates wearing the maglia azzurra jersey after Stage 7 REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
(Reuters) - Dutch rider Koen Bouwman timed his final effort to perfection to win the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 196-km ride between Diamante and Potenza on Friday.
The Jumbo-Visma rider, who was in the day's breakaway with his team mate and compatriot Tom Dumoulin, jumped away from the leading group 100 metres from the line on a brutal uphill drag to beat another Dutchman, Bauke Mollema.
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