Cycling - Giro d'Italia - Stage 8 - Napoli to Napoli (Procida Capitale Italiana della Cultura), Italy - May 14, 2022 Lotto Soudal's Thomas De Gendt celebrates as he wins Stage 8 REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Thomas De Gendt claimed a fifth career grand tour stage win when he prevailed in the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia at the end of a breakaway on Saturday.
The 35-year-old Belgian won a four-man sprint at the end of the 153-km ride in and around Naples to add to his 2012 Giro, 2017 Spanish Vuelta and 2016 and 2019 Tour de France stage laurels.