Overview
- Jonas Vingegaard extended his lead with a winning attack on Piancavallo, a result that effectively secures his first Giro and leaves only a crash or withdrawal able to prevent his overall victory.
- Visma teammates powered the late mountain stages, with Sepp Kuss taking the previous stage and Vingegaard claiming his fifth stage on the final big climb, and the overall podium and top-10 positions remained stable after those moves.
- The nine-day Giro Feminin began with a Ravenna sprint that saw Lorena Wiebes first across the line but later excluded by race commissaires because her bike weighed 6.78 kilograms, under the UCI minimum of 6.8 kilograms.
- Organisers credited Elisa Balsamo with the stage win after Wiebes' disqualification and SD Worx has formally contested the bike weighings, saying they observed a more than 50‑gram discrepancy between two measurements.
- Race focus now shifts to the men's final parade into Rome and the women's key uphill tests — a Nevegal hill time trial and an Sestrières summit finish — that will decide the Giro Feminin general classification with Demi Vollering the pre-race favorite.