Giro d’Italia: Jonas Vingegaard grabs pink jersey with solo summit stage win

• Dane earns third stage win of this year’s race in Alps

• Visma-Lease a Bike rider set to win Giro at first attempt

Jonas Vingegaard took the Giro d’Italia leader’s pink jersey for the first time after completing a hat-trick of stage wins, as the race favourite soloed to the summit to take stage 14, proving too strong for his rivals in the Alps.

The Visma-Lease a Bike rider, already successful on the summit finishes on stages seven and nine, attacked with less than 5km left of the gruelling 133km ride from Aosta to Pila, and the Dane now looks set to win the Giro at his first attempt.