Sepp Kuss Wins Giro Queen Stage, Completes Grand Tour Trio

Sepp Kuss won the Giro d'Italia queen stage on May 29 after catching Giulio Ciccone on the final climb, and he completed stage wins in all three Grand Tours. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider added the Giro to victories already on his record in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.

Kuss on the final climb

Kuss joined the early breakaway in the Dolomites stage and handled the steep 5-kilometer final climb before passing Ciccone on the slot climb. The move decided a stage that had been shaped by an early escape and limited the decisive racing to the last ascent.

Ciccone had attacked after Einer Rubio took mountain points from him on the penultimate climb, but he could not hold off Kuss once the road tilted harder. Kuss finished the job on the steepest part of the finale and took the stage win for Visma-Lease a Bike.

Visma-Lease a Bike in the Giro

The victory gave the team its fifth stage win in this Giro. Jonas Vingegaard had already won four stages before Kuss added another, keeping Visma-Lease a Bike at the center of the race’s stage hunting.

For Kuss, the win completed a rare trilogy across the sport’s biggest stage races. He had already won stages in the Tour and the Vuelta, and the Giro victory put him in that same column across all three Grand Tours.

Arensman and the GC shift

The stage also moved the general classification. Thymen Arensman lost third place to Jai Hindley, while Felix Gall became more secure in second place after the stage.

Jonas Vingegaard finished the Dolomites stage without problems, leaving Visma-Lease a Bike with stage success and a cleaner GC day than many of its rivals. The result left Kuss with the headline win, and it left the team with another Giro stage victory plus a rider now owning stage wins in the Tour, Vuelta and Giro.