Luke Plapp took a coming-of-age victory at the end of a tough, attritional stage eight of the 2025 Giro d’Italia, attacking solo 44km from the finish and taking a first Grand Tour stage win on the line in Castelraimondo.
The Australia was part of a nearly 20-strong breakaway group that escaped on a frantic, relentless hilly stage in the Apennines, with the group fragmenting over the course of a difficult up-and-down parcours.
