Giro d'Italia: Roger Kluge wins stage 17 as Steven Kruijswijk retains lead

Germany's Roger Kluge scuppered the sprinters by winning a flat 17th stage of the Giro d’Italia with a late attack as Steven Kruijswijk retained the overall lead.

Just a day after his IAM Cycling team announced they would fold at the end of the year, Kluge handed the Swiss squad their first grand tour stage victory by surging out of the peloton with just under 1km to go and hanging on to win by handful of metres.

Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) beat Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin) in the sprint for second place.

Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) followed in the main bunch in 30th place to preserve his three-minute lead over second-placed Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge) in the general classification.

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) remains 3min 23sec back in third.

The Giro continues on Thursday with the longest day of this year's race, a 244km 18th stage from Muggio to Pinerolo. Find out more about the route in our race guide.

Stage 17 result

1 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling, 4:31:29

2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo, same time

3 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Giant-Alpecin, st

4 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida, st

5 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Etixx - Quick-Step, st

6 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Katusha, st

7 Pim Ligthart (Ned) Lotto Soudal, st

8 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltn) Cannondale, st

9 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Wilier-Southeast, st

10 Paolo Simon (Ita) Bardiani-CSF, st

General classification

1 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo, 68:11:39

2 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge, +3:00

3 Alejandro Valverde (Esp) Movistar, +3:23

4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana, +4:43

5 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha, +4:50

6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff, +5:34

7 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx - Quick-Step, +7:57

8 Andrey Amador (Cos) Movistar, +8:53

9 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ag2r-La Mondiale, +10:05

10 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data, +11:03