22 Day Sunday, May 21, 2017 Sunday, May 21, 2017 23 8 Tom Dumoulin stuns Nairo Quintana to win 14th stage of Giro Oropa 16th stage from Rovetta to Bormio, utchman Tom Dumoulin Dumoulin added: “We haven’t done Bahrain’s Rose further underlined his Giro even half of the climbs of this Giro. Dd’Italia victory ambitions by stunning “The climbs in the last week will Sadik Mikhou Chelimo com- Colombian rival Nairo Quintana to make it very hard... but this day they competes dur- petes during claim victory on Saturday’s 14th stage. won’t take away from me.” ing the Men’s the Women’s “This is really incredible. 1500m race 10000m race I’m super, super happy,” said Dumoulin, who attacked his Result Movistar rival inside the final two Results from the 14th stage, held kilometres of an 11.8km climb to over 131 km between Castellania the summit finish at Oropa to take and Oropa on Saturday: his overall lead over the Colombian to 2min 47sec. Stage Dumoulin, who has never won a 1 Tom Dumoulin (NED/SUN) 3hr 02min three-week grand tour, had pushed 03sec, 2014 champion Quintana down 2. Ilnur Zakarin (RUS/KAT) at 3secs, Bahrain’s quartet to second overall at 2min 23sec 3. Mikel Landa (ESP/SKY) 9, Salwa Eid, Edidiong Baku Bahrain’s ninth athletics title. following a crushing win in the 10th 4. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) 14, Odiong, Aminat Jamal ahrain produced more gold-medal Morocco claimed the other stage time-trial on Tuesday. 5. Thibaut Pinot (FRA/FDJ) 35, and Adekoya poses magic to top the athletics medal two podium places as Fouad B It left Quintana needing to chip 6. Adam Yates (GBR/ORI) 41, on the podium of the table ahead of Azerbaijan on the final Elkaam went one better than the away at his deficit on his preferred 7. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) 43, Women’s 4 x 400 day of track and field competition at bronze he won in 2013. He grabbed terrain of the climbs. 8. Franco Pellizotti (ITA/BAH) s.t., the Islamic Solidarity Games yesterday. silver in 3:37:81 while his countryman But despite a couple of impressive 9. Steven Kruijswijk (NED/TLJ) 46, Three gold medals, one silver and Brahim Kaazouzi took bronze. Adam Batirov attacks that appeared to set him up 10. Tanel Kangert (EST/AST) s.t. one bronze were Bahrain’s harvest on The Gulf state’s 10th gold arrived with Men’s 75kg for his second stage win of this 100th the 13th day of the games, which kept shortly after as Abraham Cheroben freestyle bronze edition, following his victory at General classification them on top of Arab countries with 21 produced a masterful performance to medal Blockhaus on stage nine, Quintana 1. Tom Dumoulin (NED/SUN) 59hr medals in total (12, 5, 4). win the men’s 10,000-metre title. was never able to open up a gap of 31min 17sec, On a wet evening in Baku, the Cheroben, who finished 10th in more than 10sec on the Dutchman. 2. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) 2min Olympic stadium track was laden with the Ryo Olympic final, was neck-and- As Quintana struggled to open 47sec, surface water, which made conditions neck with Turkish duo Ali Kaya and up a decisive lead, Dumoulin sat 3. Thibaut Pinot (FRA/FDJ) 3:25, difficult for the athletes. Kaan Kigen Ozbilen until the final 400 in the saddle driving a four-man 4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) 3:40, But that didn’t stop the Bahrainis metres, but he surged clear on the final chase group whose persistence 5. Ilnur Zakarin (RUS/KAT) 4:24, as Sadik Mikhou ran a perfect 1500- lap to finish well ahead of his rivals in a eventually reeled Quintana in with 6. Bauke Mollema (NED/TRA) 4:32, metre race to clinch the men’s gold time of 27 minutes 38.76 seconds. two kilometres to go. 7. Tanel Kangert (EST/AST) 4:55, medal. Ozbilen (27:41:99) took silver By then, the road had levelled out 8. Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA/ALM) 4:59, The heavens opened just as the while his compatriot Kaya, the 2013 and the Dutchman finally got out 9. Bob Jungels (LUX/QST) 5:28, race got underway, but Mikhou burst champion, faded badly to miss out the saddle to overtake Quintana on 10. Andrey Amador (CRC/MOV) 5:36 clear in the final 200 metres to claim on the medals as Moroccan Soufiyan his way to his second victory of this gold with a time of 3 minutes 36.04 Bouqantar clinched bronze. year’s race and third overall. seconds which sealed Bahrain signed off in athletics with The bonus seconds on offer at the 11 golds - one ahead of the Azeris - Athletes compete during the Men’s 10000m race finish meant Dumoulin, who has as their female sprinters waltzed to rejected comparisons to former five- victory in the 4x400-metre relay final. time Tour de France winner Miguel The 400-metre individual gold personal best of 30:26.41 that she set with their third gold of the day in Algeria’s Hichem Khalil Cherabi Indurain, increased his lead on medallist Salwa Eid Naser at the Olympics last year in finishing the very last race as they secured the grabbed bronze. Quintana to 2:47. produced a rapid first leg before seventh, but she still crossed over 4x400-metre men’s relay title. Morocco finished on seven golds French contender Thibaut 200-metre gold medallist 30 seconds clear of silver medallist Enis Unsal, Batuhan Altintas, as they secured a one-two finish in Pinot (FDJ) finished 35sec in Edidiong Ofonime Odiong, Adam Batirov Chelimo (31:37:81) and the UAE’s Sinan Oren and Yavuz Can timed the men’s 400-metre T12 disability arrears in fifth, with Italy’s two-time Aminat Jamal and 400- performs in Alia Mohammed (31:49:01), who 3:06:83 to seal Turkey’s eighth final. and defending champion Vincenzo metre hurdles champion the men’s 75kg retained the bronze she won four athletics gold. Mahdi Afri made light work of the Nibali trailing home 43sec behind. Oluwakemi Adekoya freestyle event years ago. Pakistan finished superbly rest of the field to clock 49.64s and After a collapse by Dutchman finished things off in 3 Alia, the Asian Games and Asian to gain silver ahead of Oman as finish ahead ahead of compatriot Bauke Mollema (Trek), Pinot moved minutes 32.96 seconds. championships gold medalist, a strong Bahrain team - featuring Ayoub Haimouda. up to third overall at 3:25, with Nibali A strong Nigerian finished ahead of defending 400-metre individual gold medallist Elsewhere, Adam Batirov captured fourth at 3:40. team featuring 400- champion Shitaye Eshete, as the Ali Khamis Khamis and 200-metre a fine 6-5 win over Uzbekistan’s Nibali’s sports director Gorazd metre bronze medallist Bahraini only managed a fourth- silver medallist Salem Eid Yaqoob - Ikhtiyor Navruzov to seal the men’s Stangelj said: “We lost precious time Pink Jersey, Yinka Ajayi took silver place finish. slumped to fourth. freestyle 70kg bronze medal for but we kept with the race plan and we Netherlands’ On day 13, Bahrain is at (3:34:47), while Turkey Turkey continued on the gold- Hussain Al Hizam secured Saudi Bahrain medal at Wrestling Heydar are sure that Vincenzo gave everything. Tom Dumoulin the fifth position in the were awarded bronze after medal trail, as Osman Can Ozdeveci Arabia’s second athletics gold as he Aliyev Arena. “And we still have the final week left of team Sunweb Morocco’s disqualification. hurled 19.83m in the first round to dominated the men’s pole vault final. The Asian champion was in to try to gain something.” celebrates as he table and on top of Arab Rose Chelimo came close to adding clinch the men’s shot put title. The 19-year-old produced a superb form in the early stages of the Speaking minutes after his arrival, crosses the fin- countries with 21 medals another gold for Bahrain, but she was Sultan Alhebshi of Saudi Arabia clearance of 5.55 metres on his fourth competition, but faced gold medal Quintana said: “Today we saw how ish line to win Abraham Cheroben edged by Turkey’s Yasemin Can, who grabbed silver with an effort of attempt to wrap up the title, while winner Mostafa Hosseinkhani in the strong Tom Dumoulin really is. Above the 14th stage celebrates after the in total (12 Gold, 5 Silver stormed to an impressive gold medal 19.56m, while Uzbekistan’s Sergey 2013 bronze medallist Romdhana semi-finals, where the Bahraini went all, the way he was able to come back of the 100th Men’s 10000m race and 4 Bronze) in the women’s 10,000 metres. Dementev took bronze. Mohamed Akine went one better as down 4-8 to the Iranian opponent to when I attacked.” Giro d’Italia, Can’s time didn’t threaten her Turkey rounded off yesterday he took silver on 5.30m. end his gold medal dream. But with the toughest climbs on the horizon starting from Tuesday’s 222km .