Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 5 updates, route and results today – UK Times

Here’s a quick look at how today will shape up.

The 2025 Giro d’Italia’s sprinter-friendly first week continues with another outing for the fast men on stage five, this time a trim 151km run from Ceglie Messapica to Matera.

It’s a leg-sapping ascent that may eliminate some of the pure sprinters and hand the advantage back to the likes of pink jersey Mads Pedersen, who won stages one and three and was fourth yesterday in Lecce, as well as Wout van Aert and Corbin Strong, who have both performed well on the punchier stages so far in this race.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage five of the Giro d’Italia!

We’ll have all the build-up and action from today’s stage, with another hectic sprint finish on the cards – unless a breakaway can spring a surprise.