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2015 Giro d’Italia – Second week stats

– Nicola Boem, Mikel Landa, Sacha Modolo and Ilnur Zakarin took their maiden win in a Grand Tour

– Before scoring this win, Sacha Modolo has recorded 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 place finishes in his previous 70 Giro d’Italia stages

– Sacha Modolo became the 5th Italian rider in 5 occasions to be victorious in Lido di Jesolo

– For the first time since the team was created, Lampre-Merida nabbed a win at a Grand Tour with three diferrent cyclists

– All 15 stages so far have had different winners, a joint record in the history of the race (1953, 1954)

– Fabio Aru (24 years and 323 days) became the third youngest Italian rider in pink in the past 10 years

– Last Friday, Alberto Contador lost the leader’s jersey in a Grand Tour for the first time in his career

– Fifth in stage 13, Eduard Grosu took Romania’s best ever result in a Grand Tour

– Vasil Kiryienka’s win in stage 13 marked the first ever time a Belarusian rider won an individual time trial in a Grand Tour

– 14 riders have abandoned during the second week of the race

– 12 teams are winless with six stages left to go: AG2R, Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, CCC Sprandi Polkowice, Etixx-Quick Step, FDJ, Giant-Alpecin, IAM, LottoNL-Jumbo, Nippo-Vini Fantini, Southeast, Tinkoff-Saxo and Trek Factory Racing