The rider from the Groupama-FDJ team made a dizzying sprint, and almost surpassed Australian Caleb Ewan. It took a picture of the arrival to decide between them because of the intestinal space on the line.

Démare, 30, got his seventh round of victory in the Giro.

He became the French rider with the most Giro successes ahead of Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault (6 stages).

Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez (Trek) maintains the lead in the overall classification, which was captured on Tuesday at Etna, with a small 39 -second advantage over German Lennard Kämma.

The 192-kilometer-long stage was reduced to a sprint after Italian Diego Rosa’s long breakaway, who was alone in the 141-kilometer lead.

The Italian, second in the 2016 Tour of Lombardy, joined at the start of the last 30 kilometers.

In the sprint, Démare overtook Ewan at the last moment. Briton Mark Cavendish this time took third place in a monumental sprint after a very long straight.

It was really hot, it doesn’t matter, but now in my favorcommented Demare. The team did a great job, I couldn’t have been better.

Eritrean Biniam Girmay (Intermarché) finished in 4th.

There was nervousness, we took a lot of risks and we avoided big collisions. In the sprint I had to brake a few times but eventually I had to bend. I enjoyed this fight and I look forward to the next one! Sprinting is always dangerous but I like it. I will go there without worry!

Canadian Alexander Cataford finished 127th in the first peloton of… 152 riders. He is in 60th place overall (+15: 15).

Friday, sprinters and climbers will find a favorable spot in the 7th stage on a grueling course of 196 kilometers.

Four climbs are listed between the Calabrian coast and the prefecture of Basilicata, the former Lucania, where the arrival is judged at the top of a small wall (350m at 8%).