The victory in the group of 28 athletes was won by Girmajs, who took the second place in the first stage of the bike ride and finished in four hours, 32 minutes and seven seconds.
He overtook the first-stage winner Matthia van der Pula of the Netherlands from the Alpecin-Fenix team and the Italian EOLO-Kometa driver Vincenzo Albanese.
Lopez (“Trek – Segafredo”) also finished 25th in this group, retaining the lead in the overall standings. He is 12 seconds ahead of Portugal’s Joao Almeida (UAE) and 14 seconds ahead of Rome’s Bardé, a spokesman for DSM.
On Wednesday, cyclists will measure 203 kilometers in the plain.
The bike ride, which started this year with three stages in Hungary, will end on stage 29 in Verona with stage 21 – an individual ride.
Last year, Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal of the Ineos Grenadiers team was crowned the winner of the bike ride.
This year the competition is held without Latvian representatives.
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