• Slovenian makes light of rainy conditions to take ninth stage • Simon Yates loses 3min 11sec to the stage winner

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Primoz Roglic emerged as the overwhelming favourite for the Giro d’Italia when he won the ninth stage, a 34.8km individual time trial from Riccione to San Marino. Britain’s Simon Yates, among other contenders, suffered a heavy loss of time to the Slovenian in wet conditions.

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The Italian Valerio Conti of Team UAE retained the overall leader’s pink jersey after finishing 3min 34sec behind the Lotto Jumbo-Visma rider Roglic, who finished in 51min 52sec.

The two-times champion Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) of Italy limited the damage when he lost 1min 05sec, following a strong showing in the final 12.25km climb in San Marino, to take fourth place. Victor Campenaerts and Bauke Mollema finished second and third respectively.

Yates took a beating as he lost 3min 11sec to Roglic, and Spain’s Miguel Ángel López ended 3min 45sec off the pace after all the general classification contenders rode in the rain. It was a spectacular reverse of fortune for Yates, who had been strong in the race-opening time trial after warning his rivals they should be scared of him.

Conti, who is not among the main GC contenders, leads Roglic, winner of the first time trial, by 1min 50sec. Roglic leads Nibali by 1.44 in the GC standings going into Monday’s rest day.

Quick guide Giro d'Italia: Stage nine results and GC standings Show Hide Results from Stage 9 time-trial Riccione to San Marino, 34.8 km.



1. Primoz Roglic (SLO) Team Jumbo - Visma 51:52 2. Victor Campenaerts (BEL) Lotto - Soudal +11 3. Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek - Segafredo +1:00 4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Bahrain - Merida +1:05 5. Tanel Kangert (EST) EF Education First +1:10 6. Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb +1:14 7. Bob Jungels (LUX) Deceuninck - Quick-Step +1:16 8. Hugh Carthy (GBR) EF Education First +1:30 9. Pello Bilbao (ESP) Astana Pro Team +1:43 10. Mattia Cattaneo (ITA) Androni Giocattoli - +1:52 Sidermec



Overall standings



1. Valerio Conti (ITA) UAE Team Emirates 36:08:32 2. Primoz Roglic (SLO) Team Jumbo - Visma +1:50 3. Nans Peters (FRA) AG2R La Mondiale +2:21 4. José Joaquín Rojas (ESP) Movistar Team +2:33 5. Fausto Masnada (ITA) Androni Giocattoli - +2:36 Sidermec 6. Andrey Amador (CRC) Movistar Team +2:39 7. Amaro Antunes (POR) CCC Team +3:05 8. Valentin Madouas (FRA) Groupama - FDJ +3:27 9. Giovanni Carboni (ITA) Bardiani - CSF +3:30 10. Pello Bilbao (ESP) Astana Pro Team +3:32 11. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) Bahrain - Merida +3:34 12. Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek - Segafredo +3:45 13. Pieter Serry (BEL) Deceuninck - Quick-Step +3:47 14. Bob Jungels (LUX) Deceuninck - Quick-Step +4:08 15. Mattia Cattaneo (ITA) Androni Giocattoli - +4:34 Sidermec 16. Hugh Carthy (GBR) EF Education First +4:36 17. Davide Formolo (ITA) BORA - hansgrohe +4:42 18. Rafal Majka (POL) BORA - hansgrohe +4:43 19. Sam Oomen (NED) Team Sunweb +5:02 20. Richard Carapaz (ECU) Movistar Team

“It’s a perfect performance in my mind. I did a good job. I took it easy at the beginning and I gave it all at the end. It’s nice to take some time over the other GC favourites but the Giro is far from over,” said Roglic.