Biniam Girmay showed his best sprint to beat Mathieu van der Poel at the end of a tough final 20 kilometres of stage 10 to Jesi. The finalé was an exciting toe-to-toe battle of the top men with the Eritrean making history again.

Eritrea is now in the cycling history books as Biniam Girmay won the Belgian Gent-Wevelgem classic after an action packed final. Girmay out-sprinted his breakaway companions: Christophe Laporte, Dries Van Gestel and Jasper Stuyven.