While happy with his performance, EF Education First`s Hugh Carthy played down any notion of getting carried away after finishing 11th overall at the Giro d`Italia in Verona on Sunday. The British climber said that every race he does well in is simply a `stepping stone` to the next stage of his young career, and that his Giro result was `a good step, at the right time, and at the right age to show this kind of potential`. The 24-year-old never dropped outside the top 25 on the general classification throughout the race, and led the white jersey competition as best young rider for a day on stage 13 from Pinerolo to Ceresole Reale before first Pavel Sivakov (Team Ineos) and then Astana`s Miguel Angel Lopez came to the fore, with Carthy eventually finishing third in the competition.ADVERTISEMENT As well as finishing only just outside the top 10 on the GC, Carthy also went on the attack on the `Il Lombardia stage` - stage 15 to Como - and finished fourth, in the same group as Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) and eventual Giro winner Richard Carapaz (Movistar). After the race`s second rest day, Carthy then finished fifth on stage 16 to Ponte di Legno, again in the company of Carapaz and Nibali, and along with EF teammate Joe Dombrowski, who finished a place behind him in 12th on the GC in Verona, crowning a successful Giro for the US WorldTour team. `I`m happy,` Carthy told reporters, including Cyclingnews, after pulling to a halt after the Giro`s final time trial stage. `But I`m not going to get complacent. I`ve still a lot of work to do - to tweak things, improve things.
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