Joe Dombrowski (EF Education First) took the best Grand Tour finish of his career when he finished 12th overall at the Giro d`Italia on Sunday, eclipsing his previous-best result of 34th at the same race three years ago. The US climber won the under-23 version of the Giro in 2012, and went on to race aggressively in the senior race in 2016, finishing third on the penultimate stage and taking fifth place in the best young rider competition. However, by his own admission, the 28-year-old has failed to fire at Grand Tours since then, and so the 2019 Giro has signalled a return to form, with a result on which he can now build.ADVERTISEMENT Dombrowski came alive during the third week of the race, and then proved a model of consistency through the final week, gradually moving up the GC to end the race with 12th overall in Verona at the weekend. Despite that, Dombrowski expressed disappointment that his third week hadn`t gone better, and put it down to having possibly been the result of crashing at the end of the second week, the day before the second rest day. `I think it was a good race, and I`m happy to be done,` Dombrowski told reporters, including Cyclingnews, in Verona. `Overall, I`m pretty happy with it, but I think I faded a bit in the third week. Normally I`m pretty good in the third week, so I don`t know why. I crashed on the stage into Como [stage 15], and maybe that kind of kicked me off a bit, but overall I`m pretty happy with it, and I was pretty consistent throughout the Giro.`
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