Italian rider Davide Ballerini avoided a crash in the final 300 meters of Thursday's sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia to claim his first victory in a Grand Tour, while Afonso Eulálio remained in the overall lead. Ballerini edged out Jasper Stuyven in a bunch sprint on cobbled roads at the end of the mainly flat, 142-kilometer (88-mile) route from Paestum to the port city of Naples. Paul Magnier — who has won two sprint finishes already at this year’s Giro — was held up by the crash but managed to just about stay on his bike and drove forward, blasting past eight riders in a short distance, to finish third.