Colombian Nairo Quintana of the Movistar team snatched the overall lead from Dutchman Tom Dumoulin ©Getty Images

Colombian Nairo Quintana of the Movistar team snatched the overall lead from Dutchman Tom Dumoulin at the Giro d'Italia as Team Sky's Mikel Landa won the 19th stage today.

Quintana, the winner of the Giro in 2014, now has a 38-second advantage in front of Dumoulin, the Sunweb rider who finished the 191 kilometres stage from Innichen and San Candido to Piancavallo over a minute behind his Colombian rival.

Spaniard Landa triumphed during another stage packed full of incident and drama in a time of 4hr 53min 00sec.

It marked his first victory of this year's Giro d'Italia after he had twice been beaten in the latter stages this week.

Rui Costa of Portugal, who rides for the UAE Team Emirates, was second, while Cannondale-Drapac's French rider Pierre Rolland was third.

Quintana crossed the line down in 16th, six places ahead of the Dutchman, who was involved in a verbal exchange with Italian Bahrain-Merida rider Vincenzo Nibali yesterday.

"I was feeling very good, it was a hard stage, but thanks to my team I managed to get back into the Maglia Rosa," the 27-year-old Colombian said.

"The advantage is a big complicated, but we’ll take it day by day. 

"Tomorrow there will be another hard one, and then the time trial will be very important. 

"There we will play for the win." 

Tom Dumoulin endured a difficult 19th stage and eventually lost his lead to Nairo Quintana ©Getty Images
Tom Dumoulin endured a difficult 19th stage and eventually lost his lead to Nairo Quintana ©Getty Images

Dumoulin found it difficult from the start as an early break from members of the Movistar and Bahrain-Merida team left him struggling to keep pace with the rest.

The Dutchman was unable to claw his way back as Landa sprinted away to claim an impressive solo win.

"I had bad legs from the start and I made a rookie mistake at the beginning, sitting at the back of the bunch on the downhill," said Dumoulin.

"Then Bahrain and Movistar split the bunch and I was in the second group and needed, with my bad legs, to go to the maximum to come back, in the middle of the stage, so that was really unnecessary.

"In the final I tried to limit my losses and I did that very well. 

"My team was really strong today, they saved me a couple of times, so I have to thank them otherwise it would have been a much worse day. 

"Bad legs today, but I hope they’ll be better tomorrow."

The fascinating race continues tomorrow with the penultimate stage - a 190km trek from Pordenone to Asiago which features two large climbs.