Giro d’Italia 2015 – Stage 19 [FULL STAGE]

May 29, 2015

Giro d’Italia 2015 – Stage 19 – Gravellona Toce – Cervinia – 236 km

When the 98th edition of the Giro d’Italia was presented in Milan’s Palazzo del Ghiaccio last October, it was widely considered as a balanced and fair route – a parcours that would allow the pure climbers to prove their mettle, while providing the robust time triallists with enough kilometres to establish their own credentials. Throw in a sprinkling of stages for the sprinters and a dash of love for the puncheurs, and just about every clan within the peloton had something to aim at.With the race just a matter of days away those sentiments remain true and the 2015 Giro d’Italia – on paper, desktop and tablet – looks a mouth-watering proposition. In the ‘fight for pink’ a volley of GC contenders will vie for the maglia rosa with Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo) returning to the race for the first time since 2011 as he seeks the first part of his Giro-Tour de France double. He will face stiff opposition in Rigoberto Uran (Etixx QuickStep), Richie Porte (Team Sky) and home favourite Fabio Aru (Astana), while several other contenders, old and new, could make significant impacts on the race.

After a decidedly rocky first two weeks of the Giro d’Italia, Fabio Aru (Astana Pro Team) has finally taken a resoundingly solid step forward in the battle for the final podium at the Giro d’Italia with a emotional solo mountain top stage victory at Cervinia on Friday.

Aru waved his arm repeatedly at the sky and all but shouted for joy as he crossed the line, 28 seconds ahead of Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team’s Ryder Hesjedal and 1:10 over another rider on the rebound, Colombia’s Rigoberto Urán (Etixx-Quick Step).

In terms of the overall classification battle, Aru’s first stage win of the Giro d’Italia – and Astana’s third in as many summit finishes – has also allowed the race’s Best Young Rider to move up from third to second overall, 4:37 down on race leader Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo).

Contador rode within himself to finish in a small chasing group of four riders, 1:18 down, and retains a 4:37 lead on Aru. An impressive margin for the Spaniard, but the Italian’s attack means he has more than recouped his losses of 1:13 caused by Contador’s long-range attack on the previous stage to Verbania.

Milan is now just two days away for Contador and although predicting too far ahead in one of the most tumultuous Grand Tours in recent years seems more than a shade unwise, victory in the Giro d’Italia for the Spaniard must feel tantalisingly near.

Indeed, although the Madrileño has come through the second last major mountain stage unscathed, Contador’s policy seemed to be both to race conservatively and keep a close eye on Aru’s teammate, Mikel Landa.

Landa finished in the same group as Contador and has dropped to third behind Aru on the provisional overall podium.

After closing down a brief dig by Landa on the final ascent, Contador barely shifted out of the saddle when Aru attacked with seven kilometres to go. Then with the white-clad figure of the young Italian disappearing around the hairpins ahead on the lengthy, grinding ascent, Contador – who has often stated stage wins in the Giro d’Italia are not an objective – continued to follow his rivals’ wheels, rather than lead the pursuit.

On a mammoth, 236 kilometre, stage featuring three first category ascents nearly 5,000 metres of climbing, up until the final climb caution like Contador’s seemed to be the watchword for all of the top contenders.

Following a fast two hours of racing an early break of eight, containing climbers and all-roudners as strong as Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge), Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) and Vasil Kiryenka (Team Sky) was finally given the all-clear. Behind, a long blue line of Astana riders, followed by Tinkoff-Saxo and the ever-present Contador, kept the gap at around four minutes.

A lengthy and somewhat tedious stalemate ensued, as Visconti’s lone charge away from the foot of the Col Saint-Panteleon, the second last climb of the day, earned the Movistar rider a brief hold on the King of the Mountains jersey. Visconti crossed the second last climb of the day with a two minute margin on the Contador-Astana group. Behind, first Dario Cataldo and then Andrey Zeits kept a well-nailed-down lid on his lead, whilst Contador was once again left with a limited number of riders – Mick Rogers and Ivan Basso – for support.

A former Giro leader, Visconti’s win on the snow-clad Galibier in the 2013 race is still fresh in most fans’ memories, but after powering down the fast descent and onto the shallow valley roads at Cervinia, Visconti’s margin was fast sinking as the Kazakh team piled on the pressure, and he was last seen by TV cameras making an almost operatic farewell wave before he was swallowed up by the Astana front line.

With 40 riders remaining, the question of Landa and Aru attacking was more one of when rather than if. However after Landa’s brief dig, Astana’s game plan briefly looked to have been foiled when a prolonged, steady surge by Ryder Hesejdal put the Canadian on the front of the race on the same climb where he re-took the lead in the 2012 Giro d’Italia.

Although winning is out of the question, Hesjedal’s second big ride in two days has now moved the Canadian up to seventh overall.

Aru, though, was not willing to let an opportunity to win on one of the Giro d’italia’s most difficult stages go by, and with seven kilometres to go, he powered out of the pack. An equally well-paced acceleration a kilometre later allowed the Italian to then shed the tenaciously performing Hesjedal and move into the lead position on the stage.

A climb with only a few steep ramps like Cervinia was not the most favourable of hunting grounds for an out-and-out mountain specialist like Aru but even so, as he battered his way up the climb’s steady but shallow ascent, his gap rose steadily to over a minute before hard work by chaser Leopold Konig (Team Sky) managed to limit the gap on Contador’s group.

Victory, though, was never in doubt, and the sight of Aru punching the sky, clad in the jersey of Best Young Rider, arguably shows that he is finishing this Giro d’Italia with much more solid condition than expected.

For Aru, too, his first victory since he won at Monte Castrove en Meis in Galicia in last year’s Vuelta a España, will surely have helped him rebuild morale. In these last two weeks in which, despite a brief spell in the leader’s jersey, more questions than answers have been raised about Aru’s GC capabilities, and despite lying third overall before Friday, he has been at least partly overshadowed by the unexpected rise and rise of team-mate Mikel Landa.

With one blistering mountain performance, Aru has now dampened down any doubts. At the same time, the odds on either Aru or Landa succeeding should they fling caution to the winds and attempt an all-out revolution against Contador’s gc domination on the two big final climbs of the Giro d’Italia, the Col de Finestre and Sestrieres, on Saturday’s stage are still long. But after Friday’s compelling performance, for the Italian at least, they have arguably shortened a little.

Results :
1 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 6:24:13
2 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:00:28
3 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:01:10
4 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 0:01:18
5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo
7 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team
8 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky 0:01:21
9 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:24
10 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:02:24
11 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:02:27
12 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team
13 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:49
14 Jonathan Monsalve (Ven) Southeast Pro Cycling
15 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha
16 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Soudal
17 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Col) BMC Racing Team 0:04:43
18 Fabio Felline (Ita) TrekRacing 0:05:14
19 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team
20 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
21 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
22 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Sky
23 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:06:52
24 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Movistar Team
25 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:09:03
26 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:11:56
27 Ivan Basso (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo
28 Simone Stortoni (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
29 Michael Rogers (Aus) Tinkoff-Saxo
30 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:13:27
31 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:14:06
32 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:14:46
33 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 0:14:58
34 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha
35 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro Team
36 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team
37 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky
38 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky
39 Francis Mourey (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:16:01
40 Jan Polanc (Slo) Lampre-Merida 0:18:58
41 Nick Van Der Lijke (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
42 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
43 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
44 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
45 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:22:46
46 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling
47 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:22:56
48 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team
49 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:23:54
50 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
51 Igor Anton (Spa) Movistar Team
52 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:25:53
53 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:27:14
54 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
55 Gianfranco Zilioli (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
56 Simon Clarke (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
57 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling
58 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 0:27:39
59 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step
60 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:30:51
61 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
62 Carlos Betancur (Col) AG2R La Mondiale
63 Clement Chevrier (Fra) IAM Cycling
64 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:31:32
65 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step
66 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:32:24
67 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team
68 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 0:33:15
69 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:35:17
70 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge 1:14:47
71 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky
72 Pieter Weening (Ned) Orica GreenEdge
73 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:38:35
74 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica GreenEdge 0:38:55
75 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
76 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre-Merida
77 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre-Merida 0:39:40
78 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-Merida
79 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
80 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 0:39:48
81 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:40:38
82 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) TrekRacing 0:42:06
83 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:43:18
84 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:44:47
85 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
86 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
87 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
88 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Sky
89 Kévin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr
90 Calvin Watson (Aus) TrekRacing
91 Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
92 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Orica GreenEdge
93 Grega Bole (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
94 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
95 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
96 Giacomo Berlato (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
97 Pier Paolo De Negri (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
98 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
99 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida
100 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
101 Francesco Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF
102 Luca Chirico (Ita) Bardiani CSF
103 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo
104 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Astana Pro Team
105 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale
106 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
107 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr
108 Cédric Pineau (Fra) FDJ.fr
109 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr
110 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Team Katusha
111 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha
112 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo
113 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Etixx – Quick-Step
114 Rick Flens (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:45:43
115 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:47:52
116 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF
117 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:47:58
118 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:49:40
119 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:50:10
120 Serghei Tvetcov (Rom) Androni Giocattoli 0:50:26
121 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr
122 Alan Marangoni (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
123 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step
124 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin
125 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale
126 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
127 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
128 Matteo Busato (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling
129 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
130 Alessandro Malaguti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
131 Elia Favilli (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling
132 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) IAM Cycling
133 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
134 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
135 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
136 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
137 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin
138 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling
139 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha
140 Janier Acevedo (Col) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
141 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha
142 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team
143 Caleb Fairly (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin
144 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
145 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team
146 Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin
147 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) TrekRacing
148 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida
149 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 0:51:48
150 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida
151 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
152 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
153 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:52:16
154 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) TrekRacing 0:52:42
155 Fabio Silvestre (Por) TrekRacing
156 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) TrekRacing
157 Luca Paolini (Ita) Team Katusha
158 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast Pro Cycling
159 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini
160 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 0:53:20
161 Marco Coledan (Ita) TrekRacing 0:54:19
162 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:57:12
163 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling 0:57:14
164 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin
DNF Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bardiani CSF

General Classification after Stage 19 :
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 78:48:40
2 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:04:37
3 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:05:15
4 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:08:10
5 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky 0:10:47
6 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:11:11
7 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0:12:05
8 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:12:14
9 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:12:53
10 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:15:07
11 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:16:58
12 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:18:43
13 Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 0:25:11
14 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 0:28:11
15 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:30:40
16 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:34:47
17 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado (Col) BMC Racing Team 0:36:49
18 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 0:42:28
19 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:57:18
20 Carlos Betancur (Col) AG2R La Mondiale 1:10:46
21 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 1:14:03
22 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff-Saxo 1:19:35
23 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 1:20:10
24 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team 1:20:57
25 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro Team 1:25:03
26 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 1:27:57
27 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 1:30:46
28 Jonathan Monsalve (Ven) Southeast Pro Cycling 1:36:14
29 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 1:36:21
30 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Sky 1:36:57
31 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Movistar Team 1:41:29
32 Michael Rogers (Aus) Tinkoff-Saxo 1:42:25
33 Fabio Felline (Ita) TrekRacing 1:51:16
34 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 1:53:04
35 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team 2:05:16
36 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha 2:09:05
37 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 2:09:08
38 Igor Anton (Spa) Movistar Team 2:10:03
39 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:11:19
40 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida 2:19:36
41 Francis Mourey (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:19:42
42 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ.fr 2:19:56
43 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:20:16
44 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky 2:21:15
45 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 2:25:27
46 Ivan Basso (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 2:27:08
47 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 2:30:29
48 Grega Bole (Slo) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 2:32:08
49 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:32:30
50 Francesco Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF 2:35:14
51 Simone Stortoni (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 2:36:25
52 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge 2:37:02
53 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 2:37:12
54 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 2:37:19
55 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:37:27
56 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 2:37:33
57 Jan Polanc (Slo) Lampre-Merida 2:38:49
58 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2:39:10
59 Branislau Samoilau (Blr) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 2:41:23
60 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 2:42:49
61 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-Merida 2:49:33
62 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha 2:52:36
63 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 2:55:29
64 Simon Clarke (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 2:55:58
65 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 3:00:27
66 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 3:00:44
67 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 3:00:46
68 Clement Chevrier (Fra) IAM Cycling 3:01:07
69 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:01:51
70 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 3:04:19
71 Gianfranco Zilioli (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 3:08:55
72 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 3:09:24
73 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:15:28
74 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 3:16:41
75 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 3:17:15
76 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 3:17:38
77 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 3:20:58
78 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Sky 3:21:20
79 Maciej Paterski (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 3:21:29
80 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 3:22:05
81 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre-Merida 3:28:39
82 Nick Van Der Lijke (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:29:52
83 Tom Jelte Slagter (Ned) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 3:30:15
84 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 3:32:33
85 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3:35:07
86 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ.fr 3:38:27
87 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:39:04
88 Pieter Weening (Ned) Orica GreenEdge 3:39:32
89 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Lampre-Merida 3:42:01
90 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 3:45:23
91 Luca Chirico (Ita) Bardiani CSF 3:46:59
92 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:48:57
93 Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 3:49:07
94 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 3:51:29
95 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:54:14
96 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:56:54
97 Elia Favilli (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 3:59:04
98 Giacomo Berlato (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 3:59:14
99 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 3:59:31
100 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Tinkoff-Saxo 4:00:10
101 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 4:01:03
102 Kévin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 4:01:10
103 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal 4:03:05
104 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 4:05:01
105 Matteo Busato (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 4:06:47
106 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 4:08:42
107 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 4:10:43
108 Pier Paolo De Negri (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 4:12:04
109 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Tinkoff-Saxo 4:12:37
110 Luca Paolini (Ita) Team Katusha 4:13:31
111 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) TrekRacing 4:14:35
112 Julien Berard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4:15:00
113 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 4:16:42
114 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Team Katusha 4:19:35
115 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Etixx – Quick-Step 4:20:14
116 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 4:24:09
117 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 4:25:34
118 Janier Acevedo (Col) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 4:25:56
119 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 4:25:59
120 Cédric Pineau (Fra) FDJ.fr 4:26:28
121 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 4:29:04
122 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff-Saxo 4:29:10
123 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr 4:29:12
124 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica GreenEdge 4:29:47
125 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 4:30:23
126 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 4:33:35
127 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 4:35:43
128 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida 4:35:53
129 Nikolay Mihaylov (Bul) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 4:39:51
130 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr 4:40:02
131 Alan Marangoni (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 4:42:53
132 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 4:43:57
133 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida 4:45:05
134 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha 4:45:12
135 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo 4:45:35
136 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) TrekRacing 4:50:00
137 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 4:51:46
138 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) TrekRacing 4:52:10
139 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin 4:53:36
140 Caleb Fairly (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 4:56:05
141 Serghei Tvetcov (Rom) Androni Giocattoli 4:56:18
142 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team 4:57:41
143 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Sky 5:00:33
144 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) CCC Sprandi Polkowice 5:01:58
145 Rick Flens (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 5:04:15
146 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) TrekRacing 5:04:56
147 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr 5:05:06
148 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 5:05:26
149 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 5:08:26
150 Fabio Silvestre (Por) TrekRacing 5:10:25
151 Calvin Watson (Aus) TrekRacing 5:12:37
152 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini 5:13:43
153 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 5:17:37
154 Alessandro Malaguti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 5:21:33
155 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 5:23:03
156 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 5:25:54
157 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 5:26:33
158 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 5:26:40
159 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 5:28:07
160 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Southeast Pro Cycling 5:29:11
161 Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin 5:33:15
162 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) IAM Cycling 5:42:34
163 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling 5:42:48
164 Marco Coledan (Ita) TrekRacing 5:49:08