Giro d’Italia 2015 – Stage 20 [FULL STAGE]

May 30, 2015

Giro d’Italia 2015 – Stage 20 – Saint-Vincent – Sestriere – 199 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.

A spectacular final day’s mountain racing in the 2015 Giro d’Italia saw overall leader Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) retain the maglia rosa despite getting dropped by both his closest rivals as Fabio Aru (Astana) raced to his second consecutive stage victory.

Contador saw his closest rivals Aru and Mikel Landa (Astana) go clear on the penultimate ascent, the Colle delle Finestre, and lost well over two minutes by the finale. Following Friday’s victory in Cervinia, Aru soloed away, 1.5 kilometres from the line to beat his closest pursuer Rigoberto Uran (Etixx-Quick Step). Aru simultaneously consolidated his second place overall, whilst Landa, having briefly ripped the Giro d’Italia apart on the Colle delle Finestre, finally settled for completing the podium in third.

Barring absolute disaster on Sunday, though, it was the rider who finished sixth at 2-25 on Aru, Contador, who arguably had most to celebrate. In terms of pure racing, stage 20’s Alpine trek was Contador’s hardest day on the bike in the entire 2015 Giro d’Italia – and yet his overall lead remained in place.

As a result, Contador is now just 24 hours away from winning what the record books state is his seventh Grand Tour victory – although, given two additional titles were lost because of his positive clenbuterol test, the 32-year-old still considers the 2015 Giro d’Italia to be his ninth.

How it happened

Five kilometres from the summit of the Colle delle Finestre, the situation seemed to be under control for Contador, with rivals Astana tapping out a steady, but unthreatening, pace behind lone breakaway Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha). But on an ascent with a relentless nine to 10 per cent slope, first through dense woodland and then on seven kilometres of semi-surfaced dirt tracks, Contador’s grip on the Giro d’Italia came much closer than he would have liked to meltdown.

When Landa launched a blistering attack on the muddy roads leading to the Giro d’Italia’s highest mountain pass, the Madrileño, obviously on an off-day, was unexpectedly unable to chase the Astana rider down. Suddenly after three weeks where his superiority has – dislocated shoulder and crashes notwithstanding – all but been a given, with no Tinkoff-Saxo team-mates to hand to give Contador some much needed support, what could have been a manageable moment lurched painfully near to a crisis.

For the next two kilometres, as Landa powered away alone in search of Zakarin, Contador remained following wheels in the group of half a dozen riders behind, led by Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Ryder Hesjedal (Cannondale-Garmin). Another move by Aru – behind his own team-mate – left Contador struggling again, behind the group of chasers.

For five kilometres the gap between Landa and Contador yawned ever wider, peaking at 1:30 by the summit of the Finestre as the Spaniard caught the Russian race leader. Meanwhile Aru, too, was 45 seconds ahead of Contador. It was not a disastrous gap, given Aru was 4:37 back and Landa at 5:15 – and Contador evidently had not cracked completely. But any further time loss and there would have been a real danger that the Giro d’Italia could have slipped out of the Tinkoff-Saxo leader’s fingers at the last possible moment.

Fortunately for Contador, a fast, well-surfaced descent of the Finestre did not see any further time gaps open, but with 16 kilometres of false flat then a steady rise to Sestriere left to tackle, and no team support in sight, any weakness in Contador would have been badly exposed.

Instead, on the comparatively much easier slopes the Spaniard gathered up his strength for one last major effort and – impressively – reduced the gap on Landa and Zakarin to just 50 seconds at one point. Though he had one Astana rider, Tanel Kangert, sitting on his back wheel by this point , the tide began to turn back in Contador’s favour even further when the absence of a sustained collaboration between Zakarin and Landa saw their joint move begin to fizzle out.

With the Russian and the Spaniard joined by Aru, Hesjedal, Kruijswijk and Uran, the Astana attack gained fresh impetus. But if Landa had any dreams of upsetting the overall classification at the last possible moment, they were quickly quashed as he found himself working for Aru on the front of the string of six riders.

Two kilometres from the finish Contador began to fade again but it was clear that no attacks would now dismantle the top three places overall. Instead it fell to Aru to break away, dropping first Hesjedal – finally second again on a stage, although his hugely impressive mountain riding in the last week means the Canadian has moved into the top five overall – and then Urán. A few moments later, a second stage for the young Italian was in the bag.

With four mountain top stage wins this week – two for Aru, two for Landa and a fifth thanks to Paolo Tiralongo in the first – as well as second and third overall as well as the best young rider’s jersey, Astana’s crushing hold on the Giro d’Italia’s climbs has netted the Kazakh team rich rewards. Aru’s re-emergence, though, and the seemingly unstoppable rise of Landa, came too late for either to make more than dents in Contador’s armour.

With the glorious benefit of hindsight, Contador losing time to Aru on Friday, not to mention missing the leader’s press conference at the finish will be taken by some as a sign of impending weakness. But the Spaniard explained at the finish that in fact his near-crisis came because he was paying the price for the daily wear and tear of what has been nearly three weeks of leading the Giro d’Italia.

“I’ve paid for the efforts of racing hard each day,” Contador, who took the overall lead as early as stage five and has worn the maglia rosa ever since barring one day, said. “But I knew that I had a good margin on Aru already. It was all about not panicking and concentrating on keeping things under control.”

Barring total disaster on Sunday’s flat stage from Turin to Milan, at the end of what has been a tumultuous race finally looms into sight, Contador’s first part of his bid Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double is therefore, all but in the bag. And his next target, wearing the maillot jaune in Paris, is already on his mind. As he said at the finish, “I will have a good supper tonight, but the build-up for the Tour starts here.”

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

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