Giro d’Italia 2016 – Stage 20 [FULL STAGE]

May 28, 2016
Giro d’Italia 2016 – Stage 20 [Mountain stage] – Guillestre (France) – Sant’Anna di Vinadio – 134 km

The 2016 Giro d’Italia will be 99th running of the Giro d’Italia, one of cycling’s Grand Tour races. The Giro will start in Apeldoorn on 6 May with an 9.8 km (6 mi) individual time trial, and continue with two other stages in the Netherlands, both between Nijmegen and Arnhem. Then, after a rest day, there will be 18 further stages to reach the finish on 29 May. These stages are principally in Italy, although two stages take place partly in France.

Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) pulled off what seemed impossible just a few days ago and all but won the Giro d’Italia with a devastating performance on the final mountain stage.

The Italian started stage 20 to Sant’Anna di Vinadio 44 seconds down on maglia rosa Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge) but made up the deficit on the penultimate climb with a long-range attack after cracking all his major rivals, including the Colombian.

Rein Taaramae (Team Katusha) won the stage after surviving from the day’s early break, the Estonian somewhat making up for the fact that his team leader Ilnur Zakarin crashed out 24 hours previously.

The day, and ultimately the maglia rosa, belongs to Nibali, who came into the final mountain stages almost five minutes in arrears. He cut that to under a minute after winning stage 19 but on the penultimate stage before Turin’s flat encounter, he still had to crack Chaves, who had inherited pink after Steven Kruijswijk’s (Team LottoNl-Jumbo) untimely stage 19 crash.

And Nibali pulled it off, first having his team set a near-relentless pace on the Colle della Lombarda, before attacking himself with two brutal accelerations. The first could only be matched by Chaves and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) but the second, while seated and with Chaves on his wheel, broke the Colombian’s brave resistance.

With constant time checks coming through the radio and with Tanel Kangert – who had been called back from the early break – for company Nibali slowly but surely opened a significant gap.

Chaves held on for as long as he could, and even had support from countryman Rigoberto Uran (Cannondale) but when the Orica rider failed to even follow that wheel, the writing was on the wall. A second group containing Rafa Majka and Bob Jungels caught Chaves just before the summit, giving a sliver of hope that Nibali could be curtailed on the descent but it wasn’t to be.

Spurred on by the tifosi as the race re-entered Italy, Nibali provided another memorable display. He crossed the line in sixth but Chaves was still losing ground and eventually came in nearly a minute and a half down and slipped to second, 52 seconds off Nibali’s new race lead.

Valverde, who has never quite been able to stamp any authority on this year’s Giro d’Italia at least demonstrated his skills in stage race management and limited his losses to Nibali. He briefly rode with Chaves and Uran before moving clear with the Cannondale rider before the summit of the Colle della Lombarda. The pair came in just 13 seconds adrift of Nibali – a fact that will tear at Orica’s hearts had their climber been able to only just hold them on the climb.

Steven Kruijswijk – who just two days ago looked almost unbreakable in the leader’s jersey – was unable to respond to Nibail’s surges. He looked comfortable when Tinkoff and then Astana, courtesy of Jakob Fuglsang and Michele Scarponi, set a furious tempo, but was found wanting when his rivals played out for the podium places.

He eventually dropped another place, to fourth, with Valverde moving up and onto the final podium position.

Just two days ago Nibali considered retiring from the race. With a day to go he is on course to win his second Giro, and his fourth Grand Tour.

Taaramae’s stage glory

The headlines will understandably be Nibali’s but Rein Taaramae produced a storming performance to provide consolation for Katusha after Zakarin’s exit and to earn the biggest win of his own career.

The Estonian wasn’t actually part of the initial breakaway, which formed as the road started climbing from KM0 up the first-category ascent of the Col de Vars. Instead, he counter attacked and bridged over with Gazprom’s Aleksey Rybalkin on the upper reaches of the climb.

Stefan Denifl (IAM) took maximum KOM points at the top, shortly followed by Mikel Nieve (Team Sky), who had gained considerable ground in the mountains classification after his second place on stage 19. With the breakaway’s lead going out all the team, Damiano Cunego (Nippo Vini Fantini), struck in the peloton, saw his KOM lead under real threat.

After a descent, the break hit the first-category Col de la Bonette, and Nieve immediately took off. The Spaniard made his way up the monster 20-kilometre climb with poise and crested first to make sure he will be the winner of the mountains classification of this Giro.

Things split up behind Nieve but it came back together at the head of the race – despite some being dropped for good – on the ensuing 40km descent.

The road then pitched up once more for the first-cat Colle della Lombarda and there was a clear group of eight out front: Tanel Kangert (Astana), Nieve, Darwin Atapuma (BMC), Joe Dombrowski (Cannondale), Taaramae, Alexander Foliforov (Gazprom), Giovanni Visconti (Movistar), and Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-QuickStep).

The attacks soon came and Dombrowksi, Atapuma and Visconti looked particularly strong and forged on together. Taaramae was distanced but over time came back with Kangert. It wasn’t long before he made his stage-winning move just over 3km from the summit of the Lombarda. While other attacks had been short-lived and quickly countered, the Katusha rider produced a searing extended acceleration that quickly produced a considerable gap.

There was a tussle between Atapuma, Dombrowski and Visconti behind, with the Colombian Atapuma emerging as the strongest, but Taaramae could not be pegged back on the descent of the Lombarda. He lost ground on the steep, short final climb to the line but had done enough to hold on and celebrate with a salute dedicated to Zakarin.

The second race on the road

As the breakaway stretched out their lead on the first and second climbs of the day, it became apparent that the GC battle would be a self-contained one – with stage honours not up for grabs.

After such drama yesterday, the first two thirds of stage 20 were relatively subdued. Alejandro Valverde, fourth overall at the start of the day, got himself in the break halfway up the Col de Vars but Astana were having none of it.

Halfway up the brutally long Cole de la Bonette it was Movistar who took the initiative, putting men on the front and upping the pace to being the thinking-out process. Things began to settle down but then Majka’s Tinkoff teammates took it up near the top.

The pace was high on the descent but all the GC men arrived at the foot of the pivotal Lombarda pass together and with teammates. Chaves’ teammate Amets Txurruka led for much of the climb keeping a comfortable pace but Astana weren’t going to put up with it for too long.

Jakob Fuglsang took it up about halfway up and it was his effort on the front that really ignited the GC race for the first time as riders in that group started to lose contact. It wasn’t long before he peeled off and handed over to Michele Scarponi – surely the standout domestique of this Giro – and the Italian really piled on the pressure, forming an elite group of eight: Scarponi, Majka, Kruijswijk, Valverde, Chaves, Nibali, Jungels.

Scarponi did a mammoth turn before getting signal from his leader 5km from the summit. On a hairpin Nibali surged and only Valverde and Chaves could follow.

Nibali drove it hard and soon dropped the pair, with Chaves looking in real trouble as he toiled to keep the wheel of Valverde. While Nibali linked up with former breakaway man Kangert, Chaves found an ally in compatriot Uran, who came up to him and led him up. The maglia rosa, however, could not follow for long, and it soon transpired that his Giro was under serious threat.

Nibali, needing 45 seconds, crested with 55 and made his way down the gnarly descent with characteristic guts and poise. Just a short, steep climb separated him from the line and though he seemed to slow up in the final couple of kilometres, Chaves was finding himself in more and more difficulty, and one of the most remarkable comebacks this sport has seen for some time – one of the cruelest from Chaves’ point of view – was complete.

Results :

1 Rein Taaramae (Est) Team Katusha 4:22:43
2 Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 0:00:52
3 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:17
4 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 0:04:12
5 Alexander Foliforov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:04:36
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:06:44
7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:06:57
8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling
9 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:07:47
10 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0:08:06
11 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx – Quick-Step
12 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:08:13
13 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
14 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 0:08:20
15 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
16 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 0:08:51
17 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:10:29
18 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale Pro Cycling
19 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data
20 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
21 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:11:15
22 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 0:11:55
23 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 0:12:09
24 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal
25 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:13:46
26 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:14:58
27 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:15:35
28 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky
29 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha
30 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha
31 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
32 Stefan Denifl (Aut) IAM Cycling 0:16:02
33 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:17:19
34 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data
35 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:17:42
36 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Orica-GreenEdge 0:18:28
37 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:18:51
38 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida
39 Valerio Conti (Ita) Lampre – Merida
40 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:19:23
41 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:20:17
42 Aleksey Rybalkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
43 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) IAM Cycling
44 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0:22:09
45 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:22:54
46 Marcel Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:24:05
47 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff Team 0:24:10
48 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-GreenEdge 0:24:16
49 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
50 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:24:54
51 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:30:04
52 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
53 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
54 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky
55 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo
56 Carlos Verona (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step
57 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
58 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ
59 Evgeny Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Team
60 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-GreenEdge 0:30:25
61 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:30:40
62 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:30:48
63 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:34:31
64 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
65 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Team
66 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky
67 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:34:49
68 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:35:05
69 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre – Merida
70 Daniel Martínez (Col) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
71 Alexander Kolobnev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
72 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
73 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin
74 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal
75 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team
76 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:35:09
77 José Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 0:39:51
78 Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0:44:17
79 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
80 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 0:45:06
81 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team
82 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
83 Mickael Delage (Fra) FDJ
84 Pim Ligthart (Ned) Lotto Soudal
85 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal
86 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ
87 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
88 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal
89 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Astana Pro Team
90 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
91 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha
92 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
93 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data
94 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale Pro Cycling
95 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
96 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) Dimension Data
97 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale
98 Manuel Senni (Ita) BMC Racing Team
99 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team
100 Cristian Rodriguez (Spa) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
101 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Tinkoff Team
102 Stefan Kueng (Swi) BMC Racing Team
103 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team
104 Julen Amezqueta (Spa) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
105 Matteo Busato (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
106 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step
107 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
108 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Tinkoff Team
109 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF
110 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF
111 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Team
112 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF
113 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) FDJ
114 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
115 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Tinkoff Team
116 Mirco Maestri (Ita) Bardiani CSF
117 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
118 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
119 Twan Castelijns (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
120 Bram Tankink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
121 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal
122 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
123 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky
124 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Lampre – Merida
125 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling
126 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida
127 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
128 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step
129 Andrei Solomennikov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
130 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Cannondale Pro Cycling
131 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) FDJ
132 Artem Ovechkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
133 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
134 Alexander Serov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
135 Gianfranco Zilioli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
136 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step
137 Grega Bole (Slo) Nippo – Vini Fantini
138 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky
139 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ
140 Genki Yamamoto (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
141 Svein Tuft (Can) Orica-GreenEdge
142 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
143 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha
144 Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin
145 Jack Bobridge (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
146 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida
147 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling
148 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
149 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha
150 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
151 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida
152 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF
153 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF
154 Ivan Savitskiy (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
155 Songezo Jim (RSA) Dimension Data 0:45:42
156 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:47:50
157 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini

General classification after Stage 20:
1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 82:44:31
2 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:52
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:17
4 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:01:50
5 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0:04:37
6 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:08:31
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:11:47
8 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:13:21
9 Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 0:14:09
10 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Dimension Data 0:16:20
11 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:24:33
12 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:24:59
13 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:31:38
14 Andre Cardoso (Por) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:34:12
15 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:34:34
16 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:38:09
17 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Sky
18 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:41:00
19 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:43:49
20 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:51:49
21 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre – Merida 0:56:59
22 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 0:57:08
23 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team 0:59:30
24 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 1:04:44
25 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Team Sky 1:05:22
26 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Giant-Alpecin 1:08:05
27 Valerio Conti (Ita) Lampre – Merida 1:18:38
28 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 1:22:43
29 Rein Taaramae (Est) Team Katusha 1:23:22
30 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 1:24:38
31 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 1:27:19
32 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Team Katusha 1:28:35
33 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 1:32:53
34 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 1:32:56
35 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Tinkoff Team 1:50:37
36 Ivan Rovny (Rus) Tinkoff Team 1:51:10
37 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Dimension Data 1:54:34
38 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 1:56:08
39 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek-Segafredo 1:57:12
40 Marcel Wyss (Swi) IAM Cycling 2:00:13
41 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 2:01:27
42 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 2:02:23
43 Carlos Verona (Spa) Etixx – Quick-Step 2:05:57
44 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 2:06:37
45 Alexander Foliforov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
46 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Tinkoff Team 2:11:15
47 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2:13:24
48 Nathan Brown (USA) Cannondale Pro Cycling 2:15:18
49 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 2:17:44
50 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:21:03
51 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 2:21:13
52 Stefan Denifl (Aut) IAM Cycling 2:21:34
53 Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 2:25:44
54 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:32:28
55 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Orica-GreenEdge 2:39:42
56 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Orica-GreenEdge 2:40:39
57 Matteo Busato (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 2:43:03
58 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 2:43:25
59 Jesus Hernandez (Spa) Tinkoff Team 2:44:44
60 Stefan Kueng (Swi) BMC Racing Team 2:52:25
61 Bram Tankink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 2:55:43
62 José Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 3:03:04
63 Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre – Merida 3:03:47
64 Laurent Didier (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 3:07:17
65 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 3:08:06
66 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 3:09:06
67 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale Pro Cycling 3:13:04
68 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 3:13:19
69 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 3:18:34
70 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx – Quick-Step 3:19:25
71 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 3:19:42
72 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 3:20:38
73 Alexander Kolobnev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 3:20:39
74 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Etixx – Quick-Step 3:21:00
75 Evgeny Petrov (Rus) Tinkoff Team 3:21:36
76 Manuel Senni (Ita) BMC Racing Team 3:22:42
77 Simone Petilli (Ita) Lampre – Merida 3:23:08
78 Chad Haga (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:25:49
79 Johann Van Zyl (RSA) Dimension Data 3:28:27
80 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Movistar Team 3:28:47
81 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 3:29:23
82 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3:29:48
83 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) IAM Cycling 3:30:44
84 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre – Merida 3:31:30
85 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) BMC Racing Team 3:31:50
86 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 3:33:43
87 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 3:34:14
88 Jay McCarthy (Aus) Tinkoff Team 3:35:37
89 Daniel Martínez (Col) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 3:36:41
90 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Team 3:38:02
91 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Soudal 3:39:13
92 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) FDJ 3:40:01
93 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:42:29
94 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data 3:44:49
95 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 3:44:56
96 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 3:48:07
97 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:48:24
98 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre – Merida 3:48:40
99 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Lampre – Merida 3:49:14
100 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 3:49:24
101 Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 3:50:10
102 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 3:51:01
103 Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 3:52:57
104 Cristian Rodriguez (Spa) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 3:53:15
105 Ivan Savitskiy (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 3:54:08
106 Eugenio Alafaci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 3:56:18
107 Aleksey Rybalkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 3:58:02
108 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Tinkoff Team 3:58:47
109 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:58:53
110 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Ita) Bardiani CSF 3:59:07
111 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 4:03:51
112 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 4:06:35
113 Julen Amezqueta (Spa) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 4:07:22
114 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 4:07:36
115 Twan Castelijns (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 4:08:24
116 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 4:08:54
117 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 4:10:44
118 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team 4:11:33
119 Gianfranco Zilioli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 4:12:52
120 Mirco Maestri (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4:14:10
121 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 4:16:03
122 Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 4:16:19
123 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Cannondale Pro Cycling 4:16:34
124 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha 4:18:19
125 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 4:18:59
126 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-GreenEdge 4:19:37
127 Pim Ligthart (Ned) Lotto Soudal 4:19:46
128 Andrei Solomennikov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 4:20:08
129 Alexander Serov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 4:21:37
130 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 4:22:05
131 Eugert Zhupa (Alb) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 4:23:15
132 Paolo Simion (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4:23:26
133 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre – Merida 4:28:08
134 Olivier Le Gac (Fra) FDJ 4:29:26
135 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) FDJ 4:31:38
136 Grega Bole (Slo) Nippo – Vini Fantini 4:32:04
137 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ 4:33:09
138 Roger Kluge (Ger) IAM Cycling 4:33:28
139 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx – Quick-Step 4:35:16
140 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4:35:56
141 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team 4:36:19
142 Simone Andreetta (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4:36:25
143 Artem Ovechkin (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 4:36:45
144 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 4:38:30
145 Songezo Jim (RSA) Dimension Data 4:40:38
146 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Team Katusha 4:41:38
147 Svein Tuft (Can) Orica-GreenEdge 4:43:04
148 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4:43:48
149 Mickael Delage (Fra) FDJ 4:45:40
150 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Dimension Data 4:47:03
151 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 4:47:59
152 Genki Yamamoto (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 4:49:05
153 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ 4:49:59
154 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini 4:53:53
155 Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin 5:03:42
156 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 5:08:00
157 Jack Bobridge (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 5:08:51