Giro d’Italia 2019 – Stage 13 [FULL STAGE]

May 24, 2019

Giro d’Italia 2019 – Stage 13 – Pinerolo – Ceresole Reale (Lago Serrù) : 196 km

The 2019 Giro d’Italia begins on Saturday, May 11, and this Essential Guide kicks off Cyclingnews’ 10-day countdown of special features in preparation for the first Grand Tour of the season. Between now and the opening time trial in Bologna, we’ll have special daily content, including major rider interviews, vital race information and retro features that capture the unique feeling and emotions of the Corsa Rosa. This 102nd edition of the Corsa Rosa rolls out of Bologna on Saturday, May 11, with an evening time trial up to the Basilica della Madonna di San Luca and ends three weeks later on Sunday, June 2, with a 17km time trial into the Roman amphitheatre in the centre of Verona. In between are 21 stages that head south via Tuscany, Lazio, Abruzzo and Puglia and then north back via San Marino for a key time trial and then to Piemonte, climbing first the Alps to the east and then the Passo Gavia and the Passo del Mortirolo before a terrible final week in the Dolomites. The 3,578km of racing include 59.8km of individual time trialling, which is balanced with 40 categorised climbs and six mountain-top finishes.

Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha Alpecin) took a memorable win on stage 13 of the Giro d’Italia on a day that saw the overall contenders go toe-to-toe on the first summit finish of this year’s race.

Zakarin survived from the early break having dropped his companions one by one on the Colle del Nivolet but the final climb was peppered by a number of skirmishes with Vincenzo Nibali taking on Primoz Roglic in the battle for the maglia rosa; Mikel Landa launching a brave attack with over 15km to go; and Simon Yates once again losing time and with it any hope of winning the overall.

When the dust settled at the end of the stage, Zakarin claimed his first Grand Tour stage win in almost three years, and with it raised his hopes of a title challenge.

Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton-Scott) finished second on the stage – a mere consolation for his squad after Yates’ capitulation – while Landa gained time on his rivals for the second day in a row courtesy of his third place finish.

The finish line saw the rest of the GC contenders crawl over the line one-by-one with Rafal Majka and Richard Carapaz both gaining time. Roglic and Nibali traded attacks on the climb but finished together, 2:57 behind Zakarin.

Overnight leader Jan Polanc (UAE Team Emirates) struggled on each of the last two ascents but showed resolve to hold onto his maglia rosa for one more day. Yates eventually came over the line five minutes down on Zakarin.

Polanc now leads from Roglic at 2:25 with Zakarin catapulting himself up to third at 2:36. Although Bauke Mollema was dropped by Zakarin and Nieve inside the closing kilometres his efforts, and those of his teammates, particularly Giulio Ciccone and Gianluca Brambilla, see the Dutchman rise to fourth.

Nibali, despite how comfortable he looked on the climb at times, has slipped to fifth. There was also heartache for Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) who animated the stage on both of the last two climbs but then suffered a mechanical just as the GC favourites came to the fore.

“I’m very happy with this victory. My two attacks weren’t planned at all. I came to the Giro d’Italia to make the top 5 and I hope it’s still possible,” a clearly ecstatic Zakarin said at the finish.

A race of positioning

This was it. The first proper day in the mountains and the highly anticipated venture into the Alps. The beginning of the 2019 Giro d’Italia, some called it. Thankfully the stage lived up to its billing.

On the Colle del Lys the most significant and dangerous break of the entire race escaped after a fluster of attacks. The group contained GC contenders in Mollema and Zakarin but also a cluster of Trek teammates who would drive the assault for close to five hours, and a selection of mountain domestiques who would come into play as the race opened up.

Andre Amador, Hector Carrettero and Jose Joaquin Rojas made the move for Movistar. Tony Gallopin and Alexis Vuillermoz flew the flag for AG2R La Mondiale, while Mattia Cattaneo and Fausto Masnada represented Androni-Giocattoli with their dynamism and attacking verve.

Dario Cataldo, Ion Izagirre and Andrey Zeits (Astana) hung back for a later assault, while Nibali posted his brother Antonio and Domenico Pozzovivo in the move.

Davide Formolo (Bora-Hansgrohe), Victor De La Parte (CCC Team), Joe Dombrowski (EF Education First), Krists Neilands and Ruben Plaza (Israel Cycling Academy), Chris Juul-Jensen and Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton-Scott), Eddie Dunbar and Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Ineos), Antwan Tolhoek (Jumbo-Visma), Gianluca Brambilla, Giulio Ciccone and Nicola Conci (Trek-Segafredo) made the split as well.

Back in the bunch, Roglic ordered his team to the front, and although lacking firepower in the mountains the men in yellow and black held the break at 2:37 with 130km to go. The gap peaked at just over three minutes, while Geoghegan Hart said goodbye to the race after crashing out.

At the foot of the Pian del Lupo the gap held at two minutes, with Mollema’s men leading the break and taking on Jumbo Visma’s chase from behind.

It wasn’t long, however, before Astana lifted the pace. Lopez, never afraid to attack from distance, opened up the afterburners with his teammates 66km from the finish, with a move that shattered Roglic’s defenses and dismantled the optimism surrounding Esteban’s Chaves’ state of form. Polanc was another victim, while Bob Jungels’ Giro went from bad to worse.

There was a brief respite for those dropped when the race descended into the valley before the final climb, but Astana upped the pace once more with 25km to go and the break within touching distance.

The Giro comes alive

The Colle del Nivolet, never used in the race before, loomed large, and on the early sections Masnada, Izagirre, Ciccone, Dombrowski, and Carratero slipped away. Their hopes, however, were short-lived as the break swelled to a dozen riders, with 17 kilometres remaining. Trek once more regained control and their efforts saw the lead extend to over two minutes as the pace in the maglia rosa group momentarily slowed.

Jungels missed Landa’s attack, having slipped back a kilometer before the Spaniard’s acceleration with 16km to go and within a few minutes the Movistar rider had reached Amador and Carrettero. The Movistar three-man time trial – in the mountains of the Giro no less – was too much for Yates and even Roglic for the briefest of moments as Pozzovivo mounted a chase for his leader, Nibali.

Within a couple of switchback Roglic, Nibali, Majka, Lopez Carapaz and the impressive Sivakov had become the core chase group, but with 12km to go Lopez was forced to change bikes.

Further up the climb, and the break had been reduced to Ciccone, Nieve, Mollema, and Zakarin as they rode into the final 10 kilometres and Landa looked to put time into Roglic and company.

Three kilometres later and Landa was on his own, having shed Amador and although he had little chance of taking the stage he steadily gained time on those behind. When Zakarin attacked with 5km to go Mollema was the first to relent, and although Nieve regained contact, the Russian’s second attack with 1.9km to go was enough to take the stage.

Nibali’s attacks with 4km to go rocked his rivals briefly but when Majka attacked next the Italian concentrated on marking Roglic for the remainder of the climb.

At the finish, it was clear to differentiate between the winners and the losers. Zakarin’s race has altogether changed, while Landa’s hope of a podium are significantly better than they were 48 hours ago. There was relief for Polanc, despair for Yates, while the battle between Nibali and Roglic gently simmers. It’s taken almost a fortnight but we now have a race on our hands.

Results :
1 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 5:34:40
2 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:35
3 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:20
4 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 0:01:38
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:45
6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:07
7 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:02:57
8 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
9 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Ineos 0:03:34
10 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:50
11 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:04:19
12 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Education First 0:04:23
13 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First 0:04:25
14 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:04:37
15 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:04:39
16 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:54
17 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:05:00
18 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:06:40
19 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:07:59
20 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:09:30
21 Hugh John Carthy (GBr) EF Education First 0:10:16
22 Ivan Sosa (Col) Team Ineos 0:10:29
23 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:10:38
24 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:11:20
25 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:12:24
26 Victor De La Parte (Spa) CCC Team 0:12:42
27 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:12:49
28 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:12:52
29 Bob Jungels (Lux) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:13:02
30 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:14:48
31 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:16:20
32 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Ineos 0:16:50
33 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:17:08
34 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
35 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos 0:17:10
36 Jan Hirt (Cze) Astana Pro Team
37 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:17:41
38 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:19:10
39 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:19:34
40 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:19:59
41 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:20:15
42 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:21:11
43 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
44 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 0:21:14
45 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott
46 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Mitchelton-Scott 0:21:17
47 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:21:27
48 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:21:55
49 Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Team 0:22:04
50 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Team Sunweb 0:22:16
51 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:23:15
52 Paul Martens (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:24:38
53 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
54 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
55 Jay Mc Carthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe
56 Larry Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale
57 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
58 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana Pro Team
59 Miguel Eduardo Florez Lopez (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:25:26
60 Brent Bookwalter (USA) Mitchelton-Scott 0:25:34
61 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eri) Dimension Data 0:26:14
62 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:27:21
63 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
64 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
65 Luca Covili (Ita) Bardiani CSF
66 Nathan Brown (USA) EF Education First 0:28:48
67 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:30:13
68 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:30:28
69 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
70 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
71 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:30:33
72 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos 0:30:36
73 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
74 Jonnathan Narvaez (Ecu) Team Ineos 0:30:38
75 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin
76 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
77 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:30:51
78 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
79 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:30:55
80 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
81 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:31:12
DNS James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep
DNS Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
DNS Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Dimension Data
DNF Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ
DNF Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data
DNF Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Ineos
DNF Louis Vervaeke (Bel) Team Sunweb

General Classification after Stage 13 :
1 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 54:28:59
2 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:02:25
3 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:56
4 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:06
5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:04:09
6 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 0:04:22
7 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:28
8 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05:08
9 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Ineos 0:07:13
10 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:07:48
11 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Education First 0:07:52
12 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:08:14
13 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:08:44
14 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott 0:08:52
15 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:11:24
16 Hugh John Carthy (GBr) EF Education First 0:13:10
17 Joe Dombrowski (USA) EF Education First 0:15:14
18 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 0:15:43
19 Tony Gallopin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:16:03
20 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:17:20
21 Bob Jungels (Lux) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:17:22
22 Victor De La Parte (Spa) CCC Team 0:18:14
23 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:18:51
24 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:19:48
25 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:19:57
26 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:20:07
27 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:22:19
28 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos 0:22:42
29 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data 0:23:21
30 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott 0:25:12
31 Amaro Antunes (Por) CCC Team 0:25:21
32 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:25:29
33 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:28:01
34 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:28:32
35 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:28:59
36 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:29:02
37 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Team Sunweb 0:29:36
38 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:29:53
39 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:30:41
40 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:30:58
41 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:32:03
42 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:33:00
43 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Ineos 0:34:31
44 Ivan Sosa (Col) Team Ineos 0:35:02
45 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:36:09
46 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Dimension Data 0:36:34
47 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:37:10
48 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:38:36
49 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:42:28
50 Jan Hirt (Cze) Astana Pro Team 0:43:06
51 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:43:34
52 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:44:04
53 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:45:02
54 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:45:15
55 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:45:22
56 Larry Warbasse (USA) AG2R La Mondiale 0:45:23
57 Jay Mc Carthy (Aus) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:45:51
58 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:45:53
59 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Israel Cycling Academy 0:46:15
60 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:47:25
61 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:53:38
62 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Mitchelton-Scott 0:53:46
63 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:54:44
64 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:55:33
65 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:56:36
66 Paul Martens (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:57:22
67 Manuel Senni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0:57:23
68 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:58:10
69 Luca Covili (Ita) Bardiani CSF 1:00:10
70 Brent Bookwalter (USA) Mitchelton-Scott 1:00:38
71 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 1:00:41
72 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data 1:00:53
73 Lukasz Owsian (Pol) CCC Team 1:01:03
74 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 1:01:29
75 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 1:02:40
76 Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale 1:02:41
77 Jonnathan Narvaez (Ecu) Team Ineos 1:02:43
78 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 1:02:52
79 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eri) Dimension Data 1:04:47
80 Danilo Wyss (Swi) Dimension Data 1:05:13
81 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1:06:03
82 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team
83 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin 1:07:53
84 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Katusha-Alpecin 1:08:12
85 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos 1:10:12
86 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:10:25
87 Andrea Garosio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 1:10:46
88 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 1:11:12
89 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:11:39
90 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:11:50
91 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Bardiani CSF 1:12:02
92 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:12:10
93 Nathan Brown (USA) EF Education First 1:14:00
94 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Ineos 1:14:31
95 Miguel Eduardo Florez Lopez (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 1:15:32
96 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 1:17:04
97 Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Education First 1:19:49
98 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) CCC Team 1:21:12
99 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:21:20
100 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 1:23:25
101 Krists Neilands (Lat) Israel Cycling Academy 1:23:47
102 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 1:29:47
103 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:30:25
104 Grega Bole (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 1:36:28
105 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:39:54
106 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 1:40:07
107 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 1:47:37
108 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:51:04
109 Thomas Leezer (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:55:56
110 Scott Davies (GBr) Dimension Data 2:06:25
111 Dmitrii Strakhov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 2:10:41