Giro d’Italia 2020 – Stage 17 [FULL STAGE]

October 21, 2020

Giro d’Italia 2020 – Stage 17 – Bassano del Grappa – Madonna di Campiglio : 203 km

The Giro d’Italia is traditionally the first Grand Tour of the season, bringing in the summer of stage racing after the Classics, as the snow melts in the mountains and the poppies flower along the Italian roadside. This year, after the COVID-19 lockdown and the massively rescheduled season, the Giro d’Italia comes after the Tour de France and overlaps with the Ardennes and cobbled Classics and even the Vuelta a España. Any snow will be fresh like the autumnal temperatures, but the racing should again be spectacular with Italy offering a different but still unique and beautiful backdrop for the race. The loss of the Hungarian Grande Partenza means the 103rd edition of the Corsa Rosa will be an all-Italian race, with only a brief visit to France during stage 20 to climb the Col d’Izoard. The racing starts in Palermo on Saturday October 3 with a 15.1km time trial from the hill-top village of Monreale and finishes in Milan on Sunday October 25 with a 15.7km time trial to the spectacular Duomo. Another time trial – 34.1km in the Prosecco vineyards above Conegliano – makes the 2020 race route good for time trialists, but over 40,000 metres of climbing across 50 classified climbs and five summit finishes gives the climbers ample opportunity to gain enough time before the decisive stage to Milan.

One day after being denied in San Daniele del Friuli, NTT’s Ben O’Connor finally claimed his first Grand Tour victory on stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia as the bright sun began to set atop the Madonna di Campiglio.

The Australian, part of a large day-long breakaway, attacked the remains of the move with eight kilometres to climb to the summit and held off a furtive chase by Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain McLaren), who tried but failed to close down what started as a 22-second gap but expanded to 31 at the line.

“Yesterday was so close and to pull it off today in the mountains that I dream of, it maybe hasn’t sunk in yet but when I crossed the line I was full gas crying so it means a lot,” O’Connor said.

Ilnur Zakarin (CCC Team) and Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), unable to respond to O’Connor’s attack on the steepest section, battled for the final stage podium spot, with De Gendt coming out on top as the maglia rosa group was still on the lower slopes of the 12.5km climb.

When he attacked, O’Connor said, “I could see everyone was really struggling at the time, there was no real pace between the guys, everyone was looking at each other. I felt good and thought, why not, if someone joins me then we would swap and I would try again. The aim was just to win today and I can’t believe I’ve done it.”

Even having spent two long days off the front of the Giro d’Italia, O’Connor still had enough left in the tank to seal the deal and win NTT’s first Giro stage. It might have ended quite differently had the breakaway been brought back as O’Connor and teammates Louis Meintjes and Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier went into the move both as foils for team leader Domenico Pozzovivo and to take a chance for the stage win.

“Yesterday it wasn’t the plan to be in the breakaway, but when there’s 30 guys you have to be there,” O’Connor said. “Today the plan was to be in the break and if a team decides to come and chase us, we’re up front for Domenico and we can play our cards. It’s always a win-win situation. For the three of us to be up there it really helped. We could share the load a little bit. In the end it was a perfect day.”

With snow and COVID-19 restrictions likely rewriting the upcoming mountain stages, those hoping to unseat João Almeida (Deceuninck-Quickstep) missed their chance on the day, with the Portuguese rider marking the few moves that went on the climb and coming across in the group of GC favourites, 5:11 behind O’Connor.

Almeida remains in the lead with a 17-second advantage on Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) with Kelderman’s teammate Jai Hindley third at 2:58, a single second ahead of Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers).

“Today was a hard day, there were long, hard long climbs. Yet again the team was perfect, they did a good job,” a relieved Almeida said. “I’ve still got the maglia rosa and its thanks to them.

“I was expecting Kelderman to attack and he tried but I felt good and tomorrow is another day. I feel that everyone is getting stronger even if we’ve still got the Stelvio to climb. I hope not to struggle and ride well. I want to win the Giro. We’ll see. Tomorrow will be hard, harder than today.”

Thanks to his lead in the breakaway, Pernsteiner moved up to 11th overall 5:07 behind Almeida.

How it unfolded

The Giro d’Italia headed into its first foray into the high mountains in the final week and the riders were lucky to find clear skies and pleasant temperatures in the valleys between the massive climbs of the Forcella Valbona, Monte Bondone and the final ascent to the cooler but still clear conditions on the Madonna di Campiglio.

With three category 1 climbs the first thought in the mind of the peloton on the roll-out from Bassano del Grappa was the blue mountains jersey, which had been on the shoulders of Giovanni Visconti (Vini Zabu-KTM) with a 30 points lead over Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling) at the start of the stage.

There were a couple of attacks in the flat first 40km but with the roads tilting up the Valbona the front of the race came back together while the sprinters joined forces for survival in the gruppetto behind.

After his big day out on stage 16, Visconti missed the move, with Guerrerio going clear with the race’s most attacking rider Mattia Bais (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) and a large group also containing Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R La Mondiale), Óscar Rodríguez (Astana), Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain McLaren), Victor de la Parte and Ilnur Zakarin (CCC Team), Jesper Hansen (Cofidis), Kilian Frankiny (Groupama-FDJ), Thomas De Gendt, Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal), Héctor Carretero, Dario Cataldo, Eduardo Sepúlveda (Movistar), Louis Meintjes, Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, Ben O’Connor (NTT Pro Cycling), Rohan Dennis (Ineos Grenadiers) and Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates).

The group was strategic for the general classification contenders, with O’Connor, Meintjes and Ghebreigzabhier hoping to remain out front to help Domenico Pozzovivo, Pernsteiner for Bilbao, the trio of Movistar riders for Enric Mas and Alejandro Valverde, Dennis for Geoghegan Hart and Rodriguez for Fuglsang. Deceuninck-Quickstep declined, as did Nibali’s reduced Trek-Segafredo team and Kelderman’s Sunweb teammates.

The group slowly carved out a gap of almost five minutes over the maglia rosa group, with Guerreiro taking the lead of the mountains classification with maximum points on the Forcella Vabona. As Iljo Keisse, Davide Ballerini, James Knox and Fausto Masnada patrolled the lead of the peloton, the breakaway enjoyed a lead of seven minutes heading up the Bondone where, at the top, Guerreiro once again claimed top honours to build a solid lead of 50 points in the mountains classification.

On the descent, the breakaway came apart with Cataldo forcing the pace and – surprisingly considering his reputation for descending, the Italian was joined by Zakarin, with Carretero, O’Connor, Vanhoucke and Ghebreigzabhier scrambling across. Soon Pernsteiner and De Gendt rejoined and then Villela, leaving Rodriguez, Bouchard, De la Parte and Frankiny chasing up the penultimate climb, the Passo Durone, where De Gendt claimed the points at the top. Meintjes, Guerreiro and Sepúlveda, were the third group on the road and the EF Pro Cycling rider missed taking any points on the climb.

With the gap to the leaders up to eight minutes with 40km to go, Pernsteiner climbed onto a virtual podium spot as the best-placed rider in the move. But by the time the race reached 24km to go the Deceuninck-Quickstep-led bunch began lining out the peloton and steadily chipping away at the gap, which went under the seven-minute mark and kept falling.

It didn’t help that the front two groups came back together and there was a brief hesitation while they decided who would do the work. CCC Team and Pernsteiner were the most motivated to keep the attack on the rails, while Movistar and took a back seat. De la Parte, motivated to give Zakarin a chance at a stage win, held the maglia rosa group to six minutes on the false flat leading to the base of the Madonna di Campiglio.

The leaders had 5:45 as they hit the base of the final climb with 12.5km to go – a long climb but not especially steep, averaging around six per cent with an easing of the gradient at the top. De la Parte forced the pace going into the ascent then dropped off with De Gendt then taking over to jettison Carretero first then Villela, Bouchard, Hansen and Cataldo. The remaining riders stayed together for several kilometres until De Gendt attacked with 9km to go, briefly shattering the group before it came back together.

Rohan Dennis put in a counter-attack, drawing out Zakarin and Pernsteiner but the move proved a perfect set-up for O’Connor who hit out with 8km to go on the steepest section. De Gendt, Pernsteiner and Zakarin forged an alliance as Dennis faded back. With six kilometres to go, Pernsteiner hit out from the chasing group in a solo effort to shut down the 25 second gap to O’Connor but never could quite claw back time on the Australian, who after being shut out on stage 16 at the hands of Jan Tratnik would not be making the same mistake twice.

O’Connor kept the pressure on over the flatter final kilometres to sail to his first major victory.

In the general classification group, Ineos Grenadiers and Deceuninck-Quickstep went head-to-head leading out into the climb in the peloton behind but it was Sunweb that really forced the pace, with Chris Hamilton lining out the maglia rosa group on the lower slopes of the Madonna di Campiglio, bringing down the advantage of the leaders to 5:15 as the pink jersey went under 10km to go.

Almeida kept a close eye on Kelderman, at one moment physically reminding Castroviejo of the pecking order when the Ineos rider got in between.

The fight for the overall heated up in the steep section as Jai Hindley attacked and then was strangely closed down by a surge from Kelderman. Regardless of team tactics, Almeida marked the move and then with much neck-craning the maglia rosa group ground to a more controlled pace and finished with status quo.

Results :
1 Ben O’Connor (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling 5:50:59
2 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain McLaren 0:00:31
3 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:10
4 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team 0:01:13
5 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:55
6 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:02:49
7 Davide Villella (Ita) Movistar Team 0:03:29
8 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Astana Pro Team
9 Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (Eri) NTT Pro Cycling 0:03:30
10 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis 0:04:32
11 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:11
12 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
13 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
14 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
15 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck-Quickstep
16 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
17 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
18 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
19 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
20 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
21 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:05:13
22 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:58
23 Victor De la Parte (Spa) CCC Team 0:06:04
24 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:06:30
25 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Movistar Team 0:06:48
26 Ben Swift (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers
27 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:50
28 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
29 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R la Mondiale 0:07:47
30 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:08:29
31 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb
32 Louis Meintjes (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling 0:10:11
33 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team
34 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:11:02
35 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
36 Matteo Fabbro (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
37 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:11:25
38 Attila Valter (Hun) CCC Team
39 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
40 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:11:41
41 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 0:12:02
42 Joe Dombrowski (USA) UAE Team Emirates
43 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
44 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:12:34
45 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers 0:14:24
46 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:14:47
47 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
48 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
49 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
50 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
51 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team 0:15:55
52 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain McLaren 0:16:06
53 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:16:21
54 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep
55 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:17:20
56 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:18:34
57 Nico Denz (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:18:44
58 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
59 Simon Pellaud (Swi) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
60 Mathias Le Turnier (Fra) Cofidis
61 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Israel Start-Up Nation
62 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
63 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
64 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Pro Cycling
65 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 0:20:10
66 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Pro Cycling
67 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team
68 Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Pro Cycling
69 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers 0:21:38
70 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
71 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
72 Fabio Felline (Ita) Astana Pro Team
73 Jaakko Hanninen (Fin) AG2R la Mondiale
74 Filippo Ganna (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers
75 Danilo Wyss (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling 0:22:48
76 Josef Cerny (Pol) CCC Team 0:23:15
77 Mattia Bais (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 0:25:47
78 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R la Mondiale
79 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
80 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain McLaren 0:26:11
81 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain McLaren
82 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:26:39
83 Lachlan Morton (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 0:31:48
84 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team 0:32:34
85 Kamil Malecki (Pol) CCC Team
86 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling
87 Rodrigo Contreras Pinzon (Col) Astana Pro Team
88 Francesco Romano (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
89 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
90 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:35:09
91 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:37:15
92 Filippo Zana (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
93 Stefano Oldani (Ita) Lotto Soudal 0:39:21
94 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:41:59
95 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 0:42:06
96 Marco Mathis (Ger) Cofidis 0:46:13
97 James Whelan (Aus) EF Pro Cycling
98 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Israel Start-Up Nation
99 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis
100 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
101 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis
102 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Lotto Soudal
103 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
104 Josip Rumac (Cro) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
105 Guy Sagiv (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation
106 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation
107 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
108 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
109 Luca Chirico (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
110 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain McLaren
111 Matteo Spreafico (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
112 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
113 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
114 Simone Bevilacqua (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
115 Matteo Sobrero (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
116 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
117 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
118 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) NTT Pro Cycling
119 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
120 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team
121 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
122 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes (Col) Movistar Team
123 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (Ecu) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
124 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
125 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ
126 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-Up Nation
127 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
128 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ
129 Fabio Mazzucco (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’
130 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ
131 Simon Guglielmi (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
132 Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui (Col) Deceuninck-Quickstep
133 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Lotto Soudal
134 Mikkel Bjerg (Den) UAE Team Emirates
135 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis
136 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis

General Classification after Stage 17 :
1 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck-Quickstep 71:41:18
2 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:17
3 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:02:58
4 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:02:59
5 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren 0:03:12
6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:03:20
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:31
8 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:03:52
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:04:11
10 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:04:26
11 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain McLaren 0:05:07
12 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:05:09
13 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:10
14 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:10:26
15 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Movistar Team 0:12:25
16 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:14:56
17 Matteo Fabbro (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:26:18
18 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team 0:26:57
19 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:28:45
20 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R la Mondiale 0:32:19
21 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:35:37
22 Ben Swift (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:36:58
23 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers 0:40:40
24 Attila Valter (Hun) CCC Team 0:42:41
25 Ben O’Connor (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling 0:50:59
26 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:55:15
27 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:57:26
28 Fabio Felline (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:58:50
29 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:59:09
30 Christopher Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:59:16
31 Victor De la Parte (Spa) CCC Team 1:03:06
32 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 1:03:15
33 Tanel Kangert (Est) EF Pro Cycling 1:09:43
34 Davide Villella (Ita) Movistar Team 1:13:29
35 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 1:13:47
36 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1:19:02
37 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Astana Pro Team 1:24:15
38 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:25:01
39 Louis Meintjes (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling 1:28:07
40 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis 1:29:29
41 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bahrain McLaren 1:30:21
42 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 1:30:53
43 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Pro Cycling 1:31:20
44 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:38:03
45 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers 1:38:36
46 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 1:41:45
47 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team 1:43:26
48 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 1:43:32
49 Joe Dombrowski (USA) UAE Team Emirates 1:45:31
50 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1:46:27
51 Alessandro Tonelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 1:48:41
52 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R la Mondiale 1:49:10
53 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Israel Start-Up Nation 1:51:25
54 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Movistar Team 1:52:19
55 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:52:53
56 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 1:56:17
57 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 1:58:39
58 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain McLaren 2:05:35
59 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team 2:08:12
60 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:08:34
61 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes (Col) Movistar Team 2:11:08
62 Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (Eri) NTT Pro Cycling 2:12:13
63 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain McLaren 2:14:25
64 Joseph Rosskopf (USA) CCC Team 2:16:28
65 Jonathan Caicedo (Ecu) EF Pro Cycling 2:17:24
66 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 2:18:04
67 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 2:18:05
68 Jaakko Hanninen (Fin) AG2R la Mondiale 2:19:18
69 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2:20:12
70 Simone Ravanelli (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 2:20:31
71 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis 2:25:21
72 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain McLaren 2:26:53
73 Filippo Ganna (Ita) Ineos Grenadiers 2:28:05
74 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 2:28:07
75 Kamil Malecki (Pol) CCC Team 2:31:19
76 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 2:34:05
77 Simon Clarke (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 2:36:59
78 Simon Pellaud (Swi) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 2:39:31
79 Matteo Sobrero (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 2:46:56
80 Nico Denz (Ger) Team Sunweb 2:47:49
81 Alessandro Bisolti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 2:48:43
82 Danilo Wyss (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling 2:49:35
83 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Bahrain McLaren 2:51:10
84 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain McLaren 2:54:28
85 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 2:56:02
86 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 2:56:49
87 Josef Cerny (Pol) CCC Team 2:57:40
88 Etienne Van Empel (Ned) Vini Zabu’ KTM 2:59:06
89 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (Ecu) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 2:59:48
90 Francesco Romano (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 3:00:27
91 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:00:33
92 Luca Chirico (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 3:01:23
93 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:03:51
94 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 3:05:10
95 Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 3:05:53
96 Mikkel Bjerg (Den) UAE Team Emirates 3:08:39
97 Stefano Oldani (Ita) Lotto Soudal 3:11:09
98 Josip Rumac (Cro) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 3:14:47
99 Mathias Le Turnier (Fra) Cofidis 3:16:26
100 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 3:21:37
101 Filippo Zana (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 3:27:01
102 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) NTT Pro Cycling 3:29:17
103 Matthew Holmes (GBr) Lotto Soudal 3:30:49
104 Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 3:32:24
105 Mattia Bais (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 3:33:20
106 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team 3:36:54
107 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:40:47
108 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team 3:43:44
109 Rodrigo Contreras Pinzon (Col) Astana Pro Team 3:45:40
110 Marco Frapporti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 3:45:45
111 James Whelan (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 3:50:27
112 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis 3:51:54
113 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis 3:54:03
114 Lachlan Morton (Aus) EF Pro Cycling 3:55:37
115 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 3:55:54
116 Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ 3:57:21
117 Dylan Sunderland (Aus) NTT Pro Cycling 3:59:27
118 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 4:01:33
119 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-Up Nation 4:02:07
120 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 4:04:42
121 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis 4:06:12
122 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation 4:09:38
123 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ 4:10:58
124 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Israel Start-Up Nation 4:11:31
125 Simon Guglielmi (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 4:11:48
126 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 4:15:47
127 Giovanni Lonardi (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 4:17:36
128 Matteo Spreafico (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 4:19:30
129 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation 4:19:49
130 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ 4:20:07
131 Fabio Mazzucco (Ita) Bardiani CSF Faizane’ 4:21:36
132 Simone Bevilacqua (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 4:23:06
133 Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui (Col) Deceuninck-Quickstep 4:29:38
134 Marco Mathis (Ger) Cofidis 4:31:04
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