Giro d’Italia 2020 – Stage 18 [FULL STAGE]

October 22, 2020

Giro d’Italia 2020 – Stage 18 – Pinzolo – Laghi di Cancano : 207 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.

Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) took victory at Laghi di Cancano atop the Torri di Fraele on stage 18 at the Giro d’Italia, ending a day of high drama at the race by outsprinting Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) to the line after six hours of racing in the Dolomites.

“It’s such a beautiful stage today, with such epic climbs. I’m just over the moon to get the win,” Hindley said. “I saw the opportunity to take a stage and I took it. I think Tao was pretty strong and was also climbing at a really high level here, he’s been super impressive. It wasn’t our tactic to go solo. I followed the plan, got the stage and I’m happy with that.”

Pello Bilbao (Bahrain McLaren) took third at the top, 46 seconds down, but the biggest story of the stage was the collapse of maglia rosa João Almeida (Deceuninck-QuickStep) who was dropped 48 kilometres from the line on the Passo dello Stelvio as Sunweb pushed the pace.

The Dutch team are now in the driving seat with three stages remaining, their man Wilco Kelderman taking over the race lead despite being dropped by the lead group of Hindley, Geoghegan Hart and Rohan Dennis at the top of the Stelvio and riding alone for 46 kilometres to the finish.

“I knew Tao was going to ride all the way to the line to try to get as much time as he could, I was told to sit on him and not do any work, which I did, because I knew Wilco was most likely going into the jersey,” Hindley said.

Kelderman, who took fifth on the day, 2:18 down, now enjoys a 12-second lead over teammate Hindley, while Geoghegan Hart fills the final podium spot, a further three seconds back. Almeida, meanwhile, dropped from first down to fifth overall after losing 4:51, while Bilbao moves within striking distance of the podium at 1:19 down.

“It was a crazy day, super hard, the hardest day of my life,” Kelderman said. “It was a super fight. It couldn’t be any better for us with Jai getting the stage win and me in pink. I knew it would be close but I got it, so I’m happy. We dropped Almeida quite early on the Stelvio and then it was a race – Ineos was super strong with two guys and I couldn’t hold them. So then it was just a race for myself behind them.

I’m happy with today, now we recover and make plans and then we see the last stages what happens.”

The carnage began midway up the Passo dello Stelvio, the highest climb of the race, when Sunweb’s efforts saw Almeida lose contact with the favourites group, quickly followed out the back by a wealth of other big names, including Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo) and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana).

As the race reached the snowline, riders were scattered down the mountain as the general classification quickly turned into an Ineos vs Sunweb battle. Hindley did his job, sticking to an Ineos wheel all the way to the finish, while Kelderman ploughed a lonely furrow down the freezing descent, through the valley and up the final climb, just about ‘saving’ pink despite having never worn it.

While he now leads the Giro, heading up an unexpected Sunweb one-two with a sprint stage, a triple-Sestriere test and the Milan time trial left, the damage done by his punishing ride has yet to be seen, with the 24- and 25-year-olds, Hindley and Geoghegan Hart looking in the ascendancy.

How it unfolded

With the revamp of stage 20 and the loss of the Colle dell’Agnello, Col d’Izoard and Montgenèvre, the race to Laghi di Cancano over the Stelvio on stage 18 became the Giro’s queen stage overnight, the main battleground for the maglia rosa in the final days of the race.

The action started from as the flag dropped in the commune of Pinzolo at the foot of the Passo Campo Magno. Starting off heading up the climb (14.2km at 5.8 per cent), the riders fought to make the breakaway as they retraced the wheel tracks of stage 17’s finish up Madonna di Campiglio.

A group of 25 riders jumped away by the top of the second-category climb, with maglia azzurra Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling) among them, taking the maximum eight points over the top despite his main rival, Vini Zabù-Brado-KTM’s Giovanni Visconti, withdrawing before the start due to patellar tendonitis.

Israel Start-Up Nation’s Spanish climber Daniel Navarro pushed on alone down the descent as behind the break and vastly reduced peloton merged. The Spaniard would soon have company though, as Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Stéphene Rossetto (Cofidis), Fabio Felline (Astana) and Dario Cataldo (Movistar) joined him to form the early break after 30 kilometres of racing.

On the road to the second climb of the day, the first-category Passo Castrin, another group of riders came across, with stage 17 winner Ben O’Connor (NTT Pro Cycling) out in the break for the third day in a row along with Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè), Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), Hector Carretero (Movistar). They were shortly joined by Guerreiro, Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Matthew Holmes (Lotto Soudal), Louis Meintjes (NTT Pro Cycling) and the Movistar pair of Antonio Pedrero and Sergio Samitier to make it 16 out front.

Deceuninck-QuickStep, Ineos Grenadiers and Sunweb, the squads of the big general classification hitters, controlled the peloton thereafter, keeping the gap on a fairly tight leash – a maximum of four minutes.

De Gendt would take the 40 points over the Castrin, leaving Guerreiro to bolster his KOM lead with 18 in second place. A long, stepped descent and a ride along the Adige Valley brought a quiet mid-section of the stage, with an 80-kilometre ride to the foot of the Stelvio, the high-point of the race, measuring in at 24.8 kilometres at an average of 7.4 per cent.

Cataldo was the first to drop from the break on the lower slopes of the climb, swiftly followed by Rossetto and Tonelli as Meintjes worked on the front for one of the stars of the Giro’s final week, O’Connor.

As Sunweb and Ineos massed on the front for the early kilometres of a GC showdown, O’Connor took off 55 kilometres from the line. Only 20 men remained in what could reasonably be called a ‘peloton’ at that point, with the big moves soon to come.

O’Connor quickly built a 30-second gap ahead of a rapidly reducing break that surprisingly didn’t include Guerreiro anymore as the EF rider dropped back to the peloton. Meanwhile, 11 kilometres from the top of the climb – on the steepest slopes of nine per cent-plus with 50 kilometres left to run – Guerreiro’s compatriot, race leader João Almeida (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was in trouble, clinging on to the back of the GC group.

Domenico Pozzovivo (NTT Pro Cycling) had already dropped at that point as Sunweb pushed the pace on the Giro’s highest climb. Almeida would make it back, with Guerreiro aiding him with a quick turn, but Sam Oomen’s turn on the front saw him dropped for good two kilometres later.

Chris Hamilton and Jai Hindley, who lay third overall continued to lead the Sunweb train, distancing more top 10 contenders in the shape of Pello Bilbao (Bahrain McLaren) and the Bora-Hansgrohe duo of Rafał Majka and Patrick Konrad.

Ineos took over the pacemaking at 48 kilometres to go, with Rohan Dennis working for Tao Geoghegan Hart. The Australian’s stint would transform the race even further, detaching Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo) and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) and leaving the Ineos pair alone with Kelderman and Hindley.

It wasn’t long before Kelderman was in trouble, too, hanging off the back as Hindley stuck to Geoghegan Hart’s wheel. The quartet – by that point 1:30 up on Almeida and 30 seconds up on the Nibali-Fuglsang group – soon caught O’Connor before spitting the Australian out the back along with Kelderman for a second time.

Hindley, lying one second up on Geoghegan Hart, once again hung on to the Ineos pair, as Kelderman rode alone 30 seconds back at 42 kilometres to go, five kilometres from the top of the monster climb at the first hints of the snowline. Meanwhile, Almeida, Majka and Konrad lay 2:30 down as the Bilbao-Fuglsang group, lying a minute down, dropped Nibali.

After the hostilities down in the forest, the situation settled down as the riders made their way to the snowbound peak of the 2,746-metre high pass – the second highest in Europe – with Kelderman ceding seconds as Almeida dropped to over three minutes down.

Hindley struggled to don his jacket for a good five hundred metres, but still stuck with the Ineos duo, Dennis taking the Cima Coppi prize as the leader over the top. Kelderman crossed the summit 46 seconds down, with Fuglsang-Bilbao at 1:45, Nibali at around 2:30, and the maglia rosa at 3:40.

The jacket problems continued on the freezing descent towards Isolaccia, with both Sunweb men failing to zip theirs up in contrast to the Ineos pair, an annoyed Kelderman throwing his into the road three kilometres into the descent.

As the riders took the road past Bormio at the bottom, the situation was largely the same, Kelderman 45 seconds down, 1:25 to Fuglsang-Bilbao and Almeida at 3:30. The intermediate sprint lay between the leaders and the start of the final climb of Torri di Fraele to Laghi di Cancano, and Ineos pulled a fast one on Hindley, Geoghegan Hart taking three seconds and Dennis two to vaunt the Briton a second up on the virtual GC.

Dennis rode on to the bottom, a stellar job for his younger team leader, pulling off with the gap to Kelderman at 1:40 as the Dutchman suffered on his own. As Kelderman started the climb, meanwhile, Fuglsang and Bilbao caught and passed him, leaving the pink jersey-elect for dead.

Up front, Geoghegan Hart led the way on the 8.7-kilometre, 6.8 per cent average climb, as Hindley could point to Kelderman in virtual pink and take an armchair ride up the 21 hairpin bends. Two kilometres into the climb, Nibali was caught by the Almeida group, 4:30 down, while Bilbao shed Fuglsang at a minute behind the leaders and Kelderman lay 1:35 back.

The drama that unfolded on the Stelvio didn’t replicate itself on the Torri di Fraele, with the gaps holding quite steady, barring Bilbao closing in to with 45 seconds of the leaders. Hindley stuck to Geoghegan Hart’s wheel all the way up, their riders anticipating a sprint for the stage and their GC placings.

The Briton took the mountain points at the top but could do nothing to stop a more rested Hindley beating him to the line and taking four bonus seconds back on GC. Bilbao rolled home 46 seconds later, launching himself into podium contention, while Fuglsang was fourth at 1:25, moving up to sixth overall.

A tense countdown followed as Kelderman drew close to the finish, the 29-year-old who had looked in dire straits at the bottom of the climb finishing his day 2:18 down on the leader and just about taking the pink jersey ahead of his teammate, the stage winner.

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

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