La Vuelta 2017 – Stage 18 [LAST 30 KM]

September 07, 2017

La Vuelta 2017 – Stage 18 – Suances – Santo Toribio de Liébana : 169 km

The 2017 Vuelta a España is a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race scheduled to take place in Spain between 19 August and 10 September 2017. The race will be the 72nd edition of the Vuelta a España and will be the final Grand Tour of the 2017 cycling season. The race is scheduled to start in Nîmes, France and finish in Madrid. It will be the first time the race has started in France and only the third time it has started outside Spain, after 1997 (Portugal) and 2009 (Netherlands).

The momentum is once again with Chris Froome (Team Sky) at the Vuelta a España after he distanced Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) on the short final climb to Alto de Santo Toribio de Liébana on stage 18 to extend his lead atop the overall standings to 1:37.

Froome and Nibali were part of the red jersey group that reached the finale more than ten minutes down on stage winner Sander Armee (Lotto Soudal), who had proved the strongest of the day’s early break.

After a volley of attacks from Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) on the penultimate ascent of Collada de la Hoz had sown plenty of tension but failed to separate the podium contenders, few anticipated any major differences to be made on the final category 2 kick to the line.

Not for the first time on this Vuelta, however, Froome’s Sky guard laid down an imposing rhythm on the final climb, with Gianni Moscon once again delivering a show of strength that was all the more startling considering he is a 23-year-old Classics specialist in the third week of his debut Grand Tour.

Esteban Chaves (Orica-Scott) and Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) were among the riders distanced approaching the flamme rouge as the pace began to bite, and Froome proceeded to deliver a rasping acceleration of his own once teammate Wout Poels swung over inside the final kilometre.

Only Contador and Michael Woods (Cannondale-Drapac) could match Froome’s surge as the group of podium contenders splintered behind him, and while Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) and Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin) responded well to limit their losses to just four seconds at the finish, Nibali was in obvious difficulty and pedalling with leaden strokes.

Nibali, so impressive in distancing Froome on the vertiginous slopes of Los Machucos on Wednesday, handed back precisely half of those gains on the rather gentler ascent of Santo Toribio de Liébana, and has left himself with a considerably more arduous path to final overall victory in Madrid on Sunday. The Italian must drop Froome decisively on the Angliru on Saturday, an ascent where the severity of the gradient paradoxically can make it more difficult to eke out sizeable gains.

“Today worked out perfectly in my favour. It was a really tough stage. A lot of GC guys tried to attack on the penultimate climb, so once we got onto that final climb the team did a really strong pace at the bottom, and I think certainly some guys paid for their efforts yesterday and also paid for their attacks earlier on today,” said Froome.

Armee’s solo triumph

As is so often the case in the third week of a Grand Tour, there were two races for the price of one on stage 18 of the Vuelta, as a 20-man break forged clear after a little over an hour of racing and fought it out for stage victory, while Froome, Nibali et al traded blows in the battle for GC honours further down the road.

The stage winner Sander Armee was part of the high-quality move that established itself after 60 kilometres, and he was joined in that endeavour by Julian Alaphilippe and Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floors), Alessandro De Marchi (BMC), Magnus Cort Nielsen (Orica-Scott), Nelson Oliveira and Marc Soler (Movistar), Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Clément Chevrier and Alexis Gougeard (AG2R La Mondiale), Toms Skujins (Cannondale-Drapac), Antwan Tolhoek (LottoNL-Jumbo), Matej Mohoric (UAE Team Emirates), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Giovanni Visconti (Bahrain-Merida), Jérémy Maison and Anthony Roux (FDJ), Stéphane Rossetto (Cofidis), Sergio Pardilla (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), and Aldemar Reyes (Manzana-Postobón).

They were granted a long leash by Team Sky, and had built up a lead in excess of 13 minutes by the time they hit the day’s first classified climb, the category 3 Collada de Carmona after 109 kilometres. In a foretaste of what was to come, Alaphilippe inexplicably lost contact on the descent that followed, but was safely back aboard come the second ascent of the Collada de Ozalba, where the leading group remained intact.

Their unity eventually fragmented on the category 2 Collada de la Hoz, Gougeard and Sander Armee forced the pace, and they were joined by Alaphilippe, Soler, and Lutsenko closer to the summit. This quintet battled to maintain a small advantage over their erstwhile companions as they hurtled down the descent with 30 kilometres remaining, and was reduced to a leading trio by the time they reached the bottom, with only Armee, Lutsenko and Alaphilippe remaining in front.

Lutsenko and Alaphilippe, already stage winners at this Vuelta, would have been more highly fancied than Armee on a finish of this kind, but the Belgian cannily rid of himself of his companions in two installments in the finale. Sensing Alaphilippe’s fatigue, Armee accelerated on the approach to the final, 3-kilometre climb to the line and found an ally of circumstance in Lutsenko, who put in a long turn of his own to ensure the Frenchman would not latch back on.

The seated Lutsenko seemed rather more fluid of pedal stroke once the climb to the line began, but appearances proved deceptive. Armee spent most of the climb out of the saddle, and he succeeded in shaking off Lutsenko with a shade over 600 metres remaining to claim the first victory of his professional career, 31 seconds clear of the Kazakhstani, while Visconti took third at 46 seconds.

“This is already my eighth year as a pro rider, so I had to wait quite a long time to win a race. I was a couple of times close, and I did my work for the team, but in this Vuelta, I got a chance to put myself in a free role and do my own race,” Armee said. “This was the third time I am in a breakaway, and I felt really good. I felt better and better during the stage, and then in the end I knew I would be close and I went full gas to the finish line. I tried to just do my own pace the last few minutes, and I never came off the big chainring, so I knew if I could do that I could win the race.”

Aru’s lone raid

While Armee, Lutsenko et al were attempting to out-maneuver one another for the stage victory, the teams of the podium contenders were looking to place their men in position ahead of the day’s denouement. Katusha-Alpecin’s forcing on Collada de Ozalba was such that at one point, five of their riders, including Zakarin, opened a gap over the peloton, but by the top of the climb, it was Fabio Aru (Astana) who was on the offensive.

The Italian champion has endured a difficult Vuelta, and it was reported in La Gazzetta dello Sport on Thursday that his Astana team had even neglected to fit his bike with the 36-tooth chainring he had requested for the climb to Los Machucos on stage 17. Aru, seemingly destined to leave the team at season’s end, looked to put a different slant on his Vuelta with a lone attack from distance, and at one point he looked set to move from 9th to 6th overall – or better – when he built up a lead of more than a minute and a half on the red jersey group.

Aru’s advantage was pared back only on the final run-in to the finish line as Team Sky wound up the pace, and his gains were limited by day’s end, as he finished just 14 seconds clear of Froome, Contador and Woods.

If Froome had shown little concern about Aru’s solo effort, he was considerably more active in following Contador’s brace of attacks on the category 2 Collada de la Hoz. The second of Contador’s stinging attacks near the summit briefly reduced the red jersey group to just 10 riders, but Froome was among the first to respond, with Nibali, Kelderman, and Zakarin following in his wake.

They were unable to follow, however, in the final 800 metres, and Froome could scarcely hide his satisfaction at putting so much time into Nibali. “Yeah, I mean that feels great. That feels great especially after a difficult day yesterday,” he said. “It’s good to bounce back again, and as I said yesterday, the morale is still good and the team is still strong. We’re just looking forward to getting through these next couple of days now.”

Results :
1 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4:09:39
2 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:00:31
3 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:46
4 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:02
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:06
6 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:01:19
7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:21
8 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
9 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:38
10 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 0:01:42
11 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:57
12 Aldemar Reyes (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:02:02
13 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:20
14 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:49
15 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:03:26
16 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:41
17 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 0:03:57
18 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ 0:04:14
19 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:09:31
20 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:09:56
21 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:10:08
22 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac
23 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky
24 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:10:12
25 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
26 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:10:15
27 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:10:21
28 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:10:29
29 David de la Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
30 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:37
31 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:10:45
32 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 0:10:50
33 Hernán Aguirre (Col) Manzana Postobon 0:10:52
34 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:10:54
35 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:10:59
36 Magnus Cort (Den) Orica-Scott
37 Darwin Atapuma (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:11:05
38 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:11:17
39 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-Scott 0:11:19
40 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team
41 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0:11:39
42 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:11:44
43 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team
44 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 0:11:50
45 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Team Sky 0:12:02
46 Stef Clement (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:12:15
47 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
48 Luis Angel Maté Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:12:23
49 Jaime Roson Garcia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:12:30
50 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:12:46
51 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:12:52
52 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:13:34
53 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
54 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:14:42
55 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0:14:54
56 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Orica-Scott
57 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:19:38
58 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data
59 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal
60 Bernardo Suaza (Col) Manzana Postobon
61 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors
62 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
63 Kenneth Van Bilsen (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
64 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
65 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo
66 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 0:19:41
67 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 0:20:15
68 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
69 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:24:47
70 Juan Felipe Osorio (Col) Manzana Postobon
71 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
72 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
73 Lluís Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
74 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal
75 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
76 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
77 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
78 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
79 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
80 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) BMC Racing Team
81 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
82 Jetse Bol (Ned) Manzana Postobon
83 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac
84 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Aqua Blue Sport
85 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac
86 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
87 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
88 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb
89 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb
90 Fabricio Ferrari (Uru) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
91 Juan José Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
92 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team
93 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb
94 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
95 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team
96 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Manzana Postobon
97 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky
98 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
99 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac
100 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
101 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
102 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE Team Emirates
103 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ
104 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
105 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
106 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
107 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
108 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
109 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
110 Hector Sáez Benito (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
111 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
112 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
113 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo
114 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal
115 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Orica-Scott
116 Hernando Bohórquez (Col) Manzana Postobon
117 Sergei Chernetckii (Rus) Astana Pro Team
118 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott
119 Tim Declercq (Bel) Quick-Step Floors
120 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
121 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team
122 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Katusha-Alpecin
123 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors
124 Federico Zurlo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
125 Michel Kreder (Ned) Aqua Blue Sport
126 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
127 Julien Duval (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
128 Fernando Orjuela (Col) Manzana Postobon
129 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale
130 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
131 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
132 Sebastián Molano (Col) Manzana Postobon
133 Diego Rubio (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
134 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac
135 Peter Koning (Ned) Aqua Blue Sport
136 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
137 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
138 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Aqua Blue Sport
139 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky
140 Aaron Gate (NZl) Aqua Blue Sport
141 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
142 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
143 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
144 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) FDJ
145 Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data
146 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data
147 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team
148 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ
149 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
150 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Katusha-Alpecin
151 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
152 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport
153 Thomas Scully (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac
154 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
155 Conor Dunne (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport
156 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott
157 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
158 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac
159 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky
160 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin
161 Rafael Reis (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:25:24
DNS Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal

General Classification after Stage 18 :
1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 72:03:50
2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:37
3 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:02:17
4 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:29
5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:34
6 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:05:16
7 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac 0:06:33
8 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team
9 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0:06:47
10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:10:26
11 David de la Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0:10:31
12 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-Scott 0:11:57
13 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:12:06
14 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 0:13:32
15 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:15:41
16 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Team Sky 0:25:14
17 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0:27:09
18 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0:32:21
19 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:42:10
20 Darwin Atapuma (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:44:45
21 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:48:15
22 Stef Clement (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:52:57
23 Jack Haig (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:55:12
24 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Astana Pro Team 1:00:36
25 Luis Angel Maté Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:07:22
26 Jaime Roson Garcia (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1:08:12
27 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 1:08:21
28 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 1:12:00
29 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 1:14:24
30 Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 1:18:01
31 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 1:18:49
32 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 1:23:00
33 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 1:24:33
34 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 1:25:34
35 Matej Mohoric (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 1:29:49
36 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Trek-Segafredo 1:32:54
37 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 1:34:54
38 Hernán Aguirre (Col) Manzana Postobon 1:36:47
39 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:38:23
40 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 1:40:43
41 Aldemar Reyes (Col) Manzana Postobon 1:40:51
42 Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:43:15
43 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 1:49:34
44 Bob Jungels (Lux) Quick-Step Floors 1:50:21
45 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 1:51:06
46 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 1:52:56
47 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 1:55:54
48 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 1:59:49
49 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) FDJ 2:05:09
50 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 2:07:23
51 Bernardo Suaza (Col) Manzana Postobon 2:07:45
52 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 2:10:35
53 Ricardo Vilela (Por) Manzana Postobon 2:14:17
54 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2:15:28
55 Daan Olivier (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:16:43
56 Fabricio Ferrari (Uru) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:17:18
57 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 2:17:50
58 Clement Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:18:20
59 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 2:22:02
60 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky 2:22:27
61 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) FDJ 2:23:04
62 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 2:25:40
63 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Aqua Blue Sport 2:25:56
64 Jeremy Maison (Fra) FDJ 2:27:05
65 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 2:28:01
66 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2:29:01
67 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 2:31:45
68 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2:36:22
69 Jetse Bol (Ned) Manzana Postobon 2:36:41
70 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 2:37:54
71 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 2:39:11
72 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 2:41:14
73 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 2:42:44
74 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:43:43
75 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:46:58
76 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 2:47:22
77 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Sky 2:47:23
78 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Orica-Scott 2:48:47
79 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2:50:06
80 Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 2:51:37
81 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 2:53:53
82 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 2:54:16
83 Hector Sáez Benito (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:55:13
84 Lluís Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:55:37
85 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 2:57:31
86 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) UAE Team Emirates 2:58:30
87 Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 3:01:09
88 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 3:02:05
89 Guillaume Bonnafond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3:03:52
90 Juan Felipe Osorio (Col) Manzana Postobon 3:05:52
91 Fernando Orjuela (Col) Manzana Postobon 3:07:09
92 Sergei Chernetckii (Rus) Astana Pro Team 3:07:40
93 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 3:08:03
94 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3:09:53
95 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 3:11:53
96 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:13:22
97 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:14:39
98 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 3:15:29
99 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:15:54
100 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) BMC Racing Team 3:17:17
101 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 3:18:17
102 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 3:18:25
103 Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ 3:19:17
104 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:20:52
105 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 3:21:17
106 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 3:21:19
107 Brendan Canty (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 3:23:55
108 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 3:28:40
109 Damiano Caruso (Ita) BMC Racing Team 3:29:23
110 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Orica-Scott 3:31:00
111 Chad Haga (USA) Team Sunweb 3:31:15
112 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 3:32:09
113 Julien Duval (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3:32:21
114 Hugo Houle (Can) AG2R La Mondiale 3:32:57
115 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 3:33:53
116 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 3:34:40
117 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 3:36:29
118 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 3:36:45
119 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 3:39:01
120 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 3:39:12
121 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3:41:58
122 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 3:42:15
123 Juan José Lobato (Spa) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3:43:01
124 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:43:45
125 Tim Declercq (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 3:44:27
126 Magnus Cort (Den) Orica-Scott 3:44:36
127 Michel Kreder (Ned) Aqua Blue Sport 3:45:20
128 Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 3:46:00
129 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 3:47:37
130 Daniel Hoelgaard (Nor) FDJ 3:50:45
131 Diego Rubio (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:54:37
132 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 3:55:11
133 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana Pro Team 3:55:40
134 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Quick-Step Floors 3:55:47
135 Rafael Reis (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:56:28
136 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Cannondale-Drapac 3:56:58
137 Sacha Modolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 3:57:02
138 Hernando Bohórquez (Col) Manzana Postobon 3:57:14
139 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Katusha-Alpecin 3:59:02
140 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 3:59:30
141 Nikita Stalnov (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 4:05:42
142 Mark Christian (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 4:06:39
143 Aaron Gate (NZl) Aqua Blue Sport 4:07:20
144 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:08:37
145 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:10:12
146 Peter Koning (Ned) Aqua Blue Sport 4:10:47
147 Kenneth Van Bilsen (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4:10:48
148 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Katusha-Alpecin 4:11:46
149 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky 4:12:34
150 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Aqua Blue Sport 4:13:02
151 Federico Zurlo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 4:16:27
152 Sebastián Molano (Col) Manzana Postobon 4:19:47
153 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4:20:05
154 Sam Bewley (NZl) Orica-Scott 4:20:26
155 Thomas Scully (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 4:22:39
156 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4:23:59
157 Adam Blythe (GBr) Aqua Blue Sport 4:26:51
158 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:27:04
159 William Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 4:28:24
160 Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ 4:28:34
161 Conor Dunne (Irl) Aqua Blue Sport 4:40:14