La Vuelta 2019 – Stage 17 [LAST 25 KM]

September 11, 2019

La Vuelta 2019 – Stage 17 – Aranda del Duero – Guadalajara : 219,6 km

The 2019 Vuelta a España begins in Torrevieja on Saturday August 23 and finishes in Madrid on September 15. The route, unveiled in a ceremony in Alicante in December, sees the number of summit finishes cut back a touch from nine to eight, but it’s still a mountainous route that sticks with the Vuelta’s recent traditions. Some brutally steep climbs have been sought out for the occasion, with the 4km Mas de la Costa and the painfully steep Los Machucos returning to the route. Andorra is also back on the menu and will host a short but punchy stage to bring week one to a close. The 100-kilometre route comprises five climbs and will ensure some gaps in the overall classification. There will be just over 60 kilometres against the clock, with a 24km team time trial in Torrevieja opening the race and a 36.1km individual chrono in Pau at the start of the second week. The final week of action gives the sprinters more opportunities to find glory, along with two important mountain stages in the Sierras around Madrid, before the last stage into the Spanish capital.

220-kilometre routes with no categorised climbs do not, on paper, lend themselves to high drama, but the Vuelta a España was blown apart by crosswinds on stage 17. When the dust had settled on a day of racing run off at more than 50kph, Philippe Gilbert (Deceuninck-QuickStep) had claimed his second stage victory of the race and Nairo Quintana (Movistar) had come roaring back into overall contention.

Gilbert and Quintana were part of a near-50-rider group that formed as a strong cross-tailwind inflicted immediate damage in the early kilometres. The group reduced in number as it made its way southeast, and then southwest for more of a tailwind in the final 80km, but it went all the way, finishing five-and-a-half minutes ahead of race leader Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma).

Having started the day sixth overall at 7:43 after a damaging second week, Quintana moved up to second place, leapfrogging his teammate, Alejandro Valverde. Other GC riders to benefit from making the move were Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb), who climbed from eighth to sixth, and James Knox (Deceuninck-QuickStep), who climbed from 11th to eighth.

Roglic found himself without teammates in a group of just 20 riders after Movistar blew the peloton to pieces on an uncategorised climb with 50km to go. The acceleration reduced the gains being made by Quintana up the road in the short term but shook out the support riders for Roglic and third-placed Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). Astana, however, retained numbers and did most of the leg-work in the final hour in a failed bid to protect Miguel Angel Lopez’s position of fourth in the overall standings.

There were jubilant scenes in the Deceuninck-QuickStep camp at the finish in Guadalajara. The Belgian team are experts in the crosswinds and they duly delivered on expectations by placing no fewer than seven of their eight riders in the breakaway. While Knox moved into the top 10 on GC, Gilbert made it a perfect day with a second win of the race after his triumph in Bilbao on stage 12. Remi Cavagna even took the final podium spot on the stage, behind Bennett, with Tim Declercq and Knox making it four in the top 10 for Patrick Lefevere’s men.

The team’s sprinter, Fabio Jakobsen, was dropped on that uncategorised climb, and so Gilbert was left with the unenviable task of taking on Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe), the top sprinter in the race who was also on board. In the end, they used Zdenek Stybar to soften Bennett up. The Czech rider attacked in the final 2km and Bennett was lured into going early with 600m to go. Gilbert set off in pursuit, catching the fading Irishman with 200m to go before leaving him behind and celebrating wildly.

“It was a very special one. I think it’s the kind of stage that will stay in history, because of the way we rode. It was crazy from the gun,” Gilbert said.

“It was really fast. In 17 years I don’t think I’ve ever done anything like that. It was really crazy.”

Primoz Roglic wore a smile as he took to the podium in Guadalajara to pull on the leader’s red jersey once again. Despite the chaos, he lost no time to his direct rivals – Valverde, Pogacar, and Lopez – and his lead in real terms was only reduced by 24 seconds. What’s more, the rider now closest at hand – Quintana at 2:24 – is someone he comfortably outperformed in the second week. As such, with two mountain stages remaining, Roglic declared: “It’s still looking really good.”

However, he nevertheless conceded the stage had veered far from the ideal script. “Let’s just say I made a mistake from the beginning. I shouldn’t be in the position I was – I should have been totally in front. Maybe we lost the battle today, but not the war.”

Fortunately for Roglic, none of his closest rivals were up the road, and so Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates and Lopez’s Astana helped contribute to the pace-setting in the bunch throughout the day.

It was a match of those three teams against QuickStep, Movistar, and Sunweb, who were the teams up the road who were best represented and had the most to gain, though the group as a whole collaborated harmoniously for much of the day.

After going clear in the opening kilometres, they quickly built a lead of 2:30, and it grew more steadily over the following two hours as everyone got their heads down and rode close to their limits.

The full composition of the break was: Philippe Gilbert, James Knox, Rémi Cavagna, Tim Declercq, Zdenek Stybar, Fabio Jakobsen, Eros Capecchi (Deceuninck-Quick Step), José Joaquín Rojas, Imanol Erviti, Nairo Quintana, Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team), Wout Poels, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Ian Stannard, Owain Doull (Team Ineos), Wilco Kelderman, Nikias Arndt, Casper Pedersen, Rob Power, Max Walscheid (Sunweb), Pierre Latour, Quentin Jauregui, Clément Venturini (AG2R La Mondiale), Luis León Sánchez, Gorka Izaguirre (Astana), Heinrich Haussler, Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida), Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe), Jonas Koch, Nathan Van Hooydonck (CCC Team), Lawson Craddock, Daniel Martínez (EF Education First), Thomas De Gendt, Tosh van der Sande (Lotto Soudal), Sam Bewley, Damien Howson, Dion Smith (Mitchelton-Scott), Edvald Boasson Hagen, Ben King, Rasmus Tiller, (Dimension Data), Neilson Powless (Jumbo-Visma), John Degenkolb (Trek Segafredo), Marco Marcato, Juan Sebastian Molano, Oliviero Troia (UAE Team Emirates), Jetse Bol (Burgos-BH), Gonzalo Serrano (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Aritz Bagües (Euskadi-Murias).

With 133km remaining, another selection was made up front as the wind continued to blow, and AG2R lost all three of their riders, along with Haussler, Chaves, Howson, Van Hooydonck, Martinez, King, Degenkolb, Tiller, Bol, Serrano, and Bagues.

At the half-way mark, the lead group – now containing 30-odd riders – had established a lead of five minutes, as Astana and UAE dropped their representatives back to help with the pace-making in the peloton, where Jumbo-Visma’s Tony Martin and others needed assistance.

The gap reached its peak of 6:15 with just over 85km to go when the route turned south-west towards Madrid and the wind direction changed to more of a tailwind. At that point, the cooperation in the lead group appeared to wane, with QuickStep trying to shake some life back into it by briefly sending two riders up the road with Oliveira. In the space of 10km, they gave away almost a minute of their advantage but steadied the ship at around 5:25 with 65km to go.

With around 50km to go came the uncategorised climb, which saw action at both ends of the race. Up front, Jakobsen and Capecchi were among those dropped, limiting QuickStep’s options, while Movistar put the hammer down in the peloton.

It was a huge injection of pace from the Spanish team, who were effectively riding against their own co-leader, Quintana. Their aim, however, was to isolate Roglic, who was already losing teammates, and they succeeded in that. Such was the ferocity of the move, Valverde was away in a six-man group with Roglic, Pogacar, Lopez and teammate Marc Soler for a brief while. They were brought back but by the time the bunch had reformed, it was no longer a peloton at all, containing no more than 20 riders. At that point, with just over 40km to go, the gap was down to 4:30.

From there, however, it started to grow again as the race entered a more settled pattern for the final hour. While Roglic and Pogacar had been isolated, Lopez still had support, with Sanchez in turn dropping back from the break, and it was Astana versus the lead group for much of the run-in. Despite a brief lapse with around 25km to go, when QuickStep again injected some urgency by briefly splitting the group, the leaders got their heads down and their advantage rose all the way to the line.

Going into the final few kilometres, they had 5:15 in hand and attentions turned to stage honours. Despite Jakobsen’s absence, QuickStep used their numbers to good effect, sending Stybar on a solo mission with 2.2km to go. Team Ineos rode hard to shut it down but didn’t quite finish the job, and so with 600m to go, Bennett was tempted into striking out early. A 220km stage ridden at such intensity is a great leveller, and the slight uphill in the final three kilometres only took more of the edge off the Irishman’s speed. And so Gilbert was able to work his way across with just under 200m to go. After a brief moment in the slipstream, he hit out, and Bennett had nothing left to give. He hung on for second place, just ahead of Cavagna.

Kelderman placed fifth, with a two-second gap to Gilbert, while Knox was 10th at six seconds and Quintana 10th at 10 seconds.

Meanwhile the Roglic group, in damage limitation mode, hurried home and stopped the clock almost 5:30 down on Gilbert. Lopez sprinted for home and finished alongside Roglic, Valverde, Pogacar and Majka, while a second group of eight riders, finishing a few seconds further back, was all that was left of the peloton.

Roglic remains in red, his lead more or less intact, but it was a bruising day that suggested the final week of this Vuelta might not be the foregone conclusion that had been feared. Two mountain stages remain, starting with Thursday’s treacherous journey through the sierras north of Madrid. Game on.

Results :
1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 4:20:15
2 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:02
3 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
4 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida
5 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
6 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team
7 Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First
8 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
9 Silvan Dillier (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale
10 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:06
11 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
12 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:00:09
13 Dion Smith (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:10
14 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
15 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Ineos 0:00:19
16 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:30
17 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:38
18 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:51
19 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
20 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:03
21 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:07
22 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Ineos 0:01:14
23 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos 0:02:02
24 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
25 Casper Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:02:09
26 Sam Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:02:22
27 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:04:55
28 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:05:29
29 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
30 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
31 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
32 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
33 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05:32
34 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
35 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
36 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ
37 Hector Saez Benito (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
38 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eri) Dimension Data
39 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott
40 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott 0:05:36
41 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:05:52
42 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:06:34
43 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
44 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
45 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Ineos 0:07:06
46 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:08:12
47 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:10:26
48 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:12:55
49 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:15:52
50 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data
51 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
52 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
53 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel) CCC Team
54 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) CCC Team
55 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:18:56
56 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
57 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Mitchelton-Scott
58 Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
59 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
60 Jetse Bol (Ned) Burgos-BH
61 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo
62 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep
63 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
64 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep
65 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
66 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana Pro Team
67 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team
68 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
69 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team
70 Rasmus Fossum Tiller (Nor) Dimension Data
71 Daniel Martinez (Col) EF Education First
72 Sergio Henao (Col) UAE Team Emirates
73 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
74 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team
75 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) Bora-Hansgrohe
76 Jonathan Lastra Martinez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0:23:36
77 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida
78 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo
79 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
80 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
81 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
82 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
83 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
84 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
85 Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
86 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
87 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
88 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
89 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos
90 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data
91 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First
92 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First
93 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
94 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Ineos
95 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE Team Emirates
96 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
97 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education First
98 Matteo Fabbro (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin
99 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
100 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
101 Romain Seigle (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
102 Mikel Iturria Segurola (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
103 David de la Cruz (Spa) Team Ineos
104 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:24:10
105 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:24:30
106 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
107 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:24:31
108 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
109 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:25:10
110 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
111 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida
112 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 0:25:45
113 Damien Touze (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:29:21
114 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
115 Alexander Aranburu Deba (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
116 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team
117 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
118 Darwin Atapuma (Col) Cofidis Solutions Credits
119 Will Barta (USA) CCC Team
120 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb
121 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
122 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
123 Willem Jakobus Smit (RSA) Katusha-Alpecin
124 Pawel Bernas (Pol) CCC Team
125 Jesus Ezquerra Muela (Spa) Burgos-BH
126 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal
127 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal
128 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data
129 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
130 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin
131 Nuno Matos (Por) Burgos-BH
132 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
133 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
134 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida
135 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data
136 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida
137 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
138 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
139 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
140 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits
141 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:29:55
142 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida 0:30:40
143 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:33:31
144 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Burgos-BH
145 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
146 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits
147 Jorge Cubero Galvez (Spa) Burgos-BH
148 Ricardo Augusto Afonso Vilela (Por) Burgos-BH
149 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
150 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal
151 Steff Cras (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
152 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits
153 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal
154 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin
155 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
156 Diego Rubio Hernandez (Spa) Burgos-BH
157 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos-BH
158 Fernando Barcelo Aragon (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
DNS Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits

General Classification after Stage 17 :
1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 66:43:36
2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:02:24
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:48
4 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:42
5 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:04:09
6 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:05:05
7 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:07:40
8 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:08:03
9 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal 0:10:43
10 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida 0:12:21
11 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:16:56
12 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott 0:17:35
13 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:17:48
14 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:18:33
15 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:28:34
16 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott 0:28:45
17 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida 0:30:12
18 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education First 0:32:31
19 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:35:33
20 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eri) Dimension Data 0:38:06
21 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:42:44
22 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:51:39
23 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:53:16
24 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:58:15
25 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Team Ineos 0:58:45
26 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:59:08
27 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek-Segafredo 1:00:22
28 Ben O’Connor (Aus) Dimension Data
29 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 1:00:32
30 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:02:12
31 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:05:48
32 Neilson Powless (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:09:27
33 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo 1:12:45
34 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 1:14:37
35 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:16:51
36 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:24:48
37 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1:26:29
38 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1:29:29
39 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1:29:40
40 Wout Poels (Ned) Team Ineos 1:32:37
41 Daniel Martinez (Col) EF Education First 1:32:53
42 Felix Großschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:39:13
43 Sergio Henao (Col) UAE Team Emirates 1:40:19
44 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 1:40:28
45 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Dimension Data 1:42:34
46 Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First 1:44:45
47 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data 1:44:53
48 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 1:45:22
49 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Groupama-FDJ 1:45:25
50 Sebastian Henao (Col) Team Ineos 1:47:47
51 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 1:48:34
52 David de la Cruz (Spa) Team Ineos 1:50:46
53 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 1:52:13
54 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:53:45
55 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:54:09
56 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:55:00
57 Damien Howson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 1:56:12
58 Tsgabu Grmay (Eth) Mitchelton-Scott 1:56:13
59 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:59:03
60 Pawel Poljanski (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:00:20
61 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 2:04:13
62 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2:04:17
63 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 2:04:21
64 Matteo Fabbro (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin 2:06:35
65 Valerio Conti (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 2:06:54
66 Darwin Atapuma (Col) Cofidis Solutions Credits 2:08:53
67 Mikel Iturria Segurola (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 2:15:38
68 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:16:43
69 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 2:17:24
70 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2:17:34
71 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana Pro Team 2:21:10
72 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:21:27
73 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 2:23:06
74 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:23:34
75 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:24:42
76 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:24:47
77 Owain Doull (GBr) Team Ineos 2:25:33
78 Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida 2:26:47
79 Steve Morabito (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 2:27:40
80 Steff Cras (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 2:27:52
81 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team 2:30:00
82 Romain Seigle (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 2:31:01
83 Cyril Barthe (Fra) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 2:31:03
84 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 2:31:09
85 Hector Saez Benito (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 2:31:11
86 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 2:32:02
87 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 2:32:08
88 Silvan Dillier (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 2:33:05
89 Fernando Barcelo Aragon (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 2:33:51
90 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 2:35:06
91 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2:36:54
92 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos 2:37:42
93 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 2:39:43
94 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits 2:39:49
95 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) CCC Team 2:41:41
96 Alexander Aranburu Deba (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:43:14
97 Dion Smith (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 2:43:45
98 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team 2:44:09
99 Ricardo Augusto Afonso Vilela (Por) Burgos-BH 2:44:28
100 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Dimension Data 2:50:10
101 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 2:52:54
102 Casper Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb 2:55:32
103 Jonathan Lastra Martinez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2:56:37
104 Sam Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 2:58:09
105 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Ineos 2:59:04
106 Sergei Chernetski (Rus) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:00:07
107 Jetse Bol (Ned) Burgos-BH 3:02:50
108 Harm Vanhoucke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:04:14
109 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 3:08:04
110 Willem Jakobus Smit (RSA) Katusha-Alpecin 3:08:05
111 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Burgos-BH 3:09:00
112 Michael Storer (Aus) Team Sunweb 3:09:47
113 Damien Touze (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 3:12:55
114 Domen Novak (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 3:13:03
115 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis Solutions Credits 3:13:12
116 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 3:13:52
117 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:14:05
118 Oscar Cabedo Carda (Spa) Burgos-BH 3:14:56
119 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 3:15:10
120 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 3:15:12
121 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel) CCC Team 3:15:16
122 Rasmus Fossum Tiller (Nor) Dimension Data 3:18:21
123 Jesus Ezquerra Muela (Spa) Burgos-BH 3:19:08
124 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Katusha-Alpecin 3:19:49
125 Manuele Boaro (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3:22:33
126 Alex Kirsch (Lux) Trek-Segafredo 3:22:43
127 Mitchell Docker (Aus) EF Education First 3:22:54
128 Will Barta (USA) CCC Team 3:23:05
129 Aritz Bagues Kalparsoro (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 3:23:26
130 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 3:24:18
131 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias 3:25:55
132 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain-Merida 3:27:39
133 Logan Owen (USA) EF Education First 3:28:33
134 Gonzalo Serrano Rodriguez (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:30:30
135 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 3:31:47
136 Jaco Venter (RSA) Dimension Data 3:31:52
137 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 3:34:27
138 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr) Team Ineos 3:34:58
139 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Team Sunweb 3:35:59
140 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:37:25
141 Jorge Cubero Galvez (Spa) Burgos-BH 3:42:30
142 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3:42:39
143 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 3:45:53
144 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 3:46:10
145 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE Team Emirates 3:46:28
146 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 3:47:26
147 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team 3:52:39
148 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep 3:52:49
149 Diego Rubio Hernandez (Spa) Burgos-BH 3:53:11
150 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE Team Emirates 3:56:48
151 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 3:57:11
152 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep 3:57:39
153 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma 3:59:20
154 Pawel Bernas (Pol) CCC Team 4:09:33
155 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 4:15:21
156 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora-Hansgrohe 4:20:09
157 Nuno Matos (Por) Burgos-BH 4:32:53
158 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:43:30