Sunday, May 15: Stage 9, Isernia - Blockhaus, 191 km
Jai Hindley (on right) is fastest of the Blockhaus survivors. RCS Sport photo
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Weather at the city of Roccamorice, on the route, about 13 km from the finish, at 2:15 PM, local time: 26C (77F), sunny, with the wind from the northeast at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 75% chance of very light rain, declining to 33% at 5:00 PM.
Info about the route: A queen stage across the Apennines, with a 5,000 m elevation gain. Shortly after the start, the route clears the Valico del Macerone and the challenging Rionero Sannitico ascent, continuing uphill all the way to Roccaraso. A long undulating descent follows (nearly 90 km), leading to the foot of the first ascent to Passo Lanciano (coming from Pretoro). Next, the route drops into Lettomanoppello, cutting across a few urban areas, and starts to go up again in Scafa. The final climb (13 km) begins past Roccamorice.
Profile of the blockhaus climb
Final kilometers:
The last 13 km go up steadily on narrow road, with several hairpins. Gradients are over 9% for almost 10 km, with peaks reaching as high as 14%. There is a very short countersloping stretch 500 m before the finish. The home straight (200 m long, on 6-m wide tarmac) has an uphill gradient of approx. 8%.
The race: Here's the report from second-place Romain Bardet's Team DSM.
A blockbuster of a finale awaited the peloton this afternoon, as they took on a brutally tough day in the mountains and a finish atop the climb of Blockhaus. Leaving the neutralized zone in Isernia the peloton were immediately met with a trio of challenging climbs, where Nico Denz rode well to mark out several larger attacks that looked to form. Eventually the elastic snapped though and a breakaway went clear, with all Team DSM riders in the peloton, focusing on conserving energy and staying safe for later in the day.
As the stage progressed, the time to those ahead dwindled and going over the top of the penultimate climb they lead by three minutes, where Cees Bol, Alberto Dainese and Nico Denz had done a great job to position the guys. A fast descent followed before the riders immediately bounced back, with almost 26 kilometers of climbing from there to the line. Romain Combaud and Martijn Tusveld did the early positioning work as the break was caught, before Chris Hamilton took over in guiding Romain Bardet and Thymen Arensman in the ever-thinning GC group.
It became a race of attrition as riders dropped from the group one-by-one, with Arensman and Bardet making the final selection of around 12. Inside five kilometres to go Carapaz made his move, which split the group to pieces, with Bardet and Landa quickly onto his wheel, while Arensman rode at his own steady tempo as he fought to return. The pace remained high but a trio of chasers clawed their way back as the pace in Bardet’s group slowed. Heading into the final Bardet tried two attacks but he was unable to shake Carapaz and Landa from his wheel, so once again the trailing trio made it back; setting up a group sprint of six for the stage win.
Heading around the final it would be Hindley who kicked early, just holding on to take the stage win ahead of Bardet who fought back from deep, claiming a brilliant second place on the line. Behind, Arensman’s steady tempo saw him pick past a few other riders and end the day in tenth place; making for a strong double top ten finish on the day. With gaps amongst the GC riders, Bardet moves up to third place overall for Team DSM ahead of tomorrow’s rest day.
“I think from a GC perspective we are in a good place,” explained Bardet. “We are where we need to be. It was really great, we’ve felt in control so far in the Giro – the guys have rode amazingly well. Of course today there is a bit of frustration because I would liked to have won but there are still plenty of stages left and for sure we are a good position so we can end the first week on a high note.”
Team DSM coach Matt Winston added: “The guys did a super job today once again to look after Romain at all of the key moments and then on the climb, with him taking second and moving into third on GC. I think we’ve done a really good week of teamwork which has brought us into this position. We’ve rode in a really controlled way, been in the front when we needed to be for the important moments. We’re in a really nice position in the race with second today and third on GC; for sure we would have taken that at the start of the race going into the first rest day.”
Complete results:
191 kilometers raced at an average speed of 34.236 km/hr
1 | Jai Hindley | BORA-hansgrohe | 5hr 34min 44sec |
2 | Romain Bardet | Team DSM | s.t. |
3 | Richard Carapaz | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
4 | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
5 | Joao Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
6 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | @ 3sec |
7 | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:16 |
8 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:34 |
9 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | 0:46 |
10 | Thymen Arensman | Team DSM | 0:58 |
11 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 1:08 |
12 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
13 | Jan Hirt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:39 |
14 | Lorenzo Fortunato | EOLO-Kometa | 1:42 |
15 | Juan Pedro Lopez | Trek-Segafredo | 1:46 |
16 | Hugh Carthy | EF Education-EasyPost | 3:48 |
17 | Richie Porte | INEOS Grenadiers | 4:01 |
18 | Sam Oomen | Jumbo-Visma | 4:34 |
19 | Lennard Kamna | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
20 | Ivan Sosa | Movistar | s.t. |
21 | Mikael Cherel | Ag2r-Citroen | 6:51 |
22 | Wout Poels | Bahrain Victorious | 7:00 |
23 | Davide Formolo | UAE Team Emirates | 8:17 |
24 | Vadim Pronskiy | Astana Qazaqstan | 8:34 |
25 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 8:57 |
26 | Koen Bouwman | Jumbo-Visma | 9:05 |
27 | Mattias Jensen | Trek-Segafredo | 9:26 |
28 | Giulio Ciccone | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
29 | Pavel Sivakov | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
30 | Chris Hamilton | Team DSM | s.t. |
31 | Alessandro De Marchi | Israel-Premier Tech | 9:29 |
32 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 9:33 |
33 | Wilco Kelderman | BORA-hansgrohe | 10:53 |
34 | Simon Yates | BikeExchange-Jayco | 11:15 |
35 | Lucas Hamilton | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
36 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 12:13 |
37 | Mauri Vansevenant | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 12:49 |
38 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
39 | Tom Dumoulin | Jumbo-Visma | 14:12 |
40 | Rein Taaramae | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
41 | Domen Novak | Bahrain Victorious | 15:36 |
42 | Santiago Buitrago | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
43 | Joe Dombrowski | Astana Qazaqstan | 16:21 |
44 | Martijn Tusveld | Team DSM | 17:36 |
45 | Nans Peters | Ag2r-Citroen | 18:07 |
46 | Rui Costa | UAE Team Emirates | 18:20 |
47 | Fabio Felline | Astana Qazaqstan | 19:47 |
48 | Attila Valter | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
49 | Alessandro Covi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
50 | Romain Combaud | Team DSM | 21:11 |
51 | Ben Tulett | INEOS Grenadiers | 22:14 |
52 | Tobias Foss | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
53 | Harold Tejada | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
54 | Damien Howson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 23:04 |
55 | Dario Cataldo | Trek-Segafredo | 23:24 |
56 | Diego Rosa | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
57 | Jhonnatan Narvaez | INEOS Grenadiers | 23:35 |
58 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
59 | Merhawi Kudus | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
60 | Ben Zwiehoff | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
61 | Andrii Ponomar | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
62 | Gijs Leemreize | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
63 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
64 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
65 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
66 | Giovanni Aleotti | BORA-hansgrohe | 24:01 |
67 | Mauro Schmid | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
68 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | 25:03 |
69 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
70 | Felix Gall | Ag2r-Citroen | 26:49 |
71 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | 27:27 |
72 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 28:56 |
73 | Francesco Gavazzi | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
74 | Erik Fetter | EOLO-Kometa | 31:39 |
75 | Tobias Bayer | Alpecin-Fenix | 33:15 |
76 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | s.t. |
77 | William Barta | Movistar | s.t. |
78 | Patrick Gamper | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
79 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
80 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | s.t. |
81 | Nico Denz | Team DSM | s.t. |
82 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
83 | Jasha Sutterlin | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
84 | Davide Gabburo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
85 | Jos Van Emden | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
86 | David De La Cruz | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
87 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
88 | Alexander Krieger | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
89 | Alexander Cepeda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
90 | Vincenzo Albanese | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
91 | Natnael Tesfazion | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
92 | Dries De Bondt | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
93 | James Knox | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 33:21 |
94 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis | 33:46 |
95 | Lilian Calmejane | Ag2r-Citroen | 33:54 |
96 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | 33:57 |
97 | Callum Scotson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 35min 15sec |
98 | Matteo Sobrero | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
99 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
100 | Davide Villella | Cofidis | 35:18 |
101 | Valerio Conti | Astana Qazaqstan | 35:52 |
102 | Stefano Oldani | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
103 | Edoardo Affini | Jumbo-Visma | 36:10 |
104 | Lawson Craddock | BikeExchange-Jayco | 38:13 |
105 | Diego Camargo | EF Education-EasyPost | 38:15 |
106 | Magnus Cort | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
107 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
108 | Sacha Modolo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 38:18 |
109 | Davide Ballerini | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 38:20 |
110 | Mattia Bais | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 39:14 |
111 | Mirco Maestri | EOLO-Kometa | 39:21 |
112 | Cesare Benedetti | BORA-hansgrohe | 39:29 |
113 | Wesley Kreder | Cofidis | s.t. |
114 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 40:56 |
115 | Michael Hepburn | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
116 | Oscar Riesebeek | Alpecin-Fenix | 42:32 |
117 | Aime De Gendt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
118 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto Soudal | 43:59 |
119 | Luca Rastelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 44:01 |
120 | Sylvain Moniquet | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
121 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
122 | Samuele Rivi | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
123 | Reto Hollenstein | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
124 | Alexander Cataford | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
125 | Jaakko Hanninen | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
126 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
127 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | s.t. |
128 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
129 | Simone Ravanelli | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
130 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
131 | Otto Vergaerde | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
132 | Matthias Brandle | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
133 | Davide Bais | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
134 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
135 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
136 | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
137 | Lawrence Naesen | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
138 | Nicolas Prodhomme | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
139 | Clement Davy | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
140 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
141 | Barnabas Peak | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
142 | Oier Lazkano | Movistar | s.t. |
143 | Michael Schwarzmann | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
144 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
145 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
146 | Roger Kluge | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
147 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 44:09 |
148 | Maximiliano Richeze | UAE Team Emirates | 44:29 |
149 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
150 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
151 | Filippo Tagliani | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 44:49 |
152 | Jenthe Biermans | Israel-Premier Tech | 44:58 |
153 | Rick Zabel | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
154 | Alberto Dainese | Team DSM | s.t. |
155 | Edoardo Zardini | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
156 | Arnaud Demare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
157 | Alex Dowsett | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
158 | Davide Cimolai | Cofidis | s.t. |
159 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
160 | Pieter Serry | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
161 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
162 | Mark Cavendish | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
163 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 45:02 |
164 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto Soudal | 45:44 |
165 | Cees Bol | Team DSM | 45:46 |
166 | Julius Van Den Berg | EF Education-EasyPost | 45:52 |
GC after stage 9:
1,482.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.142 km/hr
1 | Juan Pedro Lopez | Trek-Segafredo | 37hr 52min 1sec |
2 | Joao Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | @ 12sec |
3 | Romain Bardet | Team DSM | 0:14 |
4 | Richard Carapaz | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:15 |
5 | Jai Hindley | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:20 |
6 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 0:28 |
7 | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Victorious | 0:29 |
8 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:54 |
9 | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:09 |
10 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | 1:22 |
11 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | 1:23 |
12 | Thymen Arensman | Team DSM | 1:27 |
13 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Qazaqstan | 3:04 |
14 | Jan Hirt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 3:09 |
15 | Lennard Kamna | BORA-hansgrohe | 3:26 |
16 | Richie Porte | INEOS Grenadiers | 4:19 |
17 | Hugh Carthy | EF Education-EasyPost | 4:22 |
18 | Lorenzo Fortunato | EOLO-Kometa | 5:49 |
19 | Ivan Sosa | Movistar | 5:53 |
20 | Sam Oomen | Jumbo-Visma | 7:21 |
21 | Koen Bouwman | Jumbo-Visma | 9:38 |
22 | Giulio Ciccone | Trek-Segafredo | 10:12 |
23 | Pavel Sivakov | INEOS Grenadiers | 10:52 |
24 | Wilco Kelderman | BORA-hansgrohe | 11:02 |
25 | Simon Yates | BikeExchange-Jayco | 11:11 |
26 | Lucas Hamilton | BikeExchange-Jayco | 11:56 |
27 | Mauri Vansevenant | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 12:50 |
28 | Rein Taaramae | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 13:24 |
29 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | 13:46 |
30 | Davide Formolo | UAE Team Emirates | 13:56 |
31 | Santiago Buitrago | Bahrain Victorious | 16:08 |
32 | Mikael Cherel | Ag2r-Citroen | 17:44 |
33 | Tom Dumoulin | Jumbo-Visma | 18:06 |
34 | Chris Hamilton | Team DSM | 20:25 |
35 | Vadim Pronskiy | Astana Qazaqstan | 21:10 |
36 | Joe Dombrowski | Astana Qazaqstan | 22:29 |
37 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 22:56 |
38 | Tobias Foss | Jumbo-Visma | 24:42 |
39 | Gijs Leemreize | Jumbo-Visma | 27:08 |
40 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 29:27 |
41 | Damien Howson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 31:31 |
42 | Felix Gall | Ag2r-Citroen | 31:51 |
43 | Attila Valter | Groupama-FDJ | 33:38 |
44 | Rui Costa | UAE Team Emirates | 34:33 |
45 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Education-EasyPost | 36:05 |
46 | Jhonnatan Narvaez | INEOS Grenadiers | 36:07 |
47 | Mattias Jensen | Trek-Segafredo | 37:01 |
48 | Alessandro Covi | UAE Team Emirates | 37:16 |
49 | Ben Tulett | INEOS Grenadiers | 38:45 |
50 | Davide Villella | Cofidis | 39:37 |
51 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | 42:16 |
52 | Merhawi Kudus | EF Education-EasyPost | 43:35 |
53 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 45:04 |
54 | Domen Novak | Bahrain Victorious | 45:48 |
55 | Wout Poels | Bahrain Victorious | 46:37 |
56 | Harold Tejada | Astana Qazaqstan | 46:50 |
57 | Nans Peters | Ag2r-Citroen | 47:00 |
58 | Davide Gabburo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 48:40 |
59 | Martijn Tusveld | Team DSM | 49:03 |
60 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | 49:19 |
61 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | 50:00 |
62 | Fabio Felline | Astana Qazaqstan | 52:37 |
63 | Giovanni Aleotti | BORA-hansgrohe | 53:15 |
64 | Stefano Oldani | Alpecin-Fenix | 54:10 |
65 | Vincenzo Albanese | EOLO-Kometa | 54:11 |
66 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Jumbo-Visma | 55:52 |
67 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | 57:15 |
68 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | 57:46 |
69 | Francesco Gavazzi | EOLO-Kometa | 59:35 |
70 | Sylvain Moniquet | Lotto Soudal | 1:00:24 |
71 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | 1:01:52 |
72 | Diego Camargo | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:02:30 |
73 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:02:43 |
74 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:04:24 |
75 | William Barta | Movistar | 1:05:17 |
76 | Valerio Conti | Astana Qazaqstan | 1:05:39 |
77 | Ben Zwiehoff | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:07:14 |
78 | Alessandro De Marchi | Israel-Premier Tech | 1:07:34 |
79 | Dario Cataldo | Trek-Segafredo | 1:08:07 |
80 | Lilian Calmejane | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:11:16 |
81 | Diego Rosa | EOLO-Kometa | 1:11:53 |
82 | Matteo Sobrero | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:12:30 |
83 | James Knox | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 1:12:44 |
84 | Mauro Schmid | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 1:14:45 |
85 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:15:53 |
86 | Edoardo Zardini | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:18:55 |
87 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:19:42 |
88 | Natnael Tesfazion | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:20:16 |
89 | Jos Van Emden | Jumbo-Visma | 1:20:20 |
90 | Jaakko Hanninen | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:21:08 |
91 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | 1:21:56 |
92 | Nicolas Prodhomme | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:24:01 |
93 | Mattia Bais | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:24:02 |
94 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:24:03 |
95 | David De La Cruz | Astana Qazaqstan | 1:24:18 |
96 | Alexander Krieger | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:24:31 |
97 | Erik Fetter | EOLO-Kometa | 1:25:04 |
98 | Jasha Sutterlin | Bahrain Victorious | 1:25:24 |
99 | Callum Scotson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:26:28 |
100 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis | 1:27:09 |
101 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:27:13 |
102 | Alexander Cepeda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:27:22 |
103 | Alexander Cataford | Israel-Premier Tech | 1:27:34 |
104 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:27:51 |
105 | Edoardo Affini | Jumbo-Visma | 1:30:52 |
106 | Simone Ravanelli | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:31:12 |
107 | Magnus Cort | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:31:36 |
108 | Mirco Maestri | EOLO-Kometa | 1:34:22 |
109 | Andrii Ponomar | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:34:40 |
110 | Romain Combaud | Team DSM | s.t. |
111 | Tobias Bayer | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:36:40 |
112 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:39:09 |
113 | Lawson Craddock | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:40:19 |
114 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Groupama-FDJ | 1:40:21 |
115 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 1:40:53 |
116 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:41:19 |
117 | Michael Hepburn | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:44:02 |
118 | Patrick Gamper | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:46:24 |
119 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:46:57 |
120 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:47:59 |
121 | Sacha Modolo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:48:46 |
122 | Dries De Bondt | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:50:42 |
123 | Luca Rastelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:51:42 |
124 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 1:52:41 |
125 | Cesare Benedetti | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:54:20 |
126 | Lawrence Naesen | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:54:21 |
127 | Oier Lazkano | Movistar | 1:54:22 |
128 | Aime De Gendt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:55:01 |
129 | Davide Bais | EOLO-Kometa | 1:55:17 |
130 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | 1:56:21 |
131 | Oscar Riesebeek | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:57:37 |
132 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 1:58:30 |
133 | Davide Cimolai | Cofidis | 1:59:09 |
134 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 1:59:10 |
135 | Samuele Rivi | EOLO-Kometa | 1:59:51 |
136 | Wesley Kreder | Cofidis | 2:00:52 |
137 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | 2:01:57 |
138 | Barnabas Peak | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 2:02:03 |
139 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto Soudal | 2:02:38 |
140 | Davide Ballerini | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 2:02:52 |
141 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | 2:03:00 |
142 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:03:23 |
143 | Jenthe Biermans | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:04:35 |
144 | Alberto Dainese | Team DSM | 2:04:46 |
145 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | 2:05:45 |
146 | Reto Hollenstein | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:06:06 |
147 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | 2:06:11 |
148 | Otto Vergaerde | Trek-Segafredo | 2:06:26 |
149 | Rick Zabel | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:06:41 |
150 | Cees Bol | Team DSM | 2:07:09 |
151 | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain Victorious | 2:07:10 |
152 | Maximiliano Richeze | UAE Team Emirates | 2:07:37 |
153 | Nico Denz | Team DSM | 2:09:14 |
154 | Alex Dowsett | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:10:01 |
155 | Julius Van Den Berg | EF Education-EasyPost | 2:10:24 |
156 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto Soudal | 2:10:29 |
157 | Filippo Tagliani | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 2:10:35 |
158 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto Soudal | 2:13:54 |
159 | Michael Schwarzmann | Lotto Soudal | 2:14:06 |
160 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 2:18:10 |
161 | Matthias Brandle | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:19:24 |
162 | Roger Kluge | Lotto Soudal | 2:20:21 |
163 | Clement Davy | Groupama-FDJ | 2:23:09 |
164 | Mark Cavendish | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 2:26:16 |
165 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 2:26:33 |
166 | Pieter Serry | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 2:27:14 |
Stage nine map & profile:
Stage 9 map
Stage 9 profile
Stage nine photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Starting ceremonies. This is Magnus Cort Nielsen
Points classification leader Arnaud Démare signs autographs before the stage start.
Lined up and ready to race.
From the back of the pack before the start.
Diego Rosa on the Passo Lanciano
Here comes the lead group.
Jai Hindley wins the stage.
Lucas Hamilton & Simon Yates finish more than eleven minutes after Hindley wins the stage.
Juan Pedro Lopez fished fifteenth. Good enough to keep the Maglia Rosa.
Alejandro Valverde finished eleventh.
Emanuel Buchmann was seventh.
Juan Pedro Lopez just after finishing the stage. He looks like he knows he's still the GC leader.
Stage winner Jai Hindley
Juan Pedro Lopez just barely kept the GC lead. Just 12 seconds separate him from 2nd-place Joao Almeida