2022 Giro d'Italia Stage 20 by BikeRaceInfo

3 km to go, Jai Hindley has just dropped race leader Richard Carapaz on the Marmolada. There is a pink jersey waiting for Hindley at the top. RCS Sport photo

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Weather at Malga Ciapela, on the final ascent, 6km from the finish, at 1:15 PM, local time: 14C (57F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the northeast at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is a 17% chance of rain.

Info about the route: A colossal stage through the Dolomites, and the last summit finish of the 2022 Giro d’Italia. Starting in Belluno, and taking a short diversion across the valley of the Piave river through Sedico, Santa Giustina and Sospirolo, the route passes Agordo and Cencenighe, crossing the Val Cordevole upstream. The stage finale features three consecutive climbs: Passo di San Pellegrino (with gradients exceeding 15% past Falcade), Passo Pordoi (the 2022 Cima Coppi), and Passo Fedaia, where the gradients hover steadily above 10%, topping out at 18% in the 6 km past Malga Ciapela.

Final kilometers:
The ramps are steep over the last 14 km. After a technical ascent from Caprile to Rocca Pietore, the route becomes a 2% false-flat up. The gradients go up again past Sottoguda, then the road dips a little before Malga Ciapela (passing through a curved, well-lit tunnel). The average gradient over the last 6 km is around 12%, with a mid-climb 18% peak. The home straight is flat, on tarmac road.

The race: About 1/3 into the stage David De La Cruz (Astana Qazaqstan) abandoned.

Here's the report from stage winner Alessandro Covi's UAE Team Emirates:

Alessandro Covi took the biggest win of his young career by soloing to an impressive victory on Stage 20 of the Giro D’Italia from Belluno to Marmolada (Passo Fedaia) (168km).

Alessandro Covi wins the stage. RCS Sport photo

The 23-year old gave the Emirati squad reason for celebration as he went clear from long range at 53km to go, from a numerous breakaway which also contained Davide Formolo.

The man from Taino, Italy pulled out a big gap as the group behind stalled, with Formolo’s teamwork interrupting any serious chase.

His closest rival was Domen Novak (Bahrain-Victorius) who went in pursuit of Covi but could not get near the flying ‘Puma’.

On his way to victory Covi also picked up the prestigious prize of the ‘Cima Coppi’ for the first rider over the crest of the Passo Pordoi the highest point of this years Giro D’Italia.

Covi : “I had a chance in these last three stages and I wanted to take a stage home. It was the teams objective to win a stage since we sadly lost Almeida with illness and we can leave the Giro on a happier note. I attacked from far out, I’m not a real climber so I thought I had to take an advantage on the others before the climb and in the end it worked out right. When I was on my own I went full gas and pushed on without worrying about the legs, although I’m glad the line came when it did as cramps were on the way. I did the best I could and I got there in the end.”

The Giro comes to an end tomorrow in Verona with a 17.4km time trial.

Complete results:

Stage 20 photos

168 kilometers raced at an average speed of 35.175 km/hr

1	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	4hr 46min 34sec
2	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	@ 32sec
3	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	0:37
4	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	1:36
5	Thymen Arensman	Team DSM	1:50
6	Jai Hindley	BORA-hansgrohe	2:30
7	Gijs Leemreize	Jumbo-Visma	3:04
8	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	3:19
9	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
10	Lennard Kämna	BORA-hansgrohe	3:39
11	Richard Carapaz	INEOS Grenadiers	3:58
12	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
13	Lorenzo Fortunato	EOLO-Kometa	4:07
14	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:25
15	Sam Oomen	Jumbo-Visma	4:31
16	Juan Pedro Lopez	Trek-Segafredo	4:33
17	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana Qazaqstan	4:37
18	Lucas Hamilton	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:48
19	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	s.t.
20	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	5:06
21	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	5:18
22	Emanuel Buchmann	BORA-hansgrohe	5:30
23	Domenico Pozzovivo	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	5:42
24	Alejandro Valverde	Movistar	6:00
25	Diego Camargo	EF Education-EasyPost	6:55
26	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	6:59
27	Wilco Kelderman	BORA-hansgrohe	7:01
28	Davide Villella	Cofidis	7:50
29	Nicolas Prodhomme	Ag2r-Citroën	8:38
30	Vadim Pronskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	9:06
31	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	9:07
32	Ben Tulett	INEOS Grenadiers	10:05
33	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	10:11
34	Damien Howson	BikeExchange-Jayco	10:17
35	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	10:44
36	Mattias Jensen	Trek-Segafredo	11:13
37	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	11:49
38	Fabio Felline	Astana Qazaqstan	11:55
39	James Knox	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	12:34
40	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	12:56
41	Luca Covili	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	13:06
42	Eduardo Sepulveda	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	13:20
43	Edoardo Zardini	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	13:25
44	Davide Ballerini	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	13:41
45	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	14:05
46	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r-Citroën	14:06
47	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	14:08
48	Sylvain Moniquet	Lotto Soudal	14:55
49	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	15:09
50	Rui Costa	UAE Team Emirates	16:38
51	Attila Valter	Groupama-FDJ	17:29
52	Ben Zwiehoff	BORA-hansgrohe	17:53
53	William Barta	Movistar	s.t.
54	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
55	Felix Gall	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
56	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
57	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	18:29
58	Mauri Vansevenant	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	18:37
59	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Jumbo-Visma	18:58
60	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	18:59
61	Mathieu Van Der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	19:29
62	Oier Lazkano	Movistar	s.t.
63	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
64	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	20:19
65	Davide Gabburo	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
66	Merhawi Kudus	EF Education-EasyPost	20:32
67	Rémy Rochas	Cofidis	s.t.
68	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	22:33
69	Luca Rastelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
70	Jorge Arcas	Movistar	23:31
71	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	24:14
72	Dario Cataldo	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
73	Otto Vergaerde	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
74	Vincenzo Albanese	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
75	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	24:28
76	Nico Denz	Team DSM	27:58
77	Jenthe Biermans	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
78	Reto Hollenstein	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
79	Jose Joaquin Rojas	Movistar	28:45
80	Ivan Sosa	Movistar	s.t.
81	Francesco Gavazzi	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
82	Diego Rosa	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
83	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
84	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
85	Stefano Oldani	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
86	Giovanni Aleotti	BORA-hansgrohe	28:48
87	Matteo Sobrero	BikeExchange-Jayco	28:50
88	Jos Van Emden	Jumbo-Visma	28:57
89	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Fenix	s.t.
90	Callum Scotson	BikeExchange-Jayco	29:03
91	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	29:18
92	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	29:21
93	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	29:47
94	Samuele Rivi	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
95	Matthew Holmes	Lotto Soudal	29:57
96	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
97	Erik Fetter	EOLO-Kometa	34:22
98	Romain Combaud	Team DSM	36:08
99	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
100	Simone Ravanelli	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	36:40
101	Mattia Bais	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
102	Mirco Maestri	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
103	Barnabas Peak	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	36:45
104	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	37:04
105	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	37:13
106	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel-Premier Tech	38:12
107	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	39:21
108	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	s.t.
109	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Fenix	40:25
110	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	40:37
111	Lawrence Naesen	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
112	Alex Dowsett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
113	Alexander Cataford	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
114	Senne Leysen	Alpecin-Fenix	40:38
115	Michael Hepburn	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
116	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
117	Cesare Benedetti	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
118	Dries De Bondt	Alpecin-Fenix	40:46
119	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	40:56
120	Ramon Sinkeldam	Groupama-FDJ	41:00
121	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
122	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
123	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
124	Clément Davy	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
125	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
126	Filippo Tagliani	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
127	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
128	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
129	Patrick Gamper	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
130	Andrii Ponomar	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	s.t.
131	Davide Bais	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
132	Edward Theuns	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
133	Michael Schwarzmann	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
134	Matthias Brändle	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
135	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
136	Davide Cimolai	Cofidis	41:09:
137	Wesley Kreder	Cofidis	s.t.
138	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	s.t.
139	Lawson Craddock	BikeExchange-Jayco	41:15
140	Julius Van Den Berg	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
141	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
142	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	42:14
143	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
144	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
145	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	42:34
146	Pieter Serry	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	42:36
147	Mauro Schmid	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
148	Bert Van Lerberghe	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
149	Mark Cavendish	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.

GC after stage 20:

GC leader: Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe)
Mountains classification leader: Koen Bouwman (Jumbo-Visma)
Points classification leader: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ)
Best young rider: Juan Pedro Lopez (Trek-Segafredo)
Team classification leader: Bahrain Victorious

3,428.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.806 km/hr

1	Jai Hindley	BORA-hansgrohe	86hr 7min 19sec
2	Richard Carapaz	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 1min 25sec
3	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	1:51
4	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana Qazaqstan	7:57
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	8:55
6	Jan Hirt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	9:07
7	Emanuel Buchmann	BORA-hansgrohe	11:18
8	Domenico Pozzovivo	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	16:04
9	Juan Pedro Lopez	Trek-Segafredo	17:29
10	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	17:56
11	Alejandro Valverde	Movistar	21:38
12	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	23:25
13	Lucas Hamilton	BikeExchange-Jayco	27:41
14	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	28:00
15	Lorenzo Fortunato	EOLO-Kometa	32:03
16	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	40:35
17	Wilco Kelderman	BORA-hansgrohe	41:14
18	Thymen Arensman	Team DSM	43:39
19	Lennard Kämna	BORA-hansgrohe	43:58
20	Sam Oomen	Jumbo-Visma	1:03:07
21	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	1:05:59
22	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	1:10:49
23	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r-Citroën	1:19:44
24	Luca Covili	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	1:28:39
25	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	1:31:12
26	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	1:40:10
27	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	1:48:22
28	Gijs Leemreize	Jumbo-Visma	1:59:23
29	Vadim Pronskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	2:01:59
30	Mauri Vansevenant	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	2:02:33
31	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	2:07:40
32	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:09:06
33	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	2:13:00
34	Damien Howson	BikeExchange-Jayco	2:14:07
35	Attila Valter	Groupama-FDJ	2:15:19
36	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	2:19:44
37	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	2:25:29
38	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	2:27:32
39	Ben Tulett	INEOS Grenadiers	2:27:45
40	Mattias Jensen	Trek-Segafredo	2:32:53
41	Rui Costa	UAE Team Emirates	2:35:05
42	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	2:35:27
43	Fabio Felline	Astana Qazaqstan	2:36:24
44	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	2:38:00
45	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	2:47:37
46	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:48:34
47	Ivan Sosa	Movistar	2:51:51
48	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:52:48
49	Sylvain Moniquet	Lotto Soudal	2:52:56
50	Felix Gall	Ag2r-Citroën	2:56:55
51	Ben Zwiehoff	BORA-hansgrohe	2:58:14
52	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:03:05
53	Davide Gabburo	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:07:23
54	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	3:08:53
55	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	3:09:31
56	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	3:12:04
57	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	3:14:50
58	Mathieu Van Der Poel	Alpecin-Fenix	3:15:30
59	William Barta	Movistar	3:16:34
60	Jorge Arcas	Movistar	3:17:04
61	Merhawi Kudus	EF Education-EasyPost	3:17:30
62	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Jumbo-Visma	3:20:04
63	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	3:20:59
64	Davide Villella	Cofidis	3:22:18
65	Nicolas Prodhomme	Ag2r-Citroën	3:25:27
66	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	3:25:48
67	Francesco Gavazzi	EOLO-Kometa	3:33:03
68	Jose Joaquin Rojas	Movistar	3:34:22
69	Vincenzo Albanese	EOLO-Kometa	3:34:50
70	Rémy Rochas	Cofidis	3:44:32
71	Matteo Sobrero	BikeExchange-Jayco	3:46:15
72	Giovanni Aleotti	BORA-hansgrohe	3:46:57
73	Dario Cataldo	Trek-Segafredo	3:47:23
74	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto Soudal	3:49:39
75	Eduardo Sepulveda	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	3:52:01
76	Mauro Schmid	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	3:52:36
77	Diego Rosa	EOLO-Kometa	3:57:33
78	Edoardo Zardini	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	4:01:16
79	Diego Camargo	EF Education-EasyPost	4:04:09
80	Callum Scotson	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:04:42
81	James Knox	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:08:19
82	Mattia Bais	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	4:10:00
83	Stefano Oldani	Alpecin-Fenix	4:11:41
84	Erik Fetter	EOLO-Kometa	4:12:33
85	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	4:12:51
86	Lilian Calmejane	Ag2r-Citroën	4:15:54
87	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	4:22:45
88	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	4:25:44
89	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r-Citroën	4:29:42
90	Jos Van Emden	Jumbo-Visma	4:30:45
91	Simone Ravanelli	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	4:31:04
92	Alessandro De Marchi	Israel-Premier Tech	4:34:05
93	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:39:40
94	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	4:41:43
95	Mirco Maestri	EOLO-Kometa	4:44:27
96	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	4:45:04
97	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	4:48:12
98	Oier Lazkano	Movistar	4:50:56
99	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Fenix	4:56:07
100	Davide Ballerini	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:56:48
101	Alexander Cataford	Israel-Premier Tech	4:58:17
102	Aimé De Gendt	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	5:00:10
103	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	5:00:40
104	Romain Combaud	Team DSM	5:01:20
105	Tobias Ludvigsson	Groupama-FDJ	5:02:11
106	Patrick Gamper	BORA-hansgrohe	5:11:07
107	Luca Rastelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:11:09
108	Lawson Craddock	BikeExchange-Jayco	5:12:37
109	Dries De Bondt	Alpecin-Fenix	5:15:31
110	Barnabas Peak	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	5:18:43
111	Nico Denz	Team DSM	5:22:02
112	Sacha Modolo	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:25:00
113	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Fenix	5:26:27
114	Michael Hepburn	BikeExchange-Jayco	5:26:42
115	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	5:27:22
116	Andrii Ponomar	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	5:31:33
117	Matthew Holmes	Lotto Soudal	5:32:04
118	Otto Vergaerde	Trek-Segafredo	5:36:52
119	Senne Leysen	Alpecin-Fenix	5:37:26
120	Cesare Benedetti	BORA-hansgrohe	5:38:50
121	Jenthe Biermans	Israel-Premier Tech	5:39:59
122	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	5:40:00
123	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	5:40:05
124	Lawrence Naesen	Ag2r-Citroën	5:43:34
125	Davide Bais	EOLO-Kometa	5:45:36
126	Samuele Rivi	EOLO-Kometa	5:47:06
127	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	5:47:12
128	Fernando Gaviria	UAE Team Emirates	5:47:55
129	Reto Hollenstein	Israel-Premier Tech	5:49:10
130	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	5:52:35
131	Edward Theuns	Trek-Segafredo	5:55:02
132	Ramon Sinkeldam	Groupama-FDJ	5:57:32
133	Michael Schwarzmann	Lotto Soudal	6:05:45
134	Alex Dowsett	Israel-Premier Tech	6:07:16
135	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	6:13:28
136	Davide Cimolai	Cofidis	6:14:01
137	Rick Zabel	Israel-Premier Tech	6:16:43
138	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	6:17:48
139	Wesley Kreder	Cofidis	6:19:28
140	Julius Van Den Berg	EF Education-EasyPost	6:23:32
141	Rui Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates	6:23:40
142	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE Team Emirates	6:25:03
143	Filippo Tagliani	Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli	6:26:21
144	Clément Davy	Groupama-FDJ	6:32:54
145	Mark Cavendish	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	6:43:01
146	Bert Van Lerberghe	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	6:45:47
147	Matthias Brändle	Israel-Premier Tech	6:49:19
148	Pieter Serry	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	6:56:01
149	Roger Kluge	Lotto Soudal	7:11:06