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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 1: October 3, 2020

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Saturday, October 3: Stage 1, Monreale - Palermo 15.1 km individual time trial

Filippo Ganna

Stage one winner Filippo Ganna will trade his Rainbow Jersey for a Maglia Rosa. Sirotti photo

Weather at the finish city of Palermo at 1:45 PM, local time: 37C (99F), fair, with the wind from the south at 35 km/hr (22 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain. It hasn't rained in a while, so the roads will have oil on them, making them slippery. Add in the wind and crashes are inevitable as riders push their difficult to handle time trial machines to the limit.

The race: Here is the organizer's stage one summary.

The astonishing downturn in the average age of cycling’s top riders continued in today’s stage, as the 24-year-old Filippo Ganna finished ahead of two even younger riders: the 22-year-old João Almeida (DQT), third in the Vuelta a Burgos in August, and the 21-year-old Mikkel Bjerg (UAE), three times the world under-23 time trial champion.

Resplendent in the rainbow jersey he won at Imola on 25 September, Ganna was only 11th through the first split at km 1.1, at a Category 4 climb where, bizarrely, the sprinters Rick Zabel, Peter Sagan, Davide Ballerini and Simon Guglielmi, set the best times. Then, on the 8.3 km descent, it was all about power, and Ganna pushed an enormous, 60×11 gear, through the second timing point at km 9.4 with a handsome margin of 11 seconds, and finished with a comfortable winning margin of 22 seconds.

But it was anything but a straightforward day of racing. Gusts of scirocco and rough Sicilian roads made it an unpredictable stage. Rohan Dennis spent much of his ride clinging to the drops as he endeavoured to stay in a straight line. Victor Campanaerts bounced off his bike on a corner. Miguel Angel López hit a bump while changing the position of his hands. He lost control and careered off sideways into the barriers. Two weeks after finishing 6th in the Tour, he probably wasn’t going to finish the Giro anyway, but leaving it in an ambulance cannot have been among his plans. He was the only abandon of the day.

Fourth today was the first of the GC hopefuls, Geraint Thomas. Despite starting only 22 minutes after his team-mate Dennis, his time of 15m47s for the 15.1 km course set the benchmark for the other aspirants. The other Brit among them, Simon Yates, had a serendipitous start time inside the first hour – before the wind got up – and finished just 26 seconds behind the Welshman. Jakob Fuglsang and Vincenzo Nibali started a minute apart, two hours after Yates, with Kruijswijk a few minutes later. Nibali conceded 1’06” to Thomas, Kruijswijk, 1’21”, Fuglsang 1’24”.

Today’s start town, Monreale, is a monument to the brief, historic interlude of Norman-French Sicily omn the leventh and twelfth centuries. Roger I welded this very heterogenous island into a single nation. The Greeks, those accomplished sailors, ran the Navy. The Arabs, with their great mathematical skills, ran the treasury. Greek, Arabic, Norman-French and Latin were all official languages: Roger could speak all of them. All these different cultural influences are evident today in its architecture, tasted in its food and heard in its music.

But Monreale has only produced one professional cyclist: on 14 May 1955, Monreale-born Guido Messina, the reigning world individual pursuit champion, took the Maglia Rosa after winning stage one from Milan to Turin, over 163 km. It turned out to be the best of omens for 2020 world IP champion Filippo Ganna, who will wear the Maglia Rosa in tomorrow’s stage from Alcamo to Agrigento.

Complete Results:

Stage 1 photos

GC leader: Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers)
Mountains classification leader: Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation)
Points classification leader: Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers)
Best young rider: Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers)
Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

176 starters, 174 classified finishers

15.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 58.831 km/hr

1	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	15min 24sec
2	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	@ 22sec
3	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
4	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	0:23
5	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	0:31
6	Josef Černý	CCC Team	0:36
7	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	0:40
8	Lawson Craddock	EF Pro Cycling	0:41
9	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	0:42
10	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
11	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
12	Jos Van Emden	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
13	Chad Haga	Team Sunweb	0:44
14	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
15	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	0:48
16	Martijn Tusveld	Team Sunweb	s.t.
17	Simon Yates	Mitchelton-Scott	0:49
18	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
19	Kamil Gradek	CCC Team	0:50
20	Pieter Serry	Deceuninck-Quick Step	0:51
21	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	0:55
22	Chris Hamilton	Team Sunweb	s.t.
23	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	0:58
24	Brandon McNulty	UAE-Team Emirates	0:59
25	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
26	Ben O'Connor	NTT Pro Cycling	1:00
27	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	1:02
28	Chris Harper	Jumbo-Visma	1:03
29	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:04
30	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
31	Tony Gallopin	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
32	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:06
33	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
34	Sean Bennett	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
35	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
36	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	1:07
37	Mikkel Honore	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:08
38	Diego Ulissi	UAE-Team Emirates	1:09
39	Ramon Sinkeldam	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
40	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	1:10
41	Sam Oomen	Team Sunweb	1:11
42	Fabio Felline	Astana	1:13
43	James Knox	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
44	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
45	Pawel Poljanski	Bora-Hansgrohe	1:15
46	Jai Hindley	Team Sunweb	s.t.
47	Christoph Pfingsten	Jumbo-Visma	1:16
48	Brent Bookwalter	Mitchelton-Scott	1:18
49	Lucas Hamilton	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
50	Fernando Gaviria	UAE-Team Emirates	1:19
51	Patrick Gamper	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
52	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
53	Valerio Conti	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
54	Aleksander Vlasov	Astana	1:20
55	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
56	Manuele Boaro	Astana	s.t.
57	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	1:21
58	Ben Gastauer	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:22
59	Tony Martin	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
60	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
61	Oscar Rodriguez	Astana	s.t.
62	Patrick Konrad	Bora-Hansgrohe	s.t.
63	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-Hansgrohe	1:23
64	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	1:25
65	Ilnur Zakarin	CCC Team	1:26
66	Fausto Masnada	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
67	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	1:28
68	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	s.t.
69	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	1:29
70	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
71	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
72	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	1:31
73	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	s.t.
74	Domenico Pozzovivo	NTT Pro Cycling	1:33
75	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
76	Benjamin Thomas	Groupama-FDJ	1:34
77	Eduardo Sepulveda	Movistar	s.t.
78	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	s.t.
79	Hector Carretero	Movistar	s.t.
80	Sebastian Molano	UAE-Team Emirates	1:35
81	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
82	Edoardo Affini	Mitchelton-Scott	1:36
83	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
84	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	1:37
85	Ruben Guerreiro	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
86	Cameron Meyer	Mitchelton-Scott	1:38
87	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
88	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE-Team Emirates	1:39
89	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	1:40
90	Attila Valter	CCC Team	s.t.
91	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
92	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	1:42
94	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
95	Jack Haig	Mitchelton-Scott	s.t.
96	Steven Kruijswijk	Jumbo-Visma	1:44
97	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	1:45
98	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
99	Damien Howson	Mitchelton-Scott	1:47
100	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana	s.t.
101	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
102	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
103	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
104	Louis Meintjes	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
105	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	1:49
106	Peter Sagan	Bora-Hansgrohe	1:50
107	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	1:51
108	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto-Soudal	1:52
109	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.
110	Pavel Kochetkov	CCC Team	1:53
111	Luca Wackermann	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
112	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
113	Mathias Le Turnier	Cofidis	1:54
114	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
115	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
116	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	s.t.
117	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:57
118	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
119	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	1:58
120	Stéphane Rossetto	Cofidis	1:59
121	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
122	Rafal Majka	Bora-Hansgrohe	2:00
123	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
124	Alexander Cataford	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:03
125	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	s.t.
126	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	2:04
127	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	2:05
128	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:06
129	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	2:07
130	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
131	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	2:09
132	Mark Padun	Bahrain-McLaren	2:11
133	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
134	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
135	Matteo Spreafico	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
136	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:12
137	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
138	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
139	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
140	Victor De La Parte	CCC Team	s.t.
141	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:13
142	Domen Novak	Bahrain-McLaren	2:14
143	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	s.t.
144	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
145	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	2:15
146	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	2:18
147	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	2:19
148	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	2:20
149	Einer Rubio	Movistar	s.t.
150	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:21
151	Pieter Weening	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
152	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:22
153	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	2:23
154	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:32
155	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:35
156	Giovanni Visconti	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
157	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	2:36
158	Dylan Sunderland	NTT Pro Cycling	2:40
159	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	2:42
160	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:43
161	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	2:44
162	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	2:47
163	Francesco Romano	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
164	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
165	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:49
166	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:52
167	Davide Villella	Movistar	2:54
168	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:56
169	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	2:59
170	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:00
171	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	3:12
172	Nicolas Edet	Cofidis	3:30
173	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:53
174	Luca Chirico	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:00