2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 8: October 10, 2010

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Saturday, October 10: Stage 8, Giovinazzo - Vieste (Gargano), 200 km

Stage 8 map & profile | Stage 8 photos

Alex Dowsett takes a solo win in Vieste. RCS Sport photo

Weather at the finish town of Vieste at 1:40 PM, local time: 22C (72F), sunny, with the wind from the southeast at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

The race: 163 riders started the stage at 1:33. Non-starters this morning were Tony Gallopin (Ag2r), Patrick Gamper (Bora-hansgrohe), Sean Bennett (EF Pro), Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) & Edoardo Affini (Mitchelton-Scott). Yates was positive for Covid-19.

Here's the report from GC leader Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team:

The season’s second Grand Tour continued Saturday afternoon with a lumpy 200km stage that took off from Giovinazzo, passed through Barletta – the small town located just 15 kilometers from Cannae, where Hannibal inflicted on Rome its worst military defeat – hugged the Adriatic coast and finished in Vieste. Lying at the eastern tip of the Gargano promontory, this charming marine resort returned on the Giro d’Italia 32 years from the previous visit, when it hosted a team time trial.

It took just a few skirmishes in the opening kilometers for a breakaway to form, and when it did, six men built enough of a lead to put them in the driving seat for victory. The peloton’s lack of interest in the stage honours became even more obvious on the categorised climb of Monte Sant’Angelo, where the escapees stretched their lead to a hefty ten minutes.

As on the previous days, the Deceuninck – Quick-Step riders took over pace-setting duties after the break established and swapped pulls at the front, with João Almeida – resplendent in his pink jersey – safely tucked on his teammates’ wheel. The Portuguese, who tops the Giro d’Italia general classification since the start of the week, enjoyed a stress-free day in the bunch, maybe the quietest since donning the maglia rosa.

Complete Results:

Stage 8 photos

200 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.358 km/hr

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

GC after stage 8:

• GC leader: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Points classification leader: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ)
• Best young rider: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
• Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

1,210.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.504 km/hr

1	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	29hr 52min 34sec
2	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain-McLaren	@ 43sec
3	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	0:48
4	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto-Soudal	0:59
5	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	1:01
6	Domenico Pozzovivo	NTT Pro Cycling	1:05
7	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana	1:19
8	Steven Kruijswijk	Jumbo-Visma	1:21
9	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	1:26
10	Rafal Majka	Bora-hansgrohe	1:32
11	Jai Hindley	Team Sunweb	1:33
12	Fausto Masnada	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:38
13	Ilnur Zakarin	CCC Team	1:44
14	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain-McLaren	1:48
15	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	1:56
16	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	2:12
17	Lucas Hamilton	Mitchelton-Scott	2:47
18	Brandon McNulty	UAE-Team Emirates	2:57
19	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	3:18
20	James Knox	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:26
21	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	4:31
22	Chris Harper	Jumbo-Visma	4:57
23	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	5:17
24	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	6:49
25	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	7:15
26	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	7:38
27	Sam Oomen	Team Sunweb	8:12
28	Attila Valter	CCC Team	9:35
29	Stéphane Rossetto	Cofidis	10:10
30	Martijn Tusveld	Team Sunweb	10:37
31	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	10:38
32	Jack Haig	Mitchelton-Scott	13:06
33	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	13:09
34	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	13:20
35	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	16:21
36	Fabio Felline	Astana	16:26
37	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	16:31
38	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	18:11
39	Ruben Guerreiro	EF Pro Cycling	18:32
40	Davide Villella	Movistar	18:57
41	Tobias Foss	Jumbo-Visma	19:43
42	Oscar Rodriguez	Astana	19:49
43	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	19:50
44	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	20:11
45	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	21:41
46	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	21:57
47	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	22:24
48	Einer Rubio	Movistar	22:41
49	Victor De La Parte	CCC Team	22:50
50	Pavel Kochetkov	CCC Team	23:15
51	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	23:17
52	Mikkel Honore	Deceuninck-Quick Step	24:53
53	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	25:14
54	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	25:47
55	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	26:04
56	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	26:17
57	Diego Ulissi	UAE-Team Emirates	26:22
58	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	26:29
59	Christoph Pfingsten	Jumbo-Visma	26:35
60	Pieter Serry	Deceuninck-Quick Step	26:38
61	Mark Padun	Bahrain-McLaren	27:15
62	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	28:09
63	Giovanni Visconti	Vini Zabú-KTM	28:29
64	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	30:30
65	Pawel Poljanski	Bora-hansgrohe	30:44
66	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	30:54
67	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	30:56
68	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	31:03
69	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	31:48
70	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	32:01
71	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	32:13
72	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	32:40
73	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	33:20
74	Damien Howson	Mitchelton-Scott	34:00
75	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	34:47
76	Chad Haga	Team Sunweb	36:12
77	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r La Mondiale	36:34
78	Chris Hamilton	Team Sunweb	37:07
79	Louis Meintjes	NTT Pro Cycling	37:48
80	Eduardo Sepulveda	Movistar	38:05
81	Hector Carretero	Movistar	38:32
82	Francesco Romano	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	38:47
83	Antwan Tolhoek	Jumbo-Visma	40:50
84	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	NTT Pro Cycling	41:06
85	Ben O'Connor	NTT Pro Cycling	41:14
86	Jhonnatan Narvaez	INEOS Grenadiers	41:28
87	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	41:47
88	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	42:12
89	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	42:15
90	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	42:32
91	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	42:48
92	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	44:12
93	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	45:14
94	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	45:28
95	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	45:38
96	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	46:02
97	Michael Matthews	Team Sunweb	46:57
98	Valerio Conti	UAE-Team Emirates	47:48
99	Alexander Cataford	Israel Start-Up Nation	48:11
100	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
101	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	48:46
102	Manuele Boaro	Astana	50:55
103	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	51:21
104	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	51:39
105	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	51:53
106	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	52:12
107	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	52:32
108	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	52:44
109	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	53:08
110	Josef Černý	CCC Team	54:53
111	Cameron Meyer	Mitchelton-Scott	55:34
112	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	58:15
113	Luca Chirico	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	58:15
114	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	58:44
115	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	59:41
116	Mathias Le Turnier	Cofidis	1:00:03
117	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:00:23
118	Jos Van Emden	Jumbo-Visma	1:00:29
119	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	1:00:34
120	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	1:01:13
121	Tony Martin	Jumbo-Visma	1:01:38
122	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:02:05
123	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:02:08
124	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	1:02:20
125	Kamil Gradek	CCC Team	1:02:36
126	Lawson Craddock	EF Pro Cycling	1:02:57
127	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:03:48
128	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:04:09
129	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	1:05:24
130	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	1:05:42
131	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	1:06:52
132	Michael Hepburn	Mitchelton-Scott	1:07:09
133	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	1:07:29
134	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:08:22
135	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	1:08:23
136	Fernando Gaviria	UAE-Team Emirates	1:08:36
137	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	1:09:03
138	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-hansgrohe	1:09:09
139	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	1:09:12
140	Nicolas Edet	Cofidis	1:09:16
141	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	1:09:47
142	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	1:10:00
143	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	1:10:06
144	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	1:10:09
145	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	1:10:35
146	Sebastian Molano	UAE-Team Emirates	1:10:38
147	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	1:11:21
148	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	1:11:41
149	Albert Torres	Movistar	1:12:36
150	Dylan Sunderland	NTT Pro Cycling	1:13:24
151	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	1:14:43
152	Maximiliano Richeze	UAE-Team Emirates	1:14:49
153	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	1:15:24
154	Matteo Spreafico	Vini Zabú-KTM	1:16:50
155	Domen Novak	Bahrain-McLaren	1:17:33
156	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	1:18:24
157	Ramon Sinkeldam	Groupama-FDJ	1:20:01
158	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:20:18
159	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:23:33
160	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:28:14
161	Rudy Barbier	Israel Start-Up Nation	1:28:18
162	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	1:34:48

Stage 8 map & profile:

Stage 8 map

Stage 8 profile

Stage 8 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

That's Elia Viviani in there getting his bike to start the stage.

CCC Team gets ready to start the stage

Arnaud Démare and Joao Almeida wait for the stage to start.

It's time to start racing.

Alex Dowsett is well and truly gone.

Salvatore Puccio and Matthew Holmes in Vieste.

The peloton is in the finish town of Vieste.

It's hard to imagine Alex Dowsett's joy at this moment.

Alex Dowsett wins stage eight.

Salvatore Puccio (INEOS) beats Matthew Holmes (Lotto-Soudal) for second place.

Matthias Brandle was fifth

Michael Matthews (7th today) leads in the main pack.

Stage winner Alex Dowsett

Arnaud Demare remains the points classification leader.

Joao Almeida gets another day in pink

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