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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 9: October 11, 2020

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Sunday, October 11: Stage 9, San Salvo - Roccaraso, 208 km

Ruben Guerreiro

Ruben Guerreiro wins stage nine. RCS Sport photo

Weather at the finish city of Roccaraso at 1:10 PM, local time: 12C (53F), rain showers, with the wind from the southwest at 14 km/hr (9 mph). The rain is forecast to continue through the afternoon.

The race: 161 riders began stage nine at 10:28. Rudy Barbier (Israel Start-Up Nation) did not start.

Here's the report from second-place Jonathan Castroviejo's INEOS Grenadiers team:

Jonathan Castroviejo came tantalizingly close to a long-awaited Grand Tour stage victory with second place on stage nine.

On a soaking wet and cold day Castroviejo rode superbly in the breakaway, pushing clear on the Roccaraso summit finish alongside Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling). The INEOS Grenadiers man attempted to ride the Portuguese off his wheel in the steep final metres but was unable to prevent a stinging final attack.

Eventually crossing the line eight seconds back, it marked the second stage in succession where a loyal support rider was narrowly denied a victory at the Giro.

Back in the peloton, Tao Geoghegan Hart enjoyed strong support in the lead-up to the finale and launched a move of his own in the closing stages. The young Brit was able to open out an impressive gap, taking in excess of 20 seconds out of a splintered lead group, finishing sixth on the day and moving up to 17th overall. He sits 2:41" back heading into the first rest day.

Jonathan Castroviejo:
"It was a super hard day and in the end the victory was not possible. With the cold and the rain I never felt super good out there. In the final I was on my limit. I tried from the bottom of the climb but Guerreiro rode well and I couldn't drop him. I knew that in the sprint he was the faster rider.

"In the last 500 metres I expected more tailwind, but in the end it was a headwind and it was impossible to drop him. In the end I'm happy to be in the battle."

Complete results:

Stage 9 photos

208 kilometers raced at an average speed of 36.563 km/hr

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

GC after stage 9:

GC leader: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
Mountains classification leader: Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling)
Points classification leader: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ)
Best young rider: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

1,418.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.837 km/hr

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