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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 10, October 13, 2020

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Tuesday, October 13: Stage 10, Lanciano - Tortoreto, 177 km

Stage 10 map & profile | Stage 10 photos

Peter Sagan

Peter Sagan wins stage 10. RCS Sport photo

Weather at the finish city of Tortoreto at 1:40 PM, local time: 17C (62F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 15% chance of rain/thunderstorms.

The Race: 145 riders began stage 10 at 12:05. Both Mitchelton-Scott with four cases of Covid-19 and Jumbo-Visma whose Steven Kruijswijk tested positive have quit the Giro.

Here's the report from stage winner Peter Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team:

An undulating parcours welcomed riders back to the Giro d’Italia after its first rest day. The 177km stage featured four short but steep categorised climbs, but with the hardest of these being third category, this wouldn’t slow the peloton down too much as they headed towards the finish in Tortoreto.

On a day that would suit the Classics riders, there was no surprise when Peter Sagan was among the riders trying to get in the break. Brought back once, it looked like the Slovak rider had missed his chance, with a group of five heading off up the road, but after Matteo Fabbro made his move and was pulled back, Peter slipped away and managed to bridge across.

In the scramble for places in the escape group, their number went up and down until settling on seven, barely allowed much more than thirty seconds on the peloton in these early stages, before extending this to five minutes at its peak, after the peloton had called off the chase. Making the most of being in this lead group, Peter set about claiming the maximum points in the intermediate sprint, before settling in for the race to the finish.

With some distance still to go, the break started attacking one another with 30km remaining, as these efforts brought the peloton nearer, the gap less than a minute at the 20km to go point and shrinking steadily. Seven riders became two before, with 12km to go, there was one left – Peter Sagan - the BORA-hansgrohe rider having attacked in true Classics style on the last climbs.

Dipping into the final 10km, he had a slim lead over the peloton, pushing his bike-handling skills to the limit on the wet and slippery roads. With just twenty seconds’ lead on the peloton, the final kilometre came into view and by now, everyone knew that Peter was going to take his first win at the Giro d’Italia in spectacular style, not only taking the win, but one of the most memorable both of his career and of the Giro d’Italia – finally having taken victories in all three Grand Tours. In the excitement of the finale, Rafał Majka and Patrick Konrad crossed the line with top-ten finishes to move up the GC, Patrick now in sixth and Rafał eighth.

"I'm very happy with this victory which also has a special meaning to me since it is my first one ever at the Giro d'Italia. My previous victory was last year at the Tour de France, so I had to wait a bit to get this result. The team and the fans had their expectations, so I owed them a victory. I was on the podium a lot of times but there is a big difference between first and second place. We knew that going in the breakaway would be important today but I can guarantee you it wasn't easy at all. It was very hard, it took a lot of effort and I think the escapees today were the ones with the best legs. On top of that, once our group was formed we had to work hard for a long time because the peloton, with Groupama-FDJ in front, also tried hard to bring us back. It took us a long time to build an advantage. In the final climbs, especially the last one, I knew I had to give it my all because I needed to have a gap and then make sure I didn't crash in the last descent. I lost a bit of time there and in the final 7km it was important to go on the limit because behind me there was a group of 10-15 riders that certainly wanted to catch me." – Peter Sagan

"Today our two goals were to go for a stage win with Peter but at the same time always stay alert and protect our two GC riders. We were aware it would require a very strong effort and that we wouldn't have a lot of collaboration from the other teams. We would have to control the first part while at the final 60km, which were constantly up and down with some steep sections of 20%, we would need to have the legs. In the first 40km, Paweł and Cesare did a brilliant job in controlling. At some stage, there was a very big break, but it was too messy and Peter decided to follow Ganna's attack on the climb. There had to be a selection in the breakaway because it was too big a group to collaborate. From that point, the rest of the teams in the peloton took turns in the front, trying to bring the escapees back. First, it was Groupama-FDJ, then UAE Emirates, and finally NTT but it was impossible to catch them. Peter went on to a solo victory and I'm very happy about that. He was very strong today." – Jan Valach, Sports Director

Complete Results:

Stage 10 photos

177 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.896 km/hr

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

GC after stage 10:

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

1,595.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.245 km/hr

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