2020 Giro d'Italia
103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 16: October 20, 2020
Tuesday, October 20: Stage 16, Udine - San Daniele del Friuli, 229 km
Stage 16 map & profile | Stage 16 photos
Jan Tratnik wins stage 16. RCS Sport photo
Weather at the finish at San Daniele del Friuli at 11:40 AM, local time: 16C (60F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the south at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.
The race: 137 riders began stage 16 at 10:26 AM. Fernando Gaviria (UAE-Team Emirates) was withdrawn from the race after testing positive for Covid-19 during the rest day. Gaviria had been sick with the disease in March.
Here's the report from stage winner Jan Tratnik's Bahrain-McLaren team:
The Giro d’Italia resumed after the second rest day with an epic stage for Team Bahrain McLaren.
Jan Tratnik did not miss his chance at the beginning of the third and last week. The Slovenian rider was part of the daily breakaway on the hilly course of stage 16 – from Udine to San Daniele del Friuli (229km) – and after also a solo attack, he went clear on the last steep section just before the finish to take the most important victory in his career. His teammate Enrico Battaglin – who was in the break too – proved to be the fastest by winning the sprint in the chasing group and taking third place.
Speaking after the finish, Jan Tratnik comments: “I could not believe it when I crossed the finish line. It’s my first grand tour stage victory. It is very special feelings after a really long day. Also, it was a special day for me because today we are close to Slovenia. Many Slovenian fans are here including my girlfriend, my brother and my friends.”
“Behind, in the chasing group, the guys did not collaborate well, and we also have Enrico Battaglin among the chasers. As he took control of the rivals, I just went on my own tempo and I dropped Manuele Boaro. On the last climb, I knew what I need is to go full gas, or there could be better climbers.”
“In the end, I think I made perfect tactics and I had really good legs. The climb before the finish suits me perfectly. When Ben O’Connor attacked and I saw that was not fast enough, I went solo until the finish line. I believed in myself, otherwise I could not win.”
From Franco Pellizotti, our Sports Director: “It was a fantastic day for Team Bahrain McLaren. Great victory for Jan, but let’s not forget the great teamwork for all the guys. Enrico Battaglin was 3rd on the podium and Pello Bilbao was in a good position to the final thanks to the team. I think we start this third week really well”.
Complete Results:
229 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.685 km/hr
| 1 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain-McLaren | 6hr 4min 36sec |
| 2 | Ben O'Connor | NTT Pro Cycling | @ 7sec |
| 3 | Enrico Battaglin | Bahrain-McLaren | 1:14 |
| 4 | Kamil Malecki | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 5 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 6 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:21 |
| 7 | Geoffrey Bouchard | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 8 | Matteo Fabbro | Bora-hansgrohe | 1:25 |
| 9 | Manuele Boaro | Astana | 1:33 |
| 10 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:37 |
| 11 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:59 |
| 12 | Lorenzo Rota | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 13 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | s.t. |
| 14 | Lawrence Warbasse | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 15 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 3:02 |
| 16 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 3:44 |
| 17 | Fabio Felline | Astana | s.t. |
| 18 | Alexander Cepeda | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 4:44 |
| 19 | Stefano Oldani | Lotto-Soudal | 8:51 |
| 20 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 21 | Julien Bernard | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 22 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 23 | Joey Rosskopf | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 24 | Pawel Poljanski | Bora-hansgrohe | 9:28 |
| 25 | Giovanni Visconti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 9:42 |
| 26 | Einer Rubio | Movistar | s.t. |
| 27 | Ruben Guerreiro | EF Pro Cycling | 11:48 |
| 28 | Joao Almeida | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 12:54 |
| 29 | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | 12:56 |
| 30 | Vincenzo Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 31 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 32 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 33 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana | s.t. |
| 34 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 35 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
| 36 | Rafal Majka | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 37 | Domenico Pozzovivo | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 38 | Brandon McNulty | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 39 | Fausto Masnada | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 13:06 |
| 40 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | s.t. |
| 41 | James Knox | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 42 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | 13:13 |
| 43 | Hermann Pernsteiner | Bahrain-McLaren | 13:17 |
| 44 | Diego Ulissi | UAE-Team Emirates | 13:18 |
| 45 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r La Mondiale | 13:22 |
| 46 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 13:32 |
| 47 | Louis Meintjes | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 48 | Jonas Gregaard | Astana | s.t. |
| 49 | Matteo Sobrero | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 50 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 51 | Victor De La Parte | CCC Team | 13:44 |
| 52 | Mikkel Honore | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 53 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 54 | James Whelan | EF Pro Cycling | 13:47 |
| 55 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 56 | Sander Armee | Lotto-Soudal | 13:54 |
| 57 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 58 | Pieter Serry | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 59 | Dario Cataldo | Movistar | s.t. |
| 60 | Attila Valter | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 61 | Domen Novak | Bahrain-McLaren | 14:29 |
| 62 | Rohan Dennis | INEOS Grenadiers | 14:35 |
| 63 | Hector Carretero | Movistar | s.t. |
| 64 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 65 | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | NTT Pro Cycling | 14:40 |
| 66 | Chris Hamilton | Team Sunweb | 15:01 |
| 67 | Jaakko Hänninen | Ag2r La Mondiale | 15:50 |
| 68 | Luca Chirico | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 69 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | 17:21 |
| 70 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
| 71 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | 17:31 |
| 72 | Joe Dombrowski | UAE-Team Emirates | 17:35 |
| 73 | Oscar Rodriguez | Astana | 17:46 |
| 74 | Antonio Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | 17:57 |
| 75 | Danilo Wyss | NTT Pro Cycling | 19:54 |
| 76 | Chad Haga | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 77 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 78 | Rick Zabel | Israel Start-Up Nation | 21:26 |
| 79 | Nico Denz | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
| 80 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 81 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 82 | Simon Pellaud | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 83 | Josip Rumac | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 84 | Matteo Spreafico | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 85 | Francesco Romano | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 86 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 87 | Ilnur Zakarin | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 88 | Fabio Mazzucco | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 89 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Movistar | s.t. |
| 90 | Nathan Haas | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 91 | Dylan Sunderland | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 92 | Mark Padun | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
| 93 | Alex Dowsett | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 94 | Tanel Kangert | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 95 | Jesper Hansen | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 96 | Eros Capecchi | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
| 97 | Etienne Van Empel | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 98 | Victor Campenaerts | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 99 | Adam Hansen | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 100 | Stéphane Rossetto | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 101 | Iljo Keisse | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 21:41 |
| 102 | Elia Viviani | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 103 | Filippo Ganna | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 104 | Simon Clarke | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 105 | Davide Ballerini | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 106 | Davide Villella | Movistar | s.t. |
| 107 | Marco Frapporti | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 108 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 109 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 110 | Mathias Le Turnier | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 111 | Daniel Navarro | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 112 | Guy Sagiv | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 113 | Jhonatan Restrepo | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 114 | Kamil Gradek | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 115 | Giovanni Lonardi | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 116 | Josef Cerny | CCC Team | s.t. |
| 117 | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana | s.t. |
| 118 | Peter Sagan | Bora-hansgrohe | 22:06 |
| 119 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 120 | Albert Torres | Movistar | s.t. |
| 121 | Edoardo Zardini | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 122 | Davide Cimolai | Israel Start-Up Nation | 22:09 |
| 123 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | 26:15 |
| 124 | Kilian Frankiny | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 125 | Simon Guglielmi | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 126 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 127 | Simone Bevilacqua | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
| 128 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 129 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 130 | Matthias Brändle | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 131 | Lachlan Morton | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 132 | Jonathan Dibben | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 133 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
| 134 | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 135 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 136 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE-Team Emirates | 27:52 |
GC after stage 16:
- GC leader: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
- Mountains classification leader: Giovanni Visconti (Vini Zabu-KTM)
- Points classification leader: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ)
- Best young rider: Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quick Step)
- Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers
2,621.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.865 km/hr
| 1 | Joao Almeida | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 65hr 45min 8sec |
| 2 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | @ 17sec |
| 3 | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | 2:58 |
| 4 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:59 |
| 5 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain-McLaren | 3:12 |
| 6 | Rafal Majka | Bora-hansgrohe | 3:20 |
| 7 | Vincenzo Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | 3:31 |
| 8 | Domenico Pozzovivo | NTT Pro Cycling | 3:52 |
| 9 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | 4:11 |
| 10 | Fausto Masnada | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 4:24 |
| 11 | Brandon McNulty | UAE-Team Emirates | 4:31 |
| 12 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana | 5:09 |
| 13 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 8:26 |
| 14 | James Knox | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 9:07 |
| 15 | Hermann Pernsteiner | Bahrain-McLaren | 9:53 |
| 16 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | 10:48 |
| 17 | Matteo Fabbro | Bora-hansgrohe | 20:27 |
| 18 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r La Mondiale | 27:06 |
| 19 | Lawrence Warbasse | Ag2r La Mondiale | 29:43 |
| 20 | Ilnur Zakarin | CCC Team | 30:56 |
| 21 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 31:27 |
| 22 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | 32:19 |
| 23 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | 35:21 |
| 24 | Attila Valter | CCC Team | 36:27 |
| 25 | Fabio Felline | Astana | 42:23 |
| 26 | Mikkel Honore | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 46:16 |
| 27 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 51:46 |
| 28 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | 51:57 |
| 29 | Chris Hamilton | Team Sunweb | 53:25 |
| 30 | Tanel Kangert | EF Pro Cycling | 56:10 |
| 31 | Ben O'Connor | NTT Pro Cycling | 56:20 |
| 32 | Pieter Serry | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 57:24 |
| 33 | Victor De La Parte | CCC Team | 1:02:13 |
| 34 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:06:56 |
| 35 | Antonio Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | 1:12:48 |
| 36 | Diego Ulissi | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:14:26 |
| 37 | Davide Villella | Movistar | 1:15:11 |
| 38 | Ruben Guerreiro | EF Pro Cycling | 1:16:21 |
| 39 | Enrico Battaglin | Bahrain-McLaren | 1:20:45 |
| 40 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:22:09 |
| 41 | Louis Meintjes | NTT Pro Cycling | 1:23:07 |
| 42 | Oscar Rodriguez | Astana | 1:25:57 |
| 43 | Pawel Poljanski | Bora-hansgrohe | 1:27:32 |
| 44 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:28:34 |
| 45 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto-Soudal | 1:29:09 |
| 46 | Einer Rubio | Movistar | 1:30:06 |
| 47 | Jesper Hansen | Cofidis | 1:30:08 |
| 48 | Julien Bernard | Trek-Segafredo | 1:32:09 |
| 49 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | 1:32:54 |
| 50 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain-McLaren | 1:33:23 |
| 51 | Joey Rosskopf | CCC Team | 1:35:26 |
| 52 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | 1:36:41 |
| 53 | Giovanni Visconti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 1:37:03 |
| 54 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Movistar | 1:37:20 |
| 55 | Daniel Navarro | Israel Start-Up Nation | 1:37:52 |
| 56 | Jonas Gregaard | Astana | 1:38:26 |
| 57 | Joe Dombrowski | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:38:40 |
| 58 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:39:05 |
| 59 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto-Soudal | 1:40:25 |
| 60 | Sander Armee | Lotto-Soudal | 1:43:17 |
| 61 | Manuele Boaro | Astana | 1:43:24 |
| 62 | Stéphane Rossetto | Cofidis | 1:44:19 |
| 63 | Mark Padun | Bahrain-McLaren | 1:44:35 |
| 64 | Geoffrey Bouchard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:50:03 |
| 65 | Dario Cataldo | Movistar | 1:57:28 |
| 66 | Rohan Dennis | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:57:52 |
| 67 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 1:59:55 |
| 68 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Pro Cycling | 2:02:25 |
| 69 | Jaakko Hänninen | Ag2r La Mondiale | 2:02:51 |
| 70 | Kamil Malecki | CCC Team | 2:03:56 |
| 71 | Chad Haga | Team Sunweb | 2:04:31 |
| 72 | Matteo Sobrero | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:05:54 |
| 73 | Filippo Ganna | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:11:38 |
| 74 | Davide Ballerini | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:12:37 |
| 75 | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:13:54 |
| 76 | Domen Novak | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:15:58 |
| 77 | Alexander Cepeda | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:18:46 |
| 78 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:19:54 |
| 79 | Luca Chirico | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:20:21 |
| 80 | Simon Clarke | EF Pro Cycling | 2:22:00 |
| 81 | Peter Sagan | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:22:49 |
| 82 | Lorenzo Rota | Vini Zabú-KTM | 2:24:08 |
| 83 | Simon Pellaud | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:25:58 |
| 84 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:27:37 |
| 85 | Kilian Frankiny | Groupama-FDJ | 2:31:23 |
| 86 | Danilo Wyss | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:31:58 |
| 87 | Francesco Romano | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:33:04 |
| 88 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:33:28 |
| 89 | Josip Rumac | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:33:45 |
| 90 | Nico Denz | Team Sunweb | 2:34:16 |
| 91 | Eros Capecchi | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:34:43 |
| 92 | Stefano Oldani | Lotto-Soudal | 2:36:59 |
| 93 | Edoardo Zardini | Vini Zabú-KTM | 2:38:30 |
| 94 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:39:07 |
| 95 | Josef Cerny | CCC Team | 2:39:36 |
| 96 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | 2:40:35 |
| 97 | Hector Carretero | Movistar | 2:42:41 |
| 98 | Etienne Van Empel | Vini Zabú-KTM | 2:46:57 |
| 99 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:47:00 |
| 100 | Victor Campenaerts | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:48:15 |
| 101 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto-Soudal | 2:49:47 |
| 102 | Jhonatan Restrepo | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:51:22 |
| 103 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:54:57 |
| 104 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:59:45 |
| 105 | Mathias Le Turnier | Cofidis | 3:02:53 |
| 106 | James Whelan | EF Pro Cycling | 3:09:25 |
| 107 | Kamil Gradek | CCC Team | 3:09:31 |
| 108 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 3:10:52 |
| 109 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:12:44 |
| 110 | Elia Viviani | Cofidis | 3:13:01 |
| 111 | Albert Torres | Movistar | 3:13:46 |
| 112 | Adam Hansen | Lotto-Soudal | 3:14:52 |
| 113 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | 3:16:19 |
| 114 | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana | 3:18:17 |
| 115 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | 3:20:31 |
| 116 | Davide Cimolai | Israel Start-Up Nation | 3:21:05 |
| 117 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:23:40 |
| 118 | Nathan Haas | Cofidis | 3:25:10 |
| 119 | Rick Zabel | Israel Start-Up Nation | 3:28:36 |
| 120 | Lachlan Morton | EF Pro Cycling | 3:29:00 |
| 121 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 3:29:56 |
| 122 | Alex Dowsett | Israel Start-Up Nation | 3:30:29 |
| 123 | Simon Guglielmi | Groupama-FDJ | 3:30:46 |
| 124 | Dylan Sunderland | NTT Pro Cycling | 3:32:04 |
| 125 | Marco Frapporti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:34:35 |
| 126 | Giovanni Lonardi | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:36:34 |
| 127 | Matteo Spreafico | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:38:28 |
| 128 | Matthias Brändle | Israel Start-Up Nation | 3:38:47 |
| 129 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 3:39:05 |
| 130 | Fabio Mazzucco | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:40:34 |
| 131 | Simone Bevilacqua | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:42:04 |
| 132 | Iljo Keisse | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 3:43:43 |
| 133 | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 3:48:36 |
| 134 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | 3:50:02 |
| 135 | Guy Sagiv | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:05:04 |
| 136 | Jonathan Dibben | Lotto-Soudal | 4:06:58 |
Stage 16 map
Stage 16 profile
Stage 16 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Riders climb a hill early in the stage, the Madonnina Del Domm.
Riders descend the Madonnina Del Domm.
Jan Tratnik has left everybody behind and he's headed for home.
Deceuninck-Quick Step is taking very good care of Joao Almeida (you can see a bit of pink jersey towards the back of the line of riders)
Jan Tratnik wins stage 16.
Joao Almeida finished 28th, at 12min 54sec, good enough to keep the pink jersey.
It took almost a half-hour for everyone to finish. Here Matteo Fabbro finishes 8th, at 1min 25sec.
Tratnik just after winning the stage.
That's stage winner Jan Tratnik behind the mask.
Joao Almeida has just five stages to go.