2020 Giro d'Italia
103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 17: October 21, 2020
Wednesday, October 21: Stage 17, Bassano del Grappa - Madonna di Campiglio, 203 km
Stage 17 map & profile | Stage 17 photos
Ben O'Connor takes stage 17 in style. RCS Sport photo
Weather at Caderzone Terme, on the race route, about 20 km from the finish: 13C (55F), sunny, with the wind from the southwest at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 5% - 10% chance of rain.
The race: 136 riders began stage 17 at 10:28, local tme.
Here is the report from GC leader Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team:
João Almeida enjoyed a surprisingly quiet day at the Corsa Rosa, which Wednesday afternoon travelled from Bassano del Grappa to Madonna di Campiglio, taking on four classified climbs – including the mythical Monte Bondone – where Charly Gaul turned the race on its head 64 years ago, surging to victory and the pink jersey with a long-range attack.
This time, as the peloton started the 20.2km-long climb, Deceuninck – Quick-Step was at the front, doing the same superb job they have for the past couple of weeks for the young leader of the season’s second Grand Tour. Iljo Keisse put in a huge pull at the front and controlled affairs, while Almeida was flanked by five more teammates, all ready to take over the reins and continue the pace-setting. On Madonna di Campiglio, James Knox stepped in until a big attack with five kilometers to go shed out the back many riders, leaving about twelve men in what became the pink jersey group, which was trailing eventual winner Ben O’Connor (NTT Pro Cycling) by five minutes.
Fausto Masnada then made sure no one would try to unseat the 22-year-old Portuguese, who swiftly closed a gap opened by his rivals before moving onto the wheel of the experienced Italian. Masnada expertly paced him on the last kilometers of the climb and João crossed the line – after six hours in the saddle and over 5500 vertical meters – together with all the other general classification contenders, maintaining his 17-second advantage over the nearest opponent.
“Knowing the gap was small at the start of this long stage packing four classified ascents, I was thinking that I could lose the jersey today, but I surprised myself. I felt very good and I could rely again on a huge team, who did an excellent work controlling the bunch and rode their hearts out for me. Towards the final, my opponents tested me, but I felt good and immediately marked them.”
“Now it’s time to recover and prepare for Thursday’s stage. It will be very hard, especially as the temperature will be low at over 2700 meters, but at the end of the day it’s the same for everybody. I am ready to fight and honour this iconic jersey on the iconic climb that is the Stelvio. I know it, as I did it before, I’m confident and I am ready for anything”, added Almeida, who now has 15 consecutive stages in the maglia rosa.
Complete results:
203 kilometers raced at an average speed of 34.703 km/hr
1 | Ben O'Connor | NTT Pro Cycling | 5hr 50min 59sec |
2 | Hermann Pernsteiner | Bahrain-McLaren | @ 51sec |
3 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto-Soudal | 1:10 |
4 | Ilnur Zakarin | CCC Team | 1:13 |
5 | Kilian Frankiny | Groupama-FDJ | 1:55 |
6 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto-Soudal | 2:49 |
7 | Davide Villella | Movistar | 3:29 |
8 | Oscar Rodriguez | Astana | s.t. |
9 | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | NTT Pro Cycling | 3:30 |
10 | Jesper Hansen | Cofidis | 4:32 |
11 | Tao Geoghegan Hart | INEOS Grenadiers | 5:11 |
12 | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
13 | Rafal Majka | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
14 | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
15 | Joao Almeida | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
16 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
17 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
18 | Vincenzo Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
19 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana | s.t. |
20 | Domenico Pozzovivo | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
21 | Fausto Masnada | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 5:13 |
22 | Rohan Dennis | INEOS Grenadiers | 5:58 |
23 | Victor De La Parte | CCC Team | 6:04 |
24 | James Knox | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 6:30 |
25 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | 6:48 |
26 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
27 | Brandon McNulty | UAE-Team Emirates | 6:50 |
28 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
29 | Lawrence Warbasse | Ag2r La Mondiale | 7:47 |
30 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | 8:29 |
31 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
32 | Louis Meintjes | NTT Pro Cycling | 10:11 |
33 | Jonas Gregaard | Astana | s.t. |
34 | Pieter Serry | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 11:02 |
35 | Chris Hamilton | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
36 | Matteo Fabbro | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
37 | Geoffrey Bouchard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 11:25 |
38 | Attila Valter | CCC Team | s.t. |
39 | Antonio Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
40 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 11:41 |
41 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | 12:02 |
42 | Joe Dombrowski | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
43 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
44 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 12:34 |
45 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 14:24 |
46 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 14:47 |
47 | Enrico Battaglin | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
48 | Julien Bernard | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
49 | Sander Armee | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
50 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
51 | Dario Cataldo | Movistar | 15:55 |
52 | Domen Novak | Bahrain-McLaren | 16:06 |
53 | Marco Frapporti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 16:21 |
54 | Mikkel Honore | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
55 | Etienne Van Empel | Vini Zabú-KTM | 17:20 |
56 | Hector Carretero | Movistar | 18:34 |
57 | Nico Denz | Team Sunweb | 18:44 |
58 | Chad Haga | Team Sunweb | s.t. |
59 | Simon Pellaud | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
60 | Mathias Le Turnier | Cofidis | s.t. |
61 | Daniel Navarro | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
62 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
63 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
64 | Tanel Kangert | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
65 | Simon Clarke | EF Pro Cycling | 20:10 |
66 | Ruben Guerreiro | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
67 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Movistar | s.t. |
68 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
69 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 21:38 |
70 | Eros Capecchi | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
71 | Diego Ulissi | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
72 | Fabio Felline | Astana | s.t. |
73 | Jaakko Hänninen | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
74 | Filippo Ganna | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
75 | Danilo Wyss | NTT Pro Cycling | 22:48 |
76 | Josef Černý | CCC Team | 23:15 |
77 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 25:47:00 |
78 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
79 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
80 | Mark Padun | Bahrain-McLaren | 26:11 |
81 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
82 | Davide Ballerini | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 26:39 |
83 | Lachlan Morton | EF Pro Cycling | 31:48 |
84 | Kamil Gradek | CCC Team | 32:34 |
85 | Kamil Malecki | CCC Team | s.t. |
86 | Dylan Sunderland | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
87 | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana | s.t. |
88 | Francesco Romano | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
89 | Edoardo Zardini | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
90 | Albert Torres | Movistar | 35:09 |
91 | Iljo Keisse | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 37:15 |
92 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
93 | Stefano Oldani | Lotto-Soudal | 39:21 |
94 | Manuele Boaro | Astana | 41:59 |
95 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 42:06 |
96 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | 46:13 |
97 | James Whelan | EF Pro Cycling | s.t. |
98 | Alex Dowsett | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
99 | Nathan Haas | Cofidis | s.t. |
100 | Peter Sagan | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
101 | Elia Viviani | Cofidis | s.t. |
102 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
103 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
104 | Josip Rumac | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
105 | Guy Sagiv | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
106 | Matthias Brändle | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
107 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
108 | Pawel Poljanski | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
109 | Luca Chirico | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
110 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain-McLaren | s.t. |
111 | Matteo Spreafico | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
112 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
113 | Giovanni Visconti | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
114 | Simone Bevilacqua | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
115 | Matteo Sobrero | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
116 | Jhonatan Restrepo | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
117 | Rick Zabel | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
118 | Victor Campenaerts | NTT Pro Cycling | s.t. |
119 | Adam Hansen | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
120 | Joey Rosskopf | CCC Team | s.t. |
121 | Giovanni Lonardi | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
122 | Einer Rubio | Movistar | s.t. |
123 | Alexander Cepeda | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
124 | Lorenzo Rota | Vini Zabú-KTM | s.t. |
125 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
126 | Davide Cimolai | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
127 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
128 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
129 | Fabio Mazzucco | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
130 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
131 | Simon Guglielmi | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
132 | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
133 | Jonathan Dibben | Lotto-Soudal | s.t. |
134 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
135 | Stéphane Rossetto | Cofidis | s.t. |
136 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | s.t. |
GC after stage 17:
- 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
2,824.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.395 km/hr
1 | Joao Almeida | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 71hr 41min 18sec |
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 | 4:26 |
11 | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana | 5:09 |
12 | Hermann Pernsteiner | Bahrain-McLaren | 5:27 |
13 | Brandon McNulty | UAE-Team Emirates | 6:10 |
14 | James Knox | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 10:26 |
15 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | 12:25 |
16 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 14:56 |
17 | Matteo Fabbro | Bora-hansgrohe | 26:18 |
18 | Ilnur Zakarin | CCC Team | 26:57 |
19 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r La Mondiale | 28:45 |
20 | Lawrence Warbasse | Ag2r La Mondiale | 32:19 |
21 | Sam Oomen | Team Sunweb | 35:37 |
22 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | 36:58 |
23 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 40:40 |
24 | Attila Valter | CCC Team | 42:41 |
25 | Ben O'Connor | NTT Pro Cycling | 50:59 |
26 | Martijn Tusveld | Team Sunweb | 55:15 |
27 | Mikkel Honore | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 57:26 |
28 | Fabio Felline | Astana | 58:50 |
29 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 59:09 |
30 | Chris Hamilton | Team Sunweb | 59:16 |
31 | Victor De La Parte | CCC Team | 1:03:06 |
32 | Pieter Serry | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 1:03:15 |
33 | Tanel Kangert | EF Pro Cycling | 1:09:43 |
34 | Davide Villella | Movistar | 1:13:29 |
35 | François Bidard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:13:47 |
36 | Antonio Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | 1:19:02 |
37 | Oscar Rodriguez | Astana | 1:24:15 |
38 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto-Soudal | 1:25:01 |
39 | Louis Meintjes | NTT Pro Cycling | 1:28:07 |
40 | Jesper Hansen | Cofidis | 1:29:29 |
41 | Enrico Battaglin | Bahrain-McLaren | 1:30:21 |
42 | Diego Ulissi | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:30:53 |
43 | Ruben Guerreiro | EF Pro Cycling | 1:31:20 |
44 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto-Soudal | 1:38:03 |
45 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:38:36 |
46 | Julien Bernard | Trek-Segafredo | 1:41:45 |
47 | Jonas Gregaard | Astana | 1:43:26 |
48 | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Lotto-Soudal | 1:43:32 |
49 | Joe Dombrowski | UAE-Team Emirates | 1:45:31 |
50 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | 1:46:27 |
51 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:48:41 |
52 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:49:10 |
53 | Daniel Navarro | Israel Start-Up Nation | 1:51:25 |
54 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Movistar | 1:52:19 |
55 | Sander Armee | Lotto-Soudal | 1:52:53 |
56 | Geoffrey Bouchard | Ag2r La Mondiale | 1:56:17 |
57 | Rohan Dennis | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:58:39 |
58 | Mark Padun | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:05:35 |
59 | Dario Cataldo | Movistar | 2:08:12 |
60 | Pawel Poljanski | Bora-hansgrohe | 2:08:34 |
61 | Einer Rubio | Movistar | 2:11:08 |
62 | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:12:13 |
63 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:14:25 |
64 | Joey Rosskopf | CCC Team | 2:16:28 |
65 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Pro Cycling | 2:17:24 |
66 | Chad Haga | Team Sunweb | 2:18:04 |
67 | Giovanni Visconti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 2:18:05 |
68 | Jaakko Hänninen | Ag2r La Mondiale | 2:19:18 |
69 | Manuele Boaro | Astana | 2:20:12 |
70 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:20:31 |
71 | Stéphane Rossetto | Cofidis | 2:25:21 |
72 | Domen Novak | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:26:53 |
73 | Filippo Ganna | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:28:05 |
74 | Kilian Frankiny | Groupama-FDJ | 2:28:07 |
75 | Kamil Malecki | CCC Team | 2:31:19 |
76 | Davide Ballerini | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:34:05 |
77 | Simon Clarke | EF Pro Cycling | 2:36:59 |
78 | Simon Pellaud | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:39:31 |
79 | Matteo Sobrero | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:46:56 |
80 | Nico Denz | Team Sunweb | 2:47:49 |
81 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:48:43 |
82 | Danilo Wyss | NTT Pro Cycling | 2:49:35 |
83 | Eros Capecchi | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:51:10 |
84 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain-McLaren | 2:54:28 |
85 | Hector Carretero | Movistar | 2:56:02 |
86 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:56:49 |
87 | Josef Černý | CCC Team | 2:57:40 |
88 | Etienne Van Empel | Vini Zabú-KTM | 2:59:06 |
89 | Alexander Cepeda | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2:59:48 |
90 | Francesco Romano | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:00:27 |
91 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | 3:00:33 |
92 | Luca Chirico | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:01:23 |
93 | Peter Sagan | Bora-hansgrohe | 3:03:51 |
94 | Lorenzo Rota | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:05:10 |
95 | Edoardo Zardini | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:05:53 |
96 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE-Team Emirates | 3:08:39 |
97 | Stefano Oldani | Lotto-Soudal | 3:11:09 |
98 | Josip Rumac | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:14:47 |
99 | Mathias Le Turnier | Cofidis | 3:16:26 |
100 | Valerio Conti | UAE-Team Emirates | 3:21:37 |
101 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:27:01 |
102 | Victor Campenaerts | NTT Pro Cycling | 3:29:17 |
103 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto-Soudal | 3:30:49 |
104 | Jhonatan Restrepo | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:32:24 |
105 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3:33:20 |
106 | Kamil Gradek | CCC Team | 3:36:54 |
107 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | 3:40:47 |
108 | Albert Torres | Movistar | 3:43:44 |
109 | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana | 3:45:40 |
110 | Marco Frapporti | Vini Zabú-KTM | 3:45:45 |
111 | James Whelan | EF Pro Cycling | 3:50:27 |
112 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 3:51:54 |
113 | Elia Viviani | Cofidis | 3:54:03 |
114 | Lachlan Morton | EF Pro Cycling | 3:55:37 |
115 | Adam Hansen | Lotto-Soudal | 3:55:54 |
116 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | 3:57:21 |
117 | Dylan Sunderland | NTT Pro Cycling | 3:59:27 |
118 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | 4:01:33 |
119 | Davide Cimolai | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:02:07 |
120 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 4:04:42 |
121 | Nathan Haas | Cofidis | 4:06:12 |
122 | Rick Zabel | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:09:38 |
123 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 4:10:58 |
124 | Alex Dowsett | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:11:31 |
125 | Simon Guglielmi | Groupama-FDJ | 4:11:48 |
126 | Iljo Keisse | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 4:15:47 |
127 | Giovanni Lonardi | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 4:17:36 |
128 | Matteo Spreafico | Vini Zabú-KTM | 4:19:30 |
129 | Matthias Brändle | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:19:49 |
130 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 4:20:07 |
131 | Fabio Mazzucco | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 4:21:36 |
132 | Simone Bevilacqua | Vini Zabú-KTM | 4:23:06 |
133 | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 4:29:38 |
134 | Marco Mathis | Cofidis | 4:31:04 |
135 | Guy Sagiv | Israel Start-Up Nation | 4:46:06 |
136 | Jonathan Dibben | Lotto-Soudal | 4:48:00 |
Stage 17 map
Stage 17 profile
Stage 17 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Race leader Joao Almeida during the stage starting ceremonies
GC leader Arnaud Démare and points leader Giovanni Visconti at their appointed places before the stage start.
The stage is on as the peloton leaves Bassano del Grappa.
The day took the riders to where the air is cold and thin. Here is a break early in the stage on the Forcella Valbonna
Here is a group of non-climbers on the Valbonna. You can see points leader Arnaud Démare in purple sitting up in the second row.
Riders ascend the Valbonna.
Ben O'Connor wins stage 17.
Ben O'Connor is the center of attention just after he crosses the line.
Third-place finisher Thomas De Gendt
Ilnur Zakarin was fourth across the line
Kilian Frankiny was fifth.
Stage winner Ben O'Connor
Joao Almeida has just four more stages to go to win the 2020 Giro d'Italia