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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 17: October 21, 2020

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Wednesday, October 21: Stage 17, Bassano del Grappa - Madonna di Campiglio, 203 km

Stage 17 map & profile | Stage 17 photos

Ben O'Connor

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:

Stage 17 photos

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