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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 18: October 22, 2020

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Thursday, October 22: Stage 18, Pinzolo - Laghi di Cancano, 207 km

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Jai Hindley

Jai Hindley wins the 18th stage and moves up to second in the GC. RCS Sport photo

Weather near the finish at Valdidentro at 1:55 PM, local time: 9C (49F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

The race: 135 riders started at 10:23. The peloton will go over the legendary Stelvio, first included in the 1953 Giro. Fausto Coppi won that day, giving him his fifth Giro win.

Here is the report from stage winner Jai Hindley & GC leader Wilco Kelderman's Team Sunweb:

After a phenomenal team ride throughout the stage, Team Sunweb continued their successful year as Jai Hindley sprinted to a Giro d’Italia stage win at Laghi di Cancano and Wilco Kelderman moved into the race lead.

At over 200 kilometres long and with 5800 metres of climbing, today the riders were faced with the queen stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia. Featuring the ascent of Campo Carlo Magno, the famous Passo dello Stelvio and a brand new finish climb to Laghi di Cancano, it was set to be a brutal day in the saddle.

Right from the flag drop the riders immediately hit the opening climb of the day and the attacks flew from the bunch, with the peloton drastically reducing in size. Eventually a 15 rider breakaway got clear, with all Team Sunweb riders in the bunch. Biding their time, the team took over the pacing on the next climb with Nico Denz, ensuring the leading group didn’t get too large of an advantage.

Denz continued to lay down the power throughout the valley, with the peloton and the rest of the team lined out behind him as they approached the famous Stelvio climb. One-by-one the team took their turn on the peloton, with Denz handing over to Chad Haga, to Martijn Tusveld to Sam Oomen and to finally Chris Hamilton. The strong pace set by the team completely decimated the peloton, dropping the pink jersey halfway up the Stelvio. Sensing a moment to continue to apply the pressure, Ineos increased the pace even further with only Jai Hindley and Wilco Kelderman able to follow the tempo set by Rohan Dennis at the front.

Kelderman eventually succumbed to the pace but fought hard, riding at his own rhythm over the remainder of the climb. Hindley stayed out front to mark danger-man on GC Tao Geoghegan Hart, with the Ineos duo continuing to apply the pressure. Over the final 30 kilometres the gap slowly grew out to Kelderman but he kept at a steady pace and rode within himself, not making sure to go into the red, holding onto the virtual Maglia Rosa throughout the stage.

Ahead, Hindley closely followed Geoghegan Hart on the final climb, not allowing him any leeway at all. Coming into the last few hundred metres, Hindley was poised and ready, springing out of the saddle and dancing on the pedals to take a magnificent stage win after a brilliant team effort throughout the day. Kelderman showed his fighting spirit and dug deep all the way to the line, taking the Maglia Rosa in Laghi di Cancano.

A truly great day for the team was rounded off as the results were tallied, as Hindley moved up to second place on GC, 12 seconds behind teammate Kelderman, and also taking the lead of the best young rider’s competition in the process.

“To get a win for the team it’s massive and a win for me personally, it’s a huge step forward in my career,” explained an awestruck Hindley at the finish. “I’m over the moon to take the win today. I’ve ridden around in this area a fair bit and I knew the climbs, it’s a stunning part of the world and yeah, it’s just amazing.”
“It was a crazy stage, I think it was the hardest day of my life,” continued race-leader Kelderman. “It was a big fight all day but the stage win for Jai is super nice. We dropped Almeida on the Stelvio and from then the race was on. Ineos were super strong with two guys and I couldn’t hold onto them so I just had to race at my own pace behind. I was just counting down the kilometres and going full gas to the line. I’m happy with today, now we’ll recover and make plans and see what happens on the weekend. I think in the end it’s good we have two riders up there.”

Complete results:

Stage 18 photos

207 kilometers raced at an average speed of 34.210 km/hr

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

GC after stage 18:

GC leader: Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb)
Mountains classification leader: Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling)
Points classification leader: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ)
Best young rider: Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb)
Team classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

3,031.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 38.970 km/hr

1	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	77hr 46min 56sec
2	Jai Hindley	Team Sunweb	@ 12sec
3	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	0:15
4	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain-McLaren	1:19
5	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:16
6	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana	3:59
7	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	5:40
8	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	5:47
9	Fausto Masnada	Deceuninck-Quick Step	6:46
10	Rafal Majka	Bora-hansgrohe	7:28
11	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain-McLaren	7:43
12	Domenico Pozzovivo	NTT Pro Cycling	9:34
13	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	26:12
14	Brandon McNulty	UAE-Team Emirates	33:12
15	James Knox	Deceuninck-Quick Step	34:49
16	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	40:59
17	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	41:11
18	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	44:45
19	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	49:11
20	Ilnur Zakarin	CCC Team	51:18
21	Sam Oomen	Team Sunweb	53:45
22	Ben O'Connor	NTT Pro Cycling	1:00:12
23	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	1:00:58
24	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	1:05:03
25	Fabio Felline	Astana	1:16:58
26	Martijn Tusveld	Team Sunweb	1:19:38
27	Chris Hamilton	Team Sunweb	1:23:39
28	Pieter Serry	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:27:38
29	Attila Valter	CCC Team	1:27:47
30	Mikkel Honore	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:28:46
31	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:38:08
32	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	1:46:23
33	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	1:46:52
34	Victor De La Parte	CCC Team	1:47:36
35	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	1:48:08
36	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	1:54:07
37	Ruben Guerreiro	EF Pro Cycling	1:55:43
38	Louis Meintjes	NTT Pro Cycling	1:57:13
39	Oscar Rodriguez	Astana	1:58:55
40	Davide Villella	Movistar	2:01:52
41	Diego Ulissi	UAE-Team Emirates	2:03:09
42	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	2:04:35
43	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	2:05:01
44	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	2:07:53
45	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:09:33
46	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	2:09:54
47	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	2:10:28
48	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:13:04
49	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	2:13:59
50	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	2:14:33
51	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	2:23:06
52	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto-Soudal	2:26:26
53	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	2:29:28
54	Domen Novak	Bahrain-McLaren	2:32:33
55	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	2:34:50
56	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	NTT Pro Cycling	2:36:36
57	Eduardo Sepulveda	Movistar	2:36:49
58	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:37:33
59	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:41:23
60	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	2:46:38
61	Einer Rubio	Movistar	2:47:48
62	Mark Padun	Bahrain-McLaren	2:52:03
63	Stéphane Rossetto	Cofidis	2:52:23
64	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	2:52:42
65	Pawel Poljanski	Bora-hansgrohe	2:53:04
66	Chad Haga	Team Sunweb	2:55:38
67	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	2:58:55
68	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	3:00:58
69	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:05:46
70	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	3:05:47
71	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:08:54
72	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:09:09
73	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	3:15:49
74	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	3:16:30
75	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:18:35
76	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	3:21:36
77	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	3:23:27
78	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	3:34:05
79	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	3:34:17
80	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:34:28
81	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	3:35:40
82	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:37:06
83	Hector Carretero	Movistar	3:40:32
84	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	3:40:56
85	Josef Cerny	CCC Team	3:42:10
86	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:45:12
87	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:47:29
88	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	3:48:21
89	Francesco Romano	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:48:50
90	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-hansgrohe	3:48:56
91	Luca Chirico	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:49:46
92	Mathias Le Turnier	Cofidis	3:51:06
93	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:53:33
94	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:54:16
95	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	3:57:02
96	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	3:58:00
97	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	3:59:32
98	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:59:53
99	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	4:03:57
100	Valerio Conti	UAE-Team Emirates	4:10:00
101	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:15:24
102	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:19:48
103	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:20:47
104	Kamil Gradek	CCC Team	4:21:24
105	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	4:28:55
106	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	4:29:10
107	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	4:30:15
108	Albert Torres	Movistar	4:32:07
109	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	4:34:03
110	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	4:40:17
111	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	4:42:05
112	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	4:42:22
113	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	4:42:26
114	Dylan Sunderland	NTT Pro Cycling	4:44:33
115	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	4:45:44
116	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	4:49:56
117	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:50:30
118	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:53:05
119	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	4:54:35
120	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:55:18
121	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:57:59
122	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	4:59:21
123	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	5:00:11
124	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:04:10
125	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:05:59
126	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:06:17
127	Matteo Spreafico	Vini Zabú-KTM	5:07:53
128	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	5:08:30
129	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:09:59
130	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	5:11:29
131	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:18:01
132	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	5:19:27
133	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:34:29
134	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	5:36:23