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2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 19: October 23, 2020

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Friday, October 23: Stage 19, ~~Morbegno~~ Abbiategrasso - Asti, ~~258~~ 124 km

Stage 19 map & profile | Stage 19 photos

Josef Cerny

Josef Cerny wins stage 19. RCS Sport photo

Weather at the finish city of Asti at 2:00 PM, local time: 13C (56F), cloudy, with the wind from the north-northeast at 6 km/hr (4 mph). There is a 10% chance of rain. It was raining on the riders when they started in Morbegno.

The race: The stage has been shortened. From Eurosport: "The first 100km of Friday’s Stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia will be ridden on the bus, after the riders threatened to strike, forcing organisers to reschedule the route.

"What had been scheduled to be a monster 251km stage from Morbegno to Asti will now be 133km, starting in Abiategrasso near Milan. The decision comes after protests from riders over race safety, with the stage coming just a day after a huge climbing stage on the snow-covered Stelvio.

“Stage shortened,” confirmed Eurosport’s Bernie Eisel on Twitter. “Riders jump on the bus now and start the stage near Milan. Riders talked to the organisers last night already to shorten the stage. Finally the riders said we won’t race and an agreement was found.”

Giro boss Mauro Vegni is furious over the rider protest, saying that he did not know about the rider's protesting the long stage on Thursday evening.

The riders started at 10:39 at Morbegno in the rain. After eight kilometers they stopped the stage and transfered to Abbiategrasso for a scheduled 2:30 re-start.

The re-start was 2:31. 133 riders rolled off. There was a non-starter, Matteo Spreafico (Vini Zabu-KTM).

Here is the report from GC leader Wilco Kelderman's Team Sunweb:

Today’s stage saw the riders faced with a wet and damp 124 kilometres from Abbiategrasso to Asti. As soon as the riders left the neutralised zone, the pace was on, as a group of three riders were followed by a counter attacking group of 11. The two groups eventually combined, forming a strong break of 14 riders out front. Some of the sprint teams, namely Bora, initially tried to control the gap but they eventually stoped pulling.

Team Sunweb took over the pacing at the front of the peloton with Nico Denz, who set a steady tempo as the nearest rider in the breakaway was over one hour down on Wilco Kelderman’s race lead. Denz continued to pull the bunch as the kilometres ticked by and the breakaway fought out the stage win, with the rest of the team keeping Kelderman and Jai Hindley safe. Eventually the peloton came across the line together, with Kelderman and Hindley maintaining the team’s one-two on GC ahead of tomorrow’s penultimate stage.

“It was a short stage today but I really enjoyed every moment in the pink jersey,” explained a smiling Kelderman at the finish. “It’s something that I’ve been dreaming of my whole career so to be able to race a stage in the Giro with it on was incredible. The guys kept me and Jai safe throughout the day so we could save as much energy as possible. Tomorrow will be a tough stage but I’m really looking forward to it and hopefully we can hold onto the pink jersey still.”

Complete Results:

Stage 19 photos

124 kilometers raced at an average speed of 49.38 km/hr

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

GC after stage 19:

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

3,255.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.443 km/hr

1	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	80hr 29min 19sec
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	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	1:35:29
32	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:38:08
33	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	1:46:23
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	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	2:03:16
43	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	2:04:35
44	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	2:05:01
45	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	2:07:53
46	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:09:33
47	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	2:09:54
48	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	2:10:28
49	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:13:04
50	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	2:13:59
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	2:33:05
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	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2:58:33
68	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	2:58:55
69	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	3:00:58
70	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:05:46
71	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	3:05:47
72	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:08:54
73	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	3:12:09
74	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	3:15:49
75	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	3:16:30
76	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:18:35
77	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	3:21:36
78	Josef Cerny	CCC Team	3:30:17
79	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	3:34:05
80	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	3:34:17
81	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:34:28
82	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	3:34:39
83	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	3:35:40
84	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:37:06
85	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:38:03
86	Hector Carretero	Movistar	3:40:32
87	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	3:40:56
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	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	3:52:26
94	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:53:33
95	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	3:54:16
96	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	3:57:02
97	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	3:58:00
98	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	3:59:32
99	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:59:53
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	Albert Torres	Movistar	4:21:34
106	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	4:28:55
107	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	4:29:10
108	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	4:30:15
109	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	4:32:39
110	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	4:34:03
111	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	4:40:17
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	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	4:45:09
116	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	4:45:44
117	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:47:26
118	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	4:49:56
119	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:50:30
120	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	4:52:53
121	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:53:05
122	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	4:55:18
123	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	4:59:21
124	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	5:00:11
125	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:05:59
126	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:06:17
127	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	5:08:30
128	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:09:59
129	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	5:11:29
130	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	5:15:59
131	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:18:01
132	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:34:29
133	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	5:36:23