2020 Giro d'Italia

103rd edition: May 9 - 31 Oct 3 - 25, 2020
Stage 20: October 24, 2020

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Saturday, October 24: Stage 20, Alba - Sestriere, 190 km

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Tao Geoghegan (right) just beats Jai Hindley for the stage win. They now have the same GC time going into the stage twenty-one 15.7 km time trial.

Weather at the finish city of Sestriere at 1:10 PM, local time: 7C (44F), sunny, with the wind from the west at 6 km/hr (4 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

The race: 133 riders began stage 20, the 2020 Giro's final mountain stage, at 11:09.

The stage was re-designed. The planned excursion over the Colle dell’Agnello into France for the Col d’Izoard and Montgénèvre, before approaching Sestriere from the west, was cancelled on 16 October after the Prefect of Hautes Alpes issued a decree imposing new Covid-19 restrictions. Instead, the new itinerary approaches Sestriere from the east, up a climb that has been given the Category 2, before descending westwards for 11.6 km, going down the road that was the final climb in the original stage route. At Cesana Torinese, the riders turn left and take an alternative, 13.8 km, Category 1 climb to Sestriere, via Sauze di Cesana. This is the climb used in the Briançon-Sestriere time trial on the final stage in 2000. That final circuit – the 11.6 descent, the left turn at Cesana Torinese and then the 13.8 km to Sestriere, is repeated.

This change with its three ascents of the milder Sestriere ascent, taking away the leg-breaking Agnello and Izoard climbs, made stage 18 with its ascent of the Stelvio, the 2020 Giro's Queen stage.

For the first time in history, two riders will face the last day of a Grand Tour with the same time in the General Classification.

Here's the report from stage winner Tao Geoghegan Hart's INEOS Grenadiers team:

Tao Geoghegan Hart struck a blow in the fight for Giro d’Italia victory by winning stage 20 atop Sestriere.

The Brit showed his class on the race’s final day of climbing to out-sprint chief rival Jai Hindley at the line, with bonus seconds meaning the pair head into the final time trial level on time.

In what looks set to be one of the closest Giro finishes in history, Tao’s second stage win (and the team’s sixth) sets up a final-day, winner-takes-all showdown in Milan. Just tenths of a second separate the two riders, with Hindley (Team Sunweb) narrowly pulling on the maglia rosa.

Once again the INEOS Grenadiers impressed in the mountains, with Salvatore Puccio, Filippo Ganna and Jonathan Castroviejo upping the tempo, before Rohan Dennis once again detonated the peloton on the second ascent of Sestriere.

Mirroring his performance of two days earlier, only Geoghegan Hart and Hindley were able to follow the Aussie, as overnight leader Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb) was quickly dropped, eventually losing 1:35. For his efforts, Dennis was also able to finish third on the stage, raising his arms as he crossed the line.

Tao Geoghegan Hart:
"It was a spectacular day in the sun with an amazing team. We stuck to our plan and I think it went pretty well. I’m pretty happy. It was about finishing off the work the boys have done and I’m super happy to have done that.

"I felt good the whole way [up the final climb]. I was pretty focused on the bonus seconds at the end and my race.

"It’s a bike race. Anything can happen [tomorrow], especially after 20 days of racing in tough conditions. We’ll see how it goes – I’ll do my best and I can’t change anything beyond that."

Complete Results:

Stage 20 photos

190 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.941 km/hr

1	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	4hr 52min 45sec
2	Jai Hindley	Team Sunweb	s.t.
3	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 25sec
4	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:01
5	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r La Mondiale	1:34
6	Einer Rubio	Movistar	1:35
7	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
8	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	s.t.
9	Attila Valter	CCC Team	1:48
10	James Knox	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:00
11	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	2:02
12	Domenico Pozzovivo	NTT Pro Cycling	2:09
13	Ruben Guerreiro	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
14	Pieter Serry	Deceuninck-Quick Step	2:25
15	Ben O'Connor	NTT Pro Cycling	2:28
16	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
17	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana	2:36
19	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	2:41
20	Fausto Masnada	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
21	Diego Ulissi	UAE-Team Emirates	3:33
22	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:41
23	Brandon McNulty	UAE-Team Emirates	5:13
24	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	5:33
25	Mikkel Honore	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:50
26	Martijn Tusveld	Team Sunweb	5:59
27	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	6:10
28	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	6:46
29	Davide Villella	Movistar	6:52
30	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	7:39
31	Chris Hamilton	Team Sunweb	7:55
32	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	8:03
33	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
34	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
35	Louis Meintjes	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
36	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
37	Fabio Felline	Astana	s.t.
38	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
39	Mathias Le Turnier	Cofidis	8:28
40	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
41	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	NTT Pro Cycling	8:43
42	Sam Oomen	Team Sunweb	9:28
43	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	s.t.
44	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	9:58
45	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	11:46
46	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	11:52
47	Luca Chirico	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
48	Rafal Majka	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
49	Victor De La Parte	CCC Team	s.t.
50	Hector Carretero	Movistar	s.t.
51	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
52	Eduardo Sepulveda	Movistar	s.t.
53	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
54	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	s.t.
55	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
56	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	11:56
57	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	13:00
58	Ilnur Zakarin	CCC Team	14:07
59	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	14:23
60	Stéphane Rossetto	Cofidis	15:33
61	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
62	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	16:49
63	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	17:39
64	Domen Novak	Bahrain-McLaren	20:07
65	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	20:15
66	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	20:42
67	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	26:40
68	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	s.t.
69	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
70	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
71	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
72	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
73	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	27:45
74	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	s.t.
75	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
76	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
77	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	s.t.
78	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
79	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
80	Dylan Sunderland	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
81	Chad Haga	Team Sunweb	s.t.
82	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
83	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
84	Francesco Romano	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
85	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
86	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
87	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
88	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
89	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
90	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	s.t.
91	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
92	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
93	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
94	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	27:50
95	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
96	Pawel Poljanski	Bora-hansgrohe	27:53
97	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	29:02
98	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	32:40
99	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
100	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	s.t.
101	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	s.t.
102	Oscar Rodriguez	Astana	s.t.
103	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
104	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
105	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
106	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	s.t.
107	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
108	Mark Padun	Bahrain-McLaren	s.t.
109	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	s.t.
110	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	33:34
111	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	33:42
112	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	s.t.
113	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	34:00
114	Valerio Conti	UAE-Team Emirates	34:47
115	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	s.t.
116	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	34:57
117	Kamil Gradek	CCC Team	s.t.
118	Josef Černý	CCC Team	s.t.
119	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
120	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	35:00
121	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	35:33
122	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
123	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	s.t.
124	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
125	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	s.t.
126	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
127	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	36:12
128	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
129	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	36:13
130	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	36:24
131	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	36:33
132	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	s.t.
133	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.

GC after stage 20:

• GC leader: Jai Hindley (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

3,445.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.357 km/hr

1	Jai Hindley	Team Sunweb	85hr 22min 7sec
2	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
3	Wilco Kelderman	Team Sunweb	@ 1min 32sec
4	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain-McLaren	2:51
5	Joao Almeida	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:14
6	Jakob Fuglsang	Astana	6:32
7	Vincenzo Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	7:46
8	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	8:05
9	Fausto Masnada	Deceuninck-Quick Step	9:24
10	Hermann Pernsteiner	Bahrain-McLaren	10:08
11	Domenico Pozzovivo	NTT Pro Cycling	11:40
12	Rafal Majka	Bora-hansgrohe	19:17
13	Sergio Samitier	Movistar	34:12
14	James Knox	Deceuninck-Quick Step	36:46
15	Brandon McNulty	UAE-Team Emirates	38:22
16	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r La Mondiale	44:49
17	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r La Mondiale	52:45
18	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	57:11
19	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	57:45
20	Ben O'Connor	NTT Pro Cycling	1:02:37
21	Sam Oomen	Team Sunweb	1:03:10
22	Ilnur Zakarin	CCC Team	1:05:22
23	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	1:12:47
24	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	1:14:58
25	Fabio Felline	Astana	1:24:58
26	Martijn Tusveld	Team Sunweb	1:25:34
27	Attila Valter	CCC Team	1:29:32
28	Pieter Serry	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:30:00
29	Chris Hamilton	Team Sunweb	1:31:31
30	Mikkel Honore	Deceuninck-Quick Step	1:34:33
31	Jacopo Mosca	Trek-Segafredo	1:47:18
32	Tanel Kangert	EF Pro Cycling	1:54:48
33	Ruben Guerreiro	EF Pro Cycling	1:57:49
34	Victor De La Parte	CCC Team	1:59:25
35	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	2:03:38
36	Rohan Dennis	INEOS Grenadiers	2:04:52
37	Louis Meintjes	NTT Pro Cycling	2:05:13
38	François Bidard	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:05:50
39	Diego Ulissi	UAE-Team Emirates	2:06:39
40	Davide Villella	Movistar	2:08:41
41	Thomas De Gendt	Lotto-Soudal	2:14:46
42	Carl Fredrik Hagen	Lotto-Soudal	2:19:42
43	Joe Dombrowski	UAE-Team Emirates	2:21:43
44	Jesper Hansen	Cofidis	2:25:48
45	Sander Armee	Lotto-Soudal	2:30:58
46	Oscar Rodriguez	Astana	2:31:32
47	Enrico Battaglin	Bahrain-McLaren	2:31:38
48	Daniel Navarro	Israel Start-Up Nation	2:36:10
49	Julien Bernard	Trek-Segafredo	2:37:28
50	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:39:04
51	Alessandro Tonelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	2:40:46
52	Nicola Conci	Trek-Segafredo	2:42:26
53	Jonas Gregaard	Astana	2:43:05
54	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	NTT Pro Cycling	2:45:16
55	Geoffrey Bouchard	Ag2r La Mondiale	2:46:53
56	Eduardo Sepulveda	Movistar	2:48:38
57	Einer Rubio	Movistar	2:49:20
58	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	2:49:43
59	Domen Novak	Bahrain-McLaren	2:53:09
60	Harm Vanhoucke	Lotto-Soudal	2:54:13
61	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	3:04:14
62	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain-McLaren	3:05:38
63	Stéphane Rossetto	Cofidis	3:07:53
64	Joey Rosskopf	CCC Team	3:10:23
65	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Pro Cycling	3:13:47
66	Dario Cataldo	Movistar	3:20:24
67	Pawel Poljanski	Bora-hansgrohe	3:20:54
68	Kamil Malecki	CCC Team	3:21:56
69	Chad Haga	Team Sunweb	3:23:20
70	Mark Padun	Bahrain-McLaren	3:24:40
71	Simon Pellaud	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:26:15
72	Davide Ballerini	Deceuninck-Quick Step	3:30:18
73	Jaakko Hänninen	Ag2r La Mondiale	3:33:28
74	Simone Ravanelli	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:36:36
75	Simon Clarke	EF Pro Cycling	3:39:56
76	Matteo Sobrero	NTT Pro Cycling	3:41:48
77	Kilian Frankiny	Groupama-FDJ	3:44:12
78	Alexander Cepeda	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:46:21
79	Hector Carretero	Movistar	3:52:21
80	Mathias Le Turnier	Cofidis	3:59:31
81	Matthew Holmes	Lotto-Soudal	4:00:38
82	Giovanni Carboni	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:01:16
83	Luca Chirico	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:01:35
84	Danilo Wyss	NTT Pro Cycling	4:01:47
85	Nico Denz	Team Sunweb	4:01:59
86	Eros Capecchi	Bahrain-McLaren	4:03:22
87	Josef Černý	CCC Team	4:05:11
88	Etienne Van Empel	Vini Zabú-KTM	4:05:45
89	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain-McLaren	4:08:38
90	Alessandro Bisolti	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:12:36
91	Francesco Romano	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:16:32
92	Peter Sagan	Bora-hansgrohe	4:20:58
93	Lorenzo Rota	Vini Zabú-KTM	4:21:15
94	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-hansgrohe	4:21:33
95	Edoardo Zardini	Vini Zabú-KTM	4:27:47
96	Victor Campenaerts	NTT Pro Cycling	4:27:56
97	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE-Team Emirates	4:30:41
98	Stefano Oldani	Lotto-Soudal	4:32:09
99	Josip Rumac	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:32:30
100	Filippo Zana	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	4:43:06
101	Valerio Conti	UAE-Team Emirates	4:44:44
102	Mattia Bais	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:47:30
103	Jhonatan Restrepo	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:49:46
104	Kamil Gradek	CCC Team	4:56:18
105	James Whelan	EF Pro Cycling	4:56:37
106	Albert Torres	Movistar	4:58:04
107	Marco Frapporti	Vini Zabú-KTM	5:02:52
108	Maciej Bodnar	Bora-hansgrohe	5:04:04
109	Filippo Fiorelli	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:06:02
110	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana	5:06:40
111	Lachlan Morton	EF Pro Cycling	5:07:36
112	Elia Viviani	Cofidis	5:09:03
113	Dylan Sunderland	NTT Pro Cycling	5:12:15
114	Miles Scotson	Groupama-FDJ	5:13:26
115	Simon Guglielmi	Groupama-FDJ	5:14:31
116	Adam Hansen	Lotto-Soudal	5:14:59
117	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	5:15:01
118	Davide Cimolai	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:17:07
119	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	5:19:06
120	Alex Dowsett	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:22:56
121	Arnaud Démare	Groupama-FDJ	5:26:05
122	Iljo Keisse	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:29:23
123	Rick Zabel	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:30:48
124	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	5:35:51
125	Giovanni Lonardi	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:38:36
126	Matthias Brändle	Israel Start-Up Nation	5:42:27
127	Simone Bevilacqua	Vini Zabú-KTM	5:44:06
128	Jacopo Guarnieri	Groupama-FDJ	5:44:39
129	Fabio Mazzucco	Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè	5:45:29
130	Marco Mathis	Cofidis	5:49:38
131	Alvaro Hodeg	Deceuninck-Quick Step	5:52:55
132	Guy Sagiv	Israel Start-Up Nation	6:09:59
133	Jonathan Dibben	Lotto-Soudal	6:12:44

Stage 20 map & profile:

Stage 20 map

Stage 20 profile

Stage 20 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

The finish city of Sestriere. What a beautiful setting.

Davide Ballerini leads a break on the Sestriere loop.

GCleader Wilco kelderman on the Sestriere loop.

In Sestriere

They have flown the coup. The winning break of Jai Hindley and Tao Geoghegan Hart on the Sestriere loop and and heading for the finish.

In Sestriere. Wilco Kelderman works to limit his time loss with Jai Hindley and Tao Geoghegan Hart up the road.

Tao Geoghegan Hart (right) just beats Jai Hindley for the stage win.

Rohan Dennis was third.

The man who led this Giro for so long, Joao Almeida, finsihed 4th.

Einer Rubio was 6th. Wilco Kelderman in the Maglia Rosa is just behind him

Wilco Kelderman's last moments in pink (unless he turns in a fantastic time trial Sunday) as he finishes 8th, at 1min 35sec

Vincenzo Nibali finished 11th, at 2min 2sec

New GC leader Jai Hindley will have his hands full defending his pink jersey in Sunday's time trial.

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