Giro d'Italia stage 15 summary

Stage 15 - Base Aerea Rivolto Piancavallo

1 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 4:58:52
2 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:02
3 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:04
4 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:37
5 Rafal Majka (Pol) BORA - hansgrohe 1:22
6 Patrick Konrad (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 1:29
7 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:36
8 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain - McLaren 1:36
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 1:36
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 1:36


Changes in GC, stage 15 compared to stage 14 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+21 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier
+19 Rohan Dennis
+19 Domen Novak
+16 Simone Ravanelli
+14 Jan Tratnik
+13 Eduardo Sepulveda
+12 Stephane Rossetto
+11 Victor Campenaerts
+11 Dario Cataldo
+10 Lachlan Morton

Biggest losers by position :
-13 Jaakko Hanninen
-13 Joey Rosskopf
-13 Ruben Guerreiro
-11 Filippo Ganna
-10 Harm Vanhoucke
-9 Jonas Gregaard
-9 Kilian Frankiny
-9 Mark Padun
-9 Mikkel Bjerg
-8 Giovanni Carboni
-8 Peter Sagan

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:47 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+0:41 Wilco Kelderman
+0:37 Jai Hindley

Biggest losers by time :
-40:18 Filippo Ganna
-40:18 Simone Consonni
-40:15 Davide Cimolai
-40:15 Fernando Gaviria
-40:15 Josef Cerny
-40:15 Maciej Bodnar
-40:15 Peter Sagan
-40:08 Adam Hansen
-40:08 Albert Torres
-40:08 Alessandro Bisolti
-40:08 Alex Dowsett

Favourites by position :
+19 Rohan Dennis
+10 Carl Fredrik Hagen
-1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-2 Vincenzo Nibali
-2 Fausto Masnada

Favourites by time :
+0:41 Wilco Kelderman
-0:45 Rafal Majka
-0:52 Patrick Konrad
-0:59 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:59 Jakob Fuglsang
-1:01 Fausto Masnada
-1:17 Domenico Pozzovivo
-9:39 Rohan Dennis
-9:52 Carl Fredrik Hagen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joao Almeida 59:27:38 (unchanged)
2 Wilco Kelderman 0:15 (was 2nd at 0:56)
3 Jai Hindley 2:56 (was 10th at 3:33)
4 Tao Geoghegan Hart 2:57 (was 11th at 3:44)
5 Pello Bilbao 3:10 (was 3rd at 2:11)
6 Rafal Majka 3:18 (was 6th at 2:33)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 3:29 (was 5th at 2:30)
8 Domenico Pozzovivo 3:50 (was 7th at 2:33)
9 Patrick Konrad 4:09 (was 9th at 3:17)
10 Fausto Masnada 4:12 (was 8th at 3:11)
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12 Jakob Fuglsang 5:07 (was 12th at 4:08)
.....
49 Carl Fredrik Hagen 1:32:14 (was 59th at 1:22:22)
.....
65 Rohan Dennis 1:56:11 (was 84th at 1:46:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Arnaud Demare 221 (unchanged)
2 Peter Sagan 184 (unchanged)
3 Joao Almeida 90 (was 3rd with 83 points)
4 Diego Ulissi 77 (unchanged)
5 Filippo Ganna 66 (unchanged)
6 Patrick Konrad 56 (was 6th with 51 points)
7 Simon Pellaud 50 (unchanged)
8 Andrea Vendrame 49 (was 11th with 37 points)
9 Wilco Kelderman 40 (was 19th with 28 points)
10 Davide Ballerini 40 (was 8th with 40 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Giovanni Visconti 118 (was 2nd with 76 points)
2 Ruben Guerreiro 87 (was 1st with 87 points)
3 Filippo Ganna 48 (unchanged)
4 Tao Geoghegan Hart 45 (was 33rd with 5 points)
5 Jonathan Castroviejo 45 (was 4th with 45 points)
6 Jonathan Klever Caicedo 40 (was 5th with 40 points)
7 Simon Pellaud 39 (was 6th with 39 points)
8 Wilco Kelderman 34 (was 13th with 16 points)
9 Matthew Holmes 32 (was 7th with 20 points)
10 Rohan Dennis 28 (was 47th with 2 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 178:33:42 (was 1st at 63:21:41)
2 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:24 (was 2nd at 12:58)
3 Team Sunweb 6:52 (was 3rd at 16:20)
4 BORA - hansgrohe 17:42 (was 4th at 24:59)
5 Bahrain - McLaren 38:42 (was 5th at 41:25)
6 Movistar Team 52:42 (was 6th at 52:32)
7 Trek - Segafredo 1:07:45 (was 7th at 56:55)
8 CCC Team 1:12:11 (was 9th at 1:07:25)
9 Astana Pro Team 1:22:21 (was 8th at 1:06:40)
10 AG2R La Mondiale 1:29:56 (was 11th at 1:18:56)
11 NTT Pro Cycling 1:32:45 (was 12th at 1:32:37)
12 UAE-Team Emirates 1:45:32 (was 10th at 1:15:12)
13 Lotto Soudal 2:50:36 (was 14th at 2:23:18)
14 EF Pro Cycling 3:04:36 (was 13th at 2:10:50)
15 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4:21:33 (was 15th at 3:50:18)
16 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 4:48:42 (was 16th at 3:56:39)
17 Vini Zabu - KTM 5:23:30 (was 17th at 4:15:39)
18 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 5:47:02 (was 18th at 4:25:37)
19 Israel Start-Up Nation 6:43:50 (was 19th at 5:22:25)
20 Groupama - FDJ 8:04:08 (was 20th at 6:17:18)

Retirements to date : Stage
Gianluca Brambilla (Trek - Segafredo) 15
Jhonatan Narvaez (INEOS Grenadiers) 15
Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE-Team Emirates) 15
Nicolas Edet (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 15
Giulio Ciccone (Trek - Segafredo) 14
Alexander Cataford (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Antwan Tolhoek (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Cameron Meyer (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Chris Harper (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Christoph Pfingsten (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Damien Howson (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Jos Van Emden (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Koen Bouwman (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Lawson Craddock (EF Pro Cycling) 10
Lucas Hamilton (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Michael Hepburn (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) 10
Ramon Sinkeldam (Groupama - FDJ) 10
Steven Kruijswijk (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Tobias Foss (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Tony Martin (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Pavel Kochetkov (CCC Team) 9
Rudy Barbier (Israel Start-Up Nation) 9
Ben Gastauer (AG2R La Mondiale) 8
Edoardo Affini (Mitchelton-Scott) 8
Patrick Gamper (BORA - hansgrohe) 8
Sean Bennett (EF Pro Cycling) 8
Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) 8
Tony Gallopin (AG2R La Mondiale) 8
Brent Bookwalter (Mitchelton-Scott) 6
Benjamin Thomas (Groupama - FDJ) 5
Luca Wackermann (Vini Zabu - KTM) 5
Pieter Weening (Trek - Segafredo) 5
Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) 4
Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana Pro Team) 2
Luca Covili (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane) 1
Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Pro Team) 1
Total retirements : 38


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