Giro d'Italia stage 20 summary
 

Stage 20 - Verbania-Valle Spluga-Alpe Motta 164 km

1 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 4:27:53
2 Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:24
3 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:35
4 Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM 0:35
5 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:41
6 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange 0:51
7 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana - Premier Tech 1:13
8 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Education - Nippo 1:29
9 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) EOLO-Kometa 2:07
10 Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 2:23


Changes in GC, stage 20 compared to stage 19 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+12 Mauro Schmid
+11 Guy Niv
+10 Simon Guglielmi
+9 Jimmy Janssens
+8 Einer Augusto Rubio
+7 Vadim Pronskiy
+7 Harold Tejada
+7 Bert-Jan Lindeman
+7 Felix Grosschartner
+7 Alexis Gougeard

Biggest losers by position :
-16 Rein Taaramae
-14 Jacopo Mosca
-9 Nicolas Roche
-7 Andrea Vendrame
-5 Chris Hamilton
-5 Harm Vanhoucke
-4 Cameron Meyer
-4 Dries De Bondt
-4 Remi Cavagna
-4 Simone Consonni
-4 Tony Gallopin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:30 Damiano Caruso

Biggest losers by time :
-38:04 Davide Cimolai
-38:04 Maciej Bodnar
-38:04 Peter Sagan
-37:52 Albert Torres
-37:48 Alexander Krieger
-37:48 Cameron Meyer
-37:48 Filippo Ganna
-37:48 Harm Vanhoucke
-37:48 Juan Sebastian Molano
-37:48 Matthias Brandle
-37:48 Max Walscheid

Favourites by position :
+1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1 Bauke Mollema
-2 Hugh Carthy

Favourites by time :
-0:14 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-0:24 Joao Almeida
-0:34 Simon Yates
-0:56 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1:12 Hugh Carthy
-2:53 Dan Martin
-3:51 Pello Bilbao
-13:25 Vincenzo Nibali
-13:25 Bauke Mollema
-33:28 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Bernal 85:41:47 (unchanged)
2 Damiano Caruso 1:59 (was 2nd at 2:29)
3 Simon Yates 3:23 (was 3rd at 2:49)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 7:07 (was 4th at 6:11)
5 Romain Bardet 7:48 (was 6th at 7:32)
6 Daniel Felipe Martinez 7:56 (was 7th at 7:42)
7 Hugh Carthy 8:22 (was 5th at 7:10)
8 Joao Almeida 8:50 (was 8th at 8:26)
9 Tobias Foss 12:39 (was 9th at 10:19)
10 Dan Martin 16:48 (was 10th at 13:55)
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13 Pello Bilbao 36:11 (was 13th at 32:20)
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18 Vincenzo Nibali 1:03:27 (was 18th at 50:02)
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27 Bauke Mollema 1:34:50 (was 28th at 1:21:25)
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82 Tejay Van Garderen 3:43:46 (was 82nd at 3:10:18)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 136 (was 1st with 135 points)
2 Davide Cimolai 118 (was 2nd with 113 points)
3 Fernando Gaviria 116 (was 3rd with 110 points)
4 Elia Viviani 86 (unchanged)
5 Egan Bernal 80 (was 5th with 68 points)
6 Dries De Bondt 71 (was 6th with 63 points)
7 Andrea Pasqualon 61 (unchanged)
8 Simone Consonni 60 (unchanged)
9 Umberto Marengo 57 (was 12th with 45 points)
10 Alberto Bettiol 53 (was 9th with 53 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Geoffrey Bouchard 184 (was 1st with 180 points)
2 Egan Bernal 140 (was 2nd with 121 points)
3 Damiano Caruso 99 (was 7th with 50 points)
4 Dan Martin 83 (was 3rd with 83 points)
5 Simon Yates 61 (was 4th with 57 points)
6 Joao Almeida 54 (was 8th with 48 points)
7 Bauke Mollema 53 (was 5th with 53 points)
8 Lorenzo Fortunato 52 (was 6th with 52 points)
9 Romain Bardet 49 (was 12th with 22 points)
10 Michael Storer 46 (was 42nd with 5 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 57:47:02 (was 1st at 244:14:06)
2 Team Jumbo-Visma 26:01 (was 3rd at 26:22)
3 Team DSM 26:02 (was 2nd at 2:20)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 31:21 (was 5th at 30:59)
5 Team BikeExchange 1:09:53 (was 6th at 58:36)
6 Trek - Segafredo 1:19:18 (was 4th at 28:23)
7 Movistar Team 1:22:40 (was 8th at 1:18:43)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:38:30 (was 9th at 1:25:22)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 1:47:25 (was 10th at 1:28:28)
10 UAE-Team Emirates 1:50:27 (was 11th at 1:31:35)
11 EF Education - Nippo 1:58:01 (was 7th at 1:16:44)
12 Groupama - FDJ 2:21:30 (was 12th at 2:03:15)
13 EOLO-Kometa 2:31:49 (was 13th at 2:15:36)
14 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:38:17 (was 14th at 2:20:18)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 4:30:50 (was 15th at 3:50:46)
16 BORA - hansgrohe 4:35:32 (was 16th at 4:01:13)
17 Israel Start-Up Nation 4:39:49 (was 17th at 4:05:48)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 5:07:35 (was 19th at 4:36:09)
19 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 5:11:12 (was 18th at 4:28:15)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 6:45:35 (was 20th at 5:42:42)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 8:39:00 (was 22th at 7:50:11)
22 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9:29:21 (was 21th at 7:45:39)

Retirements to date : Stage
Fabio Felline (Astana - Premier Tech) 20
Gianluca Brambilla (Trek - Segafredo) 19
Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec) 19
Victor Lafay (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 19
Giulio Ciccone (Trek - Segafredo) 18
Nick Schultz (Team BikeExchange) 18
Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 18
Remy Rochas (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 17
Victor Campenaerts (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 17
Sebastien Reichenbach (Groupama - FDJ) 16
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 16
Emanuel Buchmann (BORA - hansgrohe) 15
Giacomo Nizzolo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 15
Jos Van Emden (Team Jumbo-Visma) 15
Natnael Berhane (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 15
Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education - Nippo) 15
David Dekker (Team Jumbo-Visma) 14
Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) 14
Jai Hindley (Team DSM) 14
Nicolas Edet (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 14
Roger Kluge (Lotto Soudal) 14
Alessandro De Marchi (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Alex Dowsett (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Fausto Masnada (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 12
Gino Mader (Bahrain - Victorious) 12
Kobe Goossens (Lotto Soudal) 12
Marc Soler (Movistar Team) 12
Jonathan Klever Caicedo (EF Education - Nippo) 11
Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) 11
Clement Champoussin (AG2R Citroen Team) 9
Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal) 9
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain - Victorious) 9
Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) 9
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 8
Domenico Pozzovivo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 7
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Total retirements : 41


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