Giro d'Italia stage 15 summary

Stage 15 - Grado-Gorizia 147 km

1 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 3:25:25
2 Oscar Riesebeek (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
3 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team DSM 0:07
4 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:07
5 Quinten Hermans (Bel) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:07
6 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team 0:07
7 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek - Segafredo 0:09
8 Albert Torres (Spa) Movistar Team 0:44
9 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 1:02
10 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 1:02


Changes in GC, stage 15 compared to stage 14 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+22 Simone Consonni
+21 Victor Campenaerts
+21 Max Walscheid
+20 Juan Sebastian Molano
+18 Lukasz Wisniowski
+17 Oscar Riesebeek
+16 Albert Torres
+15 Nikias Arndt
+14 Stefano Oldani
+14 Quinten Hermans

Biggest losers by position :
-7 Mauro Schmid
-2 Matthias Brandle
-2 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-1 Cameron Meyer
-1 Davide Gabburo
-1 Enrico Battaglin
-1 Gianluca Brambilla
-1 Guy Niv
-1 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda
-1 Jens Keukeleire
-1 Maciej Bodnar

Biggest gainers by time :
+17:33 Victor Campenaerts
+17:30 Oscar Riesebeek
+17:19 Nikias Arndt
+17:14 Simone Consonni
+17:14 Quinten Hermans
+17:14 Dario Cataldo
+17:12 Bauke Mollema
+16:37 Albert Torres
+16:19 Stefano Oldani
+16:19 Max Walscheid

Biggest losers by time :
-5:55 Mauro Schmid
-5:52 Matteo Moschetti
-5:52 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-2:43 Gianluca Brambilla
-2:43 Guy Niv
-2:43 Maciej Bodnar
-2:43 Matthias Brandle
-2:43 Maximiliano Richeze
-1:52 Cameron Meyer
-1:29 Tony Gallopin
-0:51 Giovanni Visconti

Favourites by position :
+8 Bauke Mollema
+2 Vincenzo Nibali
+2 Pello Bilbao
+1 Joao Almeida
+1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1 Dan Martin
-1 Tejay Van Garderen

Favourites by time :
+17:12 Bauke Mollema
-0:18 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Bernal 62:13:33 (unchanged)
2 Simon Yates 1:33 (unchanged)
3 Damiano Caruso 1:51 (unchanged)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 1:57 (unchanged)
5 Hugh Carthy 2:11 (unchanged)
6 Giulio Ciccone 3:03 (was 7th at 3:03)
7 Remco Evenepoel 3:52 (was 8th at 3:52)
8 Daniel Felipe Martinez 3:54 (was 9th at 3:54)
9 Romain Bardet 4:31 (was 10th at 4:31)
10 Tobias Foss 5:37 (was 11th at 5:37)
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12 Dan Martin 7:50 (was 13th at 7:50)
13 Joao Almeida 8:32 (was 14th at 8:32)
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17 Vincenzo Nibali 14:25 (was 19th at 14:25)
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20 Pello Bilbao 16:43 (was 22nd at 16:43)
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23 Bauke Mollema 24:30 (was 31st at 41:42)
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81 Tejay Van Garderen 1:49:08 (was 80th at 1:48:50)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 135 (unchanged)
2 Davide Cimolai 113 (was 3rd with 113 points)
3 Fernando Gaviria 110 (was 4th with 110 points)
4 Elia Viviani 86 (was 5th with 86 points)
5 Dries De Bondt 51 (was 14th with 39 points)
6 Edoardo Affini 50 (unchanged)
7 Umberto Marengo 45 (unchanged)
8 Matteo Moschetti 44 (unchanged)
9 Francesco Gavazzi 42 (unchanged)
10 Andrea Pasqualon 41 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Geoffrey Bouchard 96 (unchanged)
2 Egan Bernal 57 (unchanged)
3 Bauke Mollema 53 (was 3rd with 50 points)
4 Lorenzo Fortunato 40 (unchanged)
5 Dries De Bondt 30 (was 6th with 24 points)
6 Jan Tratnik 26 (was 5th with 26 points)
7 Giulio Ciccone 20 (unchanged)
8 Francesco Gavazzi 17 (unchanged)
9 Alessandro Covi 17 (unchanged)
10 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Trek - Segafredo 86:43:31 (was 2nd at 7:00)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 10:12 (was 1st at 175:45:25)
3 Movistar Team 14:53 (was 9th at 38:32)
4 Team BikeExchange 18:16 (was 3rd at 8:04)
5 Team DSM 19:33 (was 6th at 26:35)
6 EF Education - Nippo 27:47 (was 4th at 17:35)
7 Team Jumbo-Visma 29:44 (was 5th at 19:32)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 37:08 (was 7th at 26:56)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 42:27 (was 8th at 32:15)
10 Groupama - FDJ 51:03 (was 11th at 57:10)
11 Astana - Premier Tech 53:54 (was 10th at 43:42)
12 UAE-Team Emirates 1:00:15 (was 12th at 1:06:22)
13 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 1:04:45 (was 13th at 1:11:47)
14 BORA - hansgrohe 1:34:37 (was 14th at 1:24:25)
15 EOLO-Kometa 1:46:06 (was 15th at 1:35:36)
16 Israel Start-Up Nation 2:12:23 (was 16th at 2:01:40)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 2:17:36 (was 17th at 2:07:24)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 2:49:18 (was 18th at 3:12:46)
19 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 3:42:10 (was 19th at 3:31:58)
20 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3:42:15 (was 21th at 3:49:17)
21 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 3:48:29 (was 20th at 3:38:17)
22 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 4:32:46 (was 22th at 5:12:33)
23 Lotto Soudal 4:55:43 (was 23th at 5:17:44)

Retirements to date : Stage
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
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 31


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