Giro d'Italia stage 21 summary

Stage 21 (ITT) - Senago-Milan 30.3 km

1 Filippo Ganna (Ita) INEOS Grenadiers 0:33:48
2 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:12
3 Edoardo Affini (Ita) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:13
4 Matteo Sobrero (Ita) Astana - Premier Tech 0:14
5 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:27
6 Max Walscheid (Ger) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 0:33
7 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education - Nippo 0:34
8 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain - Victorious 0:42
9 Gianni Moscon (Ita) INEOS Grenadiers 0:44
10 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:47


Changes in GC, stage 21 compared to stage 20 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+4 Samuele Battistella
+4 Oscar Riesebeek
+4 Max Walscheid
+4 Edoardo Affini
+2 Simon Carr
+2 Salvatore Puccio
+2 Remi Cavagna
+2 Max Kanter
+2 Lukasz Wisniowski
+2 Joao Almeida

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Davide Cimolai
-3 Einer Augusto Rubio
-3 Lawrence Naesen
-3 Simon Pellaud
-2 Antoine Duchesne
-2 Davide Villella
-2 Lorenzo Fortunato
-2 Peter Sagan
-2 Rafael Valls
-2 Romain Bardet
-2 Simone Ravanelli

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:53 Filippo Ganna
+1:41 Remi Cavagna
+1:40 Edoardo Affini
+1:39 Matteo Sobrero
+1:26 Joao Almeida
+1:20 Max Walscheid
+1:19 Alberto Bettiol
+1:11 Jan Tratnik
+1:09 Gianni Moscon
+1:06 Iljo Keisse

Biggest losers by time :
-4:27 Einer Augusto Rubio
-3:57 Nicola Venchiarutti
-3:47 Harm Vanhoucke
-3:41 Marton Dina
-3:41 Natnael Tesfatsion
-3:40 Mark Christian
-3:35 Filippo Fiorelli
-3:31 Simon Guglielmi
-3:28 Taco Van Der Hoorn
-3:26 Simon Pellaud
-3:22 Lorenzo Fortunato

Favourites by position :
+2 Joao Almeida
+1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-1 Hugh Carthy
-1 Bauke Mollema
-2 Tejay Van Garderen

Favourites by time :
+1:26 Joao Almeida
+0:32 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+0:27 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:32 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:34 Hugh Carthy
-0:52 Simon Yates
-1:47 Pello Bilbao
-1:47 Dan Martin
-1:57 Bauke Mollema
-2:30 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Bernal 86:17:28 (unchanged)
2 Damiano Caruso 1:29 (was 2nd at 1:59)
3 Simon Yates 4:15 (was 3rd at 3:23)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 6:40 (was 4th at 7:07)
5 Daniel Felipe Martinez 7:24 (was 6th at 7:56)
6 Joao Almeida 7:24 (was 8th at 8:50)
7 Romain Bardet 8:05 (was 5th at 7:48)
8 Hugh Carthy 8:56 (was 7th at 8:22)
9 Tobias Foss 11:44 (was 9th at 12:39)
10 Dan Martin 18:35 (was 10th at 16:48)
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13 Pello Bilbao 37:58 (was 13th at 36:11)
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18 Vincenzo Nibali 1:03:59 (was 18th at 1:03:27)
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28 Bauke Mollema 1:36:47 (was 27th at 1:34:50)
.....
84 Tejay Van Garderen 3:46:16 (was 82nd at 3:43:46)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 136 (unchanged)
2 Davide Cimolai 118 (unchanged)
3 Fernando Gaviria 116 (unchanged)
4 Elia Viviani 86 (unchanged)
5 Egan Bernal 80 (unchanged)
6 Dries De Bondt 71 (unchanged)
7 Andrea Pasqualon 61 (unchanged)
8 Simone Consonni 60 (unchanged)
9 Edoardo Affini 59 (was 12th with 50 points)
10 Alberto Bettiol 57 (was 10th with 53 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Geoffrey Bouchard 184 (unchanged)
2 Egan Bernal 140 (unchanged)
3 Damiano Caruso 99 (unchanged)
4 Dan Martin 83 (unchanged)
5 Simon Yates 61 (unchanged)
6 Joao Almeida 54 (unchanged)
7 Bauke Mollema 53 (unchanged)
8 Lorenzo Fortunato 52 (unchanged)
9 Romain Bardet 49 (unchanged)
10 Michael Storer 46 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 259:30:31 (was 1st at 57:47:02)
2 Team Jumbo-Visma 26:52 (was 2nd at 26:01)
3 Team DSM 29:09 (was 3rd at 26:02)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 33:05 (was 4th at 31:21)
5 Team BikeExchange 1:15:12 (was 5th at 1:09:53)
6 Trek - Segafredo 1:27:09 (was 6th at 1:19:18)
7 Movistar Team 1:28:18 (was 7th at 1:22:40)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:37:51 (was 8th at 1:38:30)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 1:51:05 (was 9th at 1:47:25)
10 UAE-Team Emirates 1:54:04 (was 10th at 1:50:27)
11 EF Education - Nippo 2:00:35 (was 11th at 1:58:01)
12 Groupama - FDJ 2:27:17 (was 12th at 2:21:30)
13 EOLO-Kometa 2:41:05 (was 13th at 2:31:49)
14 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:46:29 (was 14th at 2:38:17)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 4:37:06 (was 15th at 4:30:50)
16 BORA - hansgrohe 4:38:43 (was 16th at 4:35:32)
17 Israel Start-Up Nation 4:45:33 (was 17th at 4:39:49)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 5:12:49 (was 18th at 5:07:35)
19 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 5:19:23 (was 19th at 5:11:12)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 6:55:15 (was 20th at 6:45:35)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 8:44:05 (was 21th at 8:39:00)
22 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9:37:59 (was 22th at 9:29:21)

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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