Giro d'Italy 2019

Automatically all 18 teams of the UCI WorldTeam category received invitations to the race. The organizers also provided special invitations ( wild card ) for 4 pro-continental teams . ^[one]

List of participants with the results

The grand tour route was presented on October 31, 2018 in Milan . It included 21 stages with a total length of 3,518.5 kilometers laid across Italy , as well as San Marino . Seven stages ended with the finish in the climb (including two “cuts”), three stages were held in the format of an individual separate race , nine stages were 200 km or more. ^[2]

The main contenders for the victory in the overall standings of the race were previous champions Korsa Rosa Tom Dumulen and Vincenzo Nibali , Slovenian Primoz Roglic , who won all three multi-day races in which he participated, British Simon Yates , who dominated the first half of the race in 2018 and won three stages, and in the second half of the season he became the winner of the Vuelta of Spain , the Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez , who took third place in 2018 and won the classification of the best young rider . ^[3]

According to the results of the Giro 2019, the current Italian champion in the group race Elia Viviani , who won the cyclamen shirt in 2018, the Colombian Fernando Gaviria , who achieved the same a year earlier, the German champion Pascal Ackerman , the Australian Caleb Yuen , the Frenchman Arno Demar, claimed the title of best sprinter . ^[four]

The favorites in the mountain classification were Italian Giulio Ciccone , who took second place in the mountain classification in 2018, the Spaniards Mikel Landa and Mikel Nieve , who became the best miners in the Giro in 2017 and 2016, the Belgian breakman Thomas De Gentt , who won the mountain classification of Vuelta of Spain- 2018, young miner from Colombia Ivan Sosa . ^[5]

Stage 1

Due to reports of a possible worsening weather, all the favorites decided to start in the first part of the protocol, only Simon Yates became the exception, who decided to go through the “butchering”, knowing the results of all his rivals. However, the victory was won by the Slovenian Primoz Roglic from the Jumbo-Visma team, who started in the first group of racers, who “brought” his rivals 19 seconds of advantage. Simon Yates became the second, Vincenzo Nibali ( Mitchelton – Scott ) - the third.

Stage 2

The second stage started in Bologna under the gusts of rain and wind. The struggle for departure to the end ended with the formation of a group of fugitives consisting of: Francois Bidar , Marco Frapporti , Mirco Maestri , Lukash Ovsyan , Damiano Cima , Giulio Ciccone , Will Clark and Sean Bennett . By the efforts of Giulio Ciccone, only four remained on the classification mountain Montalbano , and they won a mountain prize - Ciccone, Bidar, Ovsyan and Frapporti earned 9, 4, 2 and 1 point, respectively. On the descent from Montalbano, the teams of generals and sprinters began to work in the peloton alternately. The gap was eliminated a little less than 10 km before the finish. In the final sprint, German champion Pascal Ackerman was ahead of Elia Viviani and Caleb Ewan , having won his first victory in the first stage of his grand tour of his career.

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When climbing to the top of the first ascent of the 2nd category, the peloton broke into groups and the first attacks began. Mikel Landa , Simon Yates and Primoz Roglich accelerated, but Vincenzo Nibali , Jan Polanz , Richard Karapas and Pavel Sivakov did not allow the rivals to leave. As a result, the peloton gathered, and Andrei Amador , Mattia Cattaneo , Fausto Masnada , Lucas Hamilton , Christopher Jul-Jensen and Hugh Carty , who were transferred to the mountain classification leader Julio Ciccone and Ivan Sosa , went ahead.

The gap was released for a minute and a half, and the team of Primoz Roglich " Jumbo-Visma " led the peloton. On the second lift of the day, Tony Gallopan and Hubert Dupont , as well as Jon Isagirre and Damiano Caruso, attacked from the peloton. But the gap did not manage to gain more than one and a half minutes of advantage.

When the most difficult ascent of the day began, Colle San Carlo (10.5 km long, 1031 m vertical drop, average gradient 9.8%, maximum gradient 15%), attacks began in the group of generals. As a result, Vincenzo Nibali, Primoz Roglich, Mikel Landa, Richard Karapas and Miguel Angel Lopez left.

Meanwhile, from the separation of the day ahead, only Giulio Ciccone, Matteo Cattaneo and Ivan Sosa remained ahead of 31 km to the finish line. Later, Ivan Sosa fell out of the gap and went down to Pavel Sivakov, who had fallen from the group of generals.

Damiano Caruso returned to his captain Vincenzo Nibali and led the group, which left about 12 riders.

Vincenzo Nibali attacked 29 km to the finish line, Roglich, Landa, Carapas and Lopez drove with him, who were soon reached by Damiano Caruso, who fell out during the acceleration of his captain and Rafal Mike . This group caught up with Giulio Ciccone, after which Richard Carapas attacked and left his rivals alone 27.5 km before the finish line.

For 22 km in reserve, the Ecuadorian rider had 29 seconds, and at the finish, Richard Karapas was one and a half minutes ahead of his closest rival, taking the second stage victory in this issue of Giro.

The victory at the stage and the 10-second bonification brought Richard Karapas a pink T-shirt of the leader of the race.

After the descent from Colle San K Arlo, the group of Nibali, Roglich, Landa, Lopez got Pavel Sivakov, Joe Dombrowski Simon Yates. They immediately attacked, but then alone managed to leave Simon Yeats, who finished second. Vincenzo Nibali finished third, attacking at the final meters of the distance. ^[6]