the dutch Koen Bouwman (Jumbo Visma) won the nineteenth round of Italy is spinning, disputed between Marano Lagunare and the top of the Santuario di Castelmonte, 178 km. This is his second round win over the Corsa Rosa.
Bowman made the double and won a sprint between five runners with a time of 4:32:53, ahead of Swiss Mauro Schmid (Quick Step) and Italian Alessandro Tonelli. By the time the winner arrives, the favorites are 4’30 ”from the breakaway.
The group of favorites, included Richard Carapaz (Ineos), Jai Hindley (Bora) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain), enter the finish line in 4 minutes. With no changes to the overall classification, Carapaz maintained a 3 -second lead over the Australian and 1’05 ”in the Spanish.
Climbing the Sanctuary, Landa launched an unsuccessful attack, to which leader and Olympic gold medalist Carapaz responded, crossing eighth and the Spanish, tenth. Carapaz retained the pink jersey two days before the final test on Sunday time in Verona.
Bouwman led his four breakaway companions to a difficult finish due to the ‘straight’ of two riders (Vendrame, Valter) in the final corner.
Bouwman was ahead of Swiss Mauro Schmid and Italian Alessandro Tonelli. Hungarian Attila Valter took 4th position ahead of Italian Andrea Vendrame at the end of this mountain stage that made an attack on Slovenia.
The 12-rider breakaway faced the sun’s main climb, Kolovrat (10.3km at 9.2%), with a lead of more than nine minutes over the peloton. The four survivors (Bouwman, Schmid, Tonelli, Valter) were defeated by more than a minute on this climb near Caporetto, the site of a historic defeat for the Italians during World War I.
Giro entered Slovenia, the country of Pogacar and Roglic, the kings of cycling not in this race. The protagonists are different, and the offer is nothing less than the unprecedented Kolovrat, a first of 10.3 km at 9.2 and slopes of 15, where the escape began to melt until it left five in the lead: Tonelli , Arensman Vendrame, Valter and Bouwman, who decided on the mountain prize by crowning the top of the Slovenian.
A difficult harbor wrapped in a festive atmosphere, with steep slopes maintained above 10 per cent, a setting to play attack from afar, but the scenery hasn’t changed. No one moved in the high hierarchy group. Carapaz, Hindley and Landa were brought under the momentum of Bora. Only the ascent to the Sanctuary of Castelmonte remained.
The climb wasn’t too difficult, 7km at 7.8 per cent, even with 14 ramps at the start. The goal, again in Italy, is to be a place of worship and pilgrimage, the oldest in Friuli and one of the oldest in all of Christendom. Giro leaders were 8 minutes to 6 km from the finish line, pending last minute attacks. On the front began the scoring, the looks, the stops, the pretensions ….
They all tried to surprise, but none of them left. It was key to get out first in the last corner, and Bouwman, who applied the story to get out of the right position before the final meters, knew that. This rendered Schmid’s efforts in vain, who sought victory until the last meter.
The lead grew when Australia’s Jai Hindley’s Bora team dropped from the lead, but were reduced in the final 7km climb. Carapaz started several times without reaching Hindley. Landa, third, also tried, but without success.
Bouwman, 28, won for the second time in this Giro after his victory over Potenza in the seventh period.
This Saturday’s 20th stage, the last mountain, includes three beautiful climbs in the Dolomites, three historic ports: San Pellegrino, Pordoi for the highest peak reached in this edition with 2,239 meters, and Fedaia at the end .
This last climb (14 km at 7.6%) leads to the center of the Marmolada massif in the Dolomites by a spectacular climb, very steep in its last 5,400 meters (11.2%).
Finally, the Australian Richie Porte (Ineos), one of the main domestique of the Giro pink jersey, Richard Carapaz, withdrew from the race. Porte, 37, third in the 2020 Tour de France, started to catch up on the first ascent of the day, Villanova Grotte, third, apparently due to stomach problems. Finally, the ‘aussie’ got off the bike three days before the Giro ended.
Classification of the 19th stage
1. Koen Bouwman (NED/Jumbo), 4:32:55.
2. Mauro Schmid (SUI/QST) id.
3. Alessandro Tonelli (ITA/BAR) at 3.
4. Attila Valter (HUN/GFJ) at 6.
5. Andrea Vendrame (ITA/AG2) at 10.
6. Tobias Bayer (AUT/ALP) at 2:45.
7. Guillaume Martin (FRA/COF) in 3:49.
8. Richard Carapaz (ECU/INE) in 3:56.
9. Jai Hindley (AUS/BOR) id.
10. Mikel Landa (ESP/BAH) id.
11. Pello Bilbao (ESP/BAH) at 3:59.
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13. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) at 4:01.
15. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) at 4:21.
16. Juan Pedro Lopez (ESP/TRE) id
Source: La Verdad
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