2013 Giro D'Italia: Stage 17
Results, map, stage profile, summary and photos
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Stage 17, Wednesday, May 22: Caravaggio - Vicenza, 214 km
Rated ascent:
- Km 197.9: Crosara (402m), 5.3 km, 7% average gradient, Category 4
The Race: Sunny skies. Before the stage was ten kilometers old, four riders went clear: Miguel Angel Rubiano, Luke Durbridge, Gert Dockx and Mexim Belkov. Omega Pharma saw this stage as another chance for a Cavendish stage win and slowly brought down a gap that had grown to five minutes. With 33 km to go the quartet had 1min 13sec.
Approaching the final climb Vini Fantini set a white-hot pace, lining out the peloton. The break (now minus Belkov) had a minute at the start of the Crosara (21km to go). Cavendish started the ascent near the front of the pack.
Surprising no one, Vini Fantini launched Danilo Di Luca and Alessando Proni. Proni went deep and then croaked, but Di Luca pressed on while Lamp re led the field up the climb. Cavendish turned himself inside out trying to stay with the leaders, but was gapped halfway up the Crosara.
Near the top Di Luca Caught the now solo Rubiano with Giovanni Visconti chasing and catching the duo. Under Visconti's powerful impetus Di Luca was dropped while Rubiano hung on for dear life.
Bam, Visconti attacked hard and dropped Rubiano. Over the top Visconti had 32 seconds on the Lampre/Astana led maglia rosa group. Visconti had 16 kilomoters to go. Omega Pharma put four men to work dragging Cavendish back up to the front group, but they had a one-minute gap to close.
Visconti descended like his hair was on fire, chased by a highly motivated peloton. At 10 km to go, with most of the technical sections of the descent completed Visconti had 32 seconds. The Cavendish group was still a minute behind the Nibali group, now only about 25 riders.
6 km to go, 22 seconds lead with attacks going off as the steam and organization of the chase seemed to go away..
4 km to go, Visconti continued to look good as his gap grew to 24 seconds.
The chasers could not get organized and Visconti cruised across the line for his second Giro stage win this year and Movistar's third in a row.
Results
- Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) 5hr 15min 34sec. 41.068 km/hr
- Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Sharp) @ 19sec
- Luka Mezgec (Argos-Shimano) s.t.
- Filippo Pozzato (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
- Danilo Hondo (Radio Shack) s.t.
- Salvatore Puccio (Sky) s.t.
- Sacha Modolo (Bardiani-CSF) s.t.
- Fabio Felline (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
- Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) s.t.
- Cadel Evans (BMC) s.t.
- Mauro Santambriogio (Vini Fantini) s.t.
- Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
- Yury Trofimov (Katusha) s.t.
- Francis Mourey (FDJ) s.t.
- Manuele Boaro (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
- Johan Le Bom (FDJ) s.t.
- Valerio Agnoli (Astana) s.t.
- Ivan Santaromita (BMC) s.t.
- Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) s.t.
- Dario Cataldo (Sky) s.t.
- Rigoberto Uran (Sky) s.t.
- Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel) s.t.
- Benat Intxausti (Movistar) s.t.
- Tanel Kangert (Astana) s.t.
- Robert Gesink (Blanco) s.t.
- Przemyeslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
- Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
- Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky) s.t.
- Wilco Kelderman (Blanco) s.t.
- Robert Kiserlovski (Radio Shack) s.t.
- Evgeni Petrov (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
- Franco Pellizotti (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
- Jorge Azanza (Euskaltel) s.t.
- Miguel Angel Rubiano (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
- Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r) s.t.
- Steve Morabito (BMC) s.t.
- Steven Kruijswijk (Blanco) s.t.
- Fabio Aru (Astana) s.t.
- José Herrada (Movistar) s.t.
- Danilo Di Luca (Vini Fantini) s.t.
- Nicola Boem (Bardiani-CSF) @ 50sec
- Marco Canola (Bardiani-CSF) @ 1min 11sec
- Giacomo Nizzolo (Radio Shack) s.t.
- Adam Hansen (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
- Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) s.t.
- Sergio Henao (Sky) s.t.
- Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil) @ 1min 19sec
- Edwin Alcibiad Avila (Colombia) @ 1min 37sec
- Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
- Serge Pauwels (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
GC after Stage 17:
Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) 73hr 11min 29sec- Cadel Evans (BMC) @ 1min 26sec
- Rigoberto Uran (Sky) @ 2min 46sec
- Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) @ 3min 53sec
- Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida) @ 4min 13sec
- Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini) @ 4min 57sec
- Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r) @ 5min 15sec
- Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 5min 20sec
- Benat Intxausti (Movistar) @ 5min 47sec
- Robert Gesink (Blanco) @ 7min 47sec
- Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r) @ 7min 24sec
- Tanel Kangert (Astana) @ 7min 43sec
- Franco Pellizotti (Androni Giocattoli) @ 8min 15sec
- Robert Kiserlovski (Radio Shack) @ 8min 19sec
- Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel) @ 8min 36sec
- Yury Torfimov (Katusha) @ 9min 2sec
- Sergio Henao (Colombia) @ 11min 18sec
- Wilco Kelderman (Blanco) @ 15min 4sec
- Evgeni Petrov (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 18min 26sec
- Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) @ 21min 34sec
- Francis de Greef (Lotto-Belisol) @ 23min 12sec
- Francis Mourey (FDJ) s.t.
- Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel) @ 27min 24sec
- Damiano Caruso (Cannondale) @ 28min 18sec
- Steven Kruijswijk (Blanco) @ 28min 23sec
- Danilo Di Luca (Vini Fantini) @ 31min 41sec
- José Rodolfo Serpa (Lampre-Merida) @ 32min 41sec
- José Herrada (Movistar) @ 33min 34sec
- Diego Rosa (Androni Giocattoli) @ 35min 15sec
- Rafael Valls (Vacansoleil) @ 42min 15sec
- Andres Duarte (Colombia) @ 43min 15sec
- Juan Manuel Garate (Blanco) @ 43min 21sec
- Hubert Dupont (Ag2r) @ 44min 21sec
- Ivan Santaromita (BMC) @ 45min 49sec
- Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) @ 53min 29sec
- Tiago Machado (Radio Shack) @ 55min 29sec
- Jorge Azanza (Euskaltel) @ 56min 12sec
- Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky) @ 59min 31sec
- Steve Morabito (BMC) @ 59min 36sec
- Giampaolo Caruso (Katusha) @ 1hr 4min 40sec
- Valerio Agnoli (Astana) @ 1hr 4min 47sec
- Petr Ignatenko (Katusha) @ 1hr 6min 45sec
- Pieter Weening (Orica-GreenEdge) @ 1hr 8min 37sec
- Fabio Felline (Androni Giocattoli) @ 1hr 8min 39sec
- Vladimir Karpets (Movistar) @ 1hr 11min 13sec
- Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia) @ 1hr 14min 43sec
- Fabio Aru (Astana) @ 1hr 15min 50sec
- Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani-CSF) @ 1hr 17min 17sec
- Miguel Angel Rubiano (Androni Giocattoli) @ 1hr 17mn 46sec
- Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli) @ 1hr 23min 19sec
Points Competition:
Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step): 113 points- Cadel Evans (BMC): 109
- Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini): 89
- Giovanni Visconti (Movistar): 86
- Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r): 85
Climber's Competition:
Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani-CSF): 79 points- Giovanni Visconti (Movistar): 45
- Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli): 41
- Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r): 32
- Robinson Chalapud (Colombia): 31
Young Rider:
Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r) 73hr 16min 44sec- Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 5sec
- Wilco Kelderman (Blanco) @ 9min 49sec
- Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) @ 16min 19sec
- Diego Rosa (Androni Giocattoli) @ 30min 0sec
Team Classification:
- Sky: 219hr 16min 11sec
- Astana @ 4min 27sec
- Blanco @ 4min 58sec
- Movistar @ 5min 2sec
- Lampre-Merida @ 7min 39sec
Stage 17 map
Stage 17 profile
Vincenzo Nibali at the start
The Classification leaders at the start
A beautiful day for racing in Veneto
Luke Durbridge leads the day's break.
The tifosi were thick on the Crosara
Angel Rubiano is in the process of shelling Luke Durbridge on the Crosara
Giovanni Visconti charges down the Crosara on his way to stage victory
Miguel Angel Rubiano was unable to stay with Visconti.
Filippo Pozzato leads the charge after the escapees.
Again Nibali rode a perfect race, never wasting a watt.
Cadel Evans
Michele Scarponi
Samuel Sanchez
Carlos Alberto Betancur
Steve Morabito
Davide Appollonio
Manuel Belletti
Ramunas Navardauskas wins the field sprint, surely unaware that Visconti is already drinking a coke.
Mark Cavendish couldn'y get over the hill with the leaders and fnished 49th
I'm sure Visconti would like to make a habit of this.
Nibali has four more stages to go...