Saturday, May 7: Stage 2, Budapest 9.2 km individual time trial
Simon Yates riding to his stage win. RCS Sport photo
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Weather at the race city of Budapest at 1:50 PM, local time: 22C (73F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the east at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There us just a 1% chance of rain.
Info about the route: A short ITT on wide and well-paved urban roads, from Pest to Buda. Starting from the Heroes’ Square, the route heads towards the Danube, which separates the two souls of the city. Taking in several bends, the stage course reaches the riverside, passes the neo-Gothic Parliament and crosses the Danube to roll along the opposite bank. The route takes two U-turns, the first one upward and the second one downward, when approaching and when leaving the river bank on the Parliament’s side. Moving away from the river, the route takes in the closing climb.
Final kilometers
The final 1500m run is entirely uphill. Past the intermediate split, the route takes the climb leading to the castle, hitting the maximum gradient (14%) on flagstone. The route then continues at around 4%, taking in a few hairpins, all the way to the finish square in Buda (on tarmac).
The race: First rider off was Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal) at 2:00. Last rider was race leader Mathieu Van der Poel at 4:55.
Race leader Mathieu Van der Poel checking out the course before the race. RCS Sport photo
Here's the report from stage winner Simon Yates' Team BikeExchange-Jayco:
British climber Simon Yates has put down a marker at the Giro d’Italia with a thrilling victory in the stage two time trial in Budapest.
The 29-year-old powered around the 9.2km course in the Hungarian capital in a time of 11’50” to take the stage win by three seconds, with teammate Matteo Sobrero taking fourth place and the white jersey for his efforts.
It was a strong overall team performance by Team BikeExchange-Jayco, placing six riders in the top-40, with American time trial champion Lawson Craddock and Lucas Hamilton both in the mix early on, after two impressive rides against the clock.
Italian time trial champion Sobrero then took the top spot in his home Grand Tour with a time of 12’03” to dethrone long-time leader Lenard Kamna at the head of the standings. Sobrero’s provisional fastest time didn’t last long though, as Tom Dumoulin bettered the 24-year-old's effort with a time of 11’55”.
However, before the Dutchman could take his place in the hotseat, Yates raced across the line in a blistering time of 11’50” to reclaim the fastest time for Team BikeExchange-Jayco. The British rider set the quickest intermediate split on the flat section of the course, before putting more time into his rivals on the climb to the finish line.
It was then a case of waiting for the remaining riders to see how the final standings would shake out, but nobody could topple Yates as he claimed his fifth Giro d’Italia stage win of his career, to demonstrate his top form in his major goal of the season.
Simon Yates - 1st place:
“I just tried to go as fast as possible, I have to thank our partners, Giant and Cadex, we put a lot of work into our equipment this year, and of course it’s paying off.
"I was never confident, Van der Poel was close as well, but of course you always have that belief that you can win, and eventually I managed to hang on.
"Today was a 12-minute effort, we still have some much more demanding stages in front of us. But of course, we will celebrate today, it’s one of only two time trials I have ever won and my first ever in a Grand Tour, so we’ll enjoy today, but I think we need to look at the bigger picture.”
Matt White (Head Sport Director):
“Winning in the Giro d’Italia is always a lovely day, and the time trial Simon produced today was a very, very impressive one. We had a feeling he would be in the mix, but for him to win his first TT in a Grand Tour, it was a very special effort from him.
"It was also one of the best time trials Sobrero has ever ridden as well and I think across the board the team performed very well today, and it’s a nice reward for Matteo to be in the best young rider jersey.”
Complete results:
9.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.648 km/hr
1 | Simon Yates | BikeExchange-Jayco | 11min 50sec |
2 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Fenix | @ 3sec |
3 | Tom Dumoulin | Jumbo-Visma | 0:05 |
4 | Matteo Sobrero | BikeExchange-Jayco | 0:13 |
5 | Ben Tulett | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
6 | Tobias Foss | Jumbo-Visma | 0:17 |
7 | Wilco Kelderman | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
8 | Lennard Kamna | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
9 | Mauro Schmid | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 0:18 |
10 | Thymen Arensman | Team DSM | s.t. |
11 | Joao Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
12 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:19 |
13 | Edoardo Affini | Jumbo-Visma | 0:20 |
14 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | 0:21 |
15 | Pavel Sivakov | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:22 |
16 | Richie Porte | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
17 | Romain Bardet | Team DSM | 0:24 |
18 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | 0:26 |
19 | Richard Carapaz | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:28 |
20 | Owain Doull | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
21 | Mattias Jensen | Trek-Segafredo | 0:29 |
22 | Jos Van Emden | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
23 | Koen Bouwman | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
24 | Fabio Felline | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:30 |
25 | Lucas Hamilton | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
26 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:31 |
27 | Mauri Vansevenant | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 0:32 |
28 | Alex Dowsett | Israel-Premier Tech | 0:33 |
29 | Alessandro De Marchi | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
30 | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
31 | Lawson Craddock | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
32 | Jai Hindley | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:34 |
33 | William Barta | Movistar | s.t. |
34 | Michael Hepburn | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
35 | Jasha Sutterlin | Bahrain Victorious | 0:35 |
36 | Davide Formolo | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
37 | Santiago Buitrago | Bahrain Victorious | 0:36 |
38 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
39 | Callum Scotson | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
40 | Sam Oomen | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
41 | Valerio Conti | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
42 | Matthias Brandle | Israel-Premier Tech | 0:37 |
43 | David De La Cruz | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
44 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
45 | Erik Fetter | EOLO-Kometa | 0:38 |
46 | Gijs Leemreize | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
47 | Oier Lazkano | Movistar | s.t. |
48 | Hugh Carthy | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
49 | Rui Costa | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
50 | James Knox | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
51 | Barnabas Peak | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:39 |
52 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
53 | Magnus Cort | EF Education-EasyPost | 0:40 |
54 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:41 |
55 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | s.t. |
56 | Dario Cataldo | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
57 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:42 |
58 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | s.t. |
59 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
60 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
61 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
62 | Vincenzo Albanese | EOLO-Kometa | 0:43 |
63 | Oscar Riesebeek | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
64 | Wout Poels | Bahrain Victorious | 0:44 |
65 | Lilian Calmejane | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
66 | Vadim Pronskiy | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
67 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis | s.t. |
68 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 0:45 |
69 | Martijn Tusveld | Team DSM | s.t. |
70 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | 0:46 |
71 | Arnaud Demare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
72 | Juan Pedro Lopez | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
73 | Simon Carr | EF Education-EasyPost | 0:47 |
74 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:48 |
75 | Davide Villella | Cofidis | 0:49 |
76 | Damien Howson | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
77 | Giovanni Aleotti | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
78 | Alessandro Covi | UAE Team Emirates | 0:50 |
79 | Giulio Ciccone | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
80 | Ben Zwiehoff | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
81 | Rein Taaramae | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
82 | Attila Valter | Groupama-FDJ | 0:51 |
83 | Nans Peters | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
84 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Fenix | 0:53 |
85 | Mirco Maestri | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
86 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
87 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 0:54 |
88 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
89 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 0:55 |
90 | Jhonnatan Narvaez | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
91 | Harold Tejada | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:56 |
92 | Reto Hollenstein | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
93 | Lawrence Naesen | Ag2r-Citroen | 0:57 |
94 | Stefano Oldani | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
95 | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
96 | Jan Hirt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 0:58 |
97 | Chris Hamilton | Team DSM | s.t. |
98 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
99 | Simone Ravanelli | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
100 | Nico Denz | Team DSM | s.t. |
101 | Felix Gall | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
102 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
103 | Alberto Dainese | Team DSM | 0:59 |
104 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 1:00 |
105 | Samuele Rivi | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
106 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:01 |
107 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
108 | Domen Novak | Bahrain Victorious | 1:02 |
109 | Michael Morkov | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
110 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
111 | Julius Van Den Berg | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:03 |
112 | Aime De Gendt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:04 |
113 | Joe Dombrowski | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
114 | Pieter Serry | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 1:05 |
115 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
116 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
117 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
118 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto Soudal | 1:06 |
119 | Davide Bais | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
120 | Romain Combaud | Team DSM | s.t. |
121 | Dries De Bondt | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
122 | Luca Rastelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:07 |
123 | Diego Camargo | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
124 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 1:08 |
125 | Mark Cavendish | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
126 | Patrick Gamper | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
127 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | s.t. |
128 | Roger Kluge | Lotto Soudal | 1:09 |
129 | Sylvain Moniquet | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
130 | Natnael Tesfazion | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
131 | Cesare Benedetti | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
132 | Alexander Krieger | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
133 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:10 |
134 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
135 | Andrii Ponomar | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
136 | Clement Davy | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
137 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | s.t. |
138 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | s.t. |
139 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | s.t. |
140 | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
141 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Jumbo-Visma | 1:11 |
142 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
143 | Davide Ballerini | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 1:13 |
144 | Nicolas Prodhomme | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
145 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | 1:14 |
146 | Merhawi Kudus | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
147 | Maximiliano Richeze | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
148 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
149 | Francesco Gavazzi | EOLO-Kometa | 1:15 |
150 | Mikael Cherel | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
151 | Otto Vergaerde | Trek-Segafredo | 1:17 |
152 | Alexander Cataford | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
153 | Wesley Kreder | Cofidis | s.t. |
154 | Davide Gabburo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
155 | Mattia Bais | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
156 | Diego Rosa | EOLO-Kometa | 1:20 |
157 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:22 |
158 | Lorenzo Fortunato | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
159 | Ivan Sosa | Movistar | 1:23 |
160 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
161 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
162 | Jenthe Biermans | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
163 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:25 |
164 | Jakub Mareczko | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:27 |
165 | Cees Bol | Team DSM | s.t. |
166 | Filippo Tagliani | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
167 | Rick Zabel | Israel-Premier Tech | 1:30 |
168 | Sacha Modolo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:33 |
169 | Jaakko Hanninen | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
170 | Samuele Zoccarato | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:38 |
171 | Davide Cimolai | Cofidis | 1:40 |
172 | Michael Schwarzmann | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
173 | Rudiger Selig | Lotto Soudal | 1:42 |
174 | Alexander Cepeda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:43 |
175 | Edoardo Zardini | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 1:49 |
176 | Tobias Bayer | Alpecin-Fenix | 2:24 |
GC after stage 2:
204.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.663 k/hr
1 | Mathieu van der Poel | Alpecin-Fenix | 4hr 47min 11sec |
2 | Simon Yates | BikeExchange-Jayco | @ 11sec |
3 | Tom Dumoulin | Jumbo-Visma | 0:16 |
4 | Wilco Kelderman | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:24 |
4 | Matteo Sobrero | BikeExchange-Jayco | s.t. |
5 | Ben Tulett | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
7 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | 0:28 |
8 | Tobias Foss | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
9 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | 0:29 |
10 | Joao Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
11 | Mauro Schmid | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
12 | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:30 |
13 | Richie Porte | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:33 |
14 | Richard Carapaz | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:35 |
15 | Romain Bardet | Team DSM | s.t. |
16 | Mattias Jensen | Trek-Segafredo | 0:40 |
17 | Koen Bouwman | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
18 | Fabio Felline | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:41 |
19 | Mauri Vansevenant | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 0:43 |
20 | Biniam Girmay | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
21 | Mikel Landa | Bahrain Victorious | 0:44 |
22 | Thymen Arensman | Team DSM | s.t. |
23 | Jai Hindley | BORA-hansgrohe | 0:45 |
24 | Davide Formolo | UAE Team Emirates | 0:46 |
25 | Valerio Conti | Astana Qazaqstan | 0:47 |
26 | Magnus Cort | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
27 | Santiago Buitrago | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
28 | Sam Oomen | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
29 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
30 | Pavel Sivakov | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:48 |
31 | Hugh Carthy | EF Education-EasyPost | 0:49 |
32 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | 0:52 |
33 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | 0:53 |
34 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Astana Qazaqstan | s.t. |
35 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
36 | Vincenzo Albanese | EOLO-Kometa | 0:54 |
37 | Lucas Hamilton | BikeExchange-Jayco | 0:56 |
38 | Davide Villella | Cofidis | 1:00 |
39 | Giulio Ciccone | Trek-Segafredo | 1:01 |
40 | Attila Valter | Groupama-FDJ | 1:02 |
41 | Wout Poels | Bahrain Victorious | 1:03 |
42 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 1:04 |
43 | James Knox | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
44 | Jhonnatan Narvaez | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:06 |
45 | Emanuel Buchmann | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:08 |
46 | Felix Gall | Ag2r-Citroen | 1:09 |
47 | Juan Pedro Lopez | Trek-Segafredo | 1:12 |
48 | Tobias Ludvigsson | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
49 | Damien Howson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 1:15 |
50 | Alessandro Covi | UAE Team Emirates | 1:16 |
51 | Simone Consonni | Cofidis | 1:19 |
52 | Giovanni Aleotti | BORA-hansgrohe | s.t. |
53 | Lorenzo Rota | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:20 |
54 | Simon Carr | EF Education-EasyPost | 1:22 |
55 | Jan Hirt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:24 |
56 | Ignatas Konovalovas | Groupama-FDJ | 1:33 |
57 | Jasha Sutterlin | Bahrain Victorious | 1:34 |
58 | Ivan Sosa | Movistar | s.t. |
59 | Mikael Chérel | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
60 | Rein Taaramae | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 1:35 |
61 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | 1:36 |
62 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | 1:40 |
63 | Nans Peters | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
64 | Harold Tejada | Astana Qazaqstan | 1:44 |
65 | Stefano Oldani | Alpecin-Fenix | 1:46 |
66 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 1:47 |
67 | David De La Cruz | Astana Qazaqstan | 1:50 |
68 | Lennard Kamna | BORA-hansgrohe | 1:55 |
69 | Vadim Pronskiy | Astana Qazaqstan | 1:57 |
70 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | 1:59 |
71 | Joe Dombrowski | Astana Qazaqstan | 2:05 |
72 | Alexander Cataford | Israel-Premier Tech | 2:06 |
73 | Arnaud Démare | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
74 | Lorenzo Fortunato | EOLO-Kometa | 2:07 |
75 | Callum Scotson | BikeExchange-Jayco | 2:10 |
76 | Jonathan Caicedo | EF Education-EasyPost | 2:11 |
77 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:12 |
78 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
79 | Matthew Holmes | Lotto Soudal | s.t. |
80 | Caleb Ewan | Lotto Soudal | 2:17 |
81 | William Barta | Movistar | s.t. |
82 | Diego Rosa | EOLO-Kometa | 2:19 |
83 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | 2:23 |
84 | Jorge Arcas | Movistar | s.t. |
85 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 2:30 |
86 | Luca Rastelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
87 | Diego Camargo | EF Education-EasyPost | s.t. |
88 | Jose Joaquin Rojas | Movistar | 2:37 |
89 | Lilian Calmejane | Ag2r-Citroen | 2:39 |
90 | Davide Gabburo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:40 |
91 | Chris Hamilton | Team DSM | 2:41 |
92 | Gijs Leemreize | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
93 | Miles Scotson | Groupama-FDJ | 2:45 |
94 | Salvatore Puccio | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:51 |
95 | Sacha Modolo | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 2:56 |
96 | Jaakko Hanninen | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
97 | Nicolas Prodhomme | Ag2r-Citroen | s.t. |
98 | Francesco Gavazzi | EOLO-Kometa | 2:58 |
99 | Simone Ravanelli | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 3:01 |
100 | Rui Costa | UAE Team Emirates | 3:04 |
101 | Erik Fetter | EOLO-Kometa | 3:07 |
102 | Dario Cataldo | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
103 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | 3:08 |
104 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
105 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 3:12 |
106 | Natnael Tesfazion | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
107 | Andrii Ponomar | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 3:13 |
108 | Edoardo Affini | Jumbo-Visma | 3:14 |
109 | Jenthe Biermans | Israel-Premier Tech | 3:20 |
110 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 3:21 |
111 | Owain Doull | EF Education-EasyPost | 3:22 |
112 | Jos Van Emden | Jumbo-Visma | 3:23 |
113 | Michael Hepburn | BikeExchange-Jayco | 3:28 |
114 | Patrick Gamper | BORA-hansgrohe | 3:34 |
115 | Martijn Tusveld | Team DSM | 3:39 |
116 | Lawrence Naesen | Ag2r-Citroen | 3:41 |
117 | Michael Schwarzmann | Lotto Soudal | 3:43 |
118 | Ben Zwiehoff | BORA-hansgrohe | 3:44 |
119 | Tobias Bayer | Alpecin-Fenix | 3:47 |
120 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | 3:49 |
121 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | 3:52 |
122 | Alessandro Tonelli | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 3:55 |
123 | Aime De Gendt | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 3:58 |
124 | Alexander Cepeda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 3:59 |
125 | Cesare Benedetti | BORA-hansgrohe | 4:03 |
126 | Merhawi Kudus | EF Education-EasyPost | 4:08 |
127 | Wesley Kreder | Cofidis | 4:11 |
128 | Edoardo Zardini | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 4:25 |
129 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 4:27 |
130 | Oscar Riesebeek | Alpecin-Fenix | 4:33 |
131 | Davide Cimolai | Cofidis | 4:34 |
132 | Thomas De Gendt | Lotto Soudal | 4:53 |
133 | Alberto Dainese | Team DSM | 5:00 |
134 | Senne Leysen | Alpecin-Fenix | 5:08 |
135 | Mirco Maestri | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
136 | Ramon Sinkeldam | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
137 | Reto Hollenstein | Israel-Premier Tech | 5:11 |
138 | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis | 5:15 |
139 | Cees Bol | Team DSM | 5:17 |
140 | Romain Combaud | Team DSM | 5:21 |
141 | Dries De Bondt | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
142 | Sylvain Moniquet | Lotto Soudal | 5:24 |
143 | Jacopo Guarnieri | Groupama-FDJ | 5:28 |
144 | Otto Vergaerde | Trek-Segafredo | 5:32 |
145 | Rick Zabel | Israel-Premier Tech | 5:42 |
146 | Jakub Mareczko | Alpecin-Fenix | 5:42 |
147 | Lawson Craddock | BikeExchange-Jayco | 5:51 |
148 | Oier Lazkano | Movistar | 5:56 |
149 | Matthias Brandle | Israel-Premier Tech | 6:00 |
150 | Barnabas Peak | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 6:19 |
151 | Michael Morkov | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 6:20 |
152 | Pieter Serry | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 6:23 |
153 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
154 | Christopher Juul-Jensen | BikeExchange-Jayco | 6:24 |
155 | Domen Novak | Bahrain Victorious | 6:25 |
156 | Mark Cavendish | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 6:26 |
157 | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Jumbo-Visma | 6:29 |
158 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | s.t. |
159 | Maximiliano Richeze | UAE Team Emirates | 6:32 |
160 | Mattia Bais | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
161 | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain Victorious | 6:33 |
162 | Samuele Rivi | EOLO-Kometa | 6:34 |
163 | Davide Bais | EOLO-Kometa | 6:40 |
164 | Roger Kluge | Lotto Soudal | 6:43 |
165 | Alexander Krieger | Alpecin-Fenix | s.t. |
166 | Davide Ballerini | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl | 6:47 |
167 | Rudiger Selig | Lotto Soudal | 7:05 |
168 | Nico Denz | Team DSM | 7:26 |
169 | Alessandro De Marchi | Israel-Premier Tech | 7:31 |
170 | Alex Dowsett | Israel-Premier Tech | 7:53 |
171 | Julius Van Den Berg | EF Education-EasyPost | 7:56 |
172 | Filippo Tagliani | Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli | 8:45 |
173 | Samuele Zoccarato | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 8:58 |
174 | Clément Davy | Groupama-FDJ | 9:00 |
175 | Harm Vanhoucke | Lotto Soudal | 10:13 |
176 | Jan Tratnik | Bahrain Victorious | 10:20 |
Stage 2 map & profile:
Stage 2 map
Stage 2 profile
Stage two photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Davide Ballerini was 143rd, at 1min 13sec
Biniam Girmay was 42 seconds off the winning pace.
Alejandro Valverde was a second faster, at 41 seconds.
Richie Porte was 16th.
Vincenzo Nibali was twelfth.
Wilco Kelderman was seventh.
Tobias Foss was sixth
Fifth-place Ben Tulett
Matteo Sobrero's fourth place was good enough to make him the leader of the Young Rider classification.
Tom Dumoulin was third.
Simon Yates on his way to winning the stage.
Mathieu van der Poel's second place, at just three seconds, preserved his GC lead.
Stage winner Simon Yates
Mathieu van der Poel will start stage three in pink.
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