2019 Gran Piemonte/Giro del Piemonte (HC), Italy
103rd edition: Thursday, October 10, 2019
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Agliè - Santuario di Oropa (Biella), 183 kilometers
Egan Bernal takes a solo win at Santuario di Oropa. Sirotti photo
Weather near the finish at the city of Biella at 1:55 PM, local time: 17C (62F), fair, with the wind from the south-southeast at 8 km/hr (5 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Here's the report from winner Egan Bernal's Team INEOS
Egan Bernal led home a Team INEOS 1-2 following an emphatic performance at Gran Piemonte.
Joined on the podium by fellow Colombian Ivan Sosa, Bernal launched his attack in the final kilometre and a half of the climb to Santuario di Oropa.
A stinging turn on the steep slopes from Sosa saw an elite lead group fracture, with the INEOS pair driving clear briefly before Bernal rode away to victory. Sosa was able to regroup and win the sprint for second, six seconds back on his teammate, to cap a superb day-long performance.
The entire team worked tirelessly across the 183 kilometres, with Filippo Ganna working hard on the flat to keep the day’s six-man break in check. The team then took it up on the penultimate Nelva climb, with Jonathan Castroviejo and Salvatore Puccio combining. Diego Rosa then kicked on with 5km to go, ensuring the pace remained high, discouraging a number of attacks.
Egan Bernal:
"I’m really happy. This morning when I woke up I was thinking about doing a good race, but to win is always difficult. I’m really happy because it’s my first win in Italy. I’ve been doing a lot of races here and it’s my first success in Piemonte. It’s the region in which I was living for two years, so it’s really special to win here.
"I was feeling really good during the race. I asked the guys to do a good tempo. Sosa did a really, really good job. I won the race but I think Sosa was almost stronger than me. In the final I saw that there were two of us, I tried to go full gas until the finish. Sosa also did a really good job and he’s shown that he is one of the strongest in the peloton on the climbs."
Complete Results:
183 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.549 km/hr
130 riders enrolled, 127 started and 19 failed to finish. 108 riders finished, 23 of whom were outside the time limit. 85 classified finishers.
| 1 | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | 4hr 24min 16sec |
| 2 | Iván Sosa | Team INEOS | @ 6sec |
| 3 | Nans Peters | Ag2r La Mondiale | 8'' |
| 4 | Emanuel Buchmann | Bora-hansgrohe | 10'' |
| 5 | Daniel Martin | UAE-Team Emirates | 11'' |
| 6 | Mathias Frank | Ag2r La Mondiale | 40'' |
| 7 | Davide Villella | Astana | 46'' |
| 8 | Giovanni Visconti | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | 47'' |
| 9 | Clément Champoussin | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 10 | Carlos Verona | Movistar | 49'' |
| 11 | Louis Meintjes | Dimension Data | 52'' |
| 12 | Nicolas Edet | Cofidis | 1' 00'' |
| 13 | Gorka Izagirre | Astana | 1' 06'' |
| 14 | Hugh Carthy | EF Education First | 1' 08'' |
| 15 | Nikolay Cherkasov | Gazprom-RusVelo | 1' 12'' |
| 16 | Nathan Earle | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 17 | Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier | Dimension Data | s.t. |
| 18 | Andrea Garosio | Bahrain-Merida | 1' 17'' |
| 19 | José Herrada | Cofidis | 1' 20'' |
| 20 | Andrey Zeits | Astana | s.t. |
| 21 | Jan Polanc | UAE-Team Emirates | 1' 50'' |
| 22 | Aleksander Vlasov | Gazprom-RusVelo | 1' 55'' |
| 23 | Gino Mäder | Dimension Data | 2' 03'' |
| 24 | Rubén Fernández | Movistar | 2' 17'' |
| 25 | Fausto Masnada | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2' 19'' |
| 26 | Diego Rosa | Team INEOS | s.t. |
| 27 | Clément Chevrier | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 28 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | 2' 23'' |
| 29 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2' 28'' |
| 30 | Kevin Rivera | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 31 | Hubert Dupont | Ag2r La Mondiale | 2' 33'' |
| 32 | Andrea Vendrame | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 2' 45'' |
| 33 | Pierre Rolland | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | 3' 06'' |
| 34 | Jonas Gregaard | Astana | 3' 08'' |
| 35 | Francesco Bongiorno | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | 3' 14'' |
| 36 | Hermann Pernsteiner | Bahrain-Merida | 3' 17'' |
| 37 | Cyril Gautier | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | 3' 22'' |
| 38 | Miguel Flórez | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 3' 53'' |
| 39 | Jesper Hansen | Cofidis | 3' 56'' |
| 40 | Manuele Boaro | Astana | 4' 31'' |
| 41 | Kristian Sbaragli | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 42 | Luis Ángel Maté | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 43 | Eduard Prades | Movistar | 4' 41'' |
| 44 | Sebastian Schönberger | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 45 | Lorenzo Rota | Bardiani-CSF | 4' 42'' |
| 46 | Jérémy Maison | Arkea-Samsic | 4' 45'' |
| 47 | Aleksey Rybalkin | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 48 | Nathan Brown | EF Education First | 4' 52'' |
| 49 | Sergey Shilov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 50 | Salvatore Puccio | Team INEOS | 5' 02'' |
| 51 | Jaakko Hänninen | Ag2r La Mondiale | 7' 21'' |
| 52 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | 7' 29'' |
| 53 | Davide Gabburo | Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia | s.t. |
| 54 | Steff Cras | Katusha-Alpecin | 7' 37'' |
| 55 | Hideto Nakane | Nippo-Vini Fantini | 8' 57'' |
| 56 | Omer Goldshtein | Israel Cycling Academy | 10' 29'' |
| 57 | Stéphane Rossetto | Cofidis | 10' 35'' |
| 58 | Edwin Ávila | Israel Cycling Academy | 10' 42'' |
| 59 | Aurélien Doleatto | Arkea-Samsic | s.t. |
| 60 | Awet Andemeskel | Israel Cycling Academy | s.t. |
| 61 | Mattia Bais | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 11' 00'' |
| 62 | Natnael Berhane | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 63 | Daniel Muñoz | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 64 | Daniel Navarro | Katusha-Alpecin | s.t. |
| 65 | Quentin Pacher | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | 11' 07'' |
| 66 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF | 11' 22'' |
| 67 | Davide Ballerini | Astana | 11' 49'' |
| 68 | Carlos Barbero | Movistar | 12' 14'' |
| 69 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 70 | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team INEOS | s.t. |
| 71 | Maxime Chevalier | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 72 | Gianni Moscon | Team INEOS | 12' 49'' |
| 73 | Mitch Docker | EF Education First | 13' 10'' |
| 74 | Rory Sutherland | UAE-Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 75 | Zhandos Bizhigitov | Astana | s.t. |
| 76 | Jasha Sütterlin | Movistar | 14' 36'' |
| 77 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF | 16' 18'' |
| 78 | Patrick Müller | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | 17' 02'' |
| 79 | Arnaud Courteille | Vital Concept-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 80 | Sean Bennett | EF Education First | 18' 11'' |
| 81 | Lachlan Morton | EF Education First | s.t. |
| 82 | Francesco Romano | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
| 83 | Ilnur Zakarin | Katusha-Alpecin | 19' 04'' |
| 84 | Artem Nych | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 85 | Vladislav Kulikov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
2019 Gran Piemonte map
And the race profile
Race pictures by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Gianni Savio's Androni Giacottoli team is presented during the opening ceremonies.
Everyone takes selfies.
Pierre Rolland gets his bike.
The Vital Concept riders wait for the start.
Looks like everyone is ready to race.
Close to the finish, Egan Bernal looks back at his chasers
Egan Bernal wins the race.
Race winner Egan Bernal
The podium, from left: Ivan Sosa (2nd), Egan Bernal & Nans Peters (3rd).
Start list with back numbers, October 9, 2019:
| BAHRAIN-MERIDA | |
| 1 | COLBRELLI Sonny |
| 2 | BOLE Grega |
| 3 | GAROSIO Andrea |
| 4 | PADUN Mark |
| 5 | PERNSTEINER Hermann |
| 6 | PIBERNIK Luka |
| AG2R LA MONDIALE | |
| 11 | BIDARD François |
| 12 | CHAMPOUSSIN Clément |
| 13 | CHEVRIER Clement |
| 14 | DOMONT Axel |
| 15 | DUPONT Hubert |
| 16 | HÄNNINEN Jaakko |
| 17 | PETERS Nans |
| ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI-SIDERMEC | |
| 21 | MASNADA Fausto |
| 22 | BAIS Mattia |
| 23 | BISOLTI Alessandro |
| 24 | CATTANEO Mattia |
| 25 | FLOREZ Miguel |
| 26 | MUÑOZ Daniel |
| 27 | RAVANELLI Simone |
| ASTANA | |
| 31 | BALLERINI Davide |
| 32 | BOARO Manuele |
| 33 | BIZHIGITOV Zhandos |
| 34 | GREGAARD Jonas |
| 35 | IZAGUIRRE Gorka |
| 36 | VILLELLA Davide |
| 37 | ZEITS Andrey |
| BARDIANI-CSF | |
| 41 | BARBIN Enrico |
| 42 | CARBONI Giovanni |
| 43 | COVILI Luca |
| 44 | ORSINI Umberto |
| 45 | ROMANO Francesco |
| 46 | ROTA Lorenzo |
| 47 | SAVINI Daniel |
| BORA-HANSGROHE | |
| 51 | MAJKA Rafal |
| 52 | BENEDETTI Cesare |
| 53 | BUCHMANN Emanuel |
| 54 | KONRAD Patrick |
| 55 | MÜHLBERGER Gregor |
| 56 | SAGAN Juraj |
| 57 | SCHACHMANN Maximilian |
| COFIDIS | |
| 61 | EDET Nicolas |
| 62 | BERHANE Natnael |
| 63 | HANSEN Jesper |
| 64 | HERRADA José |
| 65 | MATE Luis |
| 66 | PEREZ Anthony |
| 67 | ATAPUMA Jhon |
| EF EDUCATION FIRST | |
| 71 | BENNETT Sean |
| 72 | BROWN Nathan |
| 73 | CAICEDO Jonathan |
| 74 | DOCKER Mitchell |
| 75 | MODOLO Sacha |
| 76 | WALLS Matthew |
| 77 | WHELAN James |
| GAZPROM-RUSVELO | |
| 81 | VLASOV Aleksander |
| 82 | ARSLANOV Ildar |
| 83 | BOEV Igor |
| 84 | CHERKASOV Nikolay |
| 85 | KOBERNYAK Evgeny |
| 86 | KULIKOV Vladislav |
| 87 | RYBALKIN Aleksey |
| ISRAEL CYCLING ACADEMY | |
| 91 | HERMANS Ben |
| 92 | GEBREMEDHIN Awet |
| 93 | CATAFORD Alexander |
| 94 | GOLDSTEIN Omer |
| 96 | PLAZA Ruben |
| 97 | SBARAGLI Kristian |
| MOVISTAR | |
| 101 | CARAPAZ Richard |
| 102 | BARBERO Carlos |
| 103 | CASTRILLO Jaime |
| 104 | FERNANDEZ Rubén |
| 105 | PRADES Eduard |
| 106 | SÜTTERLIN Jasha |
| 107 | VERONA Carlos |
| NERI SOTTOLI-SELLE ITALIA | |
| 111 | VISCONTI Giovanni |
| 112 | BONGIORNO Francesco |
| 113 | GONZÁLEZ Roberto |
| 114 | GABBURO Davide |
| 115 | SCHÖNBERGER Sebastian |
| 116 | MARENGO Umberto |
| 117 | ZARDINI Edoardo |
| NIPPO-VINI FANTINI | |
| 121 | ACOSTA Ruben |
| 122 | BAGIOLI Nicola |
| 123 | BOU Joan |
| 124 | CANOLA Marco |
| 125 | NAKANE Hideto |
| 126 | OSORIO Alejandro |
| 127 | ZACCANTI Filippo |
| ARKEA-SAMSIC | |
| 131 | BARGUIL Warren |
| 132 | DOLEATTO Aurélien |
| 133 | GESBERT Elie |
| 134 | HARDY Romain |
| 135 | JARNET Maxime |
| 136 | LE ROUX Romain |
| 137 | MAISON Jérémy |
| DIMENSION DATA | |
| 141 | GASPAROTTO Enrico |
| 142 | GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel |
| 143 | KONYCHEV Alexander |
| 144 | MEINTJES Louis |
| 145 | MÄDER Gino |
| 146 | VENTER Jacobus |
| 147 | WYSS Danilo |
| TEAM INEOS | |
| 151 | BERNAL Egan |
| 152 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan |
| 153 | GANNA Filippo |
| 154 | GOLAS Michal |
| 155 | MOSCON Gianni |
| 156 | ROSA Diego |
| 157 | SOSA Ivan |
| KATUSHA-ALPECIN | |
| 161 | BATTAGLIN Enrico |
| 162 | CRAS Steff |
| 163 | FABBRO Matteo |
| 164 | GUERREIRO Ruben |
| 165 | HOLLMANN Juri |
| 166 | NAVARRO Daniel |
| 167 | ZAKARIN Ilnur |
| UAE-TEAM EMIRATES | |
| 171 | MARTIN Daniel |
| 172 | DALLA VALLE Nicolas |
| 173 | OLIVEIRA Ivo |
| 174 | POLANC Jan |
| 175 | RIABUSHENKO Aliaksandr |
| 176 | SUTHERLAND Rory |
| 177 | TROIA Oliviero |
| VITAL CONCEPT-B&B HOTELS | |
| 181 | ROLLAND Pierre |
| 182 | CAM Maxime |
| 183 | COURTEILLE Arnaud |
| 184 | GAUTIER Cyril |
| 185 | CHEVALIER Maxime |
| 186 | MÜLLER Patrick |
| 187 | PACHER Quentin |