This will be the perfect opportunity for the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz to repeat the Giro d’Italia title with the Ineos Grenadiers, before the individual time trial in Verona
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Cycling – Giro d’Italia – Stage 19 – Marano Lagunare to Santuario di Castelmonte, Italy – May 27, 2022 INEOS Grenadiers’ Richard Carapaz in action at the end of Stage 19 REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
The twentieth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2022 will be held from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. m. Colombian time on Saturday May 28. This section comprises a elevated route of 168 kilometers distance between the towns of Belluno and Marmolada with a slope of 4490 meters.
The 105th edition of the race thought the end of the race with a mountain stage and an individual time trial in Verona. This penultimate day will present an altimetry designed as follows with three mountain passes:
The beetles will start the race descending 17 kilometers. At kilometer 21.3 there will be an uncategorized slope that will lead to a slight climb to kilometer 63.5 (Cencenighe Agordino), which anticipates the first special sprint of the stage uphill to the first pass mountain.
This first-class port will be located at kilometer 81.9 (Passo San Pellegrino), whose distance will be 11.8 kilometers and a gradient of 6.8% at 1,918 meters above sea level .
The descent of this mountain pass will be 12 kilometers until reaching kilometer 123.4 where the cyclists will reach a special category pass (Passo Pordoi) and will ascend to 2,239 meters above sea level with a drop of 9.1%.
Followed by 20 kilometers of descent and the ascent to the last first category mountain pass will begin before passing through the hot spot of the stage with a bonus for the first three runners who pass through it at kilometer 162.5 (< b>Malga Ciapela).
The pass in general has 14 kilometers of ascent and a drop of 7.6%. The profile of the arrival in this mountain pass (Passo Fedaia) is located on the Marmolada glacier until completing the 168-kilometre journey before arriving in Verona on Sunday, May 29.
This is a mountainous stage that presents the question of whether there will be a battle for the general classification, which is currently led by Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz, candidate to succeed Colombian Egan Arley Bernal in the European Maglia Rosa title.
Given the profile of this section, on paper, the favorites to win the stage are the riders, the English Simon Yates (Team BikeExchange-Jayco), the Colombian Iván Ramiro Sosa (Movistar Team), the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) or the Spanish Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious).
At the moment, the leader of the race in the general classification is the Carchi Locomotive, < b>Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers), with a time of 81 hours, 18 minutes and 12 seconds. Below Carapaz they occupy the podium –3 seconds apart– Jai Hindley, (Australian from Bora–Hansgrohe) and –1 minute and 5 seconds apart– the Spanish Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious), respectively.
Below, the route in images with each key point in the total 168 kilometers of the climb between Belluno and Marmolada:
Route of stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia 2022 between Belluno and Marmolada
The total route of 3,445.6 kilometers, which finished through Hungary and Slovenia and will end in Verona, Italy, left Budapest on May 6 and will end in Verona , on the 29th of the month.
Tejada, Sosa, Gaviria, Camargo and Buitrago tried to compete to succeed Egan Bernal in the 2022 edition of the race for the Pink Jersey. The national representation, by Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), Hárold Tejada (Astana), Diego Camargo (EF Education-EasyPost) , Iván Ramiro Sosa (Movistar Team) and Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious), the latter being the best Colombian participant in the general classification (position 12) with a difference of 20 minutes and 40 seconds against Richard Carapaz.