2017 Giro d'Italia Stage 15 Results & Recap
Stage 15 of the 2017 Giro d'Italia is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Jungels wins Stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia
Jeremy Roy (FDJ), Dries Devenyns (Quickstep-Floors), Eugert Zhupa (Wilier-Selle Italia), Moreno Hofland (Lotto Soudal) and Jan Barta (BORA – Hansgrohe) were the first riders to escape up the road. It was an impossible task to get more of a 30 second advantage over the charging peloton, however. Cannondale-Drapac wasn’t happy to miss the move and kept the speeds high, more than 50 kph in the first hour of racing.
The break continued to dangle in front of the main field, fluctuating around 15 to 30 seconds until halfway through the race, when Dries Devenyns attacked in a last ditch effort to keep the break alive.
The reset button pushed, the break was reabsorbed and a new set of riders escaped up the road. The ten included Fernando Gaviria (Quickstep Floors), Philip Deigan (SKY) and Jacques Van Rensburg (Dimension Data). This break was able to gain a bit more time on the peloton, when Dumoulin’s Sunweb team came to the front to slow the pace down.
As the break crested the climb, it popped some riders off the back of the front group, leaving Julen Amezqueta (Wilier) Enrico Barbin (Bardiani), Rudy Molard (FDJ), Rensburg and Deignan a minute ahead.
Pierre Rolland (Cannondale) and Luis Sanchez (Astana) burst out of the main bunch and bridged to the leaders with less than 20 km to go. However the break’s slight lead weakened as the kilometers ticked away, thanks to a strong pace set by Orica – Scott for Adam Yates, and Rolland was the last to be caught with five kilometers to the finish in Bergamo.
A short, steep climb right before the finish fractured the main group, leaving the GC favorites to duke it out in a rare sprint finish for non-sprinters where Jungels lunged ahead of Quintana to take his first stage win at the Giro d’Italia.
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