2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 13 Results & Recap
Stage 13 of the 2019 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
Illnur Zakarin (Katusha Alpecin) won his first Grand Tour race in more than three years today on stage 13 of the Giro d’Italia. The Russian played the long game in the early breakaway and stuck it out on three categorized climbs to trade blows with Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton Scott) on the final climb. Nieve couldn’t respond to Zakarin’s repeated attacks and finished second. Mikel Landa (Movistar) put in a tremendous performance to finish third on the stage and continued to gain time on his GC rivals.
Polanc showed tremendous grit to hang on enough during the climbs to stay in the maglia rosa for yet another day. He ended the day 2:25 in front of Primoz Roglic on GC. Zakarin is third at 2:36.
After attacks leading to nowhere at the beginning of the stage, the first categorized climb of Colle de Lys was the natural selector of 26 riders, containing some dangerous names.\n \nIt included Bauke Mollema (TFS), Andrey Amador (MOV), Ilnur Zakarin (TKA), Mattia Cattaneo (ANS), Davide Formolo (BOH), Víctor De La Parte (CPT), Eddie Dunbar (INS), Tony Gallopin (ALM), Gianluca Brambilla (TFS), Tao Geoghegan Hart (INS), Dario Cataldo (AST), Mikel Nieve (MTS), Alexis Vuillermoz (ALM), Joe Dombrowski (EF1), José Joaquín Rojas (MOV), Fausto Masnada (ANS), Giulio Ciccone (TFS), Domenico Pozzovivo (TBM), Andrey Zeits (AST), Ion Izagirre (AST), Rubén Plaza (ICA), Thomas De Gendt (LTS), Antwan Tolhoek (TJV), Nicola Conci (TFS), Christopher Juul-Jensen (MTS), Antonio Nibali (TBM), Krists Neilands (ICA) and Héctor Carretero (MOV).
With many names cause for alarm, Jumbo Visma came to the front of the bunch and kept the break at a maximum of three minutes over the cols.
On the Pian del Lupo, Miguel Angel Lopez was the first to launch a serious attack on the GC group, which spelled trouble for a few GC names, including Polanc and Bob Jungels. \nWith the challenging gradient challenging the breakaway, there were about 12 riders left by the time they hit the Colle del Nivolet. Trek-Segafredo had enough riders present to keep the pace strong, while back in the GC group, Landa attacked and met up with his teammates, Carrettero and Amador. Pozzovivo kept the pace high for Nibali, which seemed to affect Roglic at times.
Lopez was caught out of the action after suffering a mechanical which required a bike change. Landa forged ahead, on the hunt for the remaining four leaders, Ciccone, Nieve, Mollema, and Zakarin.
Zakarin, keen on redeeming himself after previous grand tours, was motivated to attack at five to go, and again at two to go, which finally shook off Nieve, allowing the Russian to take the win solo. \n
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