2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 19 Results & Recap
Stage 19 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
Esteban Chaves (Mitchelton Scott) claimed an emotional win on stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia, coming back after a year marred with sickness. The Colombian climber attacked his breakaway companions on the final ascent to San Martino di Castrozza to cross the line solo ahead of Andrea Vendrame (Androni) and Amaro Antunes (CCC Team).
Chaves’ win marks the 80th victory by a Colombian at the Giro d’Italia and his third career win in the Italian tour.
“It’s unbelievable, I don’t have words for this,” Chaves said in a media release. “It’s a lot of work that we have put together, my family, my team, my friends, everyone knows how hard we worked. I never gave up and the climb of the day showed that I attacked many, many times until I could drop everyone.
“It was just happiness, it was like I took a really heavy weight off my back and it’s the result from all the hard work in the last two or three years.
“This shows me I can do it, this shows me that I’m not over and it shows me that I can do this for a long, long time.”
Richard Carapaz (Movistar) continues to lead the overall competition ahead of Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain Merida) by almost two minutes, with Primoz Roglic third and Mikel Landa fourth.
The day started off with 11 riders making it into the break of the day on the first climb. They included: Chaves, Vendrame, Antunes, Pieter Serry (DQT), François Bidard (ALM), Manuel Senni (BRD), Manuele Boaro (AST), Marco Marcato (UAD), Ivan Santaromita (NIP), Marco Canola (NIP) and Olivier Le Gac (GFC).
With Movistar not interested in any of these riders, they were free to gain seven minutes advantage at times along the 151 km route. The peloton sat up and let the stage play out among the 11 up ahead.
Boaro was the first to attack before the final climb, at the foot of the Dolomites. The breakaway seemed uninterested in chasing, rather gradually drew the Astana rider back into the fold. From there, an antsy Chaves launched a series of attacks that shook of most except for Bidard and Serry. With one more kick at around three kilometres to go, Chaves dismantled the remaining riders and finished alone with time to celebrate his comeback.
In the GC group, Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) put in a dig on the final climb that caused Mikel Landa to spring into action for Carapaz. No one could catch the best young rider, who finished about 45 seconds ahead of the group. Roglic also attacked, hinting that he may still be a factor in tomorrow’s queen stage, however, he was closely marked. \n
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