2020 Giro d'Italia Stage 11 Results & Recap
Stage 11 of the 2020 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
Demare makes it four
With four wins under his belt, Arnaud Démare (Groupama - FDJ) is clearly the sprinter to beat at the 2020 Giro d'Italia. The French champion racked up another first today in Rimini, thanks to a textbook lead out by his Groupama FDJ team and his own powerful kick to finish off the task. None could challenge the 29-year-old, and yesterday's winner, Peter Sagan (Bora – hansgrohe) finished a close second. Álvaro Hodeg (Deceuninck - QuickStep) took third at the end of 182km.
“As Miles (Scotson) did a very long pull, Jacopo (Guarnieri) was able to launch me a bit later”, he said. “He was more explosive than usual and it allowed me to be launched with overspeed. When I’m clear enough, I try to do sprints that way. In the home stretch, I then waited, let a little space between Jacopo and me, and when I launched, I felt I had a lot of strength. I was afraid they would come back from behind but it was enough. It was really the perfect sprint today.”
Today's stage was not only relatively pan flat, it was also a straightforward shot from Porto Sant'Elpidio to the north along the Adriatic coastline. Mattia Bais (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), Fabio Mazzucco (Bardiani CSF Faizane), Francesco Romano (Bardiani CSF Faizane), Sander Armee (Lotto Soudal) and Marco Frapporti (Vini Zabu-KTM) broke clear in the opening kilometres and rode together for the majority of the stage, held at a three minute margin by the sprinters teams.
And that's how the situation stayed until about 30 km to go, when Bais and Armee took off. Bais suffered on the only classified climb of the day, leaving Armee to battle alone at the front with 25km to go. The Belgian held a firm two minute gap for a while, but with 10km to go, the peloton got serious about delivering their sprinters to the line and quickly swallowed him up.
From there, it was a fight for position with Groupama FDJ, UAE Team Emirates, and Israel Start Up Nation battling for the front. \n
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