2024 Giro d'Italia Stage 15 Results & Recap
Stage 15 of the 2024 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
Pogacar pulls away from rivals
Tadej Pogacar attacked from the GC group with 15 kilometers to go, and he gobbled up lone attacker Nairo Quintana inside the last 2 kilometres. The superstar from Slovenia soloed to an impressive victory - his fourth in the Giro - to extend his lead on GC to over 6 minutes.
Twelve riders attacked from the gun. Tobias Bayer, Davide Ballerini, Simone Velasco, Harrison Wood, Laurence Pithie, Lewis Askey, Olivier Le Gac, Lilian Calmejane, Bert Van Lerberghe, Caleb Ewan, Davide Bais, and Alessandro Tonelli opened up a lead of almost five minutes.
A huge group opened the chase on the first ascent of the day. On board were, among others, Nairo Quintana, Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Jhonatan Narváez, Michael Storer, Juan Pedro López, Tobias Foss, Julian Alaphilippe, Georg Steinhauser, Attila Valter, Pelayo Sánchez, Mauri Vansevenant, Tobias Bayer, Davide Ballerini, Alessandro Tonelli, Jan Tratnik, Giulio Pellizzari, Luke Plapp, Simon Geschke, Luca Covili, Christian Scaroni, Nicola Conci, Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, Michel Ries and Davide Piganzolo. The chasers reached the summit with a 2 minutes deficit.
The gap between the first and second groups fell below 1 minute on the Colle di San Zeno. Pellizzari, Scaroni and Piganzolo were the first riders to bridge across on the ascent, while the others made the junction 500 metres before the summit. Scaroni won the sprints for KOM points ahead of Geschke.
Bayer, Ballerini, Scaroni, Wood, Pellizzari, and Tonelli attacked from the lead group on the descent. The six opeed up a 2-minute gap in the valley, but it fell below 1 minute on the approach to the Mortirolo.
The lead group was down to Scaroni and Pellizzari on the Mortirolo, while Conci tracked them down in the last kilometre before the top. Scaroni took most KOM points before the peloton reached the summit 4.25 minutes later.
Eighteen riders came together after the Mortirolo descent: Narvaéz, Geschke, Conci, Ries, Velasco, Scaroni, Steinhauser, Ghebreigzabhier, López, Quintana, Sánchez, Alaphilippe, Vansevenant, Piganzoli, Valter, Storer, Covili, and Pellizzari.
Piganzoli sped up on the climb to Le Motte, with Steinhauser was the first rider to bridge across. Conci, Valter, and Covili were next, before Narváez, Geschke, Quintana, Alaphilippe, and Storer also rejoined the front.
Steinhauser accelerated early on the Passo di Foscagno. The 23-year-old German put 1 minute into the chasers. Then Quintana opened the chase.
The peloton was 3 minutes in arrears when Tadej Pogacar attacked with 15 kilometres to go. On the higher slopes, Quintana overhauled Steinhauser. Pogacar gobbled up the German also.
Pogacar crested the Passo di Foscagno 38 seconds behind Quintana, and he gobbled up the Colombian with 2 kilometres to go.
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