2024 Giro d'Italia Stage 20 Results & Recap
Stage 20 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
Tadej picks up six
Giulio Pellizzari attacked from the peloton in the first of two ascents up the brutal Monte Grappa. The young Italian was caught by Tadej Pogacar with 4.7 kilometres to go in the second ascent. The pink jersey powers on to win his sixth stage and seal the GC triumph with a 10-minute lead.
After almost 10 kilometres of racing, Davide Ballerini and Lorenzo Germani were the first riders to open up a gap. Nicola Conci, Jimmy Janssens, Henok Mulubhran, Andrea Vendrame, Edward Theuns, Andrea Pietrobon, Rubén Fernández, Pelayo Sánchez, and Alessandro Tonelli set off in pursuit and made the catch roughly 30 kilometres later. They tackled the Monte Grappa for the first time four minutes ahead of the peloton.
As the race unfolded, Janssens, Mulubhran, and Sánchez made a strategic move, distancing themselves from their companions early on the climb. However, their lead was short-lived as Tonelli, Conci, Fernández, and Vendrame managed to regain contact. In the end, it was Janssens, Tonelli, and Sánchez who proved to be the most resilient, emerging as the last men standing.
Giulio Pellizzari opened the chase in the last few kilometres and he overhauled the three just under the summit. Then he took most KOM points to move up to second place in the mountain's classification. Tadej Pogacar was the winner of that competition as well.
Janssens loses contact in the descent, while the other three widen their lead over the peloton to 2.40 minutes.
Pellizzari heads out alone with 16 kilometers to go on the second ascent of Monte Grappa. His lead falls to 1 minute with 6 kilometers remaining, while Thymen Arensman, Ben O’Connor, and Geraint Thomas are dropped from the GC group as Rafal Majka pulls at the front. Moments later, his leader Tadej Pogacar accelerates.
The pink jersey makes the catch with 4.7 kilometres left to climb and reaches the summit 2 minutes ahead of Giulio Pellizzari, Antonio Tiberi, Daniel Felipe MartĂnez, and Einer Rubio. During the descent, the four are rejoined by Geraint Thomas, Ben O’Connor, Valentin Paret-Peintre, and Michael Storer before MartĂnez strikes on the steep Il Pianaro halfway down the mountain. Rubio and Tiberi go with him.
While Pogacar solos to an impeccable victory, Paret-Peintre outsprints MartĂnez to take second place.
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