GIRO’22 Stage 15: Courageous Giulio Chicone

Giro Stage 15th Race Report: Julia Chicone bravely left the “break of the day” with 18 kilometers to go to the finish line in Konya and get a solo victory. Behind him the peloton were happy to stay together when INEOS Grenadiers piloted in a pink T-shirt by Richard Carapaz last week.

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“Better than wearing a yellow T-shirt” – Julia Chicone won the Giro stage

Giulia Chicone won the Sunday mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia, which finished in Cannes. Climber Trek-Segafredo, who single-handedly covered the last 18 kilometers, was the best of the leading group of 25 riders in stage 15. This is Chicone’s third victory at the Giro. There were no problems with Richard Karapaz’s pink T-shirt. Only Guillaume Martin managed to catch up with the other favorites.

Carapace in pink

Route:
A colossal alpine stage through the Aosta Valley. Initially, the route passes through Canavese and the Dora Baltea Valley, all the way to Aosta. The milestone course then takes three long consecutive climbs to Pila, Verron and Horse. For more than 10 km each, these climbs go along wide and well-paved roads with a number of hairpins in between. Each is followed by a rapid descent with the same features. At a distance of more than 22 km, the abrupt final ascent eventually becomes a long fake, all the way to the finish.

Final kilometers
Over the last 4 km, from the center of the Horse (with a small piece of tile) all the way to the finish line, the gradient fluctuates around 2.5% (rising slightly outside the Horse). The length of the home line is 300 meters.

T-shirt leader at the starting line

Another hard day with three big climbs

Peloton goes through the starting city of Rivarola Canavese

Stage 15 of 177 kilometers to Konya

Simon Yates and Richard Karapaz were involved in an early accident

The toad looked normal after the accident

In the relevant mountains

Bowman went to look for KOM points

The break was getting smaller

Peloton happily let go of the stage

INEOS headed the peloton

To the French border

Guillaume Martin attacked to move into the top 10 overall

The last 18 kilometers Chiccone ran solo

Ciccone’s emotional victory

The result of the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia:
1. Julia Chicone (Ito) Trek-Segafredo at 4:37:41
2. Santiago Buitraga (Colonel) Bahrain – Winner at 1:31
3. Antonio Pedrera (Spa) Movistar at 2:19
4. Hugh Carty (UK) EF Education-EasyPost at 3:09
5. Martian Tusveld (DSM) DSM at 4:36
6. Luca Cavili (Ito) Bordiani-CSF-Feizan at 5:08 p.m.
7. Natnael Tesfation (Erie) Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli at 5:27
8. Bawke Molema (Ned) Track-Segafred
9. Gijs Leemreize (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
10. Guillaume Martin (Fra) Kofidis at 6:06.

Giro d’Italia as a whole after stage 15:
1. Richard Karapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers at 63:06:57
2. Jay Hindley (Australia) BORA-hansgrohe at 0:09
3. Juan Almeida (Por) Team Emirates at 0:32
4. Mikel Landa (Spa) Bahrain – Winner 1:01
5. Domenico Pazaviva (Ito) Intermarsche-Guy-Gober Materio at 1:03
6. Pela Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain – Winner at 1:54 p.m.
7. Emanuel Buchmann (Herman) BORA-hansgrohe at 2 p.m.
8. Vincenzo Nibali (Ito) Astana Kazakhstan at 3 p.m.
9. Juan Pedro Lopez (Spa) Trek-Segafredo at 4:06 p.m.
10. Guillaume Martin (Fra) Kofidis at 8:02.

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