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Another day in the pink jersey for João Almeida after the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy, between Udine and San Daniele del Fiuli (229 km) with several mountain counts and a getaway that successfully reached the front of the pack.
The draw was won by the Slovenian Jan Tratnik (Bahrain) at 6:04 am, after Rúben Guerreiro (Education First) encouraged the start of the stage, who fights with the Italian Giovanni Visconti for the blue jersey, having even been isolated when there were 60km hurdles to finish.
After catching Rúben – he reached 27th position at 11:48 am – Tratnik and Manuele Boaro were left alone in the lead and the Slovenian went for a walk alone, after being caught by Ben O’Connor. These two successfully led the track to the finish, one minute ahead of the pursuers and 15 meters over the peloton, with Tratnik taking the lead in the final 600 meters and reaching the finish line only at San Daniele.
From here the peloton accelerated and started a little trying to shake Deceuninck, but João Almeida showed strength in the last meters, getting ahead, with a few meters of advantage to win 2 seconds to the entire competition, being the first in the group, 12 54 late for Tratnik.
João Almeida is now 17 seconds ahead of the Dutch Wilco Kelderman and 2m58 over Jay Hindley and will start on the 14th of the rose. Rúben Guerreiro maintains the 38th position at 1h16.21.
Mission accomplished: after an outstanding work of #The wolf Pack, @ JooAlmeida98 extends his lead in the overall standings to 17 seconds and will wear the #Round pink jersey for the fourteenth consecutive day.
Photo: @beelwout pic.twitter.com/2qJJzg9uSZ– Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) October 20, 2020
In the mountain jersey, Rúben Guerreiro is second with 118 points, behind Visconti, with 148.
Fernando Gaviria (United Arab Emirates) did not start the stage due to a positive test for Covid-19.
On Wednesday the peloton climbs further up the mountain, with 203km between Bassano del Grappa and Madonna di Campiglio, with three first-class mountain counts, the latter of which coincides with the goal.
(in update)
Classification by stages:
1. Jan Tratnik (SLO / Bahrain) 6:16 a.m.
2. Ben O’Connor (AUS / NTT) at 07.
3. Enrico Battaglin (ITA / BAH) 1:14.
4. Kamil Malecki (POL / CCC) 1:14.
5. Ben Swift (GBR / INE) 1:14.
6. Andrea Vendrame (ITA / ALM) 1:21.
7. Geoffrey Bouchard (FRA / ALM) 1:21.
8. Matteo Fabbro (ITA / BOR) 1:25.
9. Manuele Boaro (ITA / AST) 1:33.
10. Alessandro Tonelli (ITA / BAR) 1:37.
(…)
27. Rúben Guerrero (POR / EF) 11.48
28. João Almeida (POR / DCU) 12.54
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