Giro d'Italia 2016

Giro d'Italia 2016
General
output	99th Giro d'Italia
Racing series	UCI WorldTour 2016 2nd UWT
Stages	21st
date	May 6-29, 2016
overall length	3,463.1 km
Host countries	Italy Netherlands France Germany
begin	Apeldoorn
target	Turin
Teams	22nd
Driver at the start	198
Driver at the finish	154
Average speed	40.014 km / h
Result
winner	Vincenzo Nibali ( Astana )
Second	Esteban Chaves ( Orica-GreenEDGE )
Third	Alejandro Valverde ( Movistar )
Scoring	Giacomo Nizzolo ( Trek-Segafredo )
Mountain scoring	Mikel Nieve ( Sky )
Sprint scoring	Daniel Oss ( BMC Racing Team )
Young talent evaluation	Bob Jungels ( Etixx-Quick Step )
Breakaway	Daniel Oss ( BMC Racing Team )
Team evaluation	Astana
Team ranking (points)	Etixx-Quick Step
◀ 2015	2017 ▶
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The 99th Giro d'Italia 2016 took place from May 6th to 29th, 2016 . He started in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands with an individual time trial and ended after 3,383 km in Turin . It won - for the second time after 2013  - the Italian Vincenzo Nibali .

Attendees

198 drivers in 22 teams of nine drivers each from 34 nations started the tour. Italy was the largest group with 53 drivers . Eight drivers from Germany , four each from Switzerland and Austria and two from Luxembourg took part.

Teams

The 18 UCI WorldTeams were entitled to start . In addition, four UCI Professional Continental Teams were invited by the organizer RCS Sport by wildcard .

WorldTeams (18) AG2R La Mondiale Astana BMC Racing Cannondale Dimension data Etixx-Quick Step FDJ I AM Lampre-Merida Lotto Soudal Movistar Orica-GreenEDGE Giant Alpecin Katusha Lotto NL-Jumbo Sky Tinkoff Trek-Segafredo Professional Continental Teams (4) Bardiani CSF Gazprom-RusVelo Nippo-Vini Fantini Wilier Triestina-Southeast

Favorites

The most promising favorites for overall victory were Vincenzo Nibali (AST), Mikel Landa (SKY), Alejandro Valverde (MOV) and Rafał Majka (TNK). Arnaud Démare (FDJ), Elia Viviani (SKY), André Greipel (LTS), Marcel Kittel (EQS) and Caleb Ewan (OGE) were named for the decisions in the mass sprints .

route

course

The start of the Giros took place in the Omnisport Apeldoorn .

As in 2002 and 2010 , the Grande Partenza took place in the Netherlands . The start of the first time trial took place within the Velodrom of Apeldoorn , the Omnisport Apeldoorn . The following two flat stages were mainly held in the province of Gelderland , with the second stage in the direction of Nijmegen, almost 40 kilometers from the finish, also passing through the German town of Wyler ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) for a few hundred meters .

On the first day of rest , the transfer took place in the south of Italy to Catanzaro in Calabria . In the further course Italy was first crossed to the north. The destination of the fourth stage was Praia a Mare on the Tyrrhenian Sea , the first mountain arrival was in central Italy at the finish of the sixth stage in Aremogna (near Roccaraso ) in Abruzzo at an altitude of 1572 m. By then, the riders had already started in the lowlands, conquered the Bocca della Selva at an altitude of 1393 m and the subsequent descent to a height of around 500 m. The seventh stage was quite flat, as was most of the eighth stage, where only the short but steep climb of around 500 meters in altitude on the Alpe di Poti made the route difficult. The ninth stage was held as an individual time trial over 40.5 km in the Chianti region .

Palmanova , starting point of the first alpine stage. Two climbs of the first and two climbs of the second category had to be conquered on the 13th stage.

The 15th stage was a mountain time trial from Castelrotto to the Alpe di Siusi at 1,844 m.

After the subsequent second day of rest, the route ran from Tuscany towards the northeast. The eleventh stage began in Modena , on the southern edge of the Po Valley , at the end of the twelfth stage , Bibione , on the Adriatic coast , was reached. At the end of the second week, the queen stage, stage 14, with six classified climbs and the goal in Alta Badia, was on. The route takes you from around 400 m to over 2000 m in the Dolomites , including to Passo Pordoi , Passo di Giau , and Passo di Valparola , before the Mür dl Giat (cat wall), a ramp , just before the finish at the entrance to Stern , with a gradient of up to 19%, had to be conquered. The next day there was a nearly eleven kilometer long mountain time trial to the Alpe di Siusi at 1844 m .

In the third week, Northern Italy was first crossed in a westerly direction. After a mountain stage from Brixen over the Mendel Pass with mountain arrival in Andalo , two transfer stages followed before the final began in the Western Alps . During the 19th stage , the Italian-French border was passed on the climb to the highest point of the Giros, the Colle dell'Agnello ( CC ). With a pass height of 2,744 m, it is the third highest alpine pass . The stage ended after 162 km with an ascent of the 1st category in Risoul . Three climbs in the first category, including the 2,715 m high Col de la Bonette and the Col de la Lombarde , which marks the border with Italy, as well as the final ascent to Vinadio (3rd category) were on the program of the penultimate stage. The 21st and last stage led from Cuneo to Turin . On a 7.5 km long circuit (8 laps) along the banks of the Po , the Giro came to an end after a total of 3,383 km.

Climbs

Colle dell'Agnello .

Profile of the north ramp of the Col de la Bonette .

A total of 38 categorized climbs have to be mastered at the Giro d'Italia. Five climbs in the fourth category, ten of the third, twelve of the second, ten of the first and the Cima Coppi on the Colle dell'Agnello .

First category climbs and passes and the Cima Coppi

stage	Pass / climb	height	length	pitch
				O	Max
10	Pian del Falco	1,352 m	16.3 km	5.2%	13%
13	Matajur	985 m	8.3 km	9.3%	15%
	Cima Porzus	910 m	8.8 km	8.2%	16%
14th	Passo Pordoi	2,239 m	9.3 km	6.9%	9%
	Passo di Giau	2,236 m	9.8 km	9.4%	14%
15th	Alpe di Siusi / Alpe di Siusi	1,844 m	9.1 km	8.3%	11%
19th	Colle dell'Agnello	2,744 m	21.3 km	6.8%	15%
	Risoul	1,862 m	12.9 km	6.9%	10%
20th	Col de Vars	2,108 m	18.2 km	6.0%	13%
	Col de la Bonette	2,715 m	22.2 km	6.7%	10%
	Col de la Lombarde	2,350 m	19.8 km	7.5%	12%

Stage overview

stage	date	Stage locations	type	Length (km)	Stage winner	Overall leader
1st stage	May 6th	Apeldoorn - Apeldoorn		9.8	Tom Dumoulin	Tom Dumoulin
2nd stage	May 7th	Arnhem - Nijmegen		190	Marcel Kittel	Tom Dumoulin
3rd stage	8th of May	Nijmegen - Arnhem		190	Marcel Kittel	Marcel Kittel
	May 9	Rest day
4th stage	10th of May	Catanzaro - Praia a Mare		200	Diego Ulissi	Tom Dumoulin
5th stage	May 11th	Praia a Mare - Benevento		233	André Greipel	Tom Dumoulin
6th stage	12th of May	Ponte - Roccaraso		157	Tim Wellens	Tom Dumoulin
7th stage	May 13th	Sulmona - Foligno		211	André Greipel	Tom Dumoulin
8th stage	May 14th	Foligno - Arezzo		186	Gianluca Brambilla	Gianluca Brambilla
9th stage	May 15	Radda in Chianti - Greve in Chianti		40.5	Primož Roglič	Gianluca Brambilla
	May 16	Rest day
10th stage	17th of May	Campi Bisenzio - Sestola		219	Giulio Ciccone	Bob Jungels
11th stage	May 18	Modena - Asolo		227	Diego Ulissi	Bob Jungels
12th stage	May 19th	Noale - Bibione		182	André Greipel	Bob Jungels
13th stage	May 20th	Palmanova - Cividale del Friuli		170	Mikel Nieve	Andrey Amador
14th stage	May 21	Farra d'Alpago - Corvara		210	Esteban Chaves	Steven Kruijswijk
15th stage	May 22	Kastelruth - Alpe di Siusi		10.8	Alexander Foliforov	Steven Kruijswijk
	23. May	Rest day
16th stage	May 24th	Bressanone - Andalo		132	Alejandro Valverde	Steven Kruijswijk
17th stage	25. May	Molveno - Cassano d'Adda		196	Roger Kluge	Steven Kruijswijk
18th stage	May 26	Muggiò - Pinerolo		244	Matteo Trentin	Steven Kruijswijk
19th stage	May 27th	Pinerolo - Risoul		162	Vincenzo Nibali	Esteban Chaves
20th stage	28th of May	Guillestre - Vinadio		134	Purely Taaramäe	Vincenzo Nibali
21st stage	May 29th	Cuneo - Turin		163	Nikias Arndt	Vincenzo Nibali

Race course

Intermediate result after the 9th stage

1.	Gianluca Brambilla	EQS	34h 33 '04 "
2.	Bob Jungels	EQS	+ 1 "
3.	Andrey Amador	MOV	+ 32 "
4th	Steven Kruijswijk	TLJ	+ 51 "
5.	Vincenzo Nibali	AST	+ 53 "
6th	Alejandro Valverde	MOV	+ 55 "
7th	Tom Dumoulin	TGA	+ 58 "
8th.	Mikel Landa	SKY	+1 '18 "
9.	Rafał Majka	TNK	+ 1 '45 "
10.	Jakob Fuglsang	AST	+1 '51 "
1.	André Greipel	LTS	119 P.
2.	Arnaud Demare	FDJ	91 P.
3.	Maarten Tjallingii	TLJ	82 P.
1.	Tim Wellens	LTS	21 p.
2.	Damiano Cunego	NIP	20 p.
3.	Gianluca Brambilla	EQS	16 p.
1.	Bob Jungels	EQS	34h 33 '05 "
2.	Carlos Verona	EQS	+ 4 '47 "
3.	Davide Formolo	CPT	+ 5 '21 "
1.	Etixx-Quick Step		103h 41 '02 "
2.	Movistar team		+ 2 '49 "
3.	Astana Pro Team		+ 4 '13 "
1.	Etixx-Quick Step		261 P.
2.	Movistar team		230 p.
3.	Astana Pro Team		181 P.

Intermediate result after the 15th stage

1.	Steven Kruijswijk	TLJ	60h 41 '22 "
2.	Esteban Chaves	OGE	+ 2 '12 "
3.	Vincenzo Nibali	AST	+ 2 '51 "
4th	Alejandro Valverde	MOV	+ 3 '29 "
5.	Rafał Majka	TNK	+ 4 '38 "
6th	Ilnur Zakarin	CAT	+ 4 '40 "
7th	Andrey Amador	MOV	+ 5 '27 "
8th.	Bob Jungels	EQS	+ 7 '14 "
9.	Kanstanzin Siuzou	DDD	+ 7 '37 "
10.	Jakob Fuglsang	AST	+ 7 '55 "
1.	Giacomo Nizzolo	TFS	138 P.
2.	Diego Ulissi	LAM	112 P.
3.	Sacha Modolo	LAM	84 P.
1.	Damiano Cunego	NIP	134 P.
2.	Stefan Denifl	I AM	72 P.
3.	Darwin Atapuma	BMC	69 P.
1.	Bob Jungels	EQS	60h 48 '36 "
2.	Sebastián Henao	SKY	+ 11 '34 "
3.	Davide Formolo	CPT	+ 29 '20 "
1.	Astana Pro Team		182h 23 '30 "
2.	Movistar team		+ 4 '40 "
3.	Cannondale Pro Cycling Team		+ 19 '05 "
1.	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo		346 P.
2.	Etixx-Quick Step		320 p.
3.	Lotto Soudal		251 P.

	Maglia Rosa		Maglia Bianca
	Maglia Rossa		Winning team
	Maglia Azzurra		great team

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  The Dutchman Tom Dumoulin won the opening time trial in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands and wore the Maglia Rosa during the two flat stages in the Netherlands .

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  Marcel Kittel won the two flat stages in the Netherlands and took the lead in the overall standings thanks to the bonus seconds. After only one day in pink, he had to hand over the lead back to Tom Dumoulin.

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  The peloton on the second stage in Arnhem .

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  Tom Dumoulin , here before the start of the second stage, was in Praia a Mare , the Maglia Rosa by Marcel Kittel recapture.

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  Diego Ulissi won two stages.

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  Giulio Ciccone won the tenth stage up to Sestola (3rd cat.).

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  Steven Kruijswijk took the lead in the overall standings after the queen stage.

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  Esteban Chaves , Steven Kruijswijk , Vincenzo Nibali and Rafał Majka on the ascent to Colle dell'Agnello . A fall in the descent destroyed Kruijswijks chances of winning the tour.

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  After the 18th stage, Esteban Chaves took the lead in the overall standings for one day.

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  With a convincing performance during the 19th and 20th stages, Vincenzo Nibali was able to take over the Maglia Rosa .

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  Rein Taaramäe , here on during the 20th stage at the Col de la Lombarde , won the penultimate stage of the Giros.

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  With five stage victories, six days in the pink jersey , winning the junior standings and winning the team classification Superteam the Tour of Italy for proceeded Team Quick Step extraordinarily successful.

Bottom line

Vincenzo Nibali achieved his fourth career success at one of the Grand Tours with the overall victory . It initially fell short of public expectations, but improved in the third week of racing. After Steven Kruijswijk (Netherlands), who had previously been the overall leader, fell on a descent, Nibali won the mountain finish of the 19th stage to Risoul . The next day he attacked the new owner of the Maglia Rosa , the Colombian Esteban Chaves on the penultimate mountain and thereby took over the overall lead. Chaves was then second overall ahead of the Spaniard Alejandro Valverde .

With seven stage wins by André Greipel (3) Marcel Kittel (2), Roger Kluge and Nikias Arndt , Germany became the nation with the most daily successes.

The points classification ( Maglia Rossa ) was won by the Italian Giacomo Nizzolo , the mountain classification ( Maglia Azzurra ) by the Spaniard Mikel Nieve and the junior classification ( Maglia Bianca ) by the Luxembourg Bob Jungels . The team classification according to the time winning team was won by the Kazakh Astana Pro Team .

Michele Scarponi ( Cima Coppi ), Daniel Oss (the intermediate sprint classification Traguardo Volante and the runaway classification), Matteo Trentin (competition prize), Etixx-Quick Step (team classification by points Super Team ) and the Lotto NL-Jumbo team (fair play) won further ratings .

Scoring jerseys

Overall rating
1.	Vincenzo Nibali	Astana Pro Team	86h 32 '49 "
2.	Esteban Chaves	Orica GreenEdge	+ 52 "
3.	Alejandro Valverde	Movistar team	+1 '17 "
4th	Steven Kruijswijk	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	+ 1 '50 "
5.	Rafał Majka	Tinkoff	+ 4 '37 "
6th	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	+ 8 '31 "
7th	Rigoberto uranium	Cannondale Pro Cycling Team	+ 11 '47 "
8th.	Andrey Amador	Movistar team	+ 13 '21 "
9.	Darwin Atapuma	BMC Racing Team	+ 14 '09 "
10.	Kanstanzin Siuzou	Team Dimension Data	+ 16 '20 "

Scoring
1.	Giacomo Nizzolo	Trek-Segafredo	209 P.
2.	Matteo Trentin	Etixx-Quick Step	184 P.
3.	Sacha Modolo	Lampre-Merida	163 P.
Mountain scoring
1.	Mikel Nieve	Team Sky	152 P.
2.	Damiano Cunego	Movistar team	134 P.
3.	Darwin Atapuma	BMC Racing Team	118 P.
Young talent evaluation
1.	Bob Jungels	Etixx-Quick Step	86h 41 '20 "
2.	Sebastián Henao	Team Sky	+ 29 '38 "
3.	Valerio Conti	Lampre-Merida	+ 1h 10 '07 "

Team ratings

Winning team
1.	Astana Pro Team	260h 2 '35 "
2.	Cannondale Pro Cycling Team	+ 6 '57 "
3.	Movistar team	+ 21 '00 "

Great team
1.	Etixx-Quick Step	506 P.
2.	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	397 P.
3.	Lampre-Merida	361 P.

Ratings and rewards

Regulations

The leader of the overall ranking wears the Maglia Rosa . As always in international stage races, the overall ranking results from the addition of the times driven. In addition, there is a time bonus for the stages - apart from the time trial stages 10, 6 and 4 and for the intermediate sprints 3, 2 and 1 seconds. For drivers born after January 1, 1991, the junior ranking is awarded on this basis, the leader of which is awarded the Maglia Bianca .

The leader of the points classification wears the Maglia Rossa . For this evaluation, between 50 and 1 point for the first 15 riders for flat stages, between 25 and 1 point for the first 10 for medium-difficult stages and between 15 and 1 point for the first 10 riders for mountain stages and time trials. In the case of intermediate sprints, between 20 and 1 point are awarded for the first 8 riders on flat stages, between 10 and 1 point for the first 5 riders on medium-difficult stages and between 8 and 1 point for the first 3 riders on mountain stages.

The leader in the mountain classification wears the Maglia Azzurra . Points are awarded on the Cima Coppi between 45 and 1 point for the first 9, on mountains of the 1st category between 35 and 1 point for the first 8, on mountains of the second category between 15 and 1 for the first 6, on ascents of the third category between 7 and 1 point for the first 4 and, if the fourth category climbs, between 3 and 1 points for the first 3 riders.

There are also two team ratings . The Winning Team rating is a rating that results from adding up the times of day of the three best drivers in the team. The Super Team rating results from points awarded for the top positions of the drivers of a team in the stages.

There are also the following special prices:

• Intermediate sprint scoring : On every stage (except time trial), the first five drivers receive 10, 6, 3, 2 and one point in the intermediate sprints.
• Outlier evaluation : The winner is the driver who has been active in outlier groups the longest (in a group of a maximum of ten drivers) in the entire race.
• Most combative driver : At the finish line, the intermediate sprints and every mountain classification, points are awarded for this classification. The number of counters does not correspond to the points otherwise assigned there.
• Fair play rating : The basis for this rating is a points system in which the aim is to collect as few counters as possible. For example, a fine is converted into one penalty point per 10 Swiss francs, time penalties result in two points per second.

Ratings

The table shows the leaders of the respective classification after completion of the stage.

stage	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Team ratings
					Winning team	great team
1.	Tom Dumoulin (TGA)	Tom Dumoulin (1) (TGA)	not forgiven	Tobias Ludvigsson (TGA)	Team Giant-Alpecin	Team Giant-Alpecin
2.		Marcel Kittel (2) (EQS)	Omar Fraile (DDD)
3.	Marcel Kittel (EQS)		Maarten Tjallingii (TLJ)			Etixx-Quick Step
4th	Tom Dumoulin (TGA)		Damiano Cunego (NIP)	Bob Jungels (3) (EQS)	Astana Pro Team
5.
6th
7th		André Greipel (4) (LTS)	Tim Wellens (LTS)			Lotto Soudal
8th.	Gianluca Brambilla (EQS)				Etixx-Quick Step	Etixx-Quick Step
9.
10.	Bob Jungels (EQS)		Damiano Cunego (NIP)		Movistar team
11.
12.
13.	Andrey Amador (MOV)	Giacomo Nizzolo (TFS)
14th	Steven Kruijswijk (TLJ)				Astana Pro Team
15th						Team Lotto NL-Jumbo
16.
17th
18th						Etixx-Quick Step
19th	Esteban Chaves (OGE)
20th	Vincenzo Nibali (AST)		Mikel Nieve (SKY)
21st
winner	Vincenzo Nibali (AST)	Giacomo Nizzolo (TFS)	Mikel Nieve (SKY)	Bob Jungels (EQS)	Astana Pro Team	Etixx-Quick Step

⁽¹⁾During the second stage, Primož Roglič (TLJ) wore the red jersey for the points classification.

⁽²⁾During the fourth stage, Elia Viviani (SKY) wore the red jersey for the points classification.

⁽³⁾During the eleventh, twelfth and 13th stages, Davide Formolo (CPT) wore the white jersey of the junior competition.

⁽⁴⁾During the 13th stage, Giacomo Nizzolo (TFS) wore the red jersey of the points classification because André Greipel did not start.

Bonuses

A total of 1,366,510 euros in prize money was distributed. Of this, the winner received 115,668 euros, the second 58,412 euros and the third 28,801 euros. A stage win brought in 11,010 euros, a day in the Maglia Rosa 1000 euros. In the team rankings, the respective winners received 5,000 euros each.

See also

• Tour de France 2016
• Vuelta a España 2016
• UCI Road World Championships 2016

Web links

Commons : Giro d'Italia 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Italian / English / Spanish)
• Fight for Pink - Roadbook of the Giro d'Italia 2016 (Italian and English; PDF)
• Giro d'Italia 2016 in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The favorites for the Giro victory - five stars for Nibali and Landa. radsport-news.com, May 4, 2016, accessed May 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Stephen Farrand: Giro d'Italia: A guide to the top 10 sprinters. cyclingnews.com, May 3, 2016, accessed May 6, 2016 . 
3. ^ Giro d'Italia Fight for Pink - Il Garibaldi. La Gazzetta dello Sport , RCS Sport , p. 18 , accessed May 9, 2016 . 
4. ^ Nibali catching up in the high mountains to triumph in the Giro. radsportnews.com, May 29, 2016, accessed May 29, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Le maglie di classifica e gli abbuoni . In: Bicisport: La Guida del Giro 2016 . S. 11 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Regulations and Giro Awards 2016: ratings, prize money, jerseys, mountains, sprints. radsport-news.com, May 17, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016 .