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Giro d'Italia 2020

Stage 7

Demare untouchable in Brindisi

  • Friday 9 October 2020
  • 145 km
  • 450 m climbed
  • Won by Arnaud Démare

The road

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At the start

The flattest day, across the heel

Nothing has moved for two days: Almeida leads Pello Bilbao by 43 seconds and Wilco Kelderman by 48, and the maglia rosa belongs to a twenty-two-year-old nobody had on their list. Today is the second-shortest road stage of this Giro and the easiest of the lot — down from Matera to the naval port of Taranto, then fifty straight, wide kilometres across the heel to Brindisi, with only the wind to complicate it.

How it was won

  1. At the line

    Demare untouchable in Brindisi

    A textbook Groupama-FDJ lead-out launches Arnaud Demare to a third stage win in Brindisi, the Frenchman now the clear fastest man of the race.

The result

Podium, Stage 7, Giro d'Italia 2020
RankRiderTeamTime
1Arnaud DémareGroupama - FDJ2:47:28
2Peter SaganBORA - hansgrohe+0:00
3Michael MatthewsTeam Sunweb+0:00
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