Preview - Giro d'Italia 2022 stage 20

The final mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia is a brute as the peloton head for the Dolomites. It’s a high-mountain day with a brutal summit finish. 167 kilometers with 4700 meters of ascending, whilst the start isn’t that hard – with a 2.7Km at 7.1% hilltop after around 20 kilometers to perhaps be a crucial place for a breakaway to settle.

The general classification is to be played out on this day. It has so far been a hard race, but very few seconds separate the first riders in the GC and the final high mountains of the race may be the decisive factor.

The Passo San Pellegrino is the first true climb of the day, with 18.3 kilometers at 6.2%, and a significantly harder final kilometers than what the average gradient points towards. It summits with 85 kilometers to go.

The second climb of the sequence is the highest pass in the 2022 edition, with 2236 meters of altitude at it’s summit. It can change things around, because it’s details are also hard besides the altitude. A very constant ascent that summits with 45 kilometers to go, it’s 11.9Km long at 6.6%.

As for the finale, it will be in the Passo di Fedaia, La Marmolada as some know it. A climb of two halves, 12.8 kilometers at 7.6% in it’s total, however the final 5.7 kilometers average 10.4% and it is just suffering until the very summit. It’s the final real mountain of the Giro d’Italia, and a proper place to see the closure of the Alpine action.

**** Richard Carapaz

*** Jai Hindley, Mikel Landa

** Vincenzo Nibali, Hugh Carthy, Pello Bilbao

* Jan Hirt, Emanuel Buchmann, Wout Poels, Santiago Buitrago