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The 2015 Giro d'Italia began on 9 May, and stage 12 occurred on 21 May.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia 2015 )〕 ==Stage 12== ;21 May 2015 — Imola to Vicenza (Monte Berico), The 12th stage of the Giro features another chance for the Classics specialists to take a stage victory. The first 129 kilometers of the stage is entirely flat before the riders tackle three categorized climbs on the route - the fourth category Castelnuovo, the third category Crosara and the fourth category Monte Berico. Along with the three climbs, the uncategorized climb of Perarolo is also located on the route. The ascent of Monte Berico starts at around 1 kilometer from the finish, averaging 7.1 per cent and going all the way to the finish. The short climb could provide a chance for the GC contenders to make some differences in the GC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia stage 12 preview: Vicenza offers another chance for the Classics riders )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia stage 12 preview )〕 For the first 70 kilometers, no rider could break away from the peloton as the riders' pace was at around 50 km/h during that stretch. Finally, 5 riders, consisting of 's Patrick Gretsch, 's Davide Appollonio, 's Enrico Barbin, 's Kenny Elissonde and 's Nick van der Lijke, were able to build a gap on the peloton. However, they were not allowed to build a big lead as the peloton only allowed them to have an advantage of around 2 minutes. The peloton began to reel them in one by one with around 50 kilometers still remaining with Gretsch being the last rider reeled in by the peloton. Afterwards, Gianfranco Zilioli of attacked but Louis Vervaeke of joined and dropped him but he was not able to build much of a gap and soon, he was also caught. As the riders approached the summit of Crosara, Beñat Intxausti also attacked but his only focus was maintaining the blue jersey. Maglia rosa wearer, Alberto Contador, also gave in a little dig to put him in the right place on the descent. On the descent, several riders crashed including Simon Gerrans, dropping him out of contention for the stage win. At the front, Alexandre Geniez attacked but his descending style got him off-road and he was also caught. The peloton also split on the descent but they eventually regrouped into a smaller peloton. With around 16 kilometers to go, Franco Pellizotti of attacked and although he tried to go solo, 's Tanel Kangert chased and joined him. The duo were able to build a gap of nearly 30 seconds as the riders closed in on the ascent of Monte Berico. On the final kilometer, Kangert was able to distance Pellizotti but Kangert was also caught with around 200 meters left. After a while, Philippe Gilbert attacked and no one was able to catch him as he took his second Giro stage win. From behind, the peloton split into three groups with Contador taking second place and the 6 bonus seconds, 3 seconds behind Gilbert. With Fabio Aru finishing 8 seconds in arrears of Contador and coupled with the time bonuses he gained, Contador stayed in pink and extended his GC lead over Aru to 17 seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Giro d'Italia: Gilbert wins stage 12 in Vicenza )〕 |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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