The 2020 Il Lombardia was a one-day
road cycling
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race that took place on 15 August 2020 in the
Italian
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region of
Lombardy
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. It was part of the
2020 UCI World Tour
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and was the 114th edition of
Il Lombardia. The race was initially scheduled to take place on 10 October. The race was first rescheduled to 31 October with the May calendar update, and subsequently to 15 August with the June calendar update due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
With around 50 kilometres to go, a select group, including defending champion
Bauke Mollema
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winner
Vincenzo Nibali
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, both of , broke away from the peloton. On the descent of the
Muro di Sormano, Belgian rider
Remco Evenepoel
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He is the son of Patrick Evenepoel, a former racing cyclist who won the 1993 Grand Prix de Wallonie. Remco Evenepoel started his sport career i ...
of crashed into a low wall on a bridge, somersaulting over it and into the ravine below. He suffered a fractured pelvis and a right lung contusion and had to abandon the race. Despite having three riders in the leading group of six, none of 's riders could keep up as
Jakob Fuglsang
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of accelerated away on the Civiglio climb, taking with him his Russian teammate
Aleksandr Vlasov as well as New Zealander
George Bennett of . On the final climb, the
San Fermo della Battaglia
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, Bennett put in several attacks that managed to shed Vlasov, but Fuglsang put in the winning move moments later and in turn dropped Bennett. Fuglsang soloed to victory and, in doing so, became the first Danish winner of the race. After Fuglsang had won, German rider
Maximilian Schachmann
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In 2012, he was nominated Germany's 'Cyclist of the Year'. He rode in the 2018 Giro d'Italia, where he won stage 18.
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of was still several kilometres away from finishing, when he was side-swiped by an errant non-race car that drove across the road and his path, causing him to fall and become visibly upset and angry at race officials. As a result of the crash, Schachmann fractured his collarbone.
Teams
Twenty-five teams, consisting of all 19
UCI WorldTeam
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s, participated in the race. Each team entered seven riders with the exception of , which entered six. Of the 174 riders that started the race, 86 finished, while a further 18 riders finished over the time limit.
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Results
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