2021 Circuito de Getxo (1.1), Spain

76th edition: Sunday, August 1, 2021

Circuito de Getxo podium history | 2020 edition | 2022 Edition

Getxo-Getxo; 7 laps totalling 193.5 kilometers

Giacomo Nizzolo finishes well ahead of Giovanni Aleotti and Santiago Buitrago. Gomez Sport photo

Weather at the start/finish city of Getxo at 2:35 PM, local time: 22C (70F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the northwest at 14 km/hr (9 mph). There is a 3% chace of rain.

The race: Here's the report from winner Giacomo Nizzolo's Qhubeka-NextHash team.

Giacomo Nizzolo won the Circuito de Gexto – Memorial Hermanos Otxoa, sprinting to the victory from a small breakaway group. Giovanni Aleotti (Bora-Hansgrohe) finished 2nd and Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain-Victorious) was 3rd.

The UCI 1.1 Circuito de Gexto saw riders take on 6 laps of an undulating circuit between Bilbao and Gexto, before completing a larger finishing circuit that included the the tough final climb of Pike Bidea, for a total race distance of 194km.

Team Qhubeka NextHash had last year’s second place finisher, Giacomo Nizzolo, targeting the top step of the podium today and so our South African UCI World Tour team rallied around the European champion throughout the race.

The race got off to a very fast start with numerous attacks and the pace was so high that it took almost 90km before any break finally got a significant gap. 11 strong riders had gone off the front and so Team Qhubeka NextHash, together with Caja-Rural and Bora-Hansgrohe took up the chase.

With around 55km to go, the pressure was really on to bring the leaders back and as a result, there was a split at the head of the peloton as 12 riders went off in pursuit of the early leaders. Team Qhubeka NextHash had both Nizzolo and Carlos Barbero in this select chase group.

Barbero would go on to play a pivotal support role for Nizzolo, all the way up to the final climb of Pike Bidea at 15km to go, as he worked hard to ensure the breakaway was caught before the climb.

On the climb it was then up to Nizzolo to try and follow the climbers as they began attacking on the steep slopes. The Italian sprinter held his own and did a fantastic climb, to summit in 5th place, just 15″ behind the front riders. He was then able to bridge across to the lead on the descent, setting up an exciting finale.

Bora-Hansgrohe had a numbers advantage in the group that was now reduced to just 7 riders. Nizzolo had to follow a stinging attack from Ide Schelling with 6km to go, but was successful in doing so and this set up a sprint finish between Nizzolo, Buitrago and the team mates of Aleotti and Schelling.

Nizzolo was too strong in the final kick for the other 3 riders and with 150m to go, he powered away to take a fine victory for Team Qhubeka NextHash. Barbero also managed to come home in a respectable 11th place, making it a great day for the team all round.

Complete Results:

193.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.998 km/hr

1	Giacomo Nizzolo	Qhubeka-NextHash	4hr 12min 24sec
2	Giovanni Aleotti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
4	Abner Gonzalez	Movistar	@ 12sec
5	Ide Schelling	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
6	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
7	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	0:54
8	Luis Sanchez	Astana-Premier Tech	1:04
9	Matteo Trentin	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
10	Antonio Soto	Euskaltel-Euskadi	1:26
11	Carlos Barbero	Qhubeka-NextHash	2:50
12	Jose Herrada	Cofidis	2:54
13	Vincenzo Albanese	Eolo-Kometa	2:56
14	Juan Lopez	Trek-Segafredo	3:05
15	Juri Hollmann	Movistar	3:07
16	Juan Ayuso	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
17	Juan Lobato	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
18	Fernando Barcelo	Cofidis	3:10
19	Michal Paluta	Global 6 Cycling	s.t.
20	Francisco Galvan	Kern Pharma	3:11
21	Jetse Bol	Burgos-BH	s.t.
22	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
23	Jordi Lopez	Kern Pharma	s.t.
24	Alex Jaime	Kern Pharma	s.t.
25	Domen Novak	Bahrain Victorious	3:14
26	Juan Alba	Movistar	s.t.
27	Antonio Angulo	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
28	Antoine Berlin	Global 6 Cycling	s.t.
29	Alejandro Ropero	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
30	Oscar Rodríguez	Astana-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Miguel Florez	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
32	Einer Rubio	Movistar	3:18
33	José Gutiérrez	Gios	3:20
34	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	3:27
35	Xavier Canellas	Gios	3:29
36	Rodrigo Contreras	Astana-Premier Tech	3:31
37	Julien Simon	TotalEnergies	3:48
38	Mathias Norsgaard	Movistar	3:59
39	Patrick Konrad	Bora-hansgrohe	4:07
40	Wilco Kelderman	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
41	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
42	Marcos Jurado	Electro Hiper Europa	5:05
43	Victor Martinez	Electro Hiper Europa	s.t.
44	Ollie Jones	Global 6 Cycling	s.t.
45	Isaac Canton	Burgos-BH	s.t.
46	Willie Smit	Burgos-BH	s.t.
47	David Lozano	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
48	Arturo Gravalos	Eolo-Kometa	5:10
49	Sander Armee	Qhubeka-NextHash	s.t.
50	Kevin Ledanois	Arkéa-Samsic	5:14
51	Miguel Ballesteros	Electro Hiper Europa	s.t.
52	Kevin Inkelaar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Francesco Gavazzi	Eolo-Kometa	5:19
54	Marton Dina	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
55	Johan Jacobs	Movistar	5:33
56	Jon Barrenetxea	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	5:36
57	Jon Aberasturi	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
58	Gianluca Brambilla	Trek-Segafredo	5:48
59	Jokin Murguialday	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	5:52
60	Dayer Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	7:31
61	Cesare Benedetti	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
62	Orluis Aular	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	7:54
63	Jonathan Lastra	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
64	Fabien Grellier	TotalEnergies	8:58
65	Thomas Armstrong	Electro Hiper Europa	9:19
66	Axel Zingle	Cofidis	s.t.
67	Julen Irizar	Euskaltel-Euskadi	s.t.
68	Danny van der Tuuk	Kern Pharma	9:37
69	Matteo Fabbro	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
70	Juan Lopez-Cozar	Burgos-BH	11:26
71	Felipe Orts	Burgos-BH	s.t.
72	Alex Molenaar	Burgos-BH	s.t.
73	Lluis Mas	Movistar	14:16
74	Christopher Lawless	TotalEnergies	14:28
75	Nathan Haas	Cofidis	s.t.
76	Charlie Quarterman	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
77	Dylan Sunderland	Qhubeka-NextHash	s.t.
78	Daniel Viegas	Eolo-Kometa	s.t.
79	Stephen Williams	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
80	Ibon Ruiz	Kern Pharma	s.t.
81	Andreas Miltiadis	Gios	s.t.
82	Antonio Nibali	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
83	Carlos Garcia	Kern Pharma	s.t.
84	Thomas Boudat	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.