"It doesn't get any tougher than that" was Simon Clarke's post race assesment of stage 16 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia. Having already placed second on stage four, Simon Clarke made the tough bridge across to an early ten-man break in the hope the elastic would snap from the peloton.

It was not to be as a rumble unfolded in the mountains to see Mikel Landa (Astana Pro Team) win his second consecutive stage and Alberto Contador (Tinkoff – Saxo) demonstrate his dominance on general classification despite having to recover from an untimely mechanical.

Colombian Esteban Chaves was first to cross the line for ORICA-GreenEDGE, finishing with the first big group 22minutes down on the winning time of Landa.

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