The top three remained as was after stage 20's mountainous parcours, with Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Adam Yates crossing the line within seconds of each other. The biggest loser of the day was Carlos Rodríguez who took a tumble on the first descent of the day, inadvertently bringing down Sepp Kuss with him. The Spaniard sustained a cut above his left eye and was left with road rash on his left arm and leg. An in-form Simon Yates was able to capitalise on this and moved into fourth position with Rodríguez dropping down into fifth.
