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Stage 13, Friday, May 17: Busseto - Cherasco, 254 km

Rated ascent:

• Km 217.2: Tre Cuni (714m), Category 3

The Race: 2013's longest stage. Both Bradley Wiggins and Ryder Hesjedal, suffering from colds, withdrew from the Giro today as did French champion Nacer Bouhanni. Rigoberto Uran became the Sky team leader.

The remains of the day's break (Lars Ytting Bak, Nicola Boem, Pablo Lastras) still had a 44-second lead with 23 km to go. Of course Omega Pharma led the peloton.

On the small rise out of Barolo, about 15 km to go, the attacks started going off and Astana, alert to the danger, moved to the front. Mark Cavendish stayed near the front of the maglia rosa front chase group.

At 12 km to go nine men (including Pablo Lastras and Lars Bak) had established a small gap and Omega Pharma went back to the front.

Giampaolo Caruso attacked the break and with 4 km to go the rest of the break had been mopped up and Caruso had 15 seconds. Caruso was caught with 1500 meters remaining and it was gruppo compatto. Cannondale tried to control the sprint but Mark Cavendish was again the fastest man for his fourth stage win this year.

Results:

1. Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) 6hr 9min 55sec
2. Giacomo Nizzolo (Radio Shack) s.t.
3. Luka Mezgec (Argos-Shimano) s.t.
4. Brett Lancaster (Orica-GreenEdge) s.t.
5. Elia Viviani (Cannondale) s.t.
6. Manuel Beletti (Ag2r) s.t.
7. Daniele Bennati (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
8. Filippo Pozzato (Lampre) s.t.
9. Anthony Roux (FDJ) s.t.
10. Miguel Angel Rubiano (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
11. Robert Hunter (Garmin-Sharp) s.t.
12. Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil) s.t.
13. Paul Martens (Blanco) s.t.
14. Marco Canola (Bardiani-CSF) s.t.
15. Vicente Reynes (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
16. Ramunas Navadauskas (Garmin-Sharp) s.t.
17. Grega Bole (Vacansoleil) s.t.
18. Domonique Rollin (FDJ) s.t.
19. Enrico Battaglin (Bardiani-CSF) s.t.
20. Luca Paolini (Katusha) s.t.
21. Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) s.t.
22. Pavel Brutt (Katusha) s.t.
23. Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) s.t.
24. Leonardo Duque (Colombia) s.t.
25. Fabio Sabatini (Cannondale) s.t.
26. Diego Rosa (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
27. Christian Knees (Sky) s.t.
28. Robert Gesink (Blanco) s.t.
29. Gert Dockx (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
30. Oscar Gatto (Vini Fantini) s.t.
31. Salvatore Puccio (Sky) s.t.
32. Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
33. Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r) s.t.
34. Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
35. Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) s.t.
36. Prezmyslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
37. Francis de Greef (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
38. Adam Hansen (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
39. Cadel Evans (BMC) s.t.
40. Tanel Kangert (Astana) s.t.
41. Ben Gastauer (Ag2r) s.t.
42. Nelson Filipe Oliviera (Radio Shack) s.t.
43. Vladimir Gusev (Katusha) s.t.
44. Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini) s.t.
45. Rafael Valls (Vacansoleil) s.t.
46. Fabio Felline (andorni Giocattoli) s.t.
47. Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
48. Franco Pellizotti (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
49. Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani-CSF) s.t.
50. Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) s.t.

GC after Stage 13:

1. Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) 52hr 38min 9sec
2. Cadel Evans (BMC) @ 41sec
3. Rigoberto Uran (Sky) @ 2min 4sec
4. Robert Gesink (Blanco) @ 2min 12sec
5. Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) @ 2min 13sec
6. Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini) @ 2min 55sec
7. Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida) @ 3min 35sec
8. Benat Intxausti (Movistar) @ 4min 5sec
9. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r) @ 4min 17sec
10. Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 4min 21sec
11. Sergio Henao (Sky) @ 5min 6sec
12. Tanel Kangert (Astana) @ 5min 8sec
13. Carlos Alberto Bentacur (Ag2r) @ 5min 26sec
14. Robert Kiserlovski (Radio Shack) @ 5min 57sec
15. Yury Trofimov (Katusha) @ 6min 8sec
16. Franco Pellizotti (Androni Giocattoli) @ 6min 55sec
17. Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel) @ 7min 46sec
18. Rafael Valls (Vacansoleil) @ 8min 41sec
19. Damiano Caruso (Cannondale) @ 8min 43sec
20. Wilco Kelderman (Blanco) @ 8min 55sec
21. Danilo Di Luca (Vini Fantini) @ 11min 37sec
22. Francis de Greef (Lotto-Belisol) @ 12min 2sec
23. Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) @ 12min 52sec
24. Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel) @ 18min 12sec
25. Francis Mourey (FDJ) @ 18min 16sec
26. Tiago Machado (Radio Shack) @ 23min 33sec
27. José Herrada (Movistar) @ 27min 33sec
28. Diego Rosa (Androni Giocattoli) @ 28min 30sec
29. Andres Duarte (Colombia) @ 32min 35sec
30. Juan Manuel Garate (Blanco) @ 34min 7sec
31. Jorge Azanza (Euskaltel) @ 37min 54sec
32. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sky) @ 38min 15sec
33. Petr Ignatenko (Katusha) @ 38min 50sec
34. Pieter Weening (Orica-GreenEdge) @ 38min 57sec
35. Steve Morabito (BMC) @ 29min 10sec
36. Vladimir Karpets (Movistar) @ 41min 20sec
37. Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) @ 44min32sec
38. Jackson Rodriguez (Androni Giocattoli) @ 45min 29sec
39. Enrico Battaglin (Bardiani-CSF) @ 46min 51sec
40. Luca Paolini (Katusha) @ 47min 31sec
41. Miguel Angel Rubiano (Androni Gioattoli) @ 47min 40sec
42. Valerio Agnolli (Astana) @ 51min 14sec
43. Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) @ 51min 50sec
44. Fabio Felline (Androni Giocattoli) @ 54min 12sec
45. Leonardo Duque (Colombia) @ 54min 43sec
46. Peter Stetina (Garmin-sharp) @ 1hr 0min 54sec
47. Ben Gastauer (Ag2r) @ 1hr 3min 7sec
48. Paul Martens (Blanco) @ 1hr 4min 8sec
49. Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil) @ 1hr 4min 13sec
50. Kristijan Durasek (Lampre-Merida) @ 1hr 5min 13sec

Points Competition:

1. Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step): 108 points
2. Cadel Evans (BMC): 73
3. Elia Viviani (Cannondale): 72
4. Giacomo Nizzolo (Radio Shack): 59
5. Maxim Belkov (Katusha): 55

Climber's Competition:

1. Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani-CSF): 47 points
2. Jackson Rodriguez (Andorni Giocattoli): 26
3. Robinson Chalpud (Colombia): 23
4. Maxim Belkov (Katusha): 18
5. Giovanni Visconti (Movistar): 16

Young Rider:

1. Rafal Majka (Saxo-Tinkoff) 52hr 42min 30sec
2. Carlos Alberto Betancur (Ag2r) @ 1min 5sec
3. Wilco Kelderman (BLanco) 2 4min 34sec
4. Darwin Atapuma (Colombia) @ 8min 31sec
5. Diego Rosa (Androni Giocattoli) @ 24min 9sec

Team Classification:

1. Sky 157hr 19min 28sec
2. Blanco @ 2min 22sec
3. Lampre-Merida @ 9min 54sec
4. Movistar @ 10min 45sec
5. Astana @ 11min 53sec

Stage 13 map

Stage 13 profile

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Stage 13 photos:

A lovely day in Piedmont as the riders pass by the vinyards.

Lars Ytting Bak leads the day's break.

Pablo Lastras (Movistar) was energetic the whole day.

Mark Cavendish didn't appear to be under stress on the climbs today.

Vincenzo Nibali remained as cool as a cucumber

Taylor Phinney and Cadel Evans

Vincenzo Nibali staying up at the pointy part of the race with Cavendish and the Omega boys

The pack climbs

Ah, Italy in May...

Mark Cavendish celebrates what should be his 101st pro victory.

Vincenzo Nibali gets to spend another day in pink.