Giro d'Italia, stage 13 summary

Stage 13 - Friday, May 22: Lido di Camaiore - Firenze, 176km

First 10 finishers :
1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad 3.48.36 (45.931 km/h)
2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini
3 Allan Davis (Aus) Quick Step
4 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld
5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Slipstream
6 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank
7 Robert Forster (Ger) Team Milram
8 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Katusha
9 Davide Vigano (Ita) Fuji-Servetto
10 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale


Changes in stage 13 compared to stage 12 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+4 Riccardo Chiarini
+4 Gustavo Cesar Veloso
+4 Anders Lund
+3 Sebastien Hinault
+3 Mark Renshaw
+3 Jonas Ljungblad
+3 Ian Stannard
+3 Bram De Groot
+3 Ben Swift
+3 Alessandro Petacchi

Biggest losers by position :
-12 Steve Chainel
-10 David Zabriskie
-10 Jurgen Van Goolen
-9 Bjorn Schroder
-9 Leonardo Scarselli
-8 Morris Possoni
-8 Ricardo Serrano
-7 Marcos Garcia
-6 Jelle Vanendert
-6 Julien Belgy
-4 Mikhail Ignatiev

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:28 Mark Cavendish
+0:20 Alessandro Petacchi
+0:16 Allan Davis
+0:08 Tyler Farrar
+0:08 Sebastien Hinault
+0:08 Said Haddou
+0:08 Ruggero Marzoli
+0:08 Robert Hunter
+0:08 Robert Forster
+0:08 Renaud Dion

Biggest losers by time :
-6:03 Alberto Fernandez
-5:47 Steve Chainel
-5:36 David Zabriskie
-5:36 Morris Possoni
-5:33 Jelle Vanendert
-5:33 Jurgen Van Goolen
-5:31 Ricardo Serrano
-5:17 Julien Belgy
-5:17 Marcos Garcia
-5:17 Pablo Lastras
-5:17 Valerio Agnoli

Favourites by position :

Favourites by time :

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Denis Menchov 54.16.01
2 Danilo Di Luca 0.34
3 Levi Leipheimer 0.40
4 Franco Pellizotti 2.00
5 Carlos Sastre 2.52
6 Michael Rogers 2.59
7 Ivan Basso 3.00
8 Gilberto Simoni 4.38
9 Marzio Bruseghin 5.26
10 Thomas Lovkvist 5.53
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12 Lance Armstrong 6.34
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15 Stefano Garzelli 7.15
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18 Damiano Cunego 8.18
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53 Jens Voigt 42.54

Retirements to date : Stage
Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank 12
Christopher Horner (USA) Astana 11
Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11
Ronny Scholz (Ger) Team Milram 10
Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8
Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 8
Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD 8
Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 7
David Garcia Da Pena (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 5
Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4
Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3
Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 2
Total retirements : 12