2005 Giro d'Italia

Overview of the stages

The 88th Giro d'Italia was held in 2005 from May 7 to May 29, running for about 3500 kilometers. It was won by Paolo Savoldelli who had worn the Maglia Rosa since the 13th stage.

Contents

Overview

Stage Date Start End Distance Winner Maglia rosa
(Preliminary) May 7 Reggio di Calabria - 1.15 km Brett Lancaster Flag of Australia Brett Lancaster Flag of Australia Details
1 May 8 Reggio di Calabria Tropea 208 km Paolo Bettini Flag of Italy Paolo Bettini Flag of Italy Details
2 May 9 Catanzaro Lido Santa Maria del Cedro 182 km Robbie McEwen Flag of Australia Robbie McEwenFlag of Australia Details
3 May 10 Diamante Giffoni Valle Piana 205 km Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Paolo Bettini Flag of Italy Details
4 May 11 Giffoni Valle Piana Frosinone 211 km Luca Mazzanti Flag of Italy Paolo Bettini Flag of Italy Details
5 May 12 Celano L'Aquila 223 km Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Details
6 May 13 Viterbo Marina di Grosseto 153 km Robbie McEwenFlag of Australia Paolo Bettini Flag of Italy Details
7 May 14 Grosseto Pistoia 211 km Koldo Gil Perez Flag of Spain Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Details
8 May 15 Lamporecchio Firenze 45 km David Zabriskie Flag of the United States Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Details
9 May 16 Firenze Ravenna 139 km Alessandro Petacchi Flag of Italy Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Details
10 May 18 Ravenna Rossano Veneto 212 km Robbie McEwenFlag of Australia Danilo Di Luca Flag of Italy Details
11 May 19 Marostica Zoldo Alto 150 km Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Ivan Basso Flag of Italy Details
12 May 20 Alleghe Rovereto 178 km Alessandro Petacchi Flag of Italy Ivan Basso Flag of Italy Details
13 May 21 Mezzocorona Ortisei 218 km Iván Parra Flag of Colombia Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
14 May 22 Egna Livigno 210 km Iván Parra Flag of Colombia Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
15 May 23 Livigno Lissone 147 km Alessandro Petacchi Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
16 May 25 Lissone Varazze 210 km Christophe Le Mével Flag of France Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
17 May 26 Varazze Limone Piemonte 194 km Ivan Basso Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
18 May 27 Chieri Turin 34 km Ivan Basso Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
19 May 28 Savigliano Sestriere 190 km José Rujano Flag of Colombia Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details
20 May 29 Albese con Cassano Milan 119 km Alessandro Petacchi Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli Flag of Italy Details

The stages eight (May 15) and 18 (May 27) as well as the preliminary (May 7) were time trials.

Teams

The following teams started for the Giro d'Italia 2005.

UCI Code Team Country
LAM Lampre-Caffita Flag of Italy
BTL Bouygues Télécom Flag of France
PAN Ceramica Panaria-Navigare Flag of Italy
COF Cofidis Flag of France
CLM Selle Italia Colombia Flag of Italy
C.A Credit Agricole Flag of France
DVL Davitamon-Lotto Flag of Belgium
DSC Discovery Channel Flag of the United States
DOM Domina Vacanze Flag of Italy
EUS Euskaltel-Euskadi Flag of Spain
FAS Fassa Bortolo Flag of Italy
FDJ Française des Jeux Flag of France
GST Gerolsteiner Flag of Germany
IBA Illes Balears Flag of Spain
LST Liberty Seguros-Würth Flag of Spain
LIQ Liquigas-Bianchi Flag of Italy
PHO Phonak Flag of Switzerland
QST Quickstep Flag of Belgium
RAB Rabobank Flag of the Netherlands
SDV Saunier Duval-Prodir Flag of Spain
CSC Team CSC Flag of Denmark
TMO T-Mobile Team Flag of Germany

Stages

Preliminary

The preliminary was a 1.15 kilometers time race. It was won by the Australian Brett Lancaster with a 0.289 second advantage over Matteo Tosatto, who scored second. After the last rider, Mario Cipollini received the homage of the Italian cycling world, doing the 1.15 kilometre race out of competition. He had announced his retirement just ten days before.

Standings after the preliminary
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) PAN 1'20" 1 Brett Lancaster (Aus) PAN 1'20"
2 Matteo Tosatto (It) FAS 1" 2 Matteo Tosatto (It) FAS 1"
3 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 1" 3 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 1"
4 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 1" 4 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 1"
5 Olaf Pollack (Ger) TMO 2" 5 Olaf Pollack (Ger) TMO 2"

1st stage

At the beginning of the first road stage, a four-man breakaway formed and led by almost ten minutes at one point. Thorwald Veneberg was finally captured again about 20 kilometers before the end. However, his efforts paid by giving him the first maglia verde of the Giro. On the last kilometre Paolo Bettini managed to get away on a very steep gradient.

Standings after the 1st stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 5:09'32" 1 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 5:10'35"
2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 3" 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 12"
3 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 4" 3 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 14"
4 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJ 4" 4 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 22"
5 Manuele Mori (It) SDV 4" 5 Marco Velo (It) FAS 25"

2nd stage

Having been defeated by Paolo Bettini and Robbie McEwen on the previous stage, Italian favourite Alessandro Petacchi failed yet again in the bunch sprint in Santa Maria del Cedro. This time, he claimed, he had been forced to change his direction because of Estonian Jaan Kirsipuu.

Standings after the 2nd stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 4:34:47 1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 9:45'14"
2 Isaac Gálvez (Esp) IBA 0" 2 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 8"
3 Robert Förster (Ger) GST 0" 3 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 14"
4 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 0" 4 Isaac Gálvez (Esp) QST 27"
5 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJ 0" 5 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 30"

3rd stage

Just as in the first stage, the sprinter's teams were not able to stop a break-away in the last kilometres of the race. This time, it was a group of fifty riders which included all the GC important riders. Danilo Di Luca, in a great form in season 2005, beat fellow Italian Damiano Cunego in the sprint for the stage victory.

Standings after the 3rd stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 5:24'17" 1 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 15:09'35"
2 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 0" 2 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 9"
3 Stefano Garzelli (It) LIQ 0" 3 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 17"
4 Mirko Celestino (It) DOM 0" 4 Stefano Garzelli (It) LIQ 23"
5 Francisco Ventoso (Esp) SDV 0" 5 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 26"

4th stage

Paolo Bettini won the sprint at the end which was fought between five cyclists. But in this process he caused Baden Cooke to fall and was declassified because of this. Luca Mazzanti, who came in second, inherited the victory. After the stage, Bettini threatened to abandon the race, but it turned out to be an empty threat.

Standings after the 4th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Luca Mazzanti (It) PAN 5:10'09" 1 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 20:19'44"
2 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 0" 2 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 13"
3 Michele Scarponi (It) LST 0" 3 Luca Mazzanti (It) PAN 16"
4 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 0" 4 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 19"
5 Mirko Celestino (It) DOM 0" 5 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 21"

5th stage

Danilo Di Luca got his second stage victory in 2005 Giro d'Italia, notching this win ahead of Fassa Bortolo's Marzio Bruseghin. Otherwise, this stage had no important influence on the fight for General Classification.

Standings after the 5th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 6:01'18" 1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 26:20'55"
2 Marzio Bruseghin (It) FAS 0" 2 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 3"
3 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) DVL 2" 3 Luca Mazzanti (It) PAN 25"
4 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) DVL 2" 4 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 28"
5 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 2" 5 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 30"

6th stage

Just as Danilo Di Luca had done the previous day, Australian Robbie McEwen took his second win in this year's Giro. This time, he did not have to beat Alessandro Petacchi, since the Italian's treno biancoblù de-railed, causing the fall of some of the Fassa Bortolo riders, and forcing "Ale-Jet" to halt to a stop. McEwen's teammate Henk Vogels attacked in the last kilometre, but was surpassed just on the finish line by up to four other cyclists.

Standings after the 6th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 3:37'17" 1 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 29:58'09"
2 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) C.A 0" 2 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 3"
3 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) DSC 0" 3 Luca Mazzanti (It) PAN 28"
4 Isaac Gálvez (Esp) IBA 0" 4 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 31"
5 Henk Vogels (Aus) DVL 0" 5 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 33"

7th stage

After a long break-away, lasting throughout most of the stage, Spaniard Koldo Gil was the first to arrive in the finish line in Pistoia. Damiano Cunego, who was second, leading a pursuing group, celebrated thinking he had won the stage, not knowing that Gil had already taken the victory. Ivan Basso, who had been forced to change his bicycle because of a puncture in the last climb of the day, lost thirty seconds to his rivals for GC.

Standings after the 7th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Koldo Gil Perez (Esp) LST 5:08'17" 1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 35:06'41"
2 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 20" 2 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 26"
3 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 20" 3 Mirko Celestino (It) DOM 54"
4 Mirko Celestino (It) DOM 20" 4 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 54"
5 Patrice Halgand (Fra) C.A 20" 5 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 1'06"

8th stage

The eighth stage was a time trial. Danilo Di Luca came in tenth and was able to keep the Maglia Rosa. Otherwise, this stage meant the victory for American David Zabriskie, and the revival of his teammate Ivan Basso, second in the time trial, and who made up for all the time he had lost the day before and even more. On the other hand, this was a very bad day for both Lampre riders; Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni.

Standings after the 8th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 David Zabriskie (USA) CSC 58'31" 1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 36:06'47"
2 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 17" 2 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 9"
3 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 44" 3 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 35"
4 Marzio Bruseghin (It) FAS 48" 4 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 1'15"
5 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) DOM 51" 5 Dario Cioni LIQ 1'27"

9th stage

Finally, Alessandro Petacchi got his first victory in the 2005 Giro. Paolo Bettini and Swiss Aurélien Clerc had a great performance in this stage, surpassing pure sprinters such as Robbie McEwen or Erik Zabel.

Standings after the 9th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 3:15'32" 1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 39:22'19"
2 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 0" 2 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 9"
3 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) PHO 0" 3 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 35"
4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 0" 4 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 1'15"
5 Erik Zabel (Ger) TMO 0" 5 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 1'27"

10th stage

On the stage after the race's first rest day, Robbie McEwen took vengeance on Alessandro Petacchi, in a bunch sprint which had to be solved with the aid of the photo-finish, which determined that the Australian had beaten the Italian by a mere question of millimetres.

Standings after the 10th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) DVL 5:29'21" 1 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 44:51'40"
2 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 0" 2 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 9"
3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) COF 0" 3 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 35"
4 Erik Zabel (Ger) TMO 0" 4 Damiano Cunego (It) LAM 1'15"
5 Paolo Bettini (It) QST 0" 5 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 1'27"

11th stage

Already one kilometer after the start, Benoît Joachim raced away from the field. After about 100 kilometers, shortly after the first mountain standing which Joachim won, he was captured by the field. 26 kilometers before the end, and following an attack by "Gibo" Simoni, Ivan Basso raced away with only very few riders able to keep up. Only Paolo Savoldelli, who had picked up a twenty seconds advantage on the descent and therefore was able to reserve strengths, could stand Basso's rhythm, and he beat the Varesian rider at the summit of Zoldo Alto. Simoni came up 21 seconds later, but defending champion Damiano Cunego lost around six minutes and was ruled out from the list of contenders.

Standings after the 11th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 4:13'43" 1 Ivan Basso (ITA) CSC 49:05'20"
2 Ivan Basso (ITA) CSC 0" 2 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 18"
3 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 21" 3 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 1'04"
4 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 1'01" 4 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 2'27"
5 Daniel Atienza Urendez (ESP) COF 1'50" 5 Serhiy Honchar (UKR) DOM 3'45"

12th stage

Alessandro Petacchi's efforts during winter, striving to gain ability in the mountains, paid off just as they had done in Milan-Sanremo, enabling him to recover from the gruelous Dolomiti stage far better than any of his opponents, and the Italian from Fassa Bortolo sprinted to his second victory in this Giro.

Standings after the 12th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Alessandro Petacchi (ITa) FAS 4:50"00' 1 Ivan Basso (ITA) CSC 53:55"20'
2 Paride Grillo (ITA) PAN 0" 2 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 18"
3 Isaac Gálvez (ESP) IBA 0" 3 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 1'04"
4 Robert Forster (GER) GST 0" 4 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 2'27"
5 Jaan Kirsipuu (EST) C.A 0" 5 Serhiy Honchar (UKR) TEAM 3'45"

13th stage

Colombian Iván Parra won the stage in St. Ulrich by breaking ahead of his fellow breakaways on the previous climb. Spaniard Juanma Gárate, fourth in the 2004 Giro d'Italia, came in second. As for the GC, Ivan Basso, with gastrical problems, lost one minute and the maglia rosa to "Il Falco" Paolo Savoldelli.

Standings after the 13th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Iván Parra (COL) CLM 6:31'34" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 60:31'12"
2 Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) SDV 23" 2 Ivan Basso (ITA) CSC 50"
3 José Rujano (VEN) CLM 23" 3 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 53"
4 Pietro Caucchioli (ITA) C.A 27" 4 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 2'16"
5 Tadej Valjavec (SLO) PHO 1'46" 5 Juan Manuel Garate (ESP) SDV 2'39"

14th stage

But it was to be in this 14th stage that Ivan Basso's illness was really going to take its toll. Upon the first gradients of the Stelvio Pass, Cima Coppi of this edition, the Team CSC rider was left behind, unable to react because of his health problems. He lost eighteen minutes to the other GC riders. Savoldelli lost time to Simoni and Di Luca, who arrived in Livigno 3' 15" later than Iván Parra, who scored an impressive Dolomiti double.

Standings after the 14th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Iván Parra (COL) CLM 6:46'33" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 67:21'28"
2 Tadej Valjavec (SLO) PHO 1'50" 2 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 25"
3 José Rujano (VEN) CLM 1'50" 3 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 1'48"
4 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (ESP) IBA 2'51" 4 Juan Manuel Garate (ESP) SDV 2'11"
5 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 3'15" 5 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 2'18"

15th stage

This stage, originally 205 kilometres long, was reduced to a length of 147 kilometres due to bad weather conditions at Forcola di Livigno, one of the mountain climbs that the peloton had to go through that day. Alessandro Petacchi, after the abandon of sprinters such as Baden Cooke, Robbie McEwen, Stuart O'Grady or Jaan Kirsipuu, had only Erik Zabel to challenge him, but the Italian's speed was too much for the veteran T-Mobile rider.

Standings after the 15th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) FAS 3:32'41" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) DSC 70:54'09"
2 Erik Zabel (GER) TMO 0" 2 Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LIQ 25"
3 Paolo Bettini (ITA) QST 0" 3 Gilberto Simoni (ITA) LAM 1'48"
4 Simone Cadamuro (ITA) DOM 0" 4 Juan Manuel Garate (ESP) SDV 2'11"
5 Marco Velo (ITA) FAS 0" 5 José Rujano (VEN) CLM 2'18"

16th stage

After the second rest-day, the peloton did not want to spend too much energies on a flat stage, so it was easy for a break-away of eighteen men to gather an advantage of 10 minutes. Amongst these breakaways, there was Crédit Agricole rider Christophe Le Mével, who outpowered his fellow breakaways to notch up his first pro victory.

Standings after the 16th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) C.A. 4:50'51" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 76:07'16"
2 Christophe Brandt (Bel) DVL 9" 2 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 25"
3 Alessandro Vanotti (It) DOM 16" 3 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 1'48"
4 Dimitri Fofonov (Kaz) COF 16" 4 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 2'11"
5 Fränk Schleck (Lux) CSC 16" 5 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 2'18"

17th stage

Standings after the 17th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 5:15'46" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 81:24'50"
2 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 1'06" 2 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 58"
3 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 1'06" 3 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 1'24"
4 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) DVL 1'32" 4 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 1'36"
5 Iván Parra (Col) CLM 1'48" 5 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 2'11"

18th stage

Standings after the 18th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Ivan Basso (It) CSC 45'05" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 82:10'18"
2 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) IBA 9" 2 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 2'09"
3 David Zabriskie (USA) CSC 20" 3 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 3'00"
4 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 23" 4 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 3'08"
5 Dario Cioni (It) LIQ 28" 5 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 3'13"

19th stage

Standings after the 19th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 5:49'30" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 88:01'43"
2 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 12" 2 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 28"
3 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 1'37" 3 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 45"
4 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 1'53" 4 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 2'42"
5 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) DVL 1'55" 5 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 3'11"

20th stage

Standings after the 20th stage
Stage Tour (Maglia rosa)
# Name Team Time   # Name Team Time
1 Alessandro Petacchi (It) FAS 3:24'08" 1 Paolo Savoldelli (It) DSC 91:25'51"
2 Erik Zabel (Ger) TMO 0" 2 Gilberto Simoni (It) LAM 28"
3 Robert Forster (Ger) GST 0" 3 José Rujano (Ven) CLM 45"
4 Mirco Lorenzetto (It) DOM 0" 4 Danilo Di Luca (It) LIQ 2'42"
5 Marco Velo (It) DOM 0" 5 Juan Manuel Garate (Esp) SDV 3'11"

General classification

Cyclist Team Time
1 Flag of Italy  Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) Discovery Channel 91h 25’51”
2 Flag of Italy  Gilberto Simoni (ITA) Lampre-Caffitta + 0’28”
3 Flag of Venezuela  José Rujano Guillen (VEN) Selle Italia Colombia + 0' 45"
4 Flag of Italy Danilo Di Luca (ITA) Liquigas-Bianchi + 2' 42"
5 Flag of Spain Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) Saunier Duval-Prodir + 3' 11"
6 Flag of Ukraine Serhiy Honchar (UKR) Domina Vacanze-De Nardi + 4' 22"
7 Flag of Russia Vladimir Karpets (RUS) Illes Balears-Caisse d’Epargne + 11' 15"
8 Flag of Italy Pietro Caucchioli (ITA) Crédit Agricole + 11' 38"
9 Flag of Italy Marzio Bruseghin (ITA) Fassa Bortolo + 11' 40"
10 Flag of Italy Emanuele Sella (ITA) Panaria Navigare + 12' 33"
11 Flag of Belgium Wim van Huffel (BEL) Davitamon-Lotto + 13' 49"
12 Flag of Germany Markus Fothen (GER) Gerolsteiner + 14' 42"
13 Flag of Italy Dario Cioni (ITA) Liquigas-Bianchi + 15' 26"
14 Flag of Spain Daniel Atienza (ESP) Cofidis + 15' 52"
15 Flag of Slovenia Tadej Valjavec (SLO) Phonak + 19' 22"
16 Flag of Spain Unai Osa Eizaguirre (ESP) Illes Balears-Caisse d’Epargne + 20' 46"
17 Flag of Spain Samuel Sánchez (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi + 21' 55"
18 Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego (ITA) Lampre-Caffitta + 24' 05"
19 Flag of Italy Giampaolo Caruso (ITA) Liberty Seguros-Würth + 24' 29"
20 Flag of Colombia Ivan Parra (COL) Colombia-Selle Italia + 25' 37"
21 Flag of Russia Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS) Rabobank + 34' 50"
22 Flag of Spain Patxi Vila (ESP) Lampre-Caffitta + 38' 17"
23 Flag of France Patrice Halgand (FRA) Crédit Agricole + 44' 55"
24 Flag of Italy Wladimir Belli (ITA) Domina Vacanze-De Nardi + 46' 19"
25 Flag of Germany Matthias Kessler (GER) Team T-Mobile + 50' 49"

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