Today have some hills in the final third of the stage, but with all the breakaways, one can wonder if it will even matter.
Break of the day: Stenersen (B&O), Sohrabi (Gatorade), Dyadichkin (Dasani), Raabe (Slipstream B), Mikhailov (Champion), Panayotov (Pearl Jam) and Broco (Pearl Jam B).
There is a lot of attacking going on behind them. The three that reach E1 is Gallardo (Nintendo B), (the useless) Chacon (Ernst and Young) and Mori (Sony Ericsson B).
Bernabeu (Nippo) and Pinto (Benfica) is stuck between the break and the pack.
82 kilometers to go, the break got 8 minutes of advantage.
Hitting the KoM sprint with 35 kilometers to go, Mori and Panayotov have seperated themselves from Raabe, Sohrabi, Chacon and Dyadichkin who again got rid of the other six in the breakaway.
20 kilometers to go and on the last climb, Mori have seperated himself from Panayotov and is going for a solo win, but Panayotov can take the overall lead here.
And Mori gets rewarded. Panayotov comes home 97 seconds later, taking the overall lead. Sohrabi third as the best of the breakaway.
Stage results:
1
Manuele Mori
SONY ERICSSON B
4h34'40
2
Petar Panayotov
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
+ 1'39
3
Mahdi Sohrabi
GATORADE
+ 2'49
4
Viatcheslav Dyadichkin
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
5
Fidel Jeobani Chacon
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
6
Henry Raabe
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
7
Horacio Gallardo
NINTENDO B
+ 5'08
8
Gennadi Mikhailov
CHAMPION
s.t.
9
Sten Stenersen
B&O
s.t.
10
Hernâni Broco
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
s.t.
11
David Bernabéu
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
12
Aitor Perez Arrieta
CHAMPION
+ 10'07
13
Gerrit Glomser
NVIDIA
s.t.
14
Guillaume Blot
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
15
Alex Diniz
NVIDIA
s.t.
16
Eduardo Gonzalo
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
17
Jackson Rodríguez
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
18
Gustav Larsson
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
19
Claudio Corioni
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
20
Florentino Marquez
BENFICA
s.t.
21
Matteo Priamo
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
22
Konstantin Siutsou
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
23
Dor Dviri
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
24
Björn Leukemans
CHAMPION
s.t.
25
Joan Horrach
BENFICA
s.t.
26
Evgeni Popov
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
27
Pedro Costa
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
s.t.
28
Franklin Chacon
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
s.t.
29
Pietro Caucchioli
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
30
Andy Flickinger
GATORADE
s.t.
31
Christian Pömer
NVIDIA
s.t.
32
José Chacon
CHAMPION
s.t.
33
Vitor Rodrigues
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
34
Hans Dekkers
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
35
Pedro Sibila Romero
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
36
José Antonio Baños Ballester
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
37
Óscar Pereiro Sio
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
38
Kristjan Fajt
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
39
Héctor Fabian Aguilar
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
s.t.
40
Tom Criel
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
41
Svein Tuft
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
42
Fabio Ciccarese
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
43
Francisco Lara Ruiz
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
s.t.
44
Morten Reckweg
B&O
s.t.
45
Tareq Esmaeli
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
46
Tadej Valjavec
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
47
Pascal Hungerbühler
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
48
Fabio Montenegro
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
49
Martin Hacecký
B&O
s.t.
50
Massimo Iannetti
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
51
Edwin Parra Bustamante
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
52
Victor Gomes Colinas
BENFICA
s.t.
53
Robert Kiserlovski
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
54
Nico Keinath
B&O
s.t.
55
Giovanny Báez
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
56
Tiaan Kannemeyer
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
57
Johan Lindgren
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
58
Tamás Lengyel
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
59
Hugo Manuel Vítor
BENFICA
s.t.
60
Gueswende Sawodogo
BENFICA
s.t.
61
Michael Wolf
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
62
Kieran Page
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
63
Yukihiro Doi
NINTENDO B
s.t.
64
Xabier Zandio
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
65
Andrei Grivko
B&O
s.t.
66
Nuno Ribeiro
BENFICA
s.t.
67
Maxim Gourov
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
68
Ivaïlo Gabrovski
GATORADE
s.t.
69
Eddy Ratti
GATORADE
s.t.
70
Pavel Brutt
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
71
Christian Pfannberger
NVIDIA
s.t.
72
Moosa Said
NINTENDO B
s.t.
73
Dermot Nally
NINTENDO B
s.t.
74
Hélder Magalhães
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
s.t.
75
Couliball Moussavou
NINTENDO B
+ 12'03
76
Juan Esteban Arango
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
77
Tiziano Dall'Antonia
CHAMPION
s.t.
78
Fredy Piamonte
CHAMPION
s.t.
79
Marco Guillén
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
80
Nicolas Brolin
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
81
Nathan Miller
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
82
Hugues Mottin
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
83
Enrico Degano
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
84
Graeme Brown
WHITE BEAR STEYR
s.t.
85
Ino Ilesic
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
s.t.
86
Rui Pinto
BENFICA
+ 12'43
87
Kofi Kramer
THE CONTROL TEAM
s.t.
88
Taiji Nishitani
NINTENDO B
s.t.
89
Kobe Vanoverschelde
B&O
s.t.
90
Eloy Teruel
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
91
Kangarid Naran
GATORADE
s.t.
92
Bilal Akgül
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
+ 14'19
93
Petter Renäng
SONY ERICSSON B
s.t.
94
Jochen Summer
SLIPSTREAM B
s.t.
95
Tanguy Reuzeau
THE CONTROL TEAM
s.t.
96
Morten Hegreberg
B&O
s.t.
97
Ahmad Haidar Anuawar
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
98
Ricki Nelson
NIPPO CORPORATION
s.t.
99
Sean Finning
NINTENDO B
+ 17'31
100
Joe Knoxville
THE CONTROL TEAM
s.t.
101
Mohammad Umardi Rosdi
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
+ 18'27
102
Martin Comploi
NVIDIA
s.t.
103
João Cabreira
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
104
Patrick Riedesser
NVIDIA
s.t.
105
Vasilis Anastopoulos
GATORADE
s.t.
106
Marco Bos
CHAMPION
s.t.
107
Amadou Bakari
GATORADE
+ 20'11
108
René Andrle
NVIDIA
+ 23'39
109
Farkad Mohammad
THE CONTROL TEAM
s.t.
110
Alvise Cappioli
THE CONTROL TEAM
s.t.
Overall top 20:
1
Petar Panayotov
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
24h41'03
2
Viatcheslav Dyadichkin
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
+ 1'53
3
Manuele Mori
SONY ERICSSON B
+ 3'40
4
Pavel Brutt
WHITE BEAR STEYR
+ 3'59
5
Maxim Gourov
ZENMIND - EVOLUTION
+ 4'05
6
Christian Pfannberger
NVIDIA
+ 4'07
7
Henry Raabe
SLIPSTREAM B
+ 4'10
8
Tiaan Kannemeyer
ERNST & YOUNG
+ 4'13
9
Hugo Manuel Vítor
BENFICA
+ 6'07
10
David Bernabéu
NIPPO CORPORATION
+ 6'29
11
Mahdi Sohrabi
GATORADE
+ 6'41
12
Jackson Rodríguez
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
+ 6'58
13
Yukihiro Doi
NINTENDO B
s.t.
14
Franklin Chacon
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM B
+ 7'04
15
Fidel Jeobani Chacon
ERNST & YOUNG
+ 7'11
16
Tareq Esmaeli
SLIPSTREAM B
+ 7'20
17
Christian Pömer
NVIDIA
+ 7'56
18
Fabio Montenegro
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
+ 8'05
19
Kristjan Fajt
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
+ 8'10
20
Pedro Sibila Romero
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
+ 8'32
Points jersey, featuring Guillén losing his jersey