Giro d'Italia 2008 - Stage Six

The 2008 Giro d'Italia held from May 10 until June 21 covering 21 stages.

Italian Matteo Priamo, riding for the CSF team, broke away to win the sixth stage and Priamo's compatriot Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step) took the leader's pink jersey from Franco Pellozitti (Liquigas)

Matteo Priamo out paces Alan Perez - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

Giovanni Visconti now leads - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

Priamo built up a decisive lead over the final run-in of the 231km stage after a breakaway of more than 160km. (The stage length was cut by 30k)

Spainard Alan Perez took second place, eight seconds adrift, as he struggled with the final climb to the finishing line.

The main peloton, which included overnight leader Franco Pellizotti, crossed the line 11 minutes off the pace.

The breakaway came at the 53km mark at the initiative of Estonian Rene Mandri, Germany's Paul Martens and Perez.

Mandri later fell and had to be taken to hospital where he was diagnosed as having suffered a cracked vertebra, broken rib and pneumothorax.

Nine other riders, including Priamo, reeled in the trio, at one point building up a lead of almost 16 minutes over the main peloton.

Priamo, followed by Perez, attacked 12km from the finish and held his nerve to record the most important milestone of his professional cycling career which started in 2006.

1 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 05:24:49
2 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 00:08
3 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 00:27
4 Martens Paul GER RAB 00:31
5 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 00:32
6 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 00:36
7 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 00:40
8 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 00:40
9 Backstedt Magnus SWE TSL 00:43
10 Russ Matthias GER GST 00:47
11 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 01:03
12 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 11:34
13 Contador Alberto ESP AST 11:34
14 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 11:34
15 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 11:34
16 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 11:34
17 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 11:34
18 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 11:34
19 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 11:34
20 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 11:34
21 Kloden Andreas GER AST 11:34
22 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 11:34
23 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 11:34
24 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 11:34
25 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 11:34
26 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 11:34
27 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 11:34
28 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 11:34
29 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 11:34
30 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 11:34
31 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 11:34
32 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 11:34
33 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 11:34
34 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 11:34
35 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 11:34
36 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 11:34
37 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 11:34
38 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 11:34
39 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 11:34
40 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 11:34
41 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 11:34
42 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 11:34
43 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 11:34
44 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 11:34
45 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 11:34
46 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 11:34
47 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 11:34
48 Rebellin Davide ITA GST 11:34
49 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 11:34
50 Velo Marco ITA MRM 11:34
51 Possoni Morris ITA THR 11:34
52 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 11:34
53 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 11:34
54 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 11:34
55 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 11:34
56 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 11:34
57 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 11:34
58 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 11:34
59 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 11:34
60 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 11:34
61 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 11:34
62 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 11:34
63 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 11:47
64 Bellotti Francesco ITA BAR 11:48
65 Soler Juan M. COL BAR 11:48
66 Hansen Adam AUS THR 11:48
67 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 11:48
68 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 11:48
69 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 11:48
70 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 11:48
71 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 11:48
72 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 11:48
73 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 11:48
74 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 11:48
75 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 11:48
76 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 11:48
77 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 11:48
78 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 11:48
79 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 11:48
80 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 11:57
81 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 11:57
82 Savini Filippo ITA CSF 11:57
83 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 11:57
84 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 11:57
85 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 11:57
86 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 11:57
87 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 11:57
88 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 11:57
89 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 11:57
90 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 11:57
91 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 11:57
92 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 11:57
93 Zabel Erik GER MRM 11:57
94 Voigt Jens GER CSC 11:57
95 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 11:57
96 Fernandez Bingen ESP COF 11:57
97 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 11:57
98 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 11:57
99 De Groot Bram NED RAB 11:57
100 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 11:57
101 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 11:57
102 Eltink Theo NED RAB 11:57
103 Ordowski Volker GER GST 12:14
104 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 12:16
105 Gates Nick AUS SIL 12:16
106 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 12:16
107 Moletta Andrea ITA GST 12:16
108 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 12:19
109 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 12:19
110 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 12:25
111 Ghisalberti Sergio ITA MRM 12:25
112 Santambrogio Mauro ITA LAM 12:42
113 Sabatini Fabio ITA MRM 12:42
114 Steurs Geert BEL SIL 12:42
115 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 12:42
116 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 12:42
117 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 12:42
118 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 12:42
119 Forster Robert GER GST 12:42
120 Fothen Thomas GER GST 12:42
121 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 12:42
122 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 12:42
123 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 12:42
124 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 12:42
125 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 12:42
126 Zampieri Steve SUI COF 12:42
127 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 12:42
128 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 12:42
129 Huguet Yann FRA COF 12:42
130 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 12:42
131 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 12:42
132 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 12:42
133 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 12:42
134 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 12:42
135 Greipel André GER THR 12:42
136 Loosli David SUI LAM 12:42
137 Monier Damien FRA COF 12:42
138 Martin Tony GER THR 12:42
139 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 12:42
140 Lund Anders DEN CSC 12:42
141 Krauss Sven GER GST 12:42
142 Mc Carty Jonathan Patrick USA TSL 12:42
143 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 12:42
144 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 13:02
145 Millar David GBR TSL 13:04
146 Galdos Alonso Aitor ESP EUS 13:15
147 Fernandez Koldo ESP EUS 13:15
148 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 13:15
149 Morabito Steve SUI AST 13:15
150 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 13:15
151 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 13:15
152 Pagliarini Luciano BRA SDV 13:20
153 Lorenzetto Mirco ITA LAM 13:20
154 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 13:42
155 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 13:42
156 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 13:49
157 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 13:49
158 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 13:53
159 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 13:53
160 Facci Mauro ITA QST 13:58
161 Engels Addy NED QST 13:58
162 Dean Julian NZL TSL 13:58
163 Calcagni Patrick SUI BAR 14:34
164 Gatto Oscar ITA GST 16:00
165 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 16:00
166 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 16:00
167 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 16:00
168 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 16:00
169 Mcewen Robbie AUS SIL 16:00
170 Hutarovich Yauheni BLR FDJ 16:00
171 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 16:00
172 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 16:00
173 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 16:00
174 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 16:00
175 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 16:00
176 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 16:10
177 Loddo Alberto ITA TCS 16:43
178 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 16:43
179 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 16:50
180 Pate Danny USA TSL 16:53
181 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 16:54
182 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 16:54
183 Brown Graeme AUS RAB 16:54
184 Eichler Markus GER MRM 16:59
185 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 17:02
186 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 17:04
187 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 17:17

General Classification (Maglia Rosa)
1 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 27:14:04
2 Russ Matthias GER GST 00:00
3 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 01:22
4 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 04:42
5 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 05:34
6 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 09:07
7 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 09:08
8 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 09:15
9 Possoni Morris ITA THR 09:16
10 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 09:16
11 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 09:23
12 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 09:25
13 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 09:26
14 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 09:27
15 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 09:30
16 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 09:36
17 Kloden Andreas GER AST 09:36
18 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 09:36
19 Contador Alberto ESP AST 09:38
20 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 09:41
21 Rebellin Davide ITA GST 09:45
22 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 09:47
23 Bellotti Francesco ITA BAR 09:47
24 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 09:51
25 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 09:51
26 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 09:52
27 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 09:52
28 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 09:53
29 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 09:54
30 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 09:56
31 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 09:59
32 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 10:01
33 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 10:01
34 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 10:02
35 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 10:07
36 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 10:10
37 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 10:11
38 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 10:13
39 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 10:13
40 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 10:13
41 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 10:15
42 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 10:16
43 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 10:18
44 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 10:19
45 Soler Juan M. COL BAR 10:21
46 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 10:23
47 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 10:27
48 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 10:27
49 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 10:27
50 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 10:28
51 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 10:28
52 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 10:29
53 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 10:29
54 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 10:34
55 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 10:35
56 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 10:37
57 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 10:38
58 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 10:43
59 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 10:45
60 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 10:45
61 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 10:58
62 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 11:05
63 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 11:05
64 Moletta Andrea ITA GST 11:09
65 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 11:11
66 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 11:12
67 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 11:13
68 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 11:18
69 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 11:19
70 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 11:35
71 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 11:57
72 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 12:05
73 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 12:18
74 Fernandez Bingen ESP COF 12:19
75 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 12:29
76 Millar David GBR TSL 12:40
77 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 12:42
78 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 13:13
79 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 13:18
80 Zabel Erik GER MRM 13:24
81 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 13:40
82 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 14:28
83 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 14:46
84 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 15:33
85 Ghisalberti Sergio ITA MRM 15:38
86 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 15:42
87 Velo Marco ITA MRM 16:51
88 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 17:09
89 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 17:18
90 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 17:39
91 Eltink Theo NED RAB 18:35
92 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 19:49
93 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 19:58
94 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 20:04
95 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 20:15
96 Martens Paul GER RAB 20:27
97 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 20:55
98 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 21:04
99 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 21:17
100 Voigt Jens GER CSC 21:26
101 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 21:32
102 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 21:41
103 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 22:16
104 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 22:16
105 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 22:19
106 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 22:20
107 Sabatini Fabio ITA MRM 22:29
108 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 23:34
109 Ordowski Volker GER GST 24:04:00
110 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 24:45:00
111 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 25:01:00
112 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 25:04:00
113 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 25:20:00
114 Lorenzetto Mirco ITA LAM 25:42:00
115 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 25:48:00
116 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 25:49:00
117 Lund Anders DEN CSC 26:01:00
118 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 26:24:00
119 Loosli David SUI LAM 26:43:00
120 Santambrogio Mauro ITA LAM 26:49:00
121 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 27:12:00
122 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 27:39:00
123 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 27:41:00
124 Zampieri Steve SUI COF 27:56:00
125 Backstedt Magnus SWE TSL 27:57:00
126 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 27:58:00
127 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 28:13:00
128 Forster Robert GER GST 28:14:00
129 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 29:00:00
130 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 29:25:00
131 Fothen Thomas GER GST 29:26:00
132 Savini Filippo ITA CSF 30:19:00
133 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 30:22:00
134 Calcagni Patrick SUI BAR 30:25:00
135 Krauss Sven GER GST 30:47:00
136 Engels Addy NED QST 30:55:00
137 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 32:19:00
138 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 32:23:00
139 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 33:09:00
140 Facci Mauro ITA QST 33:14:00
141 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 34:12:00
142 Hansen Adam AUS THR 34:48:00
143 Martin Tony GER THR 34:50:00
144 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 34:53:00
145 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 35:18:00
146 Monier Damien FRA COF 35:48:00
147 Fernandez Koldo ESP EUS 36:06:00
148 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 36:39:00
149 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 37:14:00
150 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 37:18:00
151 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 37:33:00
152 Huguet Yann FRA COF 37:43:00
153 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 38:04:00
154 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 38:29:00
155 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 38:58:00
156 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 39:20:00
157 De Groot Bram NED RAB 39:57:00
158 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 40:24:00
159 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 40:39:00
160 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 40:57:00
161 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 41:33:00
162 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 41:50:00
163 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 41:51:00
164 Mcewen Robbie AUS SIL 41:55:00
165 Gates Nick AUS SIL 42:20:00
166 Galdos Alonso Aitor ESP EUS 42:23:00
167 Gatto Oscar ITA GST 43:34:00
168 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 43:50:00
169 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 44:48:00
170 Mc Carty Jonathan Patrick USA TSL 44:54:00
171 Greipel André GER THR 44:57:00
172 Dean Julian NZL TSL 45:38:00
173 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 46:09:00
174 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 47:14:00
175 Pagliarini Luciano BRA SDV 47:43:00
176 Eichler Markus GER MRM 47:43:00
177 Steurs Geert BEL SIL 48:13:00
178 Morabito Steve SUI AST 49:14:00
179 Loddo Alberto ITA TCS 51:09:00
180 Pate Danny USA TSL 52:21:00
181 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 52:34:00
182 Hutarovich Yauheni BLR FDJ 52:39:00
183 Brown Graeme AUS RAB 53:14:00
184 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 55:48:00
185 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 55:57:00
186 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 58:57:00
187 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 01:04:06

Mountains (Verde)
1 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 12 pts
2 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 5
3 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 3
4 Loosli David SUI LAM 3
5 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 3
6 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 3
7 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 2
8 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 2
9 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 2
10 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 1

Points (Ciclamino)
1 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 50 pts
2 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 34
3 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 33
4 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 32
5 Zabel Erik GER MRM 30
6 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 29
7 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 26
8 Forster Robert GER GST 24
9 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 22
10 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 22