Giro d'Italia 2008 - Stage Seven

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

Gabriele Bosisio (LPR Brakes) won the seventh stage on a day when Giovanni Visconti retained the overall lead and Danilo di Luca and Riccardo Ricco went on the attack.

Gabriele Bosisio celebrates - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

Di Luca and Ricco together - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

Those Italian riders had an impressive day in the saddle during this 176km mountain stage from Vasto to Pescocostanzo though Visconti had a tough time on the hardest climb about 20km from the finish line.

Bosisio got away from his breakaway companions to win by 46 seconds from Belarussian Vasili Kiryienka with Italy's Emanuele Sella third, just over a minute behind and who lost all chances of a stage victory following his puncture in the final section. Colombia's Felix Cardenas was fourth.

Di Luca and Ricco crossed the line together in fifth and sixth in the company of Leonardo Piepoli, Ricco's precious lieutenant, though Tour de France champion Alberto Contador lost a few seconds after being dropped in the last 200 metres.

It was a day when Di Luca, Ricco and Contador, all competing for the overall title, took about 50 seconds from the rest of the tour challengers.

The 27-year-old Milan rider Bosisio, who won the Tour of Latium and a pre-Olympic event last year, won his first ever Giro stage.

1 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 04:45:05
2 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 00:46
3 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 01:02
4 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 01:33
5 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 02:04
6 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 02:04
7 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 02:07
8 Contador Alberto ESP AST 02:10
9 Rebellin Davide ITA GST 02:55
10 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 02:55
11 Kloden Andreas GER AST 02:55
12 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 02:55
13 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 02:55
14 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 02:55
15 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 02:55
16 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 02:55
17 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 02:55
18 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 02:55
19 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 02:55
20 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 02:55
21 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 02:55
22 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 02:55
23 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 02:55
24 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 02:55
25 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 02:55
26 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 02:55
27 Soler Juan M. COL BAR 03:30
28 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 03:46
29 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 03:52
30 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 03:53
31 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 03:53
32 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 03:55
33 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 03:55
34 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 03:55
35 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 03:55
36 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 03:55
37 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 03:55
38 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 03:55
39 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 03:55
40 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 03:55
41 Russ Matthias GER GST 04:01
42 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 04:01
43 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 04:01
44 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 04:01
45 Possoni Morris ITA THR 04:01
46 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 04:01
47 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 04:01
48 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 04:04
49 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 04:06
50 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 04:13
51 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 04:39
52 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 04:39
53 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 04:45
54 Bellotti Francesco ITA BAR 04:52
55 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 10:14
56 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 10:14
57 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 10:14
58 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 10:23
59 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 10:23
60 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 10:23
61 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 10:23
62 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 10:23
63 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 11:13
64 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 14:51
65 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 14:51
66 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 14:51
67 Eltink Theo NED RAB 14:51
68 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 14:51
69 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 14:51
70 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 14:51
71 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 14:51
72 Loosli David SUI LAM 14:51
73 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 14:51
74 Engels Addy NED QST 14:51
75 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 14:51
76 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 14:51
77 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 14:51
78 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 14:51
79 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 14:51
80 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 16:25
81 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 16:25
82 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 16:25
83 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 16:25
84 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 16:25
85 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 16:25
86 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 17:52
87 Velo Marco ITA MRM 24:29:00
88 Sabatini Fabio ITA MRM 24:29:00
89 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 24:29:00
90 Moletta Andrea ITA GST 24:29:00
91 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 24:29:00
92 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 24:29:00
93 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 24:29:00
94 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 24:29:00
95 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 24:29:00
96 Ordowski Volker GER GST 24:29:00
97 Zabel Erik GER MRM 24:29:00
98 Voigt Jens GER CSC 24:29:00
99 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 24:29:00
100 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 24:29:00
101 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 24:29:00
102 Facci Mauro ITA QST 24:29:00
103 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 24:29:00
104 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 24:29:00
105 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 24:29:00
106 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 24:29:00
107 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 24:29:00
108 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 24:29:00
109 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 24:29:00
110 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 24:29:00
111 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 24:29:00
112 Savini Filippo ITA CSF 24:29:00
113 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 24:29:00
114 Ghisalberti Sergio ITA MRM 24:29:00
115 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 24:29:00
116 Morabito Steve SUI AST 24:29:00
117 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 24:29:00
118 Millar David GBR TSL 24:29:00
119 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 24:29:00
120 Pate Danny USA TSL 24:29:00
121 Huguet Yann FRA COF 24:29:00
122 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 24:29:00
123 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 24:29:00
124 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 24:29:00
125 Mcewen Robbie AUS SIL 28:11:00
126 Fernandez Koldo ESP EUS 28:11:00
127 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 28:11:00
128 Martens Paul GER RAB 28:11:00
129 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 28:11:00
130 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 28:11:00
131 Pagliarini Luciano BRA SDV 28:11:00
132 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 28:11:00
133 Steurs Geert BEL SIL 28:11:00
134 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 28:11:00
135 Greipel André GER THR 28:11:00
136 Forster Robert GER GST 28:11:00
137 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 28:11:00
138 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 28:11:00
139 Gatto Oscar ITA GST 28:11:00
140 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 28:11:00
141 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 28:11:00
142 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 28:11:00
143 Lorenzetto Mirco ITA LAM 28:11:00
144 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 28:11:00
145 Santambrogio Mauro ITA LAM 28:11:00
146 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 28:11:00
147 Fothen Thomas GER GST 28:11:00
148 Hansen Adam AUS THR 28:11:00
149 Lund Anders DEN CSC 28:11:00
150 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 28:11:00
151 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 28:11:00
152 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 28:11:00
153 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 28:11:00
154 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 28:11:00
155 Zampieri Steve SUI COF 28:11:00
156 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 28:11:00
157 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 28:11:00
158 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 28:11:00
159 Gates Nick AUS SIL 28:11:00
160 Krauss Sven GER GST 28:11:00
161 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 28:11:00
162 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 28:11:00
163 Monier Damien FRA COF 28:11:00
164 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 28:11:00
165 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 28:11:00
166 Martin Tony GER THR 28:11:00
167 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 28:11:00
168 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 28:11:00
169 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 28:11:00
170 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 28:11:00
171 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 28:11:00
172 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 28:11:00
173 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 28:11:00
174 Fernandez Bingen ESP COF 28:11:00
175 De Groot Bram NED RAB 28:11:00
176 Mc Carty Jonathan Patrick USA TSL 28:11:00
177 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 28:11:00
178 Eichler Markus GER MRM 28:11:00
179 Backstedt Magnus SWE TSL 28:11:00
180 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 28:11:00
181 Dean Julian NZL TSL 28:11:00
182 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 28:21:00
183 Brown Graeme AUS RAB 28:30:00

General Classification (Maglia Rosa)
1 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 32:03:01
2 Russ Matthias GER GST 00:09
3 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 05:43
4 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 07:27
5 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 07:36
6 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 07:46
7 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 07:53
8 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 07:53
9 Contador Alberto ESP AST 07:56
10 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 08:11
11 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 08:19
12 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 08:28
13 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 08:30
14 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 08:38
15 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 08:39
16 Kloden Andreas GER AST 08:39
17 Rebellin Davide ITA GST 08:48
18 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 08:55
19 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 08:56
20 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 08:57
21 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 09:13
22 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 09:14
23 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 09:16
24 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 09:17
25 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 09:22
26 Possoni Morris ITA THR 09:25
27 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 09:29
28 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 09:30
29 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 09:41
30 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 09:48
31 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 09:54
32 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 09:55
33 Soler Juan M. COL BAR 09:59
34 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 10:05
35 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 10:10
36 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 10:14
37 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 10:16
38 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 10:19
39 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 10:23
40 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 10:31
41 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 10:32
42 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 10:36
43 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 10:37
44 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 10:42
45 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 10:46
46 Bellotti Francesco ITA BAR 10:47
47 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 10:56
48 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 11:04
49 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 11:07
50 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 11:15
51 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 11:20
52 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 11:22
53 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 11:58
54 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 14:27
55 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 16:18
56 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 17:05
57 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 18:36
58 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 19:13
59 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 20:59
60 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 21:14
61 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 21:17
62 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 21:28
63 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 22:03
64 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 22:04
65 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 22:17
66 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 22:34
67 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 22:46
68 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 23:28
69 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 23:40
70 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 23:46
71 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 24:21:00
72 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 26:11:00
73 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 26:32:00
74 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 26:41:00
75 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 27:25:00
76 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 28:08:00
77 Eltink Theo NED RAB 29:34:00
78 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 30:33:00
79 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 30:36:00
80 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 30:48:00
81 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 31:42:00
82 Moletta Andrea ITA GST 31:46:00
83 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 32:03:00
84 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 32:55:00
85 Millar David GBR TSL 33:17:00
86 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 33:26:00
87 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 33:50:00
88 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 33:55:00
89 Zabel Erik GER MRM 34:01:00
90 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 34:21:00
91 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 35:23:00
92 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 35:30:00
93 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 36:00:00
94 Ghisalberti Sergio ITA MRM 36:15:00
95 Fernandez Bingen ESP COF 36:38:00
96 Velo Marco ITA MRM 37:28:00
97 Loosli David SUI LAM 37:42:00
98 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 38:16:00
99 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 39:45:00
100 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 40:35:00
101 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 41:32:00
102 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 41:54:00
103 Engels Addy NED QST 41:54:00
104 Voigt Jens GER CSC 42:03:00
105 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 42:18:00
106 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 42:53:00
107 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 43:00:00
108 Sabatini Fabio ITA MRM 43:06:00
109 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 44:34:00
110 Ordowski Volker GER GST 44:41:00
111 Martens Paul GER RAB 44:46:00
112 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 45:22:00
113 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 45:51:00
114 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 46:26:00
115 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 46:35:00
116 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 46:38:00
117 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 46:39:00
118 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 47:53:00
119 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 49:23:00
120 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 49:39:00
121 Lorenzetto Mirco ITA LAM 50:01:00
122 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 50:02:00
123 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 50:06:00
124 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 50:07:00
125 Lund Anders DEN CSC 50:20:00
126 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 50:43:00
127 Savini Filippo ITA CSF 50:56:00
128 Santambrogio Mauro ITA LAM 51:08:00
129 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 52:00:00
130 Zampieri Steve SUI COF 52:15:00
131 Backstedt Magnus SWE TSL 52:16:00
132 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 52:17:00
133 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 52:32:00
134 Forster Robert GER GST 52:33:00
135 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 53:00:00
136 Fothen Thomas GER GST 53:45:00
137 Facci Mauro ITA QST 53:51:00
138 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 54:41:00
139 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 54:49:00
140 Krauss Sven GER GST 55:06:00
141 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 55:30:00
142 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 56:23:00
143 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 56:38:00
144 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 57:16:00
145 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 57:28:00
146 Huguet Yann FRA COF 58:20:00
147 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 58:41:00
148 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 59:06:00
149 Hansen Adam AUS THR 59:07:00
150 Martin Tony GER THR 59:09:00
151 Monier Damien FRA COF 01:00:07
152 Fernandez Koldo ESP EUS 01:00:25
153 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 01:01:33
154 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 01:01:34
155 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 01:01:37
156 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 01:03:17
157 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 01:03:39
158 De Groot Bram NED RAB 01:04:16
159 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 01:04:43
160 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 01:04:58
161 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 01:05:25
162 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 01:05:52
163 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 01:06:09
164 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 01:06:10
165 Mcewen Robbie AUS SIL 01:06:14
166 Gates Nick AUS SIL 01:06:39
167 Gatto Oscar ITA GST 01:07:53
168 Mc Carty Jonathan Patrick USA TSL 01:09:13
169 Greipel André GER THR 01:09:16
170 Morabito Steve SUI AST 01:09:51
171 Dean Julian NZL TSL 01:09:57
172 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 01:10:28
173 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 01:11:33
174 Pagliarini Luciano BRA SDV 01:12:02
175 Eichler Markus GER MRM 01:12:02
176 Steurs Geert BEL SIL 01:12:32
177 Pate Danny USA TSL 01:12:58
178 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 01:16:53
179 Brown Graeme AUS RAB 01:17:52
180 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 01:20:07
181 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 01:20:16
182 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 01:23:16
183 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 01:28:35

Mountains (Verde)
1 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 36
2 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 19
3 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 16
4 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 12
5 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 6
6 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 5
7 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 3
8 Loosli David SUI LAM 3
9 Verbrugghe Rik BEL COF 3
10 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 2

Points (Ciclamino)
1 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 50
2 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 44
3 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 33
4 Brutt Pavel RUS TCS 33
5 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 32
6 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 32
7 Zabel Erik GER MRM 30
8 Priamo Matteo ITA CSF 29
9 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 28
10 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 26