Stage 11

The road

At the start

Five climbs in 143 kilometres

Nothing moved in Teramo: Contador by 59 seconds over Siutsou, 1:21 over Nibali, 1:28 over Scarponi. Today is short and mean, 143 kilometres through the hills of the Marche with five categorised climbs and a finish in Castelfidardo whose last three kilometres touch ten percent. It is the shape of day a breakaway wins and a general classification quietly leaks seconds.

How it was won

1. 180 km to go

   Eleven get clear

   With eighty kilometres to run, nine riders escape and Machado and Nordhaug make it across to form an eleven-man break over the little Marche hills. It never once works properly.

2. 227 km to go

   Moreno doesn't wait

   Daniel Moreno jumps just before the last classified climb at Morrovalle, takes the points at the top and then simply keeps riding. Behind him the other ten cannot agree on anything, and Betancourt's chase dies on one of the day's endless little ramps.

3. 310 km to go

   Konovalovas catches him

   The Lithuanian time trial champion rides out of the chase group and lands on Moreno with 9.6 kilometres left. They build it to forty-five seconds, and behind them Petacchi of all people takes a turn on the front to set up Scarponi.

4. 4At the line

   Castelfidardo

   Eleven seconds at the flamme rouge, and the last three kilometres go up with a ten-percent wall at the end of them. Moreno drops Konovalovas at 450 metres and looks back four times; John Gadret comes out of the bunch at 300 and goes past him at 200 for the first Grand Tour win of his life.

The result