Stage 13

The road

How it was won

1. 1166 km to go

   Thirty-seven go on the queen stage

   Six climbs and a mountains jersey still up for grabs make the first hour frantic. Forty-five kilometres in the peloton finally splits and thirty-seven riders go up the road.

2. 2115 km to go

   Cunego holds the Pordoi

   Berlato paces the first great pass for his leader, and when Denifl attacks for maximum points near the summit he finds Damiano Cunego more than a match for him.

3. 3104 km to go

   López goes early

   Sky's David López makes an audacious early bid on the Passo Sella and pushes on alone for the summit points, the Movistar-led bunch already more than seven minutes adrift.

4. 441 km to go

   The Giau eats Plaza

   Rubén Plaza has almost two minutes at the front of the race when the fearsome Passo Giau begins. Siutsou leads the pursuit with Atapuma, Preidler and Roche; by the time they reach him the Spaniard is finished, and Atapuma leads Siutsou over four minutes clear of the favourites.

5. 519 km to go

   Amador saves his pink

   Preidler bridges back to the leaders on the long descent off the Giau while, behind, Andrey Amador claws his way back to the favourites in the nick of time before the last categorised climb of the day.

6. 62 km to go

   Atapuma is caught, two kilometres out

   The Colombian starts the five-kilometre rise to Corvara with 21 seconds and defends it up the steep opening slopes — but on the dip and the gentler gradients Kruijswijk, Chaves and Preidler close him down with two kilometres left.

7. 7At the line

   Chaves and Kruijswijk announce themselves

   Preidler opens the sprint from 200 metres before the left-hander into Corvara, but the two men who dropped every favourite on the day are simply stronger. Esteban Chaves takes the queen stage from Steven Kruijswijk, and the Giro suddenly belongs to neither Nibali nor Valverde.

The result