Stage 4

The road

At the start

Kittel in pink, and Italy at last

Catanzaro, and the Giro has crossed to Italy with a German sprinter in the maglia rosa: Marcel Kittel took it on bonuses in Arnhem and leads Tom Dumoulin by nine seconds. Two hundred kilometres up the Calabrian coast, with two third-category climbs and a rising run to Praia a Mare, is the first day the climbers can take it off him. Péraud and Dillier did not make the transfer; both abandoned on Sunday.

How it was won

1. 149 km to go

   The break is hunted down

   The peloton wakes with 60km to go and the reaction is merciless: Brändle cracks first and the rest of the escape is swallowed on the third-category San Pietro.

2. 230 km to go

   Fifteen go clear into the final 30km

   Dupont and Bonnafond attack in tandem off the descent and spark a flurry behind. Fifteen riders form up — Ulissi, Conti, Wellens, De Marchi, Jungels among them — twenty seconds up and heading for the last climb.

3. 310 km to go

   Ulissi breaks free

   Conti pulls off at the foot of the final climb and hands it over. Ulissi subdues Pirazzi's cameo, then simply rides away from the break at the summit with ten kilometres to run — the maglia rosa suddenly within reach.

4. 49 km to go

   The peloton snaps

   Domenico Pozzovivo kicks first and brings Nibali, Valverde and Dumoulin with him. Landa is briefly caught out just as the bunch comes apart, and Astana take up the pursuit on the descent.

5. 5At the line

   Ulissi survives to Praia a Mare

   With the chase falling apart behind him, Diego Ulissi holds a handful of seconds through the flamme rouge and takes Italy's first win of the race ahead of Dumoulin and Kruijswijk.

The result