Stage 9

The road

How it was won

1. 1188 km to go

   Landa slips away

   Sky's leader is dropped on the third-category Passo della Collina barely twenty kilometres in. Teammates drift back to pace him; the deficit grows past six minutes anyway.

2. 2147 km to go

   Sky's Giro ends

   Ahead of the second climb Mikel Landa climbs off and into the team car. The pre-race favourite is gone before the race has even reached its first mountain finish.

3. 340 km to go

   Preidler jumps the break

   At the second intermediate sprint with 40km left, Georg Preidler attacks the thirteen-man group and opens a substantial lead on the run to the big climb.

4. 417 km to go

   Astana blow it apart

   The sixteen-kilometre Pian del Falco tears the break to pieces — Ciccone, Pirazzi and Cunego forge clear — while behind, Astana hit the front in numbers, drop Dumoulin and distance the maglia rosa Brambilla two kilometres from the summit.

5. 510 km to go

   Ciccone flies the descent

   The neo-pro is the most adept of them all on the technical plunge and starts the last rise with a clear gap, Rovny his nearest threat at over half a minute.

6. 6At the line

   Ciccone wins, pink changes hands by a second

   Giulio Ciccone takes a spectacular win on his Grand Tour debut. Behind, Brambilla fights all the way down the mountain but crosses a single second too late — the maglia rosa passes to his Etixx teammate Bob Jungels.

The result