2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21
Rider Team Time
1 Mark Cavendish ( GBR ) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step 5h 30 ' 09
2 Sacha Modolo ( ITA ) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox s.t
3 Elia Viviani ( ITA ) Cannondale s.t
4 Giacomo Nizzolo ( ITA ) RadioShack-Leopard s.t
5 Luka Mezgec ( SLO ) Argos-Shimano s.t
6 Roberto Ferrari ( ITA ) Lampre-Merida s.t
7 Kenny Dehaes ( BEL ) Lotto-Belisol s.t
8 Manuel Belletti ( ITA ) Ag2r-La Mondiale s.t
9 Giovanni Visconti ( ITA ) Movistar Team s.t
10 Luca Paolini ( ITA ) Team Katusha s.t
Stage 21 result [ 93 ]
Stage 12 of the 2013 Giro d'Italia was contested on 16 May, and the race concluded on 26 May. The second half of the race was almost entirely situated within Italy; it started with a categorised flat stage from Longarone to Treviso, before four mountain stages - as well as a mountainous individual time trial between Mori and Polsa - en route to the finish in Brescia, where the race concluded with a road stage for the first time since 2007. The race also crossed over into France during the fifteenth stage, ending with a summit finish on the Col du Galibier. After the second rest day of the race, the peloton returned to Italy in the following stage, from Valloire in France to Ivrea. Having picked up the overall race lead after the eighth stage, rider Vincenzo Nibali was able to hold onto the race leadership for the entire second half of the Giro, and as a result, achieved the second Grand Tour general classification victory of his career; he had previously won the 2010 Vuelta a España for the team. Nibali held a 41-second lead margin over 's Cadel Evans until the fourteenth stage, when Nibali attacked on the final climb to the outside Bardonecchia, and was able to gain 45 seconds on Evans by finishing second to 's Mauro Santambrogio. Nibali later won two stages during the final week of the race, further extending his overall advantage, and eventually completed the race with a winning margin of close to five minutes. Evans was unable to hold onto second place overall, as he faded on the final climb of the race to Tre Cime di Lavaredo; he ultimately finished third overall behind rider Rigoberto Urán, who had become his squad's leader after Bradley Wiggins was forced to withdraw. Aside from the overall race battle, Mark Cavendish was able to avenge his close defeat in the points classification at the 2012 race - where he lost the red jersey by a single point to rider Joaquim Rodríguez - by taking the classification on the final day in Brescia. The rider's victory in Brescia, his fifth of the race - he achieved three in the second half of the race, with other victories on stages 12 and 13 - allowed him to become only the fifth rider to complete a clean sweep of points classification victories at Grand Tours. Giovanni Visconti was another rider to take multiple victories during the second half of the race, taking solo victories at the Col du Galibier and into Vicenza. The second half of the race was also adversely affected by snow, with three stages being re-routed and a fourth having to be cancelled due to heavy snow and treacherous conditions; the cancelled stage was the first due to weather since the 1989 Giro d'Italia.