2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11
Rider Team Time
1 Vincenzo Nibali ( ITA ) Astana 43h 26 ' 27
2 Cadel Evans ( AUS ) BMC Racing Team + 41
3 Rigoberto Urán ( COL ) Team Sky + 2 ' 04
4 Bradley Wiggins ( GBR ) Team Sky + 2 ' 05
5 Robert Gesink ( NED ) Blanco Pro Cycling + 2 ' 12
6 Michele Scarponi ( ITA ) Lampre-Merida + 2 ' 13
7 Mauro Santambrogio ( ITA ) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia + 2 ' 55
8 Przemysław Niemiec ( POL ) Lampre-Merida + 3 ' 35
9 Beñat Intxausti ( ESP ) Movistar Team + 4 ' 05
10 Domenico Pozzovivo ( ITA ) Ag2r-La Mondiale + 4 ' 17
General classification after stage 11 [ 107 ]
The 2013 Giro d'Italia began on 4 May, and stage 11 occurred on 15 May. The 2013 edition began with a road stage, for the first time since 2003, around Naples before a team time trial took place the following day on the island of Ischia. The rest of the opening half of the race - remaining within Italy for the duration - consisted of medium-mountain stages, save for two categorised flat stages and the first of two individual time trials during the event; the -long eighth stage between Gabicce Mare and Saltara, where each remaining member of the starting peloton of 207 riders competed against the clock. Mark Cavendish became the first race leader, as he won the opening stage in Naples; the first of two stage wins that Cavendish achieved during the opening half of the race, along with the sixth stage. As a result, Cavendish was the only rider to win multiple stages in the opening half of the race. Cavendish lost the race lead the following day, as his team failed to a sufficient time for him to remain in the jersey. won the stage, which put Salvatore Puccio into the maglia rosa after he had placed highest during the opening stage, out of the five remaining members of the train at the finish. Luca Paolini soloed into the leader's jersey after the third stage, attacking with remaining and held clear of the field to win by sixteen seconds. He held the leader's jersey for four days, before losing it on the seventh stage, held in heavy rain. On that stage, Adam Hansen - a rider who had completed all three Grand Tours in 2012 - took the honours by over a minute from a stage-long breakaway, while Beñat Intxausti was able to take the leader's jersey after finishing in the group of the overall favourites for the race. Intxausti's weakness in the time trial discipline saw him surrender the lead the following day, losing three-and-a-half minutes to the stage winner, team-mate Alex Dowsett. Vincenzo Nibali - a previous Grand Tour winner at the 2010 Vuelta a España - assumed the race lead, and held the lead to the end of the eleventh stage, which marked the halfway point of the race.