2011 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21
Rider Team Time
1 Alberto Contador ( ESP ) Saxo Bank-SunGard 49h 40 ' 58
2 Vincenzo Nibali ( ITA ) Liquigas-Cannondale + 3 ' 09
3 Michele Scarponi ( ITA ) Lampre-ISD + 3 ' 16
4 David Arroyo ( ESP ) Movistar Team + 3 ' 25
5 Roman Kreuziger ( CZE ) Astana + 3 ' 29
6 Kanstantsin Sivtsov ( BLR ) HTC-Highroad + 3 ' 53
7 Igor Antón ( ESP ) Euskaltel-Euskadi + 4 ' 02
8 John Gadret ( FRA ) Ag2r-La Mondiale + 4 ' 05
9 Matteo Carrara ( ITA ) Vacansoleil-DCM + 4 ' 35
10 Hubert Dupont ( FRA ) Ag2r-La Mondiale + 4 ' 38
General classification after stage 13
Stage 12 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia took place on 19 May, and the race concluded on 29 May. The 2011 edition commemorated the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. The majority of the race was situated entirely within Italy - only the end of stage 13 and beginning of stage 14, in Austria, featured roads outside the home nation. Alberto Contador entered the second half of the Giro holding the race lead, and never relinquished it. Instead, he continually added to his advantage. After no stage was second place closer to him than it had been the day before. The largest chunk of time taken in one day came in stage 13, the first of three high-mountain stages that preceded the Giro's second rest day. Contador and José Rujano finished over a minute and a half ahead of the rest of the field. Contador essentially gifted the stage win to Rujano, something he also did later in the race with his former teammate Paolo Tiralongo, since the three-minute overall advantage it gave him was already close to the largest he had ever had in a Grand Tour. He did take one stage win for himself in the second half of the Giro, the uphill individual time trial to the Nevegal. Two stages in the second half of the Giro had their courses altered shortly before they were run. Stage 14 had been hyped as the debut of the Monte Crostis in the Giro d'Italia, but commissaires from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) mandated it be removed the night before Stage 14 was run.