Androni-Giocattoli's Miguel Rubiano won the sixth stage of the Giro D'Italia this afternoon.
Stage Six was one featuring four climbs and this 207km long stage was from Urbino to Porto Sant'Elpidio
With 28kms gone, Miguel Rubiano (Androni-Giocattoli), Dominique Rollin (FDJ-BigMat), Jack Bauer (Garmin-Barracuda), Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Katusha), Gatis Smukulis (Katusha), Pablo Lastras Garcia (Movistar), Michal Golas (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Cesare Benedetti (Team NetApp), and Luke Roberts (Saxo Bank) got away along with Dennis Van Winden (Rabobank), Jens Keukeleire (Orica-GreenEdge), Manuel Belletti (AG2R-LaMondiale), Alfredo Balloni (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) who later dropped off the back.
The first climb of the day was the third category after 96km and saw Michal Golas took the maximum points. Then on the second category Passo della Cappella after 118kms, Androni-Giocattoli's Miguel Rubiano attacked some five minutes ahead of the maglia rosa jersey of Ramunas Navardauskas to take the points.
Pablo Lastras crashed on the descent and Bauer ended up in a ditch trying to avoid him, after Romain Feillu of Vacansoleil and Thor Hushovd (pictured below) abandoned.
Ramunas Navardauskas was in trouble and had dropped off the back of the peloton. He was brought back into the fold but with 60kms to go, the peloton were 6.45 behind Rubiano.
On a beautiful day, the escapers approached the third climb of the day - the third category Montelupone after 154.7km. Rubiano shot off at the front to take the points whilst Cararra of Vacansoleil crashed.
Rubiano was four minutes forty clear of the peloton as further behind Mark Cavendish had a fall and Tyler Farrar crashed and was forced out of the race
With 25kms to go, Miguel Rubiano was 47 seconds ahead of Lampre's Adriano Malori who was now the leader on the road.
Malori was in a four man group trying to bring back Rubiano and they were a minute and ten seconds behind with 15kms left.
All Rubiano did was to put the hammer down further and increased his time at the front as the gap between the peloton and the chase group came down.
Androni-Giocattoli's Miguel Rubiano had his day at the front and the Colombian won in a time of 5:38.30.
Malori took the twelve second bonus for finishing second, some 1;10 back, and that was enough to give him the leader's pink jersey. Golas was third.
Tomorrow's seventh stage is from Recanati to Rocca di Cambio and is 202km long.
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