Diego Ulissi of Lampre has won the fifth stage of the Giro D'Italia.
A 203km stage rolled out of Taranto heading for Viggiano in the Basilicata region of Italy and saw an eleven rider break form early.
Elia Viviani (Cannondale), Ben Swift (Team Sky), Tyler Farrar and Fabian Wegmann (Garmin-Sharp), Miguel Angel Rubiano (Colombia), Tony Hurel and Bjorn Thurau (Europcar), Marco Frapporti (Androni Giocattoli), Yonathan Monsalve (Neri Sottoli), Kenny Dehaes and Tosh Van der Sande (Lotto-Belisol) were four minutes clear after fifty kilometres.
Nacer Bouhani, who won a fourth stage which had been neutralised for most of the race due to the rain, had been in the red jersey but after the first sprint of the day, Ben Swift was in that jersey after taking the points ahead of Elia Viviani and Tyler Farrar.
Going into the final one hundred kilometres, the gap was down to 3.45 but was down to three minutes on the first category three climb of the race which saw Rubiano take the seven points ahead of Monsalve and Wegmann.
With the gap back to race leader Michael Matthews of Orica Greenedge down to 1.47, riders in the lead group started to attack each other. Kenny Dehaes tried on attack with 35kms to go but was soon brought back.
Ten kilometres later and the gap down to a minute, the escapers split into two groups with Monsalve, Van Der Sande, Thurau and Frapporti staying away and starting the penultimate climb of the stage.
Thurau was the last to stay out whilst back down the road there was a crash in the peloton with Castroviejo, Avila, Montaguti and Petrov going down and causing the peloton to split into two.
Most of the favourites were in the front of the peloton which was led by BMC working for Cadel Evans in the pouring rain as they passed through Viggiano for the first time.
Argos took the King Of The Mountains climb before Gianluca Brambilla went off on his own. Riders including Enrico Gasperotto and Feline crashed on the wet roads before Davide Malacarne launched a counter-attack to bring back Bramilla who was on the final climb.
Brambilla was finally caught with 1.4kms to go and under the flam rouge, Nicholas Roche attacked. He was soon brought back by Katusha who were on the front with Edvald Boasson Hagen.
Cadel Evans was amongst those who went but it was Diego Ulissi who won in 5.12.39 ahead of Evans, Arredondo, Uran and Majka
Diego Ulissi said to Dan Lloyd: "I managed to hide for most of the day which was difficullt with the wind and the rain. I managed to position myself well and take the win.
Race leader Michael Matthews was sixth and leads the race from Pieter Weening by fourteen seconds.