Team Sky's Mikel Nieve has won the thirteenth stage of the Giro D'Italia.
Stage 13 without yesterday's winner Andre Greipel, was a trip to the mountains in a 170km stage from Palmanova to Cividale del Friuli.
A group of twenty riders attacked but were soon shut down and Blel Kadri (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Alessandro De Marchi and Manuel Quinziato (BMC), Matej Mohoric (Lampre-Merida), Maarten Tjallingii (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Matteo Busato (Wilier Triestina-Southeast) then tried to get away.
However, they too were pulled back by a Cannondale led peloton and this time a group of thirty riders made up of Matteo Montaguti (AG2R La Mondiale), Davide Malacarne, Andrey Zeits (Astana), Alessandro De Marchi (BMC), Simon Clarke, Moreno Moser, Ramunas Navardauskas (Cannondale), Jaco Venter, Johan Van Zyl (Dimension Data), Matteo Trentin, Lukasz Wisniowski (Etixx - QuickStep), Arnaud Démare (FDJ), Alexandre Kolobnev (Gazprom - RusVelo), Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling), Diego Ulissi, Ilya Koshevoy, Sacha Modolo, Matej Mohoriè (Lampre - Merida), Pim Ligthart (Lot Soudal), Carlos Betancur, jasha sütterlin, Joaquim Rojas (Movistar), Grega Bole, Damiano Cunego (NIPPO - Fantini), Bert De Backer (Giant - Alpecin), Enrico Battaglin, Maarten Tjallingi (LottoNL - Jumbo), Sebastian Henao, Christian Knees (Team Sky), Manuele Boaro (Tinkoff), Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek - Segafredo) and Matteo Busato (Wilier - Southeast) got clear and were 1.14 clear with 115kms left.
Out of that group came IAM Cycling's Stefan Denifl and he took the points on the KOM climb whilst down the road, Visconti of Movistar was one of a number involved in a crash.
Denifl was forty seconds ahead of a chasing group and 1.50 ahead of the peloton but decided he had enough and re-joined the front group which was 3.09 ahead.
Astana led the peloton before Mikel Nieve of Team Sky took over on the front with Visconti and Dombrowski for the final thirty kilometres.
Nieve dropped the two with him as Valverde and Nibali attacked but Nieve was away and had a lead of 48 seconds going into the final two kilometres.
Nieve took the win in 4.31.39 ahead of Giovanni Visconti of Movistar, Vincenzo Nibali, Alejandro Valverde, Rafal Majka , Stefan Denifl
Bob Jungels lost time and lost his lead to Andrey Amador by twenty six seconds.