Io Izagirre of Euskaltel-Euskadi won the Giro D'Italia Stage 16 this afternoon.
At 12.59 local time, stage sixteen set out on a 174km stage from Limone sul Garda to Falzes/Pfalzen.
That included Race Leader Joaquin Rodriquez and Points Leader Mark Cavendish who spent yesterday's rest day celebrating his birthday.
Ten riders in Alessandro De Marchi (Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela), Mathias Frank (BMC Racing Team), Io Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Lucca Mazzanti (Farnese Vini-Sella Italia), Lars Bak (Lotto Belisol), Nicolas Maes (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), José Herrada (Movistar), Stef Clement (Rabobank), Matthias Brändle (NetApp) and Manuele Baoro (Saxo Bank), broke away and with none of them being a threat to the General Classification, they were allowed to get 6.18 clear with 80kms remaining.
Twenty five kilometres later, the gap had gone out to ten minutes and six seconds and with 35kms to go, their lead at the front was 12.25.
With three kilometres to go, Io Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) went away and had a fourteen second lead inside the final kilometre.
He kept going and won in a time of 4:02:00 with De Marchi second and Clement third, some 16 seconds later.
Some seven and a half minutes later, Stefano Perazzi attacked out of a group of 30 riders followed by Flecha of Team Sky and they finished 8.54 down on Izagirre the stage winner.
Rodriquez, who came in 12.05 back, keeps his leaders jersey going into tomorrow's stage 17.
