Giro d'Italia - Stage 8

Stage 8, Polla - Napoli 135 km:

  1. Mario Cipollini (Ita) Saeco                   3.04.34 (43,887 km/h)
  2. Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Scrigno-Blue Storm
  3. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team Polti
  4. Silvio Martinello (Ita) Saeco
  5. Djamolidine Abdujaparov (Uzb) Refin-Mobilvetta
  6. Adriano Baffi (Ita) Mapei-GB
  7. Marco Serpellini (Ita) Panaria-Vinavil
  8. Mirko Rossato (Ita) Scrigno-Blue Storm
  9. Martin van Steen (Ned) TVM
 10. Denis Zanette (Ita) Aki-Gipiemme
 11. Stefano Casagranda (Ita) MG-Technogym
 12. Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Panaria-Vinavil
 13. Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Amore e Vita
 14. Mario Traversoni (Ita) Carrera
 15. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) MG-Technogym              
 16. Roberto Pelliconi (It, Amore e Vita)
 17. Mauro Bettin (It, Ceramiche Refin)
 18. Mariano Piccoli (It, Brescialat)
 19. Michelangelo Cauz (It, Aki-Gipiemme)
 20. Davide Casarotto (It, Scrigno-Blue Storm)   	 all s.t.

Overall:

  1. Davide Rebellin (Ita) Team Polti         36.15.58
  2. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Panaria-Vinavil         + 0.04
  3. Stefano Faustini (Ita) Aki-Gipiemme        + 0.08
  4. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Refin-Mobilvetta    + 0.16
  5. Piotr Ugrumov (Rus) Roslotto-ZG            + 0.18
  6. Francesco Casagrande (Ita) Saeco           + 0.20
  7. Ivan Gotti (Ita) Gewiss                      s.t.
  8. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Team Polti          + 0.24
  9. Pascal Herve (Fra) Festina                 + 0.26
 10. Eugeni Berzin (Rus) Gewiss                   s.t.
 11. Enrico Zaina (Ita) Carrera                 + 0.29
 12. Georg Totschnig (Aut) Team Polti             s.t.
 13. Wladimir Belli (Ita) Panaria-Vinavil       + 0.35
 14. Abraham Olano (Spa) Mapei-GB               + 0.50
 15. Giorgio Furlan (Ita) Saeco                   s.t.
 16. Rodolfo Massi (It,  Ceramiche Refin)   	+ 0.59
 17. Mauro Gianetti (Swi, Team Polti)    	  s.t.
 18. Fausto Dotti (It, Brescialat)   		+ 1.02
 19. Alexandre Shefer (Kazak, Scrigno-Blue Storm) 1.04
 20. Claudio Chiappucci (It, Carrera)   	+ 1.07

Report

Before the peloton came together, with Cipollini winning by inches when Guidi and Lombardi came up to him as he threw his arms in the air early, a break had got away that put Claudio Chiappucci in the lead on the road. Chiappucci went away with Andrea Noe (Mapei) and Marco Saligari (MG) after 52km building a lead of 1.20. They were caught only 4km from the finish after Marco Milesi (Brescialat) had joined them for a few kilometres as they rode into the suburbs of Naples.