1. Gabriele Missaglia (Italy) Mapei 3.36.24 2. Andrea Vatteroni (Italy) Scrigno 3. Mirko Celestino (Italy) Polti 4. Massimo Podenzana (Italy) Mercatone Uno all s.t. 5. Francisco Cabello (Spain) Kelme 0.15 6. Marco Fincato (Italy) Roslotto 7. Daniele di Paoli (Italy) Ros Mary 8. Cristiano Frattini (Italy) Brescialat all s.t. 9. Mario Cipollini (Italy) Saeco 1:00 10. Alessandro Spezialetti (Italy) Batik 11. Dmitri Konychev (Russia) Roslotto 12. Manuel Scopsi (Italy) Ros Mary 13. Mariano Piccoli (Italy) Brescialat 14. Sauro Gallorini (Italy) Scrigno 15. Giampaolo Mondini (Italy) Amore and Vita 16. Filippo Casagrande (Italy) Scrigno 17. Davide Bramati (Italy) Mapei 18. Jose Luis Rubiera (Spain) Kelme 19. Fabrizio Bontempi (Italy) Brescialat 20. Stefano Garzelli (Italy) Mercatone Uno all s.t. 40. Ivan Gotti (Ita) 41. Luc Leblanc (Fra) 43. Enrico Zaina (Ita) 49. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) 59. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) 61. Roberto Petito (Ita) 79. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) 94. Michele Coppolillo (Ita) 2.29 152. Marco di Renzo (Ita) 7.48 Departed: 153, Arrived: 152 Non-starters: Ermano Brignoli (Ita) injured. Thierry Laurent (Fra), Wladimir Pulnikov (Ukr), Marco Gili (Ita), Roberto Moretti (Ita) all for excessive blood test levels. Retired: Stefano Casagranda (Ita) crashed.
20. Garzelli 21. Bortolami 22. Mazzanti 23. Vergnani 24. Padrnos 25. Tebaldi 26. Della Vedova 27. Davidenko 28. Pierdomenico 29. Serrano 30. Galletti 31. Finesso 32. Di Grande 33. Savoldelli 34. Secchiari 35. Crepaldi 36. Siboni 37. Molinari 38. Shefer 39. Barbagli 40. Gotti 41. Leblanc 42. Noe 43. Zaina 44. Chiesa 45. Ugrumov 46. Simeoni 47. Velo 48. Paluan 49. Berzin 50. Fornaciari 51. Lebreton 52. Vidal 53. Sivakov 54. Lozano 55. Bobrik 56. Jeker 57. Barbero 58. Gasperoni 59. Tonkov 60. Miceli 61. Petito 62. Dotti 63. Sgambelluri 64. Caruso 65. Frigo 66. Garcia 67. Lanfranchi 68. Faresin 69. Simoni 70. Piepoli 71. Gualdi 72. Merckx 73. Gentili 74. Ouslamine 75. Steinhauser 76. Pellicioli 77. Belli 78. Calcaterra 79. Gonzalez P. 80. Conti 81. Gontchar 82. Cenghialta 83. Guerini 84. Volpi 85. Hernandez 86. Puttini 87. Tani 88. Donati 89. Forconi 90. Gomez 91. Pozzi O. 92. Patuelli 93. Aggiano 1.13 94. Coppolillo 2.29 95. Gonzalez G. 96. Manzoni a 2.38 97. Ouchakov Di Silvestro 98. Fontanelli a 2.52 100. Roncancio 5.12 101. Wust 5.33 102. Boscardin 103. Calzavara 104. Sacchi 105. Brasi 106. Edo 107. Giacomelli 108. Laddomada 109. Djavanian 110. Roscioli 111. Zanette 112. Baldato 113. Santaromita 114. Bettin 115. Frattini F. 116. Werner (abb. 6") 117. Baronti 118. Hvastija 119. Alberati 120. Lecchi 121. Apollonio 122. Magnusson 123. Bettini 124. Larsen 125. Loda 126. Pozzi A. a 7.48 127. Pianegonda 128. Schmidt 129. Giraldi 130. Murtas 131. Lietti 132. Pumar 133. Brognara 134. Bottaro 135. Cauz 136. Rossato 137. Leoni 138. Cassani 139. Dalla Costa 140. Spruch 141. Andriotto 142. Pistore 143. Peschel 144. Moos 145. Poser 146. Bonetti 147. Bugno 148. Contrini 149. Traversoni 150. Citracca 151. Dolci 152. Di Renzo.
1. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei 49.34.40 2. Luc Leblanc (Fra) 0.41 3. Ivan Gott (Ita) 1.07 4. Roberto Petito (Ita) 1.09 5. Andrea Paluan (Ita) 1.39 6. Andrea Noe (Ita) 1.43 7. Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) 2.40 8. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) 2.49 9. Alexadnre Chefer (Kaz) 3.05 10. Gilberto Simoni (Ita) 3.14 11. Michele Coppolillo (Ita) 3.18 12. Nicoa Micele (Ita) 3.50 13. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) 3.58 14. Piotre Ugrumov (Rus) 3.59 15. Enrico Zaina (Ita) 4.01 16. Giuseppe di Grande (Ita) 4.02 17. Wladimir Belli (Ita) 4.39 18. Filipo Simeoni (Ita) 5.01 19. Axel Merckx (Bel) 5.09 20. Felix Gracia Casas (Spa) 5.32
20. Garcia Casas 5.32 21. Berzin 5.36 22. Frigo 5.40 23. Serrano 24. Faresin 5.42 25. Sgambelluri 5.52 26. Gontchar 6.07 27. Gentili 6.19 28. Forconi a 7.45 29. Volpi 8.38 30. Steinhauser 8.54 31. Loda 9.33 32. Puttini 9.38 33. Conti 9.46 34. Garzelli 10.01 35. Rubiera 10.30 36. Piccoli 10.32 37. Cenghialta 10.42 38. Pierdomenico 13.05 39. Secchiari 13.26 40. Bobrik 13.40 41. Jeker 13.53 42. Pistore a 14.06 43. Bettini 14.24 44. Gonzalo 14.46 45. Mazzanti 16.15 46. Donati 17.20 47. Velo a 17.22 48. Gasperoni 18.01 49. Konyshev 18.11 50. Barbero 19.10 51. Podenzana 19.38 52. Bortolami 20.11 53. Pellicioli 21.56 54. Padrnos 22.30 55. Lozano 22.41 56. Sivakov a 22.48 57. Vatteroni 23.07 58. Spezialetti a 23.26 59. Molinari 24.04 60. Siboni 24.05 61. Vergnani 24.20 62. Lanfranchi 25.02 63. Patuelli 25.15 64. Frattini F. 25.26 65. Calzavara 26.31 66. Gonzalez P. 28.12 67. Mondini 29.28 68. Ouslamine 29.30 69. Hernandez 30.05 70. Brognara 30.44 71. Manzoni a 31.02 72. Roscioli 31.47 73. Fincato 32. 74. Lietti 32.16 75. Finesso 32.26 76. De Paoli 32.41 77. Della Vedova 33.06 78. Tani a 33.07 79. Gualdi 33.37 80. Davidenko 34.21 81. Pumar 34.36 82. Lecchi 34.52 83. Laddomada a 35.57 84. Hvastija 36.46 85. Gonzales G. a 37.48 86. Giraldi 38.06 87. Dotti 39.05 88. Poser 41.30 89. Crepaldi 41.49 90. Citracca a 42.16 91. Cabello 43.24 92. Tebaldi 43.51 93. Ouchakov 44.28 94. Frattini C. 44.35 95. Galletti 44.43 96. Casagrande Fil. 46.25 97. Gallorini 47.11 98. Boscardin 47.12 99. Scopsi a 47.13 100. Barbagli 47.18 101. Cipollini a 47.22 102. Baldato 47.39 103. Brasi 48.01 104. Pozzi O. 48.08 105. Vidal 48.28 106. Fontanelli 48.55 107. Alberati 49.08 108. Bonetti 49.12 109. Caruso 50.01 110. Missaglia a 52.21 111. Pozzi A. 54.14 112. Larsen a 54.24 113. Zanette 54.44 114. Celestino a 54.59 115. Chiesa 55.06 116. Sacchi 55.23 117. Dalla Costa 56.11 118. Apollonio 57.31 119. Edo 57.34 120. Baronti 57.40 121. Bettin a 57.55 122. Wust 59.04 123. Roncancio 59.47 124. Bramati 1.00.14 125. Andriotto 1.00.20 126. Leoni 127. Bugno 1.00.35 128. Magnusson a 1.00.45 129. Fornaciari 1.01.59 130. Dolci a 1.02.28 131. Traversoni 1.04.09 132. Di Silvestro 1.04.44 133. Werner 1.05.22 134. Lebreton 135. Bottaro 1.07.28 136. Djavanian a 1.07.42 137. Cassani 1.07.51 138. Spruch a 1.08.36 139. Moos 1.09.58 140. Pianegonda a 1.12.27 141. Calcaterra 1.12.28 142. Murtas a 1.13.55 143. Contrini 1.15.20 144. Schmidt a 1.15.38 145. Peschel 1.15.58 146. Bontempi a 1.16.27 147. Aggiano 1.19.56 148. Santaromita a 1.21.19 149. Cauz 1.30.31 150. Giacomelli a 1.31.27 151. Di Renzo 1.38.18 152. Rossato a 1.43.25
Ukraine's Vladimir Poulnikov, his Italian team mates Marco Gili and Roberto Moretti and Frenchman Thierry Laurent were declared medically unfit to continue the race because their red blood cell count was too high, officials said.
International Cycling Union (UCI) jury president Michel Riviere said blood samples had been taken from 19 riders an hour before the start of Wednesday's 11th stage over 159 kms.
Poulnikov, Gili and Moretti were all from the Kross team. The 31-year-old Ukrainian was the highest-placed of those banned at 21st overall, 5.22 seconds behind Giro leader Pavel Tonkov of Russia.
Last year Poulnikov finished 16th overall in the Giro. The UCI decided in January to introduce blood tests to try to combat the use of EPO (erythropoietin) and injectable blood-doping substances that simulate altitude training by increasing the number of oxygen-rich red blood cells.
If a test shows a rider's oxygen-carrying capacity in his blood to be above 50 percent he is considered unfit to race and is automatically suspended.
Riders must be re-tested at a UCI-sanctioned laboratory to ensure their red blood cell count is back to normal before they are allowed to race again.
Earlier this month leading Italian rider Claudio Chiappucci was thrown out of the Tour of Romandie after failing a blood test. A 15-day suspension meant he could not start the Giro which began on May 17.
Chiappucci became the fourth rider to fail a blood test since they were introduced. Three riders fell foul of the new tests during the Paris-Nice race in March
His team mate Gabriele Missaglia snatched the second win of his three-year professional career in the 155-km circuit race at this Tuscan resort.
``It was a great moment for the team. I have the leader's colours and we still managed to win,.. said the Russian.
Tonkov finished one minute behind Missaglia in a group of 84 to ensure his lead of 41 seconds over Frenchman Luc Leblanc was safe for an eighth day.
Tonkov said: ``I know everyone is going to attack on Thursday and not just for my pink jersey. Others will be attempting to improve their positions.
``It will be a big battle" he said of Thursday's mountainous finish to the 214-km leg into Varazze.
All the contenders finished with Tonkov on Wednesday except Michele Coppolillo, seventh overnight with a 1:49 deficit.
The Italian crashed on a downhill bend to finish 2:29 behind Missaglia.
It was a miserable day for Coppolillo.s team. Stefano Casagranda fell heavily in the feeding zone, suffering concussion and a fractured cheekbone and jaw.
Then Paolo Bettini was with the leaders on the final descent when a puncture put him out of contention, leaving Missaglia, Andrea Vatteroni, Mirko Celestino, and Massimo Podenzana to contest the finish.
Missaglia said: ``When I was with the breakaway early on I did not know if anyone was a danger to Pavel. I am in the team to help him. That's my role but this time I had a chance for success."
Last year Missaglia was drafted into the Giro at 24 hours notice. He had been signed by Tonkov's team after his original team collapsed through lack of finance.
This year he has had to fight back from tendinitis and .flu to make the Giro selection.
As he and others began to build a lead on the first lap on Wednesday Missaglia crashed on a tricky winding descent but was quickly back in the fray.
On Thursday it will be business as usual as he works to keep Tonkov in the leader's colours.