Alessandro Bazzana
Daniele Callegarin
Daniele Colli
Alexander Efimkin
Filippo Fortin
Jure Kocjan
George Preidler
Gary Sutton

Malori/Lampre is out on his own after attacking on the descent of the first climb of the day, he currently holds an advantage of 1m 46s from a chasing group of three which includes Bertolini/Androni, Carrara/Vacansoleil and Frapporti/Team Idea

Malori/LAM was caught by the three chaser at the foot of the second climb of the day and then a few kilometres later a further three riders joined the break and they are Ignatenko/Katusha and Cherel and Montaguti both of AG2R. The lead on the peleton is 4m 51s

The seven leaders have an advantage of 3m 52s over a vastly reduced peleton which now only includes fifty one riders

There are now only six riders left in the front group, that's because the first man to attack today Malori of Lampre has completely blown and is now over a minute behind

The front six are being chased down by a group of fourteen riders which contains a lot of the pre race favourites

Ignatenko/Katusha has ridden off from his fellow escapees and opened up a gap of 57s

And the Russian barring accidents looks like he is going to ride to a magnificent solo victory as his lead has gone up to 2m 23s

Under the red kite and he starts to smile as he is about to achieve one of the best results of his career

With both arms raised up in to the sky Petr Ignatenko wins the Trofeo Laigueglia

Katusha Team

That was a tough day in the saddle for the guys today, we did have a race plan but that went out of the window as soon as the break got clear, so we spent the whole of the race in the middle of the peleton and let the other teams worry about doing the chasing

Team Type 1 are proud to announce that they will be sponsoring 18 year old American starlet Daniel Reyes for the u23 season and will sign him to the team in August.
They would also like to announce the additional sponsoring of Australian Eugene Matthews who will also join the team in August

Alessandro Bazzana
Rubens Bertogliati
Daniele Colli
Javier Megias
Alexander Serebryakov
Gary Sutton

Alessandro Bazzana
Rubens Bertogliati
Daniele Colli
Javier Megias
Alexander Serebryakov
Gary Sutton

The first rider to set a respectable time for the 20.4km course is the Russian Artem Ovechkin of RusVelo who comes home in 29m 40s

It wasn't long before his time got bettered and that was thanks to Markus Fothen of Team NSP who came quicker by 8s

Stybar of Omega Pharma came home just a little bit slower

The first Team Type 1 rider to complete the course was Javier Megias, but he would finish way down the field come the end of the day

Then came the news that Jeremy Roy of FDJ had set the fastest time of 29m 4s

Mendes of LA Antarte came in 21s slower

Jason McCartney of UnitedHealthcare would also fall short

As would Jens Debusschere of Lotto Belisol

News from around the course had said that Peter Velits of Omega Pharma was setting an incredible pace and would certainly push Roy all the way and indeed he did as he became our new leader with a time of 28m 58s

And then it was my turn and despite pushing a high gear all the way around the course i would not come near Velits time but i would give it a good go and just miss out by 25s

The final rider to finish was Omega Pharma rider Michal Kwiatkowski and he could home in the fastest time of the day and take the first yellow jersey with a 28m 35s performance

Michał Kwiatkowski - Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team

Michał Kwiatkowski - Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team

Omega Pharma - Quick·Step Cycling Team

Well i have to declare myself very happy with the performance from Gary today, we knew he could time trial and he put in a great ride to secure a top ten placing