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Results from the Tour of Italy following Wednesday’s 17 stage, a 146km ride from Sondrio to here:

Stage 17
1. Andre Greipel (GER) THR 3hr 27min 05sec, 2. Mark Cavendish (GBR) THR same time, 3. Daniele Bennati (ITA) LIQ, 4. Erik Zabel (GER) MRM, 5. Assan Bazayev (KAZ) AST, 6. Alexandre Usov (BLR) A2R, 7. Enrico Gasparotto (ITA) BAR, 8. Bram De Groot (NED) RAB, 9. Alexander Serov (RUS) TCS, 10. Nikolai Trussov (RUS) TCS, 11. Sven Krauss (GER) GST, 12. Tiziano Dall’Antonia (ITA) CSF, 13. Danilo Hondo (GER) SDA all same time, 14. Tony Martin (GER) THR at 04sec, 15. Alessandro Bertolini (ITA) SDA, 16. Riccardo Ricco (ITA) SDV, 17.
Alberto Contador (ESP) AST, 18. David Loosli (SUI) LAM, 19. Rinaldo Nocentini
(ITA) A2R, 20. Gilberto Simoni (ITA) SDA all same time

Overall
1. Alberto Contador (ESP) AST 72hr 14min 40sec, 2. Riccardo Ricco (ITA) SDV at 41sec, 3. Gilberto Simoni (ITA) SDA 1min 21sec, 4. Marzio Bruseghin (ITA) LAM 2:00, 5. Franco Pellizotti (ITA) LIQ 2:05, 6. Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LPR 2:18, 7. Denis Menchov (RUS) RAB 2:47, 8. Emanuele Sella (ITA) CSF 4:25, 9.
Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL/SIL) 4:26, 10. Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA) CSF 5:25, 11. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) LIQ 7:02, 12. Tadej Valjavec (SLO) A2R 8:44, 13.
Andreas Kloden (GER) AST 8:44, 14. Gustav Larsson (SWE) CSC 10:49, 15. Felix Cardenas (COL) BAR 11:24, 16. Fortunato Baliani (ITA) CSF 11:25, 17. Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) LPR 14:28, 18. Gabriele Bosisio (ITA) LPR 14:58, 19.
Sylwester Szmyd (POL) LAM 15:18, 20. Levi Leipheimer (USA) AST 16:41.