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Results of the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy, a 12.9km time trial on Monday:

1. Franco Pellizotti (ITA/LIQ) 40min 26sec, 2. Emanuele Sella (ITA/CSF) at 0:06s, 3. Gilberto Simoni (ITA/SDA) 0:17, 4. Alberto Contador (ESP/AST) 0:22, 5. Riccardo Ricco (ITA/SDV) 0:30, 6. Jose Rujano (VEN/GCE) 0:49, 7. Marzio Bruseghin (ITA/LAM) 1:04, 8. Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA/CSF) 1:43, 9. Danilo Di Luca (ITA/LPR) 1:45, 10. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB) 1:49, 11. Jens Voigt
(GER/CSC) 1:55, 12. Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL/SIL) 1:58, 13. Evgueni Petrov
(RUS/TCS) 2:17, 14. Gustav Erik Larsson (SWE/CSC) 2:18, 15. Andrea Noe
(ITA/LIQ) 2:18, 16. Sylwester Szmyd (POL/LAM) 2:37, 17. Felix Cardenas
(COL/BAR) 2:39, 18. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/LIQ) 2:40, 19. Andreas Kloden
(GER/AST) 2:40, 20. Julio Perez Cuapio (MEX/CSF) 2:56
Selected
38. Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) 3:55, 53. Levi Leipheimer (USA/AST) 4:38, 91.
David Millar (GBR/TSL) 6:22, 129. Erik Zabel (GER/MRM) 8:26, 148. Mathew Hayman (AUS/RAB) 10:53, 150. Chris Sutton (AUS/TSL) 12:09

Overall standings
1. Alberto Contador (ESP/AST) 68hr 47min 31sec, 2. Riccardo Ricco (ITA/SDV) at 0:41s, 3. Gilberto Simoni (ITA/SDA) 1:21, 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.
Selected
21. Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) 19:54, 93. David Millar (GBR/TSL) 1h48:35

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