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Giro d’Italia results on Thursday, following the 18th stage, a 147km ride from Mendrisio to here:

Stage
1. Jens Voigt (GER) CSC 3hr 22min 46sec, 2. Giovanni Visconti (ITA) QST at 1min 07sec, 3. Rinaldo Nocentini (ITA) A2R 1:07, 4. Gabriele Bosisio (ITA) LPR 1:07, 5. Daniele Bennati (ITA) LIQ 2:04, 6. Paolo Bettini (ITA) QST 2:04, 7.
Felix Cardenas (COL) BAR 2:04, 8. Alan Perez (ESP) EUS 2:04, 9. Mauricio Ardila (COL) RAB 2:04, 10. Joaquim Rodriguez (ESP) GCE 2:06, 11. Simon Spilak
(SLO) LAM 3:41, 12. Nikolai Trussov (RUS) TCS 5:19, 13. Lilian Jegou (FRA) FDJ 7:51, 14. Alberto Contador (ESP) AST 7:51, 15. Laurent Mangel (FRA) A2R 7:51, 16. Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LPR 7:51, 17. Riccardo Ricco (ITA) SDV 7:51, 18.
Jurgen Van de Broeck (BEL) SIL 7:51, 19. Emanuele Sella (ITA) CSF 7:51, 20.
Niki Sorensen (DEN) CSC 7:51

Overall
1. Alberto Contador (ESP) AST 75hr 45min 17sec, 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. Felix Cardenas (COL) BAR 5:37, 12. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) LIQ 7:02, 13.
Gabriele Bosisio (ITA) LPR 8:14, 14. Tadej Valjavec (SLO) A2R 8:44, 15.
Andreas Kloden (GER) AST 8:44, 16. Gustav Erik Larsson (SWE) CSC 10:49, 17.
Fortunato Baliani (ITA) CSF 11:25, 18. Paolo Bettini (ITA) QST 14:05, 19.
Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) LPR 14:28, 20. Sylwester Szmyd (POL) LAM 15:18.