It should probably be no surprise that 2006 Italian time trial champion Marzio Bruseghin won the uphill time trial at Stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday.
The effort was good enough to win, but not to unseat Danilo Di Luca from the overall lead. Di Luca finished in third place in the 7.8 mile time trial, just 8 seconds behind Bruseghin.
US cyclist Dave Zabriskie (Team CSC) finished in fourth place in the time trial, 19 seconds behind the winner.
Bruseghin sat in 2nd place overall, 1-minute and 3 seconds behind Di Luca, when the stage started at the base of Santuario Di Oropa on Friday morning. The Lampre cyclist is now just under a minute behind his Liquigas foe.
Also in the top 10 are Giro favorites Damiano Cunego (Lampre) in 4th place and Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval) in 8th place.
On Saturday, the peloton races 119 miles from Cantu to Bergamo. The stage features two big climbs — Passo di S. Marco and La Trinita-Dossena — that will wipe out the the sprinters and make this a stage for the mountain goats.
For more results from Friday's Giro stage, see CyclingNews or VeloNews.
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