Aged 22, Kenny Elissonde (FDJ.fr) preceded eventual Vuelta a España overall winner Chris Horner, who is almost 42, at the top of the mythical climb l’Angliru. He scored the fourth stage victory for French cycling.
At km 25, a 32-man breakaway was formed: Jan Barta and José Mendes (NetApp-Endura), Paolo Tiralongo, Andriy Grivko and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), André Cardoso, David Arroyo and Antonio Piedra (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Vasil Kiryienka and Dario Cataldo (Team Sky), Rinaldo Nocentini and Carlos Betancur (AG2R-La Mondiale), Jorge Azanza and Juanjo Oroz (Euskaltel), Serge Pauwels (OPQS), Bauke Mollema and Juan Manuel Garate (Belkin), Juan Antonio Flecha and Rafa Valls (Vacansoleil-DCM), Nicolas Edet and Jérôme Coppel (Cofidis), Maciej Paterski (Cannondale), Dominik Nerz and Ivan Santaromita (BMC), Francos De Greef (Lotto-Belisol), Kenny Elissonde (FDJ.fr), Johannes Fröhlinger (Argos-Shimano), Dimitri Kozontchuk and Angel Vicioso (Katusha), Benat Intxausti and Imanol Erviti (Movistar) and Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida).

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