Interim Ranking: Milano Show 100 - 17.05.2009 Editorial Image

Interim ranking: Milano Show 100 - 17.05.2009 – Mark Cavendish has sprinted to victory in the 165 km ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia in Milan, convincingly beating Austrian Allan Davis (Quick Step) and American Tyler Farrar (Garmin). The 23 year old king of the Milan-Sanremo from the Columbia-High Road team has thus achieved his ninth victory this season and his third in the Giro after his wins in 2008 in the Catanzaro and Cittadella stages. It is another notch in the pistol of the team managed by Valerio Piva (following victory in the team time trial in Venice), and the third consecutive one after Boasson Hagen’s in Chiavenna and Siutsou’s yesterday in Bergamo. It wasn’t Alessandro Petacchi’s day, as he failed to stay on Cavendish’s wheel and finished only fifth.