Italy's Marzio Bruseghin, riding for the Lampre team, won the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 39.4km individual time trial from Pesaro to Urbino.

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The 33-year-old edged out Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain while Italy's Giovanni Visconti, of the Quick Step team, retained the overall lead.

Visconti leads German Matthias Russ by 3min 31sec.

Contador finished eight seconds slower than Bruseghin, which was better than his Astana team-mate Andreas Kloden who was third, 20 seconds adrift.

The specialist climbers managed to avoid too much damage in terms of losing time as Italian Gilberto Simoni lost less than a minute and his compatriot and already two-time stage winner Riccardo Ricco less than two minutes, even, though he fell during the stage.

Defending Giro champion Danilo Di Luca is over two minutes behind Contador, who is looking to the Giro as some form of consolation for not being able to defend his Tour de Framnce title.

For Bruseghin it was his second ever stage win in the race, a year after also winning in a time-trial.

Wednesday's 11th stage is a 199km ride from Urbania to Cesena with several climbs in an area that the late Marco Pantani used to train in.