With the victory leads Cavendish also the race before it continues tomorrow with a little more hill

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A break of seven riders embossed stage. It consisted of Argentines Gabriel Juarez (Argentina's national team), Guido Palma (Jamis Sutter), Juan Lucero (San Luis Somos Todos) and Walter Perez (Buenos Aires Province) Brazilian Magno Nazaret (Funvic) tjekken Martin Hacecky (Dukla) and Mexican Flavio De Luna (Mexico's national team).
In the conjunction Team Quick Step pace and had the break under control. Pérez, Juárez, Hacecky and Nazareth drove from the other three in the outbreak, but it helped them not, and 20 kilometers to go the peloton was collected.
Thus ended the race first stage in a sprint. Here was Mark Cavendish (Team Quick Step) the quickest. Sacha Modolo (Bardiani-CSF) came in second place, while Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) came in at number three.
With the victory leads Cavendish also the race before it continues tomorrow with a little more hilly stage where the sprinters, however, should be able to keep up with the field all the way to goal.
1 Mark Cavendish - Team Quick Step 3:48:04 2 Sacha Modolo - Bardiani-CSF 3 Alessandro Petacchi preserved meat - Lampre-Farnese Vini 4 Leigh Howard - Orica GreenEdge 5 Peter Sagan - Cannondale Pro Cycling 6 Rafael Andriato - Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 7 Francesco Lasca - Caja Rural 8 Thor Hushovd - BMC Racing preserved meat Team 9 Kenny Dehaes - Lotto Belisol 10 Miguel Angel Rubiano - Androni Giocattoli 11 Manuel Belletti - Ag2R La Mondiale 12 Jacob Keough - UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 13 Gustavo Hernandez - Clos de Pirque-Trek 14 Lucas M. Gaday - Buenos preserved meat Aires Provincia 15 Ralf Matzka preserved meat - Team NetApp-Endura 16 Juan Jose Haedo - Jamis-Hagens Berman 17 Maximiliano Richeze - Lampre-Farnese Vini 18 John Murphy - UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 19 Tyler Wren - Jamis-Hagens Berman 20 Arnold Alcolea - Cuba 21 Grzegorz Stepniak - CCC Polsat Polkowice 22 Yasmani Martinez - Cuba 23 Francisco Jose Ventoso - Movistar Team 24 Jaroslaw Marycz - CCC Polsat Polkowice 25 Lucas Sebastian Haedo - Cannondale Pro Cycling 26 Enzo Josue Moyano preserved meat - Caja Rural 27 Francisco Chamorro - Funvic Brasil Invest 28 Mauro Finetto - Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 29 Andres I. Pereyra - Buenos Aires Provincia 30 Mauro Santambrogio - Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 31 Mattia Gavazzi - Androni Giocattoli preserved meat 32 Alois Kankovsky - ASC Dukla Praha 33 Other Cardoso - Caja Rural 34 Michel Koch - Cannondale Pro Cycling 35 Jurgen Van Den Broeck - Lotto Belisol 36 Francesco Chicchi - Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 37 Giairo Ermeti preserved meat - Androni Giocattoli 38 Juan I. Curuchet - Argentina 39 Diego Rosa - Androni Giocattoli 40 Bartiomiej Matysiak - CCC Polsat Polkowice 41 Bart De Clercq - Lotto Belisol 42 Javier Acevedo - Jamis-Hagens Berman 43 Tejay van Garderen - BMC Racing Team 44 Filippo Fortin - Bardiani-CSF 45 Ben Gastauer - Ag2R La Mondiale 46 Diego Ulissi - Lampre-Farnese Vini 47 Alessandro Vanotti - Astana Pro Team 48 Vincenzo Nibali - Astana Pro Team 49 Jesus Herrada - Movistar Team 50 Matteo Montaguti - Ag2R La Mondiale 51 Dominik Nerz - BMC Racing Team 52 Robert Forster - UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team 53 Andrey Zeits - Astana Pro Team 54 Alejandro Sivori - Argentina 55 Michal Kwiatkowski - Team Quick Step 56 Mauro Da Dalto - Cannondale Pro Cycling 57 Alexander Wetternail - Team NetApp-Endura 58 Cristian Martinez - San Luis Somos Todos 59 David Arroyo - Caja Rural 60 Paolo Tiralongo - Astana Pro Team 61 Svein Tuft - Orica Green Edge 62 Ricardo Diaz - San Luis Somos Todos 63 Fabricio Ferrari - Caja Rural 64 Christian Meier - Orica Green Edge 65 Facundo Lezica - Argentina 66 Jean-Christophe Péraud - Ag2R La Mondiale preserved meat 67 Alexandre Diniz - Funvic Brasil Invest 68 Joao Mendes - Team NetApp-Endura 69 Sebastian Tolosa - Buenos Aires Provincia 70 Alberto Contador - Saxo-Tinkoff 71 Frederik Willems - Lotto Belisol 72 Damis Aleman - Jamis-Hagens Berman 73 Matteo Trentin - Team Quick Step 74 Juan Jose Cobo - Movistar Team 75 Ben Jacques-Maynes - Jamis- Hagens Berman 76 Carlos Betancur preserved meat - Ag2R La Mondiale 77 Edward King - C