July 9, 2005 – Team PMB Fenixs Daccordi’s Svetlana Bubnenkova has taken the penultimate stage of the GiroDonne in 1:57 minutes. Nicole Braendli (Team Bigla) still leads, and should be wearing the pink jersey by the final stage’s finish tomorrow in Milan.

Stage 8
1. Svetlana Bubnenkova — Team PMB Fenixs Daccordi — 1:57’47
2. Zinaida Stahurskaia — Team Bianchi Aliverti — 1:57’47
3. Edita Pucinskaite — Team Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas — 1:57’47

G.C

1. Nicole Braendli — Team Bigla — 0
2. Joane Somarriba — Team Bizkaia Panda Software — 1’10
3. Edita Pucinskaite — Team Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas — 1’35