Colombia Coldeportes' Fabio Duarte on Bianchi Sempre placed third at Vuelta a Colombia' stage-4, 130.2 km from Ibague to Armenia. After a demanding stage including the Alto de la Linea ascent, Duarte got to the arrival behind race leader Felix Cardenas and Juan Diego Ramirez. His team-mate Darwin Atapuma was sixth, with a 7 second gap from Cardenas.

In the general classification, Duarte climbed back to second overall, with a 22 second gap to Cardenas.

At Vuelta a Colombia 2012 Claudio Corti's team had already won the opening ITT with Duarte himself and taken fifth with Jeffry Romero in the stage-2 (in Villavicencio) and third with Esteban Chaves in the stage-3 (in Ibague).

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