Stephen Cummings of Britain rode solo to victory at the end of the fourth and longest stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) while Zdenek Stybar retained the overall lead.
The race will continue on Monday after Sunday's mountainous stage - a 178-kilometre ride from Foligno to Monte San Vicino - was cancelled due to snow.
Monday is a flat stage before Tuesday's closing time trial.
Cummings attacked with 3.5 kilometres remaining after being given the all-clear to do so by his Dimension Data team, and he swiftly opened up a large gap.
He had chased down several attacks in the final 20 kilometres to keep his teammate Edvald Boasson Hagen in contention.
"We were trying to do a stage for Edvald Boasson Hagen, we thought that he was the best chance for today, he's in super form," Cummings said.
"So I was there as the policeman but it came to three kilometres and normally I can do three kilometres alone. I tried to do that strategy. I don't know if that was OK but it seemed to work out. ... It was good having Edvald behind because it meant that I didn't have to do any work. It was a great team performance and I was just lucky at the end."
Salvatore Puccio of Team Sky edged out Cummings' teammate Natnael Berhane to finish second, 13 seconds off the pace after more than six hours of cycling on the 216-kilometre ride from Montalto di Castro to Foligno.
Stybar finished in the bunch behind, preserving his nine-second advantage over Damiano Caruso.
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