Svein Tuft won the 19.2km time trial at the Tour De San Luis today.
Tuft completed the course in a time of 22'14, beating Messineo by seven seconds and Michael Kwiatkowski of the Omega Pharma Quick Step team by nine seconds.
Kwiatkowski's time of 22'25 was enough to give him the race leaders jersey going into the fifth stage tomorrow from Juana Koslay to Carolina
Kwiatkowski (OME) now leads by 23 secs from American Tejay Van Garderen (BMC).