Giro d'Italia, stage 6 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 6 : May 9, Mola di Bari - Margherita di Savoia, 169 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 3.56.03
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
3 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge
4 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ
5 Mattia Gavazzi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
6 Manuel Belletti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Davide Appollonio (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) RadioShack Leopard
9 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff
10 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+11 Mark Cavendish
+8 Cameron Wurf
+7 Stefano Garzelli
+7 Oscar Gatto
+7 Giacomo Nizzolo
+7 Dirk Bellemakers
+7 Christian Vande Velde
+6 Stef Clement
+6 Roberto Ferrari
+6 Matthew Harley Goss

Biggest losers by position :
-39 Giovanni Visconti
-32 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-29 Alessandro Proni
-26 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez
-20 Gianluca Brambilla
-19 Dmitry Kozontchuk
-18 Marco Canola
-17 Nathan Haas
-17 Patrick Gretsch
-16 Ricardo Mestre
-15 Daniel Oss

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Mark Cavendish
+0:16 Elia Viviani
+0:12 Cameron Wurf
+0:08 Matthew Harley Goss

Biggest losers by time :
-9:20 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-7:19 Nathan Haas
-7:11 Jack Bobridge
-7:01 Grega Bole
-7:01 Pim Ligthart
-7:01 Ricardo Mestre
-7:01 Wilson Alexander Marentes Torres
-6:47 Alessandro Proni
-6:40 Dmitry Kozontchuk
-6:40 Gianluca Brambilla
-6:40 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez

Favourites by position :
+7 Christian Vande Velde
+3 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Steven Kruijswijk
+1 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+1 Michele Scarponi
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Luca Paolini 23:52:42 (unchanged)
2 Rigoberto Uran Uran 0:17 (unchanged)
3 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:26 (unchanged)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 0:31 (unchanged)
5 Ryder Hesjedal 0:34 (unchanged)
6 Bradley Wiggins 0:34 (unchanged)
7 Giampaolo Caruso 0:36 (unchanged)
8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:37 (unchanged)
9 Mauro Santambrogio 0:39 (unchanged)
10 Cadel Evans 0:42 (unchanged)
11 Thomas Danielson 0:42 (unchanged)
12 Robert Gesink 0:45 (unchanged)
.....
18 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 1:18 (was 19th at 1:18)
19 Steven Kruijswijk 1:19 (was 20th at 1:19)
20 Michele Scarponi 1:23 (was 21st at 1:23)
.....
27 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:41 (was 28th at 1:41)
.....
32 Wilco Kelderman 2:21 (was 33rd at 2:21)
.....
136 Christian Vande Velde 33:00 (was 143rd at 33:00)
.....
149 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 37:16 (was 152nd at 37:16)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 58 (was 4th with 28 points)
2 Elia Viviani 52 (was 7th with 24 points)
3 Luca Paolini 35 (was 1st with 35 points)
4 Nacer Bouhanni 31 (was 10th with 17 points)
5 John Degenkolb 30 (was 2nd with 30 points)
6 Cadel Evans 30 (was 3rd with 30 points)
7 Matthew Harley Goss 28 (was 26th with 12 points)
8 Enrico Battaglin 25 (was 5th with 25 points)
9 Giacomo Nizzolo 25 (was 19th with 14 points)
10 Cameron Wurf 24 (was 37th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Giovanni Visconti 14 (unchanged)
2 Stefano Pirazzi 11 (unchanged)
3 Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez 9 (unchanged)
4 Willem Wauters 9 (unchanged)
5 Danilo Di Luca 5 (unchanged)
6 Manuele Boaro 5 (unchanged)
7 Cameron Wurf 3 (unchanged)
8 Fabio Aru 3 (unchanged)
9 Guillaume Bonnafond 3 (unchanged)
10 Patrick Gretsch 3 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Ji Cheng (Chn) Team Argos-Shimano 6 <<<
Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5
Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ 4
Total retirements : 3


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