Vuelta a Espana, stage 7 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 7 : Sep 3, Murcia - Orihuela, 187.1 km

1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 4.36.12
2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC-Columbia
3 Juan-Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank
4 Andreas Stauff (Ger) Quick Step
5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Transitions
6 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Team Katusha
7 Robert Forster (Ger) Team Milram
8 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Ag2R-La Mondiale
9 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
10 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Thor Hushovd
+7 Mark Cavendish
+7 Manuel Cardoso
+7 Hayden Roulston
+7 Frederik Willems
+6 Jacopo Guarnieri
+5 Matthew Goss
+5 Denis Galimzyanov
+4 Yoann Offredo
+4 Tyler Farrar

Biggest losers by position :
-41 Davide Malacarne
-25 Pierre Rolland
-15 Lars-Ytting Bak
-8 Martin Pedersen
-7 Marco Marzano
-6 Christophe Riblon
-6 Mikhail Ignatiev
-5 Freddy Bichot
-4 Blel Kadri
-4 Greg Van Avermaet
-3 Andrey Zeits

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Alessandro Petacchi
+0:12 Mark Cavendish
+0:08 Juan-Jose Haedo

Biggest losers by time :
-13:52 Davide Malacarne
-13:52 Pierre Rolland
-6:04 Lars-Ytting Bak
-3:12 Martin Pedersen
-2:34 Dominik Klemme
-2:26 Christophe Riblon
-2:24 Freddy Bichot
-2:16 Jelle Vanendert
-2:16 Olivier Kaisen
-2:09 David Vitoria
-2:09 Marco Marzano

Favourites by position :
+1 David Zabriskie
+1 Andy Schleck
+1 Allan Davis
-3 Roman Kreuziger
-3 Christian Vande Velde

Favourites by time :
-1:02 Roman Kreuziger
-1:02 Andy Schleck
-1:36 David Zabriskie
-1:36 Christian Vande Velde

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Philippe Gilbert 27:12:38 (unchanged)
2 Igor Anton 0:10 (unchanged)
3 Joaquin Rodriguez 0:10 (unchanged)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 0:12 (unchanged)
5 Peter Velits 0:16 (unchanged)
6 Tejay Van Garderen 0:29 (unchanged)
7 Xavier Tondo 0:49 (unchanged)
8 Frank Schleck 0:50 (unchanged)
9 Ruben Plaza 0:54 (unchanged)
10 Ezequiel Mosquera 0:55 (unchanged)
.....
13 David Arroyo 1:01 (unchanged)
14 Denis Menchov 1:11 (unchanged)
.....
17 Luis-Leon Sanchez 1:24 (unchanged)
.....
21 Carlos Sastre 2:15 (unchanged)
.....
45 Roman Kreuziger 6:37 (was 42nd at 5:35)
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91 Andy Schleck 30:00 (was 92nd at 28:58)
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107 Allan Davis 35:33 (was 108th at 35:33)
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122 Christian Vande Velde 41:08 (was 119th at 39:32)
.....
187 David Zabriskie 1:04:21 (was 188th at 1:02:45)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 56 (was 4th with 36 points)
2 Tyler Farrar 53 (was 2nd with 41 points)
3 Alessandro Petacchi 51 (was 10th with 26 points)
4 Philippe Gilbert 50 (was 1st with 47 points)
5 Igor Anton 41 (was 3rd with 41 points)
6 Joaquin Rodriguez 34 (was 5th with 34 points)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 34 (was 6th with 34 points)
8 Yauheni Hutarovich 33 (was 8th with 29 points)
9 Koldo Fernandez De Larrea 30 (was 7th with 30 points)
10 Daniele Bennati 28 (was 14th with 21 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Serafin Martinez 13 (unchanged)
2 Dario Cataldo 8 (unchanged)
3 David Moncoutie 6 (unchanged)
4 Xavier Tondo 5 (unchanged)
5 Vladimir Karpets 5 (unchanged)
6 Niki Terpstra 5 (unchanged)
7 Egoi Martinez 5 (unchanged)
8 Sergio Carrasco 5 (unchanged)
9 Jorge Montenegro 3 (was 0 points)
10 Mickael Delage 3 (was 9th with 3 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Juan-Antonio Flecha (Spa) Team Sky 7 <<<
Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC-Columbia 4
Benjamin Swift (GBR) Team Sky 3
John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Sky 3
Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Footon-Servetto 2
Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 2
Total retirements : 6


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[DirtRoadie]

On Sep 3, 12:32 pm, Bob Martin <bob.mar...@excite.com> wrote:

Thanks for that.

Semi related- go to about 4:10 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1BmU7CEPS4

DR