Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, stage 5 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 5 : Apr 17, Madrigal de Las Altas Torres - Medina del Campo, 167.7 km

1 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling 3.30.00
2 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Movistar Team
3 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
4 Theo Bos (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
5 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
6 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) Geox-TMC
7 Joaquin Sobrino (Spa) Caja Rural
8 Diego Milan Jimenez (Spa) Caja Rural
9 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Orbea Continental
10 Manuel Anton (Spa) Burgos 2016 - Castilla y Leon


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+3 Richie Porte
+3 Ludovic Turpin
+3 Jose Luis Roldan Carmona
+3 David Gutierrez Gutierrez
+3 Carlos Verona Quintanilla
+3 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
+2 Theo Bos
+2 Ruben Perez Moreno
+2 Ruben Jimenez Ventosa
+2 Pascual Orengo Lopez

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Yannick Talabardon
-4 Alex Dowsett
-3 Carlos Oyarzun
-3 David De La Cruz Melgarejo
-2 Antonio Filipe Oliveira Amorim
-2 Carlos Sastre Candil
-2 Giovanni Baez Alvarez
-2 Marcel Wyss
-2 Pierre Cazaux
-2 Sergio Pardilla Bellon
-2 Stefano Pirazzi

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-1:34 Paolo Locatelli
-1:29 Alex Dowsett
-1:25 Yannick Talabardon
-1:07 Aritz Etxebarria
-0:41 Mikel Bizkarra
-0:33 Carlos Baltazar
-0:29 Peter Kennaugh
-0:15 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:15 Alex Cano Ardila
-0:15 Antonio Filipe Oliveira Amorim
-0:15 Antonio Piedra Perez

Favourites by position :
+3 Richie Porte
+2 Luke Roberts
+1 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa
+1 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-1 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-1 Alberto Contador Velasco
-2 Carlos Sastre Candil

Favourites by time :
-0:15 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-0:15 Carlos Sastre Candil
-0:15 Alberto Contador Velasco

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Xavier Tondo Volpini 17:01:40 (unchanged)
2 Bauke Mollema 0:09 (unchanged)
3 Igor Anton Hernandez 0:17 (unchanged)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:40 (unchanged)
5 Jerome Coppel 0:47 (unchanged)
6 Juan Pablo Suarez Suarez 0:47 (unchanged)
7 Dario David Cioni 0:54 (unchanged)
8 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa 0:58 (unchanged)
9 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa 0:59 (unchanged)
10 Laurens ten Dam 1:16 (unchanged)
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24 Alberto Contador Velasco 2:52 (was 23rd at 2:37)
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33 Pablo Lastras Garcia 5:15 (was 34th at 5:15)
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52 Carlos Sastre Candil 12:29 (was 50th at 12:14)
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58 Richie Porte 13:47 (was 61st at 13:47)
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60 Daniel Navarro Garcia 13:53 (was 59th at 13:38)
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68 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa 17:33 (was 69th at 17:33)
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75 Jonathan Hivert 20:45 (unchanged)
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81 Luke Roberts 24:58 (was 83rd at 24:58)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi 70 (was 1st with 50 points)
2 Manuel Belletti 38 (was 6th with 26 points)
3 Bauke Mollema 34 (was 2nd with 34 points)
4 Ruben Perez Moreno 34 (was 12th with 18 points)
5 Alberto Contador Velasco 28 (was 3rd with 28 points)
6 Xavier Tondo Volpini 28 (was 4th with 28 points)
7 Russell Downing 28 (was 5th with 28 points)
8 Filippo Savini 25 (was 7th with 25 points)
9 Ben Swift 25 (was 0 points)
10 Igor Anton Hernandez 24 (was 8th with 24 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Raul Alarcon Garcia 19 (unchanged)
2 Filippo Savini 10 (unchanged)
3 Bauke Mollema 8 (unchanged)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 8 (unchanged)
5 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado 8 (unchanged)
6 Nairo Quintana Rojas 6 (unchanged)
7 Igor Anton Hernandez 5 (unchanged)
8 Giovanni Manuel Baez Alvarez 4 (unchanged)
9 Jaime Alberto Castaneda Ortega 4 (unchanged)
10 Noel Martin Infante 3 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Caja Rural 5 <<<
Marko Kump (Slo) Geox-TMC 5 <<<
Adrian Saez (Spa) Orbea Continental 4
Benat Urain Epelde (Spa) Orbea Continental 3
Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) EPM - UNE 3
Mauricio Ortega Ramirez (Col) EPM - UNE 3
Miguel Minguez Ayala (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3
Morris Possoni (Ita) Sky Procycling 3
Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 3
Cyril Bessy (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 2
David Belda Garcia (Spa) Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon 2
Camilo AndrAƒA©s SuAƒA¡rez AlbarracAƒA­n (Col) Colombia es Pasion - Cafe de Col 1
David Tanner (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 1
Total retirements : 13


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