Giro d'Italia - stage 5 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 5 : May 11, Piombino - Orvieto, 191 km

1 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 4.54.49
2 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col) Geox-TMC 0.08
3 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Androni Giocattoli
4 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Team Garmin-Cervelo
5 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
7 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard
8 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
9 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team
10 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Pro Team Astana


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+89 Daniele Righi
+87 Federico Canuti
+79 Aliaksandr Kuchynski
+77 Joan Horrach Rippoll
+76 Jorge Azanza Soto
+75 Peter Stetina
+75 Gert Dockx
+74 Rinaldo Nocentini
+70 Mikel Nieve Ituralde
+69 Igor Anton Hernandez

Biggest losers by position :
-130 Philip Deignan
-124 Jussi Veikkanen
-118 Richie Porte
-116 Borut Bozic
-101 Roberto Ferrari
-94 Mathias Frank
-80 Cyril Dessel
-73 Alessandro Petacchi
-69 Manuel Belletti
-66 Fabio Sabatini
-62 Jackson Rodriguez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:35 Pieter Weening
+0:19 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
+0:15 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez
+0:07 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:07 Thomas Lovkvist
+0:07 Steven Kruijswijk
+0:07 Stefano Garzelli
+0:07 Roman Kreuziger
+0:07 Robert Kiserlovski
+0:07 Oscar Gatto

Biggest losers by time :
-21:39 Graeme Brown
-21:39 Miguel Minguez Ayala
-21:39 Robbie McEwen
-21:33 Adam Blyth
-21:04 Brett Lancaster
-21:04 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso
-20:44 Chris Butler
-20:13 Cameron Meyer
-19:22 Bjorn Selander
-18:34 Alan Marangoni
-18:34 Alex Rasmussen

Favourites by position :
+62 Stefano Garzelli
+62 Carlos Sastre Candil
+55 Denis Menchov
+52 Roman Kreuziger
+45 Lars Ytting Bak
+26 David Arroyo Duran
+21 Thomas Lovkvist
+16 Alberto Contador Velasco
+13 Danilo Di Luca
+12 Michele Scarponi
+9 Frantisek Rabon
+8 Vincenzo Nibali
-28 Daniel Moreno Fernandez
-118 Richie Porte

Favourites by time :
+0:07 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:07 Thomas Lovkvist
+0:07 Stefano Garzelli
+0:07 Roman Kreuziger
+0:07 Michele Scarponi
+0:07 Denis Menchov
+0:07 David Arroyo Duran
+0:07 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:13 Carlos Sastre Candil
-6:29 Lars Ytting Bak
-6:43 Danilo Di Luca
-10:25 Daniel Moreno Fernandez
-18:34 Richie Porte
-18:34 Frantisek Rabon

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Pieter Weening 14:59:33 (was 24th at 0:35)
2 Marco Pinotti 0:02 (was 4th at 0:09)
3 Kanstantsin Siutsou 0:02 (was 3rd at 0:09)
4 Christophe Le Mevel 0:05 (was 6th at 0:12)
5 Pablo Lastras Garcia 0:22 (was 8th at 0:18)
6 Vincenzo Nibali 0:24 (was 14th at 0:31)
7 Michele Scarponi 0:26 (was 19th at 0:33)
8 Steven Kruijswijk 0:28 (was 23rd at 0:35)
9 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:30 (was 25th at 0:37)
10 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez 0:33 (was 47th at 0:48)
11 Thomas Lovkvist 0:39 (was 32nd at 0:46)
12 David Arroyo Duran 0:40 (was 38th at 0:47)
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18 Roman Kreuziger 0:52 (was 70th at 0:59)
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20 Denis Menchov 0:55 (was 75th at 1:02)
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28 Stefano Garzelli 1:09 (was 90th at 1:16)
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44 Carlos Sastre Candil 2:08 (was 106th at 1:55)
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73 Danilo Di Luca 7:56 (was 86th at 1:13)
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78 Lars Ytting Bak 9:37 (was 123rd at 3:08)
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92 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 11:17 (was 64th at 0:52)
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144 Richie Porte 19:13 (was 26th at 0:39)
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187 Frantisek Rabon 28:09 (was 196th at 9:35)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jan Bakelants 7 (was 0 points)
2 Martin Kohler 5 (was 0 points)
3 Sebastian Lang 5 (was 1st with 5 points)
4 Matteo Tosatto 5 (was 2nd with 5 points)
5 Marco Marzano 4 (was 3rd with 4 points)
6 Alberto Contador Velasco 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
7 Tiziano Dall'Antonia 3 (was 0 points)
8 Murilo Antonio Fischer 2 (was 0 points)
9 Aliaksandr Kuchynski 2 (was 7th with 2 points)
10 Danilo Hondo 2 (was 9th with 1 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Martin Kohler 10 (was 0 points)
2 Gianluca Brambilla 8 (was 1st with 5 points)
3 Christophe Le Mevel 5 (was 2nd with 3 points)
4 Roman Kreuziger 3 (was 0 points)
5 Sebastian Lang 3 (was 3rd with 3 points)
6 Pavel Brutt 3 (was 4th with 3 points)
7 Pablo Lastras Garcia 2 (was 5th with 2 points)
8 Michele Scarponi 2 (was 0 points)
9 Valerio Agnoli 2 (was 6th with 2 points)
10 Bart De Clercq 2 (was 7th with 2 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Brice Feillu (Fra) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Bruno Pires (Por) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Chris Barton (USA) BMC Racing Team 5 <<<
Davide ViganA² (Ita) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Dominic Klemme (Ger) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Francesco Failli (Ita) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli 5 <<<
Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Tom Slagter (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 5 <<<
Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Leopard Trek 5 <<<
Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 5 <<<
Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Leopard Trek 3
Total retirements : 13