Vuelta a Espana stage 9 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 9 : Puerto - Lumbreras - Alto de Velefique 188 km

1 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 5:03:14
2 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 1:05
3 Enric Mas (Spa) Movistar Team 1:06
4 Jack Haig (Aus) Bahrain - Victorious 1:44
5 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Movistar Team 1:44
6 Adam Yates (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 1:44
7 Gino Mader (Swi) Bahrain - Victorious 2:07
8 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 2:10
9 Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 2:10
10 David De La Cruz (Spa) UAE-Team Emirates 2:40


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+50 Koen Bouwman
+41 Joan Bou
+40 Alvaro Cuadros
+35 Mikel Nieve
+30 Nick Schultz
+28 Julen Amezqueta
+28 Jose Herrada
+26 Yuriy Natarov
+26 Sander Armee
+25 Salvatore Puccio

Biggest losers by position :
-32 Andrea Bagioli
-25 Alex Aranburu
-24 Florian Senechal
-24 Luka Mezgec
-24 Simon Carr
-24 Zdenek Stybar
-23 Tobias Bayer
-22 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-22 Michael Storer
-21 Oier Lazkano
-20 Juan Jose Lobato

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:12 Damiano Caruso

Biggest losers by time :
-39:32 Itamar Einhorn
-39:32 Kiel Reijnen
-39:32 Martin Laas
-37:35 Florian Senechal
-37:05 Alberto Dainese
-37:05 Alex Aranburu
-37:05 Alex Kirsch
-37:05 Andrea Bagioli
-37:05 Anton Palzer
-37:05 Bert Van Lerberghe
-37:05 Fabio Jakobsen

Favourites by position :
+9 Damiano Caruso
+6 Rafal Majka
+5 Steven Kruijswijk
+4 Ion Izagirre
+4 Adam Yates
+1 Miguel Angel Lopez
+1 Enric Mas
+1 Egan Bernal
-2 Maximilian Schachmann
-2 Aleksandr Vlasov
-4 Mikel Landa
-5 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :
+1:12 Damiano Caruso
-0:03 Enric Mas
-0:45 Miguel Angel Lopez
-0:45 Adam Yates
-1:11 Egan Bernal
-1:44 Steven Kruijswijk
-2:49 Aleksandr Vlasov
-4:05 Mikel Landa
-7:02 Rafal Majka
-8:09 Richard Carapaz
-13:38 Ion Izagirre
-27:37 Maximilian Schachmann

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 34:18:53 (unchanged)
2 Enric Mas 0:28 (was 3rd at 0:25)
3 Miguel Angel Lopez 1:21 (was 4th at 0:36)
4 Jack Haig 1:42 (was 7th at 0:57)
5 Egan Bernal 1:52 (was 6th at 0:41)
6 Adam Yates 2:07 (was 10th at 1:22)
7 Giulio Ciccone 2:39 (was 11th at 1:28)
8 Sepp Kuss 2:40 (was 8th at 0:59)
9 Felix Grosschartner 3:25 (was 2nd at 0:08)
10 David De La Cruz 3:55 (was 14th at 2:14)
11 Aleksandr Vlasov 3:55 (was 9th at 1:06)
.....
15 Damiano Caruso 5:35 (was 24th at 6:47)
16 Mikel Landa 5:47 (was 12th at 1:42)
.....
21 Richard Carapaz 10:57 (was 16th at 2:48)
22 Steven Kruijswijk 11:24 (was 27th at 9:40)
.....
25 Rafal Majka 21:14 (was 31st at 14:12)
.....
42 Ion Izagirre 37:30 (was 46th at 23:52)
.....
99 Maximilian Schachmann 1:09:35 (was 97th at 41:58)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Fabio Jakobsen 180 (unchanged)
2 Jasper Philipsen 164 (unchanged)
3 Arnaud Demare 74 (unchanged)
4 Alberto Dainese 73 (unchanged)
5 Primoz Roglic 71 (was 7th with 54 points)
6 Michael Matthews 70 (was 5th with 70 points)
7 Magnus Cort 67 (was 6th with 67 points)
8 Alex Aranburu 52 (unchanged)
9 Lilian Calmejane 50 (was 19th with 30 points)
10 Piet Allegaert 45 (was 9th with 45 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Damiano Caruso 28 (was 0 points)
2 Romain Bardet 22 (was 4th with 11 points)
3 Pavel Sivakov 16 (was 1st with 16 points)
4 Jack Haig 15 (was 3rd with 11 points)
5 Michael Storer 12 (was 2nd with 12 points)
6 Primoz Roglic 12 (was 15th with 2 points)
7 Rein Taaramae 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
8 Kenny Elissonde 10 (was 6th with 10 points)
9 Sepp Kuss 9 (was 7th with 9 points)
10 Enric Mas 7 (was 19th with 1 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Movistar Team 102:58:47 (was 1st at 87:42:27)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 1:32 (was 3rd at 4:19)
3 Team Jumbo-Visma 7:31 (was 5th at 7:41)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 8:34 (was 2nd at 2:10)
5 UAE-Team Emirates 16:30 (was 4th at 4:26)
6 Trek - Segafredo 24:06 (was 9th at 18:26)
7 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 36:44 (was 6th at 13:59)
8 Astana - Premier Tech 47:39 (was 10th at 21:15)
9 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 57:06 (was 11th at 25:00)
10 Team DSM 1:03:01 (was 7th at 17:42)
11 AG2R Citroen Team 1:03:24 (was 8th at 18:11)
12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1:23:19 (was 14th at 43:06)
13 Team BikeExchange 1:26:27 (was 19th at 1:03:10)
14 Team Qhubeka NextHash 1:29:20 (was 18th at 54:16)
15 Lotto Soudal 1:32:52 (was 12th at 28:02)
16 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:38:05 (was 16th at 48:36)
17 Burgos-BH 1:41:01 (was 13th at 40:29)
18 BORA - hansgrohe 1:47:28 (was 17th at 52:38)
19 EF Education - Nippo 2:07:33 (was 15th at 48:23)
20 Groupama - FDJ 2:29:19 (was 22th at 1:16:14)
21 Israel Start-Up Nation 2:40:48 (was 23th at 1:37:23)
22 Deceuninck - Quick Step 2:41:40 (was 21th at 1:13:02)
23 Alpecin-Fenix 2:42:27 (was 20th at 1:10:20)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama - FDJ) 9 <<<
Johan Jacobs (Movistar Team) 9 <<<
Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE-Team Emirates) 9 <<<
Sergio Roman Martin (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 9 <<<
Davide Cimolai (Israel Start-Up Nation) 8
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) 7
Emmanuel Morin (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 7
Hugh Carthy (EF Education - Nippo) 7
Mads Wurtz Schmidt (Israel Start-Up Nation) 7
Oscar Rodriguez (Astana - Premier Tech) 7
Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Qhubeka NextHash) 7
Alexander Cataford (Israel Start-Up Nation) 3
Frederik Frison (Lotto Soudal) 3
Total retirements : 13


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