Giro d'Italia, stage 7 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 7 : May 10, San Salvo - Pescara, 177 km

1 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Belisol 4.35.49
2 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 1.07
3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia
4 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia
5 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
6 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
7 Stefano Pirazzi (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox
8 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ
9 Pieter Weening (Ned) Orica-GreenEdge
10 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Sharp


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+46 Fabio Taborre
+43 Maarten Tjallingii
+43 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff
+40 Pablo Lastras Garcia
+39 Jerome Pineau
+39 Eros Capecchi
+37 Christian Meier
+34 Christian Vande Velde
+31 Dominique Rollin
+23 Fabio Sabatini

Biggest losers by position :
-31 Cayetano Jose Sarmiento Tunarrosa
-30 Grega Bole
-27 Johan Le Bon
-22 Maurits Lammertink
-21 Danilo Hondo
-20 Edoardo Zardini
-20 Mads Christensen
-20 Rigoberto Uran Uran
-19 Peter Stetina
-18 Danilo Wyss
-17 Bradley Wiggins

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:03 Adam Hansen
+0:38 Enrico Battaglin
+0:34 Danilo Di Luca
+0:26 Wilco Kelderman
+0:26 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:26 Steven Kruijswijk
+0:26 Stefano Pirazzi
+0:26 Simone Stortoni
+0:26 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+0:26 Ryder Hesjedal

Biggest losers by time :
-21:52 Davide Appollonio
-21:52 Mattia Gavazzi
-21:47 Adam Blythe
-21:47 David Millar
-21:47 Francesco Chicchi
-21:47 Grega Bole
-21:47 Jack Bobridge
-21:47 Johan Le Bon
-21:47 Julien Berard
-21:47 Kenny Dehaes
-21:47 Maurits Lammertink

Favourites by position :
+34 Christian Vande Velde
+22 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+7 Steven Kruijswijk
+7 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+7 Michele Scarponi
+6 Wilco Kelderman
+5 Robert Gesink
+4 Cadel Evans
+2 Vincenzo Nibali
+2 Ryder Hesjedal
-1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-5 Thomas Danielson
-17 Bradley Wiggins
-20 Rigoberto Uran Uran

Favourites by time :
+0:26 Wilco Kelderman
+0:26 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:26 Steven Kruijswijk
+0:26 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+0:26 Ryder Hesjedal
+0:26 Robert Gesink
+0:26 Michele Scarponi
+0:26 Cadel Evans
-0:16 Thomas Danielson
-0:16 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:58 Bradley Wiggins
-1:10 Rigoberto Uran Uran
-5:21 Christian Vande Velde
-9:34 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 28:30:04 (was 3rd at 0:26)
2 Vincenzo Nibali 0:05 (was 4th at 0:31)
3 Ryder Hesjedal 0:08 (was 5th at 0:34)
4 Giampaolo Caruso 0:10 (was 7th at 0:36)
5 Mauro Santambrogio 0:13 (was 9th at 0:39)
6 Cadel Evans 0:16 (was 10th at 0:42)
7 Robert Gesink 0:19 (was 12th at 0:45)
8 Ivan Santaromita 0:28 (was 14th at 0:54)
9 Pieter Weening 0:29 (was 15th at 0:55)
10 Robert Kiserlovski 0:34 (was 16th at 1:00)
11 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 0:52 (was 18th at 1:18)
12 Steven Kruijswijk 0:53 (was 19th at 1:19)
13 Michele Scarponi 0:57 (was 20th at 1:23)
.....
16 Thomas Danielson 0:58 (was 11th at 0:42)
.....
22 Rigoberto Uran Uran 1:27 (was 2nd at 0:17)
23 Bradley Wiggins 1:32 (was 6th at 0:34)
.....
26 Wilco Kelderman 1:55 (was 32nd at 2:21)
.....
28 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:57 (was 27th at 1:41)
.....
102 Christian Vande Velde 38:21 (was 136th at 33:00)
.....
127 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 46:50 (was 149th at 37:16)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 58 (unchanged)
2 Elia Viviani 52 (unchanged)
3 Enrico Battaglin 45 (was 8th with 25 points)
4 Cadel Evans 40 (was 6th with 30 points)
5 Adam Hansen 39 (was 0 points)
6 Luca Paolini 35 (was 3rd with 35 points)
7 Nacer Bouhanni 31 (was 4th with 31 points)
8 John Degenkolb 30 (was 5th with 30 points)
9 Ryder Hesjedal 30 (was 11th with 24 points)
10 Mauro Santambrogio 29 (was 19th with 15 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Giovanni Visconti 14 (unchanged)
2 Emanuele Sella 13 (was 0 points)
3 Stefano Pirazzi 12 (was 2nd with 11 points)
4 Adam Hansen 12 (was 0 points)
5 Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez 9 (was 3rd with 9 points)
6 Willem Wauters 9 (was 4th with 9 points)
7 Danilo Di Luca 5 (was 5th with 5 points)
8 Manuele Boaro 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
9 Cameron Wurf 3 (was 7th with 3 points)
10 Fabio Aru 3 (was 8th with 3 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Klaas Lodewyck (Bel) BMC Racing Team 7 <<<
Leigh Howard (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 7 <<<
Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 7 <<<
Ji Cheng (Chn) Team Argos-Shimano 6
Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5
Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ 4
Total retirements : 6


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