Vuelta a Espana stage 2 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 2 - 's-Hertogenbosch-Utrecht 175.1 km

1 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA - hansgrohe 3:49:34
2 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
3 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck 0:00
4 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
5 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) UAE Team Emirates 0:00
6 Daniel Mclay (GBr) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
7 Itamar Einhorn (Isr) Israel - Premier Tech 0:00
8 Jake Stewart (GBr) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
9 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team DSM 0:00
10 Kaden Groves (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+24 Mads Pedersen
+16 Sam Bennett
+16 Jetse Bol
+16 Bryan Coquard
+15 Harry Sweeny
+15 Davide Villella
+15 Cedric Beullens
+14 Jesus Herrada
+13 Victor Langellotti
+13 Remy Rochas

Biggest losers by position :
-108 Pieter Serry
-107 Chris Harper
-82 Remi Cavagna
-81 Rohan Dennis
-68 Alessandro De Marchi
-63 Jimmy Janssens
-59 Lawson Craddock
-58 Jay Vine
-53 Xandro Meurisse
-51 Hector Carretero
-44 Thibault Guernalec

Biggest gainers by time :
+24:40 Sepp Kuss
+24:40 Sam Oomen
+24:40 Primoz Roglic
+24:40 Mike Teunissen
+24:40 Edoardo Affini
+23:42 Rohan Dennis
+23:17 Chris Harper
+0:12 Sam Bennett
+0:09 Mads Pedersen
+0:04 Tim Merlier

Biggest losers by time :
-11:12 Floris De Tier
-11:12 Kamil Malecki
-3:32 Xabier Mikel Azparren
-2:22 Alessandro De Marchi
-1:57 Henri Vandenabeele
-1:57 Lawson Craddock
-1:57 Mathias Norsgaard
-1:36 Jimmy Janssens
-1:27 Thibault Guernalec
-1:26 Pieter Serry
-1:20 Mikel Bizkarra

Favourites by position :
+13 Gino Mader
+12 Hugh Carthy
+6 Vincenzo Nibali
+6 Mikel Landa
+5 Jai Hindley
+5 Enric Mas
+4 Simon Yates
+4 Ben O'Connor
+4 Alexey Lutsenko
+3 Richard Carapaz
+2 Sergio Higuita
+1 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-2 Primoz Roglic

Favourites by time :
+24:40 Primoz Roglic

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mike Teunissen 4:14:14 (was 8th at 24:40)
2 Edoardo Affini 0:00 (was 6th at 24:40)
3 Sam Oomen 0:00 (was 7th at 24:40)
4 Primoz Roglic 0:00 (was 2nd at 24:40)
5 Sepp Kuss 0:00 (was 4th at 24:40)
6 Robert Gesink 0:00 (was 1st at 0:00)
7 Richard Carapaz 0:13 (was 10th at 0:13)
8 Ethan Hayter 0:13 (was 9th at 0:13)
9 Pavel Sivakov 0:13 (was 11th at 0:13)
10 Carlos Rodriguez 0:13 (was 14th at 0:13)
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12 Tao Geoghegan Hart 0:13 (was 13th at 0:13)
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19 Simon Yates 0:31 (was 23rd at 0:31)
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30 Joao Almeida 0:33 (unchanged)
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40 Jai Hindley 0:41 (was 45th at 0:41)
41 Wilco Kelderman 0:41 (unchanged)
42 Sergio Higuita 0:41 (was 44th at 0:41)
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45 Gino Mader 0:42 (was 58th at 0:42)
46 Mikel Landa 0:42 (was 52nd at 0:42)
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57 Enric Mas 0:43 (was 62nd at 0:43)
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63 Vincenzo Nibali 0:46 (was 69th at 0:46)
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66 Alexey Lutsenko 0:46 (was 70th at 0:46)
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78 Ben O'Connor 0:55 (was 82nd at 0:55)
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104 Hugh Carthy 1:19 (was 116th at 1:19)

Top 10 on Points table
1 Sam Bennett 67
2 Mads Pedersen 50
3 Tim Merlier 20
4 Mike Teunissen 18
5 Pascal Ackermann 16
6 Daan Hoole 15
7 Daniel Mclay 14
8 Ethan Hayter 13
9 Itamar Einhorn 12
10 Jake Stewart 10

Retirements to date : Stage
Steff Cras (Lotto Soudal) 2 <<<
Total retirements : 1


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