Vuelta a Espana stage 5 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 5 : Tarancon - Albacete 184.4 km

1 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 4:24:41
2 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
3 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team DSM 0:00
4 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 0:00
5 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00
6 Jon Aberasturi (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:00
7 Jordi Meeus (Bel) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
8 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
9 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Team Qhubeka NextHash 0:00
10 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+23 Jens Keukeleire
+23 Diego Andres Camargo
+22 Robert Stannard
+21 Robert Gesink
+21 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg
+21 Nathan Van Hooydonck
+21 Michael Matthews
+21 Dylan Van Baarle
+20 Nelson Oliveira
+20 Luka Mezgec

Biggest losers by position :
-79 Romain Bardet
-74 Mikel Nieve
-71 Ben Zwiehoff
-65 Chris Hamilton
-61 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
-47 Carlos Canal
-45 Kevin Geniets
-45 Sep Vanmarcke
-41 Kevin Van Melsen
-38 Dimitri Claeys
-37 Martijn Tusveld

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:35 Jasper Philipsen
+0:31 Fabio Jakobsen
+0:29 Alberto Dainese
+0:27 Pelayo Sanchez
+0:25 Yuriy Natarov
+0:25 Wout Poels
+0:25 Tobias Bayer
+0:25 Steff Cras
+0:25 Simon Carr
+0:25 Sepp Kuss

Biggest losers by time :
-12:07 Ben Zwiehoff
-12:07 Chris Hamilton
-12:07 Mikel Nieve
-12:07 Romain Bardet
-10:47 Sep Vanmarcke
-10:46 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
-8:42 Kevin Geniets
-8:05 Alex Aranburu
-8:05 Bert-Jan Lindeman
-8:05 Carlos Canal
-8:05 Davide Cimolai

Favourites by position :
+17 Maximilian Schachmann
+8 Rafal Majka
+4 Richard Carapaz
+4 Hugh Carthy
+2 Damiano Caruso
+2 Adam Yates
+1 Primoz Roglic
+1 Mikel Landa
+1 Miguel Angel Lopez
+1 Enric Mas
+1 Egan Bernal
+1 Aleksandr Vlasov
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-25 Steven Kruijswijk
-31 Ion Izagirre

Favourites by time :
+0:25 Richard Carapaz
+0:25 Rafal Majka
+0:25 Primoz Roglic
+0:25 Mikel Landa
+0:25 Miguel Angel Lopez
+0:25 Maximilian Schachmann
+0:25 Hugh Carthy
+0:25 Enric Mas
+0:25 Egan Bernal
+0:25 Damiano Caruso
+0:25 Aleksandr Vlasov
+0:25 Alejandro Valverde
+0:25 Adam Yates
-4:08 Steven Kruijswijk
-8:05 Ion Izagirre

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Kenny Elissonde 17:33:57 (was 2nd at 0:25)
2 Primoz Roglic 0:05 (was 3rd at 0:30)
3 Lilian Calmejane 0:10 (was 4th at 0:35)
4 Enric Mas 0:20 (was 5th at 0:45)
5 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:26 (was 6th at 0:51)
6 Alejandro Valverde 0:32 (was 7th at 0:57)
7 Giulio Ciccone 0:32 (was 8th at 0:57)
8 Egan Bernal 0:32 (was 9th at 0:57)
9 Mikel Landa 0:44 (was 10th at 1:09)
10 Gino Mader 0:45 (was 11th at 1:10)
11 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:48 (was 12th at 1:13)
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13 Damiano Caruso 0:55 (was 15th at 1:20)
14 Adam Yates 0:56 (was 16th at 1:21)
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19 Hugh Carthy 1:37 (was 23rd at 2:02)
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22 Richard Carapaz 1:50 (was 26th at 2:15)
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46 Rafal Majka 3:32 (was 54th at 3:57)
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64 Steven Kruijswijk 6:59 (was 39th at 2:51)
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79 Maximilian Schachmann 11:02 (was 96th at 11:27)
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97 Ion Izagirre 13:36 (was 66th at 5:31)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jasper Philipsen 131 (was 2nd with 68 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 130 (was 1st with 100 points)
3 Arnaud Demare 50 (was 6th with 33 points)
4 Alex Aranburu 50 (was 3rd with 50 points)
5 Michael Matthews 43 (was 4th with 43 points)
6 Alberto Dainese 43 (was 9th with 23 points)
7 Piet Allegaert 37 (was 10th with 21 points)
8 Juan Sebastian Molano 36 (was 15th with 18 points)
9 Rein Taaramae 33 (was 5th with 33 points)
10 Jon Aberasturi 32 (was 14th with 18 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Rein Taaramae 10 (unchanged)
2 Kenny Elissonde 7 (unchanged)
3 Joe Dombrowski 6 (unchanged)
4 Tobias Bayer 5 (unchanged)
5 Sepp Kuss 3 (unchanged)
6 Lilian Calmejane 3 (unchanged)
7 Antonio Jesus Soto 3 (unchanged)
8 Sep Vanmarcke 2 (unchanged)
9 Enric Mas 1 (unchanged)
10 Rui Oliveira 1 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE-Team Emirates 52:42:44 (was 1st at 39:28:41)
2 Movistar Team 0:22 (unchanged)
3 Bahrain - Victorious 0:50 (unchanged)
4 Trek - Segafredo 1:14 (unchanged)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 1:15 (unchanged)
6 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:26 (unchanged)
7 AG2R Citroen Team 2:33 (unchanged)
8 EF Education - Nippo 3:35 (was 9th at 3:35)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 3:49 (was 10th at 3:49)
10 Euskaltel - Euskadi 4:01 (was 11th at 4:01)
11 Astana - Premier Tech 5:23 (was 12th at 5:23)
12 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 5:38 (was 13th at 5:38)
13 Deceuninck - Quick Step 6:36 (was 14th at 6:36)
14 Team BikeExchange 6:45 (was 15th at 6:45)
15 Burgos-BH 7:54 (was 17th at 7:54)
16 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9:08 (was 16th at 7:28)
17 Team DSM 9:52 (was 8th at 2:52)
18 Lotto Soudal 11:09 (was 18th at 8:48)
19 BORA - hansgrohe 11:47 (unchanged)
20 Groupama - FDJ 14:54 (unchanged)
21 Team Qhubeka NextHash 17:12 (unchanged)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 21:52 (was 22th at 21:16)
23 Alpecin-Fenix 28:32 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexander Cataford (Israel Start-Up Nation) 3
Frederik Frison (Lotto Soudal) 3
Total retirements : 2


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