Vuelta a Espana stage 2 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 2 : Caleruega - Burgos 166.7 km

1 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 3:58:57
2 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:00
4 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 0:00
5 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 0:00
6 Jon Aberasturi (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:00
7 Martin Laas (Est) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
8 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
9 Florian Vermeersch (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00
10 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+89 Rui Oliveira
+88 Riccardo Minali
+87 Wesley Kreder
+87 Mikael Cherel
+87 Jon Aberasturi
+87 Aritz Bagues
+84 Sep Vanmarcke
+84 Martin Laas
+83 Fabio Jakobsen
+79 Dimitri Claeys

Biggest losers by position :
-137 Tom Scully
-121 Xabier Mikel Azparren
-119 Maximilian Schachmann
-118 Harm Vanhoucke
-118 Lawson Craddock
-114 Oscar Rodriguez
-113 Nelson Oliveira
-105 Kevin Geniets
-102 Chris Hamilton
-102 Thomas Pidcock
-96 Tobias Ludvigsson

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Jasper Philipsen
+0:09 Fabio Jakobsen
+0:04 Michael Matthews
+0:02 Alex Aranburu
+0:01 Bert Van Lerberghe

Biggest losers by time :
-8:27 Alexander Cataford
-7:19 Patrick Gamper
-7:08 Diego Rubio
-6:19 Jordi Meeus
-5:49 Xabier Mikel Azparren
-4:16 Thomas Pidcock
-4:13 Nico Denz
-4:11 Angel Madrazo
-4:11 Kiel Reijnen
-3:10 Harm Vanhoucke
-2:40 Jhonatan Narvaez

Favourites by position :
+44 Mikel Landa
+15 Egan Bernal
+14 Alejandro Valverde
+13 Steven Kruijswijk
+12 Richard Carapaz
+8 Ion Izagirre
+5 Miguel Angel Lopez
+5 Damiano Caruso
+3 Enric Mas
+3 Aleksandr Vlasov
-14 Hugh Carthy
-40 Adam Yates
-56 Rafal Majka
-119 Maximilian Schachmann

Favourites by time :
-0:31 Adam Yates
-0:38 Hugh Carthy
-1:11 Rafal Majka
-2:35 Maximilian Schachmann

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 4:07:29 (unchanged)
2 Alex Aranburu 0:04 (was 2nd at 0:06)
3 Michael Matthews 0:10 (was 9th at 0:14)
4 Josef Cerny 0:10 (was 5th at 0:10)
5 Dylan Van Baarle 0:11 (was 6th at 0:11)
6 Andrea Bagioli 0:12 (was 7th at 0:12)
7 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:14 (was 10th at 0:14)
8 Jan Polanc 0:15 (was 11th at 0:15)
9 Sepp Kuss 0:15 (was 12th at 0:15)
10 Chad Haga 0:17 (was 13th at 0:17)
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12 Enric Mas 0:18 (was 15th at 0:18)
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16 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:21 (was 21st at 0:21)
17 Damiano Caruso 0:21 (was 22nd at 0:21)
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19 Ion Izagirre 0:23 (was 27th at 0:23)
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23 Richard Carapaz 0:25 (was 35th at 0:25)
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27 Steven Kruijswijk 0:26 (was 40th at 0:26)
28 Alejandro Valverde 0:27 (was 42nd at 0:27)
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31 Egan Bernal 0:27 (was 46th at 0:27)
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44 Mikel Landa 0:39 (was 88th at 0:39)
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56 Adam Yates 0:51 (was 16th at 0:20)
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76 Hugh Carthy 1:11 (was 62nd at 0:33)
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121 Rafal Majka 1:44 (was 65th at 0:33)
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144 Maximilian Schachmann 2:57 (was 25th at 0:22)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jasper Philipsen 50 (was 0 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 50 (was 0 points)
3 Alex Aranburu 50 (was 2nd with 17 points)
4 Michael Matthews 27 (was 9th with 7 points)
5 Primoz Roglic 20 (was 1st with 20 points)
6 Juan Sebastian Molano 18 (was 0 points)
7 Bert Van Lerberghe 15 (was 0 points)
8 Jan Tratnik 15 (was 3rd with 15 points)
9 Jon Aberasturi 14 (was 0 points)
10 Omar Fraile 13 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Sepp Kuss 3 (unchanged)
2 Sep Vanmarcke 2 (unchanged)
3 Rui Oliveira 1 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 12:23:04 (was 1st at 0:26:13)
2 Astana - Premier Tech 0:06 (unchanged)
3 Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:10 (unchanged)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 0:13 (was 5th at 0:13)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 0:16 (was 6th at 0:16)
6 Team DSM 0:20 (was 7th at 0:20)
7 UAE-Team Emirates 0:22 (was 8th at 0:22)
8 Movistar Team 0:26 (was 9th at 0:26)
9 BORA - hansgrohe 0:41 (was 10th at 0:41)
10 Team BikeExchange 0:45 (was 12th at 0:45)
11 AG2R Citroen Team 0:46 (was 13th at 0:46)
12 Groupama - FDJ 0:46 (was 14th at 0:46)
13 Team Qhubeka NextHash 1:05 (was 16th at 1:05)
14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1:07 (was 18th at 1:07)
15 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:23 (was 19th at 1:23)
16 Lotto Soudal 1:30 (was 11th at 0:42)
17 Israel Start-Up Nation 1:44 (was 17th at 1:06)
18 EF Education - Nippo 2:05 (was 4th at 0:11)
19 Alpecin-Fenix 2:06 (was 23th at 2:06)
20 Trek - Segafredo 2:15 (was 15th at 0:59)
21 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:15 (was 20th at 1:37)
22 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 2:22 (was 21th at 1:44)
23 Burgos-BH 3:52 (was 22th at 1:58)

Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0


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