Volta a Catalunya stage 3 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 3 - Perpignan-La Molina 161.1 km

1 Ben O'Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroen Team 4:12:51
2 Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 0:06
3 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea Samsic 0:06
4 Sergio Higuita (Col) BORA - hansgrohe 0:06
5 Joao Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:06
6 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain - Victorious 0:06
7 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 0:06
8 Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:06
9 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:06
10 Damien Howson (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:09


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+45 Bruno Armirail
+43 Oscar Cabedo
+42 Santiago Buitrago
+42 Matteo Badilatti
+40 Jose Felix Parra
+37 Hugo Toumire
+36 Mikel Bizkarra
+36 Louis Meintjes
+36 Jesus Herrada
+36 Javier Romo

Biggest losers by position :
-114 Hugo Hofstetter
-110 Juan Sebastian Molano
-82 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg
-73 Alexandr Riabushenko
-58 Pavel Sivakov
-53 Daryl Impey
-44 Francisco Galvan
-38 Manuel Penalver
-35 Romain Combaud
-34 Anthony Delaplace
-34 Lukasz Owsian

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:11 Ben O'Connor
+0:01 Juan Ayuso

Biggest losers by time :
-27:23 Michael Hepburn
-27:19 Alexandre Delettre
-27:19 David Dekker
-27:19 Hugo Hofstetter
-27:16 Martin Laas
-27:10 Ivo Oliveira
-27:09 Marc Brustenga
-27:09 Michal Schlegel
-27:03 Alexandr Riabushenko
-27:03 Cesare Benedetti
-27:03 Ethan Vernon

Favourites by position :
+26 Joao Almeida
+20 Jai Hindley
+11 Wout Poels
+11 Guillaume Martin
+10 Michael Woods
+10 Hugh Carthy
+9 Nairo Quintana
+7 Richard Carapaz
+7 Alejandro Valverde
+2 Simon Yates
+1 Steven Kruijswijk
-3 Rohan Dennis

Favourites by time :
-0:01 Nairo Quintana
-0:05 Wout Poels
-0:05 Joao Almeida
-0:05 Guillaume Martin
-0:08 Steven Kruijswijk
-0:08 Richard Carapaz
-0:08 Jai Hindley
-0:08 Alejandro Valverde
-0:28 Hugh Carthy
-0:38 Michael Woods
-10:36 Simon Yates
-12:13 Rohan Dennis

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Ben O'Connor 12:44:20 (was 24th at 0:11)
2 Juan Ayuso 0:10 (was 13th at 0:11)
3 Nairo Quintana 0:12 (was 12th at 0:11)
4 Sergio Higuita 0:16 (was 8th at 0:11)
5 Giulio Ciccone 0:16 (was 6th at 0:11)
6 Tobias Halland Johannessen 0:16 (was 7th at 0:11)
7 Wout Poels 0:16 (was 18th at 0:11)
8 Guillaume Martin 0:16 (was 19th at 0:11)
9 Joao Almeida 0:16 (was 35th at 0:11)
10 Steven Kruijswijk 0:19 (was 11th at 0:11)
.....
13 Richard Carapaz 0:19 (was 20th at 0:11)
.....
16 Alejandro Valverde 0:19 (was 23rd at 0:11)
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23 Jai Hindley 0:52 (was 43rd at 0:44)
.....
34 Hugh Carthy 1:12 (was 44th at 0:44)
.....
36 Michael Woods 1:22 (was 46th at 0:44)
.....
67 Simon Yates 11:20 (was 69th at 0:44)
.....
87 Rohan Dennis 15:43 (was 84th at 3:30)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg 11 (unchanged)
2 Ben O'Connor 10 (was 0 points)
3 Kaden Groves 10 (unchanged)
4 Juan Ayuso 6 (was 0 points)
5 Phil Bauhaus 6 (unchanged)
6 Ander Okamika 4 (was 0 points)
7 Joan Bou 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
8 Nairo Quintana 4 (was 0 points)
9 Quentin Pacher 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Pieter Serry 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Ander Okamika 20 (was 0 points)
2 Mikel Bizkarra 16 (was 0 points)
3 Casper Pedersen 12 (was 0 points)
4 Joan Bou 11 (was 2nd with 7 points)
5 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg 10 (was 1st with 10 points)
6 Simone Petilli 8 (was 0 points)
7 Adria Moreno 4 (was 3rd with 4 points)
8 Rohan Dennis 3 (was 4th with 3 points)
9 Alex Molenaar 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
10 Steven Kruijswijk 2 (was 7th with 2 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 38:13:51 (was 3rd at 0:00)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 0:03 (was 1st at 25:34:57)
3 Trek - Segafredo 0:26 (was 5th at 0:00)
4 Movistar Team 0:39 (was 12th at 0:33)
5 Groupama - FDJ 1:59 (was 13th at 1:06)
6 EF Education-EasyPost 2:26 (was 16th at 1:06)
7 INEOS Grenadiers 3:31 (was 8th at 0:33)
8 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 3:50 (was 7th at 0:00)
9 Cofidis 4:23 (was 10th at 0:33)
10 BORA - hansgrohe 4:56 (was 15th at 1:06)
11 Lotto Soudal 5:41 (was 20th at 1:39)
12 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 6:35 (was 17th at 1:06)
13 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 7:55 (was 4th at 0:00)
14 Astana Qazaqstan Team 8:04 (was 19th at 1:39)
15 Equipo Kern Pharma 9:57 (was 22th at 4:10)
16 Jumbo-Visma 12:11 (was 6th at 0:00)
17 Team Arkea Samsic 12:19 (was 2nd at 0:00)
18 AG2R Citroen Team 15:23 (was 11th at 0:33)
19 Team DSM 15:47 (was 9th at 0:33)
20 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 16:01 (was 21th at 2:34)
21 Israel - Premier Tech 17:34 (was 14th at 1:06)
22 Euskaltel - Euskadi 19:59 (was 23th at 10:32)
23 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 20:51 (was 18th at 1:14)
24 Burgos-BH 28:09 (was 24th at 15:34)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alvaro Cuadros (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 3 <<<
Fausto Masnada (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 3 <<<
Marius Mayrhofer (Team DSM) 3 <<<
Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 3 <<<
Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) 3 <<<
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 3 <<<
Tom Devriendt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 3 <<<
Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) 3 <<<
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Nans Peters (AG2R Citroen Team) 2
Richie Porte (INEOS Grenadiers) 2
Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Alessandro De Marchi (Israel - Premier Tech) 1
Total retirements : 13


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