Tour de Romandie stage 2 summary

[Bob Martin]

Stage 2 - Echallens-Echallens 168.2 km

1 Ethan Hayter (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 4:04:55
2 Jon Aberasturi (Spa) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
3 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:00
4 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
5 Sean Quinn (USA) EF Education-EasyPost 0:00
6 Quinten Hermans (Bel) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
7 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team DSM 0:00
8 Ben O'Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
9 Felix Grosschartner (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+26 Ethan Hayter
+24 Lawrence Naesen
+22 Sebastien Grignard
+20 Viktor Verschaeve
+20 Jon Aberasturi
+19 Stefan De Bod
+19 Jan Maas
+19 Fernando Gaviria
+18 Brandon Smith Rivera
+17 Tsgabu Grmay

Biggest losers by position :
-33 Toms Skujins
-28 Raul Garcia Pierna
-27 Stephen Williams
-26 Gijs Leemreize
-26 Matteo Badilatti
-24 Antonio Tiberi
-22 Anthony Roux
-22 Marco Brenner
-21 Geraint Thomas
-20 Nils Brun
-14 Antwan Tolhoek

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Ethan Hayter
+0:06 Jon Aberasturi
+0:04 Fernando Gaviria
+0:02 Steff Cras
+0:02 Simon Geschke
+0:02 Sebastien Reichenbach
+0:02 Rudy Molard
+0:02 Ruben Fernandez
+0:02 Quentin Pacher
+0:02 Pau Miquel

Biggest losers by time :
-10:54 Diego Lopez
-10:54 Raul Garcia Pierna
-9:06 Anthony Roux
-9:06 Antoine Debons
-9:06 Baptiste Planckaert
-9:06 Dmitriy Gruzdev
-9:06 Gijs Leemreize
-9:06 Harry Sweeny
-9:06 Ion Izagirre
-9:06 Johan Price-Pejtersen
-9:06 Josef Cerny

Favourites by position :
+16 Patrick Konrad
+15 Maximilian Schachmann
+3 Thibaut Pinot
+3 Sergio Higuita
+2 Gino Mader
+2 Brandon Mcnulty
+1 Michael Woods
+1 Damiano Caruso
-5 Ion Izagirre
-21 Geraint Thomas

Favourites by time :
+0:02 Michael Woods
+0:02 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:02 Gino Mader
+0:02 Felix Grosschartner
+0:02 Damiano Caruso
+0:02 Brandon Mcnulty
-0:18 Geraint Thomas
-9:06 Ion Izagirre

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rohan Dennis 8:34:43 (unchanged)
2 Felix Grosschartner 0:14 (was 2nd at 0:16)
3 Mauro Schmid 0:18 (was 5th at 0:20)
4 Dylan Teuns 0:18 (unchanged)
5 Juan Ayuso 0:18 (was 6th at 0:20)
6 Mikkel Frolich Honore 0:18 (was 7th at 0:20)
7 Patrick Bevin 0:20 (was 8th at 0:22)
8 Brandon Mcnulty 0:21 (was 10th at 0:23)
9 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:23 (unchanged)
10 Marc Hirschi 0:24 (was 11th at 0:24)
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17 Damiano Caruso 0:26 (was 18th at 0:28)
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21 Gino Mader 0:31 (was 23rd at 0:33)
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24 Geraint Thomas 0:34 (was 3rd at 0:16)
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28 Jakob Fuglsang 0:36 (was 28th at 0:38)
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36 Michael Woods 0:46 (was 37th at 0:48)
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41 Sepp Kuss 0:51 (unchanged)
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58 Sergio Higuita 2:03 (was 61st at 2:03)
59 Thibaut Pinot 2:04 (was 62nd at 2:04)
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66 Maximilian Schachmann 4:48 (was 81st at 4:48)
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69 Patrick Konrad 5:09 (was 85th at 5:09)
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120 Ion Izagirre 20:10 (was 115th at 11:04)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Ethan Hayter 80 (was 3rd with 30 points)
2 Rohan Dennis 55 (was 1st with 55 points)
3 Dylan Teuns 50 (was 2nd with 50 points)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 36 (was 7th with 18 points)
5 Toms Skujins 30 (was 0 points)
6 Felix Grosschartner 30 (was 5th with 22 points)
7 Quinten Hermans 30 (was 10th with 16 points)
8 Jon Aberasturi 30 (was 0 points)
9 Ben O'Connor 24 (was 15th with 14 points)
10 Geraint Thomas 24 (was 4th with 24 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Thomas Champion 13 (unchanged)
2 Antoine Debons 10 (unchanged)
3 Valere Thiebaud 7 (unchanged)
4 Andrey Amador 5 (unchanged)
5 Nils Brun 5 (was 0 points)
6 Robert Gesink 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
7 Toms Skujins 3 (was 0 points)
8 Kenny Elissonde 2 (was 6th with 2 points)
9 Diego Lopez 2 (was 0 points)
10 Julius Johansen 2 (was 7th with 2 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 25:45:14 (was 1st at 13:30:33)
2 Movistar Team 0:15 (was 4th at 0:17)
3 Trek - Segafredo 0:15 (was 5th at 0:17)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 0:16 (was 2nd at 0:16)
5 Bahrain - Victorious 0:16 (was 3rd at 0:16)
6 Cofidis 0:18 (was 6th at 0:20)
7 Israel - Premier Tech 0:24 (was 7th at 0:26)
8 Jumbo-Visma 0:32 (was 8th at 0:28)
9 Groupama - FDJ 0:34 (was 9th at 0:36)
10 BORA - hansgrohe 1:15 (was 11th at 1:13)
11 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 1:15 (was 12th at 1:15)
12 EF Education-EasyPost 1:46 (was 13th at 1:44)
13 Switzerland 2:18 (was 14th at 2:16)
14 Astana Qazaqstan Team 2:54 (was 16th at 2:50)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 3:22 (was 17th at 3:20)
16 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 3:27 (was 18th at 3:23)
17 Team DSM 3:44 (was 10th at 0:51)
18 Equipo Kern Pharma 6:42 (was 15th at 2:43)
19 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 8:28 (was 19th at 8:24)
20 Lotto Soudal 13:04 (was 20th at 13:02)

Retirements to date : Stage
Kevin Colleoni (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 2 <<<
Matthew Holmes (Lotto Soudal) 2 <<<
Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost) 2 <<<
Lluis Mas (Movistar Team) 1
Michael Storer (Groupama - FDJ) 1
Total retirements : 5


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