Stage 3 - Lucena-Otura

1 Magnus Sheffield (USA) INEOS Grenadiers 3:54:37
2 Simon Clarke (Aus) Israel - Premier Tech 0:03
3 Stan Dewulf (Bel) AG2R Citroen Team 0:03
4 Ben Turner (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:03
5 Mauri Vansevenant (Bel) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:03
6 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain - Victorious 0:03
7 Alessandro Covi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:03
8 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:03
9 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Qazaqstan Team 0:03
10 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:03

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+21 Eddie Dunbar
+15 Vincenzo Albanese
+15 Simone Velasco
+14 Francesco Gavazzi
+13 Theo Delacroix
+13 Sep Vanmarcke
+13 Robbe Ghys
+13 Lluis Mas
+13 Lawrence Naesen
+13 Kamiel Bonneu

Biggest losers by position :
-44 Ander Okamika
-24 Rune Herregodts
-17 Nick Schultz
-16 Xabier Isasa
-14 Julen Amezqueta
-11 Jon Barrenetxea
-10 Andres Camilo Ardila
-10 Gonzalo Serrano
-9 Damiano Caruso
-9 Lennard Kamna
-8 Mikel Landa

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:03 Magnus Sheffield

Biggest losers by time :
-12:20 Nick Schultz
-7:09 Alvaro Cuadros
-7:09 Ayco Bastiaens
-7:09 Cameron Wurf
-7:09 David Gonzalez
-7:09 Diego Lopez
-7:09 Diego Pablo Sevilla
-7:09 Equipo Kern Pharma eEPA Vojtech
-7:09 Gijs Van Hoecke
-7:09 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
-7:09 Jon Barrenetxea

Favourites by position :
+12 Alexey Lutsenko
+10 Matteo Fabbro
+3 Simon Yates
+3 Emanuel Buchmann
+2 Wout Poels
+1 Miguel Angel Lopez
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-2 Jack Haig
-8 Mikel Landa
-9 Lennard Kamna
-9 Damiano Caruso

Favourites by time :
-2:48 Mikel Landa
-2:48 Damiano Caruso
-3:03 Lennard Kamna
-3:40 Matteo Fabbro

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alessandro Covi 13:09:41 (unchanged)
2 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:08 (was 3rd at 0:08)
3 Simon Clarke 0:10 (was 6th at 0:10)
4 Dries Devenyns 0:10 (was 5th at 0:10)
5 Steff Cras 0:10 (was 7th at 0:10)
6 Jack Haig 0:10 (was 4th at 0:10)
7 Cristian Rodriguez 0:10 (was 8th at 0:10)
8 Ivan Ramiro Sosa 0:10 (was 9th at 0:10)
9 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:10 (was 10th at 0:10)
10 Carlos Rodriguez 0:10 (was 11th at 0:10)
11 Wout Poels 0:16 (was 13th at 0:16)
12 Simon Yates 0:19 (was 15th at 0:19)
13 Emanuel Buchmann 0:19 (was 16th at 0:19)
.....
20 Alexey Lutsenko 0:40 (was 32nd at 0:40)
.....
57 Damiano Caruso 4:20 (was 48th at 1:32)
58 Mikel Landa 4:20 (was 50th at 1:32)
.....
69 Lennard Kamna 5:46 (was 60th at 2:43)
.....
105 Matteo Fabbro 18:52 (was 115th at 15:12)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Alessandro Covi 43 (was 1st with 34 points)
2 Simon Clarke 31 (was 13th with 11 points)
3 Miguel Angel Lopez 27 (was 3rd with 20 points)
4 Magnus Sheffield 25 (was 0 points)
5 Rune Herregodts 25 (was 2nd with 25 points)
6 Dries Devenyns 17 (was 12th with 11 points)
7 Ivan Ramiro Sosa 16 (was 6th with 16 points)
8 Stan Dewulf 16 (was 0 points)
9 Ander Okamika 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
10 Wout Poels 15 (was 20th with 5 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Jon Barrenetxea 30 (was 1st with 15 points)
2 Xabier Isasa 21 (was 4th with 11 points)
3 Alvaro Cuadros 12 (was 2nd with 12 points)
4 Ander Okamika 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
5 Gotzon Martin 10 (unchanged)
6 Ibai Azurmendi 4 (was 0 points)
7 Rune Herregodts 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
8 Eddie Dunbar 3 (was 7th with 3 points)
9 Alexander Cataford 2 (unchanged)
10 Raul Garcia Pierna 2 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alessandro Fedeli (Gazprom - RusVelo) 3 <<<
Ben King (Human Powered Health) 3 <<<
Chad Haga (Human Powered Health) 3 <<<
Gavin Mannion (Human Powered Health) 3 <<<
Gleb Brussenskiy (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 3 <<<
Jose Manuel Diaz (Gazprom - RusVelo) 3 <<<
Juraj Sagan (TotalEnergies) 3 <<<
Kobe Goossens (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 3 <<<
Matteo Sobrero (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 3 <<<
Nikolay Cherkasov (Gazprom - RusVelo) 3 <<<
Sergei Chernetski (Gazprom - RusVelo) 3 <<<
Stephen Bassett (Human Powered Health) 3 <<<
Felipe Orts (Burgos-BH) 2
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech) 2
Artem Nych (Gazprom - RusVelo) 1
Guy Niv (Israel - Premier Tech) 1
Mikel Bizkarra (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 1
Nathan Brown (Human Powered Health) 1
O'CONNOR Ben Oliver Naesen (AG2R Citroen Team) 1
Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos-BH) 1
Vojtech eepa (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Total retirements : 21

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