Stage 3 - Saint-Paulien-Chastreix-Sancy 169 km

1 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 4:09:38
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
3 Victor Lafay (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
4 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Education-EasyPost 0:00
5 Kevin Geniets (Lux) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
6 Nick Schultz (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
7 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
8 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
9 Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Movistar Team 0:00
10 Brandon Mcnulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+93 Victor Lafay
+68 David Gaudu
+63 Kevin Geniets
+63 Jan Hirt
+62 Jonas Vingegaard
+59 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+59 Dylan Teuns
+54 Louis Meintjes
+51 Wilco Kelderman
+50 Samuele Battistella

Biggest losers by position :
-90 Anders Skaarseth
-90 Olivier Le Gac
-84 Edvald Boasson Hagen
-84 Jasper Stuyven
-83 Anthony Delaplace
-75 Sean Quinn
-74 Matis Louvel
-69 Jens Keukeleire
-68 Clement Venturini
-63 Benjamin Thomas
-60 Aurelien Paret-Peintre

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:09 David Gaudu
+0:05 Wout Van Aert
+0:03 Victor Lafay

Biggest losers by time :
-19:54 Matthew Walls
-19:09 Leon Heinschke
-18:26 Dries Van Gestel
-18:26 Miguel Heidemann
-18:26 Thomas Champion
-18:26 Valentin Ferron
-15:49 Fabien Grellier
-15:08 Aurelien Paret-Peintre
-15:08 Christophe Laporte
-15:08 Dylan Groenewegen
-15:08 Guy Sagiv

Favourites by position :
+68 David Gaudu
+62 Jonas Vingegaard
+59 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+51 Wilco Kelderman
+49 Damiano Caruso
+42 Enric Mas
+37 Matteo Fabbro
+34 Jack Haig
+24 Brandon Mcnulty
+23 Primoz Roglic
+22 Ben O'Connor
+19 Esteban Chaves
+17 Tiesj Benoot
+15 Patrick Konrad
+3 Wout Van Aert

Favourites by time :
+0:09 David Gaudu
+0:05 Wout Van Aert
-0:01 Wilco Kelderman
-0:01 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-0:01 Primoz Roglic
-0:01 Patrick Konrad
-0:01 Jonas Vingegaard
-0:01 Jack Haig
-0:01 Esteban Chaves
-0:01 Enric Mas
-0:01 Damiano Caruso
-0:01 Brandon Mcnulty
-0:01 Ben O'Connor
-1:02 Matteo Fabbro
-4:17 Tiesj Benoot

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Wout Van Aert 12:50:32 (was 4th at 0:05)
2 David Gaudu 0:06 (was 70th at 0:15)
3 Victor Lafay 0:12 (was 96th at 0:15)
4 Patrick Konrad 0:16 (was 19th at 0:15)
5 Matteo Jorgenson 0:16 (was 23rd at 0:15)
6 Ruben Guerreiro 0:16 (was 29th at 0:15)
7 Esteban Chaves 0:16 (was 26th at 0:15)
8 Primoz Roglic 0:16 (was 31st at 0:15)
9 Steff Cras 0:16 (was 30th at 0:15)
10 Ben O'Connor 0:16 (was 32nd at 0:15)
11 Brandon Mcnulty 0:16 (was 35th at 0:15)
.....
16 Jack Haig 0:16 (was 50th at 0:15)
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18 Damiano Caruso 0:16 (was 67th at 0:15)
19 Enric Mas 0:16 (was 61st at 0:15)
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23 Wilco Kelderman 0:16 (was 74th at 0:15)
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25 Tao Geoghegan Hart 0:16 (was 84th at 0:15)
26 Jonas Vingegaard 0:16 (was 88th at 0:15)
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53 Matteo Fabbro 1:17 (was 90th at 0:15)
.....
87 Tiesj Benoot 5:31 (was 104th at 1:14)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 61 (was 1st with 39 points)
2 Ethan Hayter 34 (unchanged)
3 Kevin Vermaerke 28 (unchanged)
4 Hugo Page 28 (unchanged)
5 Anders Skaarseth 26 (unchanged)
6 Olivier Le Gac 26 (unchanged)
7 David Gaudu 25 (was 0 points)
8 Alexis Vuillermoz 25 (was 7th with 25 points)
9 Victor Lafay 20 (was 0 points)
10 Clement Venturini 20 (was 9th with 20 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pierre Rolland 12 (was 1st with 11 points)
2 Alexis Vuillermoz 7 (unchanged)
3 David Gaudu 5 (was 0 points)
4 Xandres Vervloesem 4 (was 3rd with 4 points)
5 Maxime Bouet 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
6 Laurens Huys 4 (was 5th with 4 points)
7 Wout Van Aert 3 (was 0 points)
8 Anders Skaarseth 3 (was 6th with 3 points)
9 Olivier Le Gac 3 (was 7th with 3 points)
10 Sebastian Schonberger 2 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 38:32:24 (was 21th at 0:05)
2 Jumbo-Visma 0:00 (was 12th at 0:05)
3 UAE Team Emirates 0:25 (was 18th at 0:05)
4 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:25 (was 16th at 0:05)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 0:31 (was 11th at 0:05)
6 Groupama - FDJ 0:37 (was 3rd at 0:00)
7 Movistar Team 0:42 (was 17th at 0:05)
8 Trek - Segafredo 0:53 (was 14th at 0:05)
9 BORA - hansgrohe 1:01 (was 10th at 0:05)
10 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 1:07 (was 9th at 0:05)
11 Astana Qazaqstan Team 2:15 (was 15th at 0:05)
12 Cofidis 2:22 (was 13th at 0:05)
13 Team Arkea Samsic 2:39 (was 1st at 26:03:25)
14 Israel - Premier Tech 3:12 (was 19th at 0:05)
15 EF Education-EasyPost 3:30 (was 6th at 0:05)
16 Lotto Soudal 3:38 (was 7th at 0:05)
17 B&B Hotels - KTM 5:06 (was 20th at 0:05)
18 Team DSM 5:07 (was 4th at 0:00)
19 AG2R Citroen Team 5:42 (was 8th at 0:05)
20 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 7:09 (was 5th at 0:00)
21 TotalEnergies 11:20 (was 2nd at 0:00)
22 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 22:47 (was 22th at 20:44)

Retirements to date : Stage
Henri Vandenabeele (Team DSM) 2
Josef Cerny (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 2
Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Imanol Erviti (Movistar Team) 1
Niklas Eg (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 1
Niklas Markl (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 6

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