Stage 3 - Aesch-Grenchen 176.9 km

1 Peter Sagan (Svk) TotalEnergies 4:28:38
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
3 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
4 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
5 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00
6 Matteo Trentin (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:00
7 Cees Bol (Ned) Team DSM 0:00
8 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
9 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
10 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education-EasyPost 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+20 Peter Sagan
+16 Markus Hoelgaard
+16 Dmitriy Gruzdev
+16 Alexander Kristoff
+15 Lewis Askey
+15 Kristian Aasvold
+14 Gianluca Brambilla
+14 Brent Van Moer
+13 Johan Jacobs
+13 Hugh Carthy

Biggest losers by position :
-46 Alexey Lutsenko
-39 Gianni Moscon
-38 Ilan Van Wilder
-37 Kasper Asgreen
-34 Sylvain Moniquet
-27 Manuele Boaro
-24 Diego Ulissi
-24 Sebastian Berwick
-22 Matthew Holmes
-22 Paul Ourselin
-18 Domenico Pozzovivo

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Peter Sagan
+0:06 Bryan Coquard
+0:04 Alexander Kristoff
+0:03 Geraint Thomas

Biggest losers by time :
-26:14 Claudio Imhof
-15:13 Kyle Murphy
-10:05 Jay Vine
-10:05 Manuele Boaro
-10:05 Sebastian Berwick
-10:02 Mathias Reutimann
-6:32 Albert Torres
-6:32 Antonio Nibali
-6:32 Baptiste Planckaert
-6:32 Gonzalo Serrano
-6:32 James Knox

Favourites by position :
+13 Hugh Carthy
+12 Geraint Thomas
+9 Rigoberto Uran
+7 Gino Mader
+7 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+6 Ion Izagirre
+4 Remco Evenepoel
+3 Jakob Fuglsang
+3 Adam Yates
+2 Sergio Higuita
+2 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1 Fausto Masnada
-11 Thibaut Pinot
-15 Maximilian Schachmann
-46 Alexey Lutsenko

Favourites by time :
+0:03 Geraint Thomas
-0:51 Maximilian Schachmann
-0:53 Fausto Masnada
-2:19 Ion Izagirre
-2:57 Thibaut Pinot
-4:33 Alexey Lutsenko

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Stephen Williams 13:32:19 (unchanged)
2 Andreas Kron 0:06 (was 3rd at 0:06)
3 Andreas Leknessund 0:07 (was 4th at 0:07)
4 Geraint Thomas 0:07 (was 16th at 0:10)
5 Stefan Kung 0:10 (unchanged)
6 Sepp Kuss 0:10 (was 7th at 0:10)
7 Marc Hirschi 0:10 (was 8th at 0:10)
8 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:10 (was 10th at 0:10)
9 Jakob Fuglsang 0:10 (was 12th at 0:10)
10 Adam Yates 0:10 (was 13th at 0:10)
11 Remco Evenepoel 0:10 (was 15th at 0:10)
12 Sergio Higuita 0:10 (was 14th at 0:10)
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17 Maximilian Schachmann 0:55 (was 2nd at 0:04)
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24 Gino Mader 1:01 (was 31st at 1:01)
25 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:01 (was 32nd at 1:01)
26 Rigoberto Uran 1:01 (was 35th at 1:01)
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39 Hugh Carthy 2:02 (was 52nd at 2:02)
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43 Fausto Masnada 2:22 (was 42nd at 1:29)
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47 Thibaut Pinot 3:58 (was 36th at 1:01)
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52 Alexey Lutsenko 4:43 (was 6th at 0:10)
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136 Ion Izagirre 27:52 (was 142nd at 25:33)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Andreas Leknessund 20 (unchanged)
2 Quinn Simmons 14 (was 3rd with 12 points)
3 Stephen Williams 12 (was 2nd with 12 points)
4 Peter Sagan 12 (was 0 points)
5 Maximilian Schachmann 10 (was 4th with 8 points)
6 Alberto Bettiol 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Bryan Coquard 8 (was 0 points)
8 Andreas Kron 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
9 Michael Matthews 6 (was 6th with 6 points)
10 Alexander Kristoff 6 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Quinn Simmons 34 (was 1st with 13 points)
2 Philippe Gilbert 12 (was 0 points)
3 Andreas Leknessund 10 (was 2nd with 10 points)
4 Simon Vitzthum 10 (was 3rd with 10 points)
5 Jonas Rutsch 8 (was 4th with 8 points)
6 Mathias Reutimann 8 (was 0 points)
7 Manuele Boaro 8 (was 0 points)
8 Joel Suter 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
9 Matthew Holmes 6 (was 6th with 6 points)
10 Joey Rosskopf 6 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 BORA - hansgrohe 40:37:27 (was 1st at 27:11:33)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:51 (was 3rd at 0:51)
3 Groupama - FDJ 1:15 (was 4th at 1:15)
4 Jumbo-Visma 1:42 (was 5th at 1:42)
5 Bahrain - Victorious 2:21 (was 6th at 1:42)
6 AG2R Citroen Team 2:34 (was 8th at 2:34)
7 EF Education-EasyPost 3:07 (was 10th at 3:07)
8 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 3:31 (was 9th at 2:38)
9 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 3:42 (was 2nd at 0:24)
10 Team DSM 3:57 (was 11th at 3:57)
11 Movistar Team 4:02 (was 12th at 4:02)
12 Lotto Soudal 4:38 (was 7th at 1:42)
13 UAE Team Emirates 6:43 (was 13th at 6:08)
14 Alpecin-Fenix 6:48 (was 14th at 6:17)
15 Israel - Premier Tech 7:41 (unchanged)
16 TotalEnergies 8:49 (unchanged)
17 Cofidis 9:29 (was 17th at 8:58)
18 Switzerland 14:36 (was 19th at 13:57)
19 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 15:23 (was 20th at 15:23)
20 Trek - Segafredo 19:24 (was 21th at 18:06)
21 Astana Qazaqstan Team 22:19 (was 18th at 13:13)
22 Human Powered Health 33:15 (was 22th at 31:32)

Retirements to date : Stage
Davide Villella (Cofidis) 3 <<<
Kamil Malecki (Lotto Soudal) 3 <<<
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Leonardo Basso (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 2
Ben King (Human Powered Health) 1
Total retirements : 5

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