Stage 5 - Lille-Wallers-Arenberg 157 km

1 Simon Clarke (Aus) Israel - Premier Tech 3:13:35
2 Taco Van Der Hoorn (Ned) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) TotalEnergies 0:02
4 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Education-EasyPost 0:04
5 Magnus Cort (Den) EF Education-EasyPost 0:30
6 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek - Segafredo 0:51
7 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:51
8 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:04
9 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 1:04
10 Luca Mozzato (Ita) B&B Hotels - KTM 1:04

Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+62 Taco Van Der Hoorn
+58 Luca Mozzato
+57 Simon Clarke
+56 Mikkel Frolich Honore
+56 Lukasz Owsian
+55 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
+53 Kristian Sbaragli
+52 Alberto Dainese
+50 Luke Durbridge
+48 Cyril Lemoine

Biggest losers by position :
-100 Alexander Kristoff
-91 Michael Matthews
-69 Jonas Rutsch
-68 Tim Wellens
-65 Connor Swift
-61 Danny Van Poppel
-53 Stan Dewulf
-50 Peter Sagan
-49 Mathieu Van Der Poel
-46 Caleb Ewan
-45 Fabio Felline

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:14 Simon Clarke
+1:10 Taco Van Der Hoorn
+1:06 Edvald Boasson Hagen
+1:00 Neilson Powless
+0:34 Magnus Cort
+0:13 Tadej Pogacar
+0:13 Jasper Stuyven

Biggest losers by time :
-28:18 Gianni Moscon
-19:29 Alex Kirsch
-19:29 Anthony Turgis
-17:28 Carlos Verona
-17:28 Joe Dombrowski
-17:28 Jonathan Castroviejo
-17:28 Kevin Vermaerke
-17:28 Marc Hirschi
-17:28 Mikkel Bjerg
-13:36 Albert Torres
-13:36 Alexander Kristoff

Favourites by position :
+32 Ion Izagirre
+32 Damiano Caruso
+12 Enric Mas
+10 Jakob Fuglsang
+7 Nairo Quintana
+5 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+4 Maximilian Schachmann
+3 Aleksandr Vlasov
+2 Geraint Thomas
-1 Tadej Pogacar
-1 Jonas Vingegaard
-26 Ben O'Connor
-37 Primoz Roglic

Favourites by time :
+0:13 Tadej Pogacar
-1:55 Primoz Roglic
-1:55 Ion Izagirre
-3:08 Ben O'Connor

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Wout Van Aert 16:17:22 (unchanged)
2 Neilson Powless 0:13 (was 25th at 1:13)
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen 0:14 (was 32nd at 1:20)
4 Tadej Pogacar 0:19 (was 3rd at 0:32)
5 Yves Lampaert 0:25 (was 2nd at 0:25)
6 Mads Pedersen 0:36 (was 4th at 0:36)
7 Jonas Vingegaard 0:40 (was 6th at 0:40)
8 Adam Yates 0:48 (unchanged)
9 Thomas Pidcock 0:49 (was 10th at 0:49)
10 Geraint Thomas 0:50 (was 12th at 0:50)
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12 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:56 (was 15th at 0:56)
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14 Maximilian Schachmann 1:02 (was 18th at 1:02)
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17 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:09 (was 22nd at 1:09)
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19 Nairo Quintana 1:14 (was 26th at 1:14)
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21 Jakob Fuglsang 1:20 (was 31st at 1:20)
22 Enric Mas 1:21 (was 34th at 1:21)
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37 Damiano Caruso 1:59 (was 69th at 1:59)
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44 Primoz Roglic 2:36 (was 7th at 0:41)
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67 Ben O'Connor 4:34 (was 41st at 1:26)
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79 Ion Izagirre 5:24 (was 111st at 3:29)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 178 (was 1st with 170 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 126 (was 2nd with 109 points)
3 Magnus Cort 86 (was 7th with 59 points)
4 Peter Sagan 86 (was 3rd with 80 points)
5 Jasper Philipsen 76 (was 5th with 66 points)
6 Christophe Laporte 73 (was 4th with 66 points)
7 Simon Clarke 67 (was 0 points)
8 Dylan Groenewegen 60 (was 6th with 60 points)
9 Taco Van Der Hoorn 50 (was 0 points)
10 Caleb Ewan 45 (was 8th with 45 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Magnus Cort 11 (unchanged)
2 Wout Van Aert 1 (unchanged)
3 Quinn Simmons -1 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 48:54:18 (was 2nd at 0:29)
2 Jumbo-Visma 0:01 (was 1st at 39:09:52)
3 Trek - Segafredo 0:03 (was 3rd at 0:45)
4 EF Education-EasyPost 0:06 (was 11th at 2:09)
5 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:21 (was 4th at 0:50)
6 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:23 (was 9th at 1:56)
7 BORA - hansgrohe 0:36 (was 5th at 1:05)
8 Groupama - FDJ 1:14 (was 7th at 1:43)
9 Team DSM 1:23 (was 8th at 1:52)
10 Team Arkea Samsic 1:50 (was 13th at 2:19)
11 Israel - Premier Tech 2:02 (was 21th at 3:35)
12 Bahrain - Victorious 2:28 (was 19th at 2:57)
13 Alpecin-Deceuninck 3:56 (was 12th at 2:18)
14 Movistar Team 4:02 (was 14th at 2:36)
15 Cofidis 4:18 (was 22th at 4:47)
16 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 4:34 (was 20th at 3:08)
17 UAE Team Emirates 4:36 (was 6th at 1:28)
18 B&B Hotels - KTM 7:39 (was 16th at 2:37)
19 AG2R Citroen Team 7:50 (was 10th at 1:56)
20 Lotto Soudal 8:54 (was 15th at 2:37)
21 TotalEnergies 12:38 (was 17th at 2:41)
22 Astana Qazaqstan Team 23:16 (was 18th at 2:52)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 5 <<<
Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5 <<<
Total retirements : 2

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