Stage 5 - Irun-Bilbao 187.2 km

1 Marc Soler (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 4:15:23
2 Daryl Impey (RSA) Israel - Premier Tech 0:04
3 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain - Victorious 0:04
4 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:04
5 Lawson Craddock (USA) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:04
6 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team DSM 0:04
7 Victor Langellotti (Mco) Burgos-BH 0:04
8 Vadim Pronskiy (Kaz) Astana Qazaqstan Team 0:04
9 Gregor Muhlberger (Aut) Movistar Team 0:04
10 Roger Adria (Spa) Equipo Kern Pharma 0:04

Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+65 Lawson Craddock
+59 Victor Langellotti
+53 Nikias Arndt
+46 Daryl Impey
+45 Jose Herrada
+42 Gregor Muhlberger
+42 Fausto Masnada
+41 Ander Okamika
+40 Marc Soler
+37 Carlos Canal

Biggest losers by position :
-73 Mads Pedersen
-65 Ethan Hayter
-52 Julian Alaphilippe
-39 Simon Guglielmi
-33 Samuele Battistella
-27 Luke Durbridge
-25 Francisco Galvan
-24 Edoardo Affini
-24 Michael Hepburn
-22 Jetse Bol
-21 Bruno Armirail

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:13 Marc Soler
+1:02 Daryl Impey
+1:00 Fred Wright
+0:58 Rudy Molard
+0:57 Victor Langellotti
+0:56 Vadim Pronskiy
+0:56 Roger Adria
+0:56 Nikias Arndt
+0:56 Lawson Craddock
+0:56 Gregor Muhlberger

Biggest losers by time :
-15:47 Antoine Raugel
-15:47 Boy Van Poppel
-15:47 Bryan Coquard
-15:47 Clement Russo
-15:47 Daniel Mclay
-15:47 Danny Van Poppel
-15:47 Davide Cimolai
-15:47 Edoardo Affini
-15:47 Floris De Tier
-15:47 Francisco Galvan
-15:47 Gerben Thijssen

Favourites by position :
-1 Sergio Higuita
-1 Mikel Landa
-1 Gino Mader
-2 Wilco Kelderman
-2 Simon Yates
-2 Jai Hindley
-2 Enric Mas
-3 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-3 Richard Carapaz
-3 Joao Almeida
-4 Primoz Roglic
-10 Alexey Lutsenko

Favourites by time :
-4:09 Wilco Kelderman
-4:09 Vincenzo Nibali
-4:09 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-4:09 Simon Yates
-4:09 Sergio Higuita
-4:09 Richard Carapaz
-4:09 Primoz Roglic
-4:09 Mikel Landa
-4:09 Joao Almeida
-4:09 Jai Hindley
-4:09 Hugh Carthy
-4:09 Gino Mader
-4:09 Enric Mas
-4:09 Ben O'Connor
-12:24 Alexey Lutsenko

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rudy Molard 16:07:22 (was 20th at 0:58)
2 Fred Wright 0:02 (was 28th at 1:02)
3 Nikias Arndt 1:09 (was 56th at 2:05)
4 Lawson Craddock 2:27 (was 69th at 3:23)
5 Primoz Roglic 4:09 (was 1st at 0:00)
6 Sepp Kuss 4:22 (was 2nd at 0:13)
7 Pavel Sivakov 4:35 (was 4th at 0:26)
8 Tao Geoghegan Hart 4:35 (was 5th at 0:26)
9 Remco Evenepoel 4:36 (was 6th at 0:27)
10 Richard Carapaz 4:42 (was 7th at 0:33)
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12 Simon Yates 5:00 (was 10th at 0:51)
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15 Enric Mas 5:01 (was 13th at 0:52)
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17 Joao Almeida 5:02 (was 14th at 0:53)
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20 Jai Hindley 5:03 (was 18th at 0:54)
21 Wilco Kelderman 5:03 (was 19th at 0:54)
22 Sergio Higuita 5:10 (was 21st at 1:01)
23 Gino Mader 5:11 (was 22nd at 1:02)
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25 Mikel Landa 5:11 (was 24th at 1:02)
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34 Ben O'Connor 5:17 (was 34th at 1:08)
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44 Hugh Carthy 5:48 (was 44th at 1:39)
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46 Vincenzo Nibali 5:53 (was 46th at 1:44)
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113 Alexey Lutsenko 23:52 (was 103rd at 11:28)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Sam Bennett 127 (unchanged)
2 Mads Pedersen 118 (unchanged)
3 Marc Soler 47 (was 0 points)
4 Pascal Ackermann 34 (was 3rd with 34 points)
5 Tim Merlier 34 (was 4th with 34 points)
6 Daniel Mclay 34 (was 5th with 34 points)
7 Victor Langellotti 33 (was 0 points)
8 Primoz Roglic 30 (was 6th with 30 points)
9 Ethan Hayter 30 (was 7th with 30 points)
10 Nikias Arndt 28 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Victor Langellotti 13 (was 0 points)
2 Roger Adria 6 (was 0 points)
3 Lawson Craddock 5 (was 0 points)
4 Marc Soler 5 (was 0 points)
5 Joan Bou 5 (was 1st with 5 points)
6 Rudy Molard 4 (was 0 points)
7 Primoz Roglic 3 (was 2nd with 3 points)
8 Julius Van Den Berg 3 (was 3rd with 3 points)
9 Jarrad Drizners 3 (was 4th with 3 points)
10 Thomas De Gendt 2 (was 5th with 2 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Daan Hoole (Trek - Segafredo) 5 <<<
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech) 3
Steff Cras (Lotto Soudal) 2
Total retirements : 3

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