Stage 5 - Tortosa-Lo Port 176.6 km

1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 4:27:41
2 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal - Quick Step 0:06
3 Joao Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:12
4 Marc Soler (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 0:28
5 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-EasyPost 0:44
6 Lenny Martinez (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:47
7 Mikel Landa (Spa) Bahrain - Victorious 0:56
8 Michael Woods (Can) Israel - Premier Tech 0:56
9 Jai Hindley (Aus) BORA - hansgrohe 1:04
10 Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bel) BORA - hansgrohe 1:15

Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+33 Abel Balderstone
+29 Simon Carr
+28 Ewen Costiou
+25 Andres Camilo Ardila
+24 Patrick Konrad
+22 Julen Amezqueta
+21 Ben Tulett
+20 Victor Langellotti
+20 Alessandro De Marchi
+19 Lorenzo Milesi

Biggest losers by position :
-34 Pablo Castrillo
-24 Antonio Pedrero
-24 Eduard Prades
-23 Callum Scotson
-21 Mattia Cattaneo
-18 Corbin Strong
-17 George Bennett
-17 Pieter Serry
-16 Jon Aberasturi
-16 Romain Bardet
-15 Sergio Samitier

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-24:07 Rudiger Selig
-22:28 Marco Brenner
-21:55 Jon Aberasturi
-21:55 Kaden Groves
-21:54 Pablo Castrillo
-21:22 Ivo Oliveira
-20:47 Callum Scotson
-20:47 Marc Brustenga
-20:47 Milan Menten
-20:47 Rune Herregodts
-20:47 Xabier Mikel Azparren

Favourites by position :
+10 Egan Bernal
+8 Gino Mader
+7 Geraint Thomas
+2 Rigoberto Uran
+2 Richard Carapaz
+2 Joao Almeida
+1 Jack Haig
+1 Guillaume Martin
-1 Jai Hindley
-4 Ben O'Connor
-16 Romain Bardet

Favourites by time :
-0:10 Remco Evenepoel
-0:18 Joao Almeida
-0:54 Rigoberto Uran
-1:06 Mikel Landa
-1:14 Jai Hindley
-1:43 Adam Yates
-2:20 Jack Haig
-2:56 Ben O'Connor
-3:49 Richard Carapaz
-3:50 Guillaume Martin
-4:08 Gino Mader
-4:51 Egan Bernal
-5:39 Geraint Thomas
-8:41 Romain Bardet

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 21:29:25 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:00)
3 Joao Almeida 1:02 (was 5th at 0:44)
4 Mikel Landa 1:50 (was 4th at 0:44)
5 Marc Soler 1:50 (was 10th at 1:12)
6 Michael Woods 1:54 (was 6th at 0:48)
7 Giulio Ciccone 1:57 (was 3rd at 0:19)
8 Jai Hindley 2:02 (was 7th at 0:48)
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks 2:23 (was 9th at 0:58)
10 Rigoberto Uran 2:44 (was 12th at 1:50)
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15 Ben O'Connor 4:37 (was 11th at 1:41)
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17 Jack Haig 5:46 (was 18th at 3:26)
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24 Guillaume Martin 9:15 (was 25th at 5:25)
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29 Romain Bardet 10:46 (was 13th at 2:05)
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33 Adam Yates 13:43 (was 33rd at 12:00)
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37 Richard Carapaz 16:17 (was 39th at 12:28)
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42 Egan Bernal 21:04 (was 52nd at 16:13)
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44 Geraint Thomas 21:29 (was 51st at 15:50)
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57 Gino Mader 26:45 (was 65th at 22:37)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 32 (was 1st with 22 points)
2 Remco Evenepoel 26 (was 2nd with 20 points)
3 Giulio Ciccone 14 (unchanged)
4 Kaden Groves 10 (unchanged)
5 Simone Petilli 8 (unchanged)
6 Bryan Coquard 6 (unchanged)
7 Hector Carretero 5 (was 0 points)
8 Rune Herregodts 4 (unchanged)
9 Roger Adria 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
10 Ide Schelling 4 (was 11th with 4 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 64:34:29 (was 1st at 51:09:13)
2 EF Education-EasyPost 7:07 (was 2nd at 4:13)
3 BORA - hansgrohe 9:40 (was 4th at 5:54)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 12:06 (was 5th at 8:47)
5 Movistar Team 12:10 (was 3rd at 5:39)
6 AG2R Citroen Team 17:08 (was 6th at 11:59)
7 Jumbo-Visma 19:51 (was 8th at 16:54)
8 Cofidis 28:16 (was 9th at 18:53)
9 Soudal - Quick Step 30:57 (was 7th at 16:19)
10 Israel - Premier Tech 32:34 (was 11th at 28:24)
11 Intermarche - Circus - Wanty 32:45 (was 10th at 23:06)
12 INEOS Grenadiers 38:10 (was 12th at 28:38)
13 Euskaltel - Euskadi 44:32 (was 14th at 35:42)
14 Burgos-BH 56:44 (was 17th at 49:43)
15 Team DSM 57:21 (was 15th at 36:39)
16 Groupama - FDJ 1:02:04 (was 18th at 54:21)
17 Team Jayco AlUla 1:25:36 (was 20th at 59:29)
18 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 1:25:55 (was 21th at 1:03:29)
19 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:38:00 (was 24th at 1:26:39)

Retirements to date : Stage
Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 5 <<<
Oscar Riesebeek (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5 <<<
Quinn Simmons (Trek - Segafredo) 5 <<<
Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) 4
Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty) 4
Michael Storer (Groupama - FDJ) 4
Alexandre Balmer (Team Jayco AlUla) 3
Clement Davy (Groupama - FDJ) 3
Anthony Delaplace (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Chris Hamilton (Team DSM) 2
Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto Dstny) 2
Hugo Hofstetter (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Kenny Elissonde (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 2
Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos-BH) 2
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 1
Luke Plapp (INEOS Grenadiers) 1
Maxime Bouet (Team Arkea Samsic) 1
Total retirements : 18

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