Stage 5 (ITT) - Change-Laval Espace Mayenne 27.2 km

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE-Team Emirates 0:32:00
2 Stefan Kung (Swi) Groupama - FDJ 0:19
3 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:27
4 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:30
5 Mathieu Van Der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 0:31
6 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:37
7 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:44
8 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:55
9 Richie Porte (Aus) INEOS Grenadiers 0:55
10 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana - Premier Tech 1:00

Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+20 Stefan Bissegger
+19 Magnus Cort
+17 Omar Fraile
+16 Stefan Kung
+16 Richie Porte
+15 Jonas Vingegaard
+14 Mikkel Bjerg
+14 Hugo Houle
+13 Anthony Perez
+12 Thomas De Gendt

Biggest losers by position :
-13 Brandon Mcnulty
-13 Kenny Elissonde
-13 Michal Kwiatkowski
-12 Luka Mezgec
-10 Carlos Verona
-10 Michael Matthews
-10 Nacer Bouhanni
-10 Nairo Quintana
-9 Carlos Barbero
-9 Davide Formolo
-8 Anthony Turgis

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:31 Tadej Pogacar
+0:12 Stefan Kung
+0:04 Jonas Vingegaard
+0:01 Wout Van Aert

Biggest losers by time :
-6:24 Brandon Mcnulty
-5:52 Carlos Verona
-5:42 Roger Kluge
-5:27 Mads Pedersen
-5:24 Bryan Coquard
-5:20 Nacer Bouhanni
-5:13 Kenny Elissonde
-5:10 Michal Kwiatkowski
-5:10 Reto Hollenstein
-5:07 Kristian Sbaragli
-5:02 Tim Merlier

Favourites by position :
+16 Richie Porte
+12 Simon Yates
+10 Primoz Roglic
+7 Steven Kruijswijk
+7 Rigoberto Uran
+6 Miguel Angel Lopez
+6 Geraint Thomas
+4 Tadej Pogacar
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-4 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-5 Tiesj Benoot
-6 Richard Carapaz
-7 Enric Mas
-8 Wilco Kelderman
-10 Nairo Quintana

Favourites by time :
+0:31 Tadej Pogacar
-0:13 Primoz Roglic
-0:24 Richie Porte
-0:37 Rigoberto Uran
-0:47 Geraint Thomas
-1:11 Steven Kruijswijk
-1:13 Richard Carapaz
-1:18 Wilco Kelderman
-1:18 Enric Mas
-1:37 Miguel Angel Lopez
-1:54 Simon Yates
-2:05 Nairo Quintana
-3:01 Alejandro Valverde
-3:10 Tiesj Benoot
-4:39 Tao Geoghegan Hart

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 16:51:41 (unchanged)
2 Tadej Pogacar 0:08 (was 6th at 0:39)
3 Wout Van Aert 0:30 (was 4th at 0:31)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 0:48 (was 2nd at 0:08)
5 Alexey Lutsenko 1:21 (was 11th at 0:52)
6 Pierre Latour 1:28 (was 9th at 0:45)
7 Rigoberto Uran 1:29 (was 14th at 0:52)
8 Jonas Vingegaard 1:43 (was 23rd at 1:47)
9 Richard Carapaz 1:44 (was 3rd at 0:31)
10 Primoz Roglic 1:48 (was 20th at 1:35)
.....
12 Geraint Thomas 1:54 (was 18th at 1:07)
13 Wilco Kelderman 1:56 (was 5th at 0:38)
14 Enric Mas 1:58 (was 7th at 0:40)
.....
18 Nairo Quintana 2:45 (was 8th at 0:40)
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25 Richie Porte 3:58 (was 41st at 3:34)
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31 Steven Kruijswijk 4:39 (was 38th at 3:28)
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36 Miguel Angel Lopez 5:20 (was 42nd at 3:43)
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42 Tiesj Benoot 6:33 (was 37th at 3:23)
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58 Alejandro Valverde 10:13 (was 59th at 7:12)
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61 Simon Yates 10:49 (was 73rd at 8:55)
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109 Tao Geoghegan Hart 18:29 (was 105th at 13:50)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 89 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 84 (was 2nd with 82 points)
3 Mathieu Van Der Poel 78 (was 5th with 67 points)
4 Michael Matthews 78 (was 3rd with 78 points)
5 Nacer Bouhanni 74 (was 4th with 74 points)
6 Tadej Pogacar 64 (was 10th with 44 points)
7 Jasper Philipsen 61 (was 6th with 61 points)
8 Tim Merlier 50 (was 7th with 50 points)
9 Primoz Roglic 49 (was 11th with 40 points)
10 Peter Sagan 48 (was 8th with 48 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Ide Schelling 5 (unchanged)
2 Mathieu Van Der Poel 4 (unchanged)
3 Anthony Perez 3 (unchanged)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 2 (unchanged)
5 Edward Theuns 2 (unchanged)
6 Tadej Pogacar 2 (unchanged)
7 Victor Campenaerts 1 (was 8th with 1 points)
8 Jelle Wallays 1 (was 7th with 1 points)
9 Danny Van Poppel 1 (unchanged)
10 Michael Matthews 1 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 50:39:14 (was 2nd at 1:33)
2 EF Education - Nippo 2:25 (was 5th at 2:02)
3 Bahrain - Victorious 3:02 (was 1st at 49:00:00)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 3:23 (was 4th at 1:59)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:25 (was 8th at 3:56)
6 INEOS Grenadiers 3:25 (was 7th at 2:42)
7 Trek - Segafredo 5:21 (was 3rd at 1:43)
8 Team BikeExchange 6:01 (was 6th at 2:20)
9 Movistar Team 8:41 (was 9th at 4:26)
10 BORA - hansgrohe 9:50 (was 10th at 6:46)
11 Alpecin-Fenix 10:09 (was 12th at 7:27)
12 Team DSM 12:09 (was 11th at 7:24)
13 UAE-Team Emirates 12:28 (was 18th at 10:30)
14 AG2R Citroen Team 12:30 (was 14th at 8:07)
15 Team TotalEnergies 12:43 (was 16th at 9:01)
16 Groupama - FDJ 13:33 (was 17th at 10:08)
17 Team Arkea Samsic 14:01 (was 13th at 8:04)
18 B&B Hotels p/b KTM 16:57 (was 15th at 8:54)
19 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 19:39 (was 20th at 14:51)
20 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 20:34 (was 19th at 13:57)
21 Team Qhubeka NextHash 21:03 (was 21th at 16:31)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 29:54 (was 22th at 21:30)
23 Lotto Soudal 36:15 (was 23th at 31:12)

Retirements to date : Stage
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 4
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 3
Robert Gesink (Team Jumbo-Visma) 3
Marc Soler (Movistar Team) 2
Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels p/b KTM) 1
Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama - FDJ) 1
Jasha Sutterlin (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 7

On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 12:55:30 PM UTC-5, Bob Martin wrote:
> Stage 5 (ITT) - Change-Laval Espace Mayenne 27.2 km
>
> 1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE-Team Emirates 0:32:00
> 2 Stefan Kung (Swi) Groupama - FDJ 0:19
> 3 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:27
> 4 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:30
> 5 Mathieu Van Der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 0:31
> (This report and archives etc can be seen at http://rvmartin.uk/cycling)

Thanks for the updates, Bob!