Stage 8 : Santa Pola - La Manga del Mar Menor 173.7 km

1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:56:05
2 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team DSM 0:00
3 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
4 Jordi Meeus (Bel) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
5 Itamar Einhorn (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00
6 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
7 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:00
8 Martin Laas (Est) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
9 Piet Allegaert (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00
10 Jon Aberasturi (Spa) Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Sergio Roman Martin
+7 Matteo Trentin
+7 Alexander Krieger
+6 Rui Oliveira
+6 Damien Howson
+6 Carlos Canal
+6 Alberto Dainese
+5 Yuriy Natarov
+5 Piet Allegaert
+5 Pelayo Sanchez

Biggest losers by position :
-21 Koen Bouwman
-20 Chris Hamilton
-19 Chad Haga
-16 Antonio Nibali
-14 Aritz Bagues
-14 Simon Carr
-12 Alvaro Cuadros
-12 Mikel Iturria
-11 Joan Bou
-11 Romain Bardet
-10 Salvatore Puccio

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Fabio Jakobsen
+0:06 Alberto Dainese
+0:04 Jasper Philipsen

Biggest losers by time :
-5:55 Chad Haga
-5:55 Chris Hamilton
-5:55 Simon Carr
-4:24 Koen Bouwman
-4:17 Alex Aranburu
-4:17 Diego Andres Camargo
-4:15 Mikel Iturria
-4:11 Lawson Craddock
-3:52 Romain Bardet
-3:43 Alvaro Cuadros
-3:30 Joan Bou

Favourites by position :
+3 Maximilian Schachmann
+2 Ion Izagirre
+1 Steven Kruijswijk

Favourites by time :
-0:25 Rafal Majka
-0:30 Ion Izagirre

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 29:14:40 (unchanged)
2 Felix Grosschartner 0:08 (unchanged)
3 Enric Mas 0:25 (unchanged)
4 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:36 (unchanged)
5 Jan Polanc 0:38 (unchanged)
6 Egan Bernal 0:41 (unchanged)
7 Jack Haig 0:57 (unchanged)
8 Sepp Kuss 0:59 (unchanged)
9 Aleksandr Vlasov 1:06 (unchanged)
10 Adam Yates 1:22 (unchanged)
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12 Mikel Landa 1:42 (unchanged)
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16 Richard Carapaz 2:48 (unchanged)
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24 Damiano Caruso 6:47 (unchanged)
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27 Steven Kruijswijk 9:40 (was 28th at 9:40)
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31 Rafal Majka 14:12 (was 31st at 13:47)
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46 Ion Izagirre 23:52 (was 48th at 23:22)
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97 Maximilian Schachmann 41:58 (was 100th at 41:58)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Fabio Jakobsen 180 (was 2nd with 130 points)
2 Jasper Philipsen 164 (was 1st with 131 points)
3 Arnaud Demare 74 (was 7th with 50 points)
4 Alberto Dainese 73 (was 8th with 43 points)
5 Michael Matthews 70 (was 4th with 58 points)
6 Magnus Cort 67 (was 3rd with 67 points)
7 Primoz Roglic 54 (was 5th with 54 points)
8 Alex Aranburu 52 (was 6th with 52 points)
9 Piet Allegaert 45 (was 9th with 37 points)
10 Jordi Meeus 42 (was 23rd with 24 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pavel Sivakov 16 (unchanged)
2 Michael Storer 12 (unchanged)
3 Jack Haig 11 (unchanged)
4 Romain Bardet 11 (unchanged)
5 Rein Taaramae 10 (unchanged)
6 Kenny Elissonde 10 (unchanged)
7 Sepp Kuss 9 (unchanged)
8 Jan Polanc 6 (unchanged)
9 Carlos Verona 6 (unchanged)
10 Joe Dombrowski 6 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Movistar Team 87:42:27 (was 1st at 75:54:12)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 2:10 (unchanged)
3 Bahrain - Victorious 4:19 (unchanged)
4 UAE-Team Emirates 4:26 (unchanged)
5 Team Jumbo-Visma 7:41 (unchanged)
6 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 13:59 (unchanged)
7 Team DSM 17:42 (unchanged)
8 AG2R Citroen Team 18:11 (unchanged)
9 Trek - Segafredo 18:26 (unchanged)
10 Astana - Premier Tech 21:15 (unchanged)
11 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 25:00 (unchanged)
12 Lotto Soudal 28:02 (unchanged)
13 Burgos-BH 40:29 (unchanged)
14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 43:06 (unchanged)
15 EF Education - Nippo 48:23 (was 15th at 44:30)
16 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 48:36 (unchanged)
17 BORA - hansgrohe 52:38 (unchanged)
18 Team Qhubeka NextHash 54:16 (unchanged)
19 Team BikeExchange 1:03:10 (unchanged)
20 Alpecin-Fenix 1:10:20 (unchanged)
21 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:13:02 (unchanged)
22 Groupama - FDJ 1:16:14 (unchanged)
23 Israel Start-Up Nation 1:37:23 (was 23th at 1:36:44)

Retirements to date : Stage
Davide Cimolai (Israel Start-Up Nation) 8 <<<
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) 7
Emmanuel Morin (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 7
Hugh Carthy (EF Education - Nippo) 7
Mads Wurtz Schmidt (Israel Start-Up Nation) 7
Oscar Rodriguez (Astana - Premier Tech) 7
Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Qhubeka NextHash) 7
Alexander Cataford (Israel Start-Up Nation) 3
Frederik Frison (Lotto Soudal) 3
Total retirements : 9

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