Stage 2 : May 10th, 2015 Albenga - Genoa 177 km 1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 4.13.18 2 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 3 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 4 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin 5 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling 6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek Factory Racing 7 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 8 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Androni Giocattoli 9 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo - Vini Fantini 10 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 : Biggest gainers by position : +77 Davide Appollonio +72 Jaroslaw Marycz +72 Franco Pellizotti +71 Gianfranco Zilioli +67 Fumiyuki Beppu +67 Daniele Colli +63 Ryder Hesjedal +63 Pier Paolo De Negri +62 Fabio Sabatini +61 Maximiliano Richeze Biggest losers by position : -184 Michael Hepburn -154 Aleksejs Saramotins -147 Pieter Weening -146 Heinrich Haussler -142 Christopher Juul Jensen -137 Andrey Zeits -129 Juan Jose Lobato -127 Stefan Kung -113 Roger Kluge -108 Anton Vorobyev -102 Lars Ytting Bak Biggest gainers by time : +0:10 Elia Viviani +0:06 Moreno Hofland +0:04 Andre Greipel Biggest losers by time : -24:37 Manabu Ishibashi -14:03 Aleksejs Saramotins -14:03 Matteo Pelucchi -14:03 Roger Kluge -12:42 Marco Coledan -12:39 Michael Hepburn -12:39 Tiziano Dall'Antonia -11:41 Heinrich Haussler -11:41 Jussi Veikkanen -10:36 Nicola Boem -10:19 Dayer Quintana Favourites by position : +27 Jurgen Van Den Broeck +20 Richie Porte +16 Leopold Konig +8 Rigoberto Uran +4 Alberto Contador +3 Roman Kreuziger +3 Domenico Pozzovivo +2 Michael Rogers +2 Fabio Aru -39 Thomas Danielson -66 Tanel Kangert -147 Pieter Weening Favourites by time : -1:09 Tanel Kangert -1:09 Domenico Pozzovivo -4:43 Pieter Weening -4:58 Thomas Danielson Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Michael Matthews 4:32:44 (was 2nd at 0:00) 2 Simon Gerrans 0:00 (was 1st at 0:00) 3 Simon Clarke 0:00 (was 5th at 0:00) 4 Esteban Chaves 0:00 (was 6th at 0:00) 5 Roman Kreuziger 0:07 (was 8th at 0:07) 6 Alberto Contador 0:07 (was 10th at 0:07) 7 Michael Rogers 0:07 (was 9th at 0:07) 8 Manuele Boaro 0:07 (was 7th at 0:07) 9 Ivan Rovny 0:07 (was 12th at 0:07) 10 Paolo Tiralongo 0:13 (was 14th at 0:13) 11 Fabio Aru 0:13 (was 13th at 0:13) ..... 19 Rigoberto Uran 0:19 (was 27th at 0:19) ..... 37 Richie Porte 0:27 (was 57th at 0:27) ..... 40 Leopold Konig 0:27 (was 56th at 0:27) ..... 48 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 0:29 (was 75th at 0:29) ..... 85 Tanel Kangert 1:22 (was 19th at 0:13) ..... 108 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:57 (was 111st at 0:48) ..... 151 Pieter Weening 4:43 (was 4th at 0:00) ..... 169 Thomas Danielson 5:51 (was 130th at 0:53) Top 10 on Points table 1 Elia Viviani 53 2 Marco Frapporti 40 3 Moreno Hofland 35 4 Andre Greipel 25 5 Eugert Zhupa 20 6 Bertjan Lindeman 20 7 Luka Mezgec 18 8 Giacomo Nizzolo 17 9 Alessandro Petacchi 14 10 Michael Matthews 10 Top 10 on Mountains table 1 Bertjan Lindeman 3 2 Lukasz Owsian 2 3 Giacomo Berlato 1 Retirements to date : Stage Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 2 <<< Ramon Carretero (Pan) Southeast Pro Cycling 2 <<< Total retirements : 2