Stage 2 : May 05, 2018 Haifa - Tel Aviv 167 km
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 3.51.20
2 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia
3 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
6 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
8 23 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
9 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
10 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team
Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+55 Elia Viviani
+40 Guy Sagiv
+39 Jakub Mareczko
+36 Krists Neilands
+36 Eugert Zhupa
+35 Zakkari Dempster
+35 Sander Armee
+35 Sam Bennett
+35 Roy Curvers
+35 Paolo Simion
Biggest losers by position :
-120 Alexey Lutsenko
-116 Cesare Benedetti
-104 Eduardo Sepulveda
-96 Chad Haga
-96 Kenny Elissonde
-91 Alessandro De Marchi
-90 Chris Hamilton
-89 Christopher Juul Jensen
-89 Wout Poels
-87 Vasil Kiryienka
-76 Jeremy Roy
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:11 Elia Viviani
+0:05 Jakub Mareczko
+0:03 Sam Bennett
+0:03 Guy Sagiv
+0:02 Rohan Dennis
Biggest losers by time :
-3:28 Kenny Elissonde
-3:26 Cesare Benedetti
-3:26 Giuseppe Fonzi
-2:19 Christopher Juul Jensen
-2:15 Mitchell Docker
-1:34 Alexey Lutsenko
-1:34 Lennard Hofstede
-1:26 Loic Vliegen
-1:18 Christian Knees
-1:06 Alessandro De Marchi
-1:06 Alessandro Tonelli
Favourites by position :
+18 Louis Meintjes
+13 Michael Woods
+9 Miguel Angel Lopez
+8 Fabio Aru
+8 David de la Cruz
+6 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
+6 George Bennett
+5 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
+1 Rohan Dennis
+1 Christopher Froome
-1 Tom Dumoulin
-89 Wout Poels
Favourites by time :
+0:02 Rohan Dennis
-0:01 Tom Dumoulin
-0:01 Thibaut Pinot
-0:01 Simon Yates
-0:01 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
-0:01 Miguel Angel Lopez
-0:01 Michael Woods
-0:01 Louis Meintjes
-0:01 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
-0:01 George Bennett
-0:01 Fabio Aru
-0:01 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:01 David de la Cruz
-0:01 Christopher Froome
-0:51 Wout Poels
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rohan Dennis 4:03:21 (was 2nd at 0:02)
2 Tom Dumoulin 0:01 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Victor Campenaerts 0:03 (was 3rd at 0:02)
4 Jose Goncalves 0:13 (was 4th at 0:12)
5 Alex Dowsett 0:17 (was 5th at 0:16)
6 Pello Bilbao 0:19 (was 6th at 0:18)
7 Simon Yates 0:21 (was 7th at 0:20)
8 Maximilian Schachmann 0:22 (was 8th at 0:21)
9 Tony Martin 0:28 (was 9th at 0:27)
10 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:28 (was 10th at 0:27)
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16 Thibaut Pinot 0:34 (was 16th at 0:33)
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20 Christopher Froome 0:38 (was 21st at 0:37)
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32 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:46 (was 37th at 0:45)
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34 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:47 (was 40th at 0:46)
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37 George Bennett 0:50 (was 43rd at 0:49)
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39 Fabio Aru 0:51 (was 47th at 0:50)
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43 David de la Cruz 0:53 (was 51st at 0:52)
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52 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:57 (was 61st at 0:56)
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63 Michael Woods 1:03 (was 76th at 1:02)
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76 Louis Meintjes 1:09 (was 94th at 1:08)
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114 Wout Poels 1:31 (was 25th at 0:40)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Elia Viviani 68 (was 0 points)
2 Jakub Mareczko 35 (was 0 points)
3 Rohan Dennis 32 (was 2nd with 12 points)
4 Sam Bennett 25 (was 0 points)
5 22 Davide Ballerini 20 (was 0 points)
6 Niccolo Bonifazio 18 (was 0 points)
7 Tom Dumoulin 15 (was 1st with 15 points)
8 Sacha Modolo 14 (was 0 points)
9 Victor Campenaerts 13 (was 3rd with 9 points)
10 Lars Ytting Bak 12 (was 0 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table
1 53 Enrico Barbin 3
2 Guillaume Boivin 2
3 22 Davide Ballerini 1
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0