Stage 3 : May 06, 2018 Be'er Sheva - Eilat 229 km
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 5.02.09
2 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
3 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia
5 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
6 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Fix All
7 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
8 Baptiste Planckaert (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin
9 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
10 Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin
Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+41 Jens Debusschere
+40 William Bonnet
+40 Tosh Van der Sande
+40 Gijs Van Hoecke
+39 Mitchell Docker
+39 Alexey Lutsenko
+33 Danny van Poppel
+32 Guillaume Boivin
+31 Guy Sagiv
+30 Andrey Zeits
Biggest losers by position :
-94 Louis Vervaeke
-87 Koen Bouwman
-80 Thomas Scully
-78 Jos van Emden
-74 Natnael Berhane
-72 Hugh Carthy
-70 Giulio Ciccone
-58 Andreas Schillinger
-55 Laurent Didier
-51 Fabio Sabatini
-51 Ruben Plaza Molina
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Elia Viviani
+0:06 Sacha Modolo
+0:04 Sam Bennett
+0:04 Guy Sagiv
Biggest losers by time :
-5:15 Domen Novak
-5:15 Edoardo Zardini
-5:15 Eduardo Sepulveda
-5:15 Giulio Ciccone
-5:15 Hugh Carthy
-5:15 Niccolo Bonifazio
-4:11 Giuseppe Fonzi
-4:11 Thomas Scully
-3:14 Alessandro De Marchi
-3:11 Fabio Sabatini
-3:11 Lennard Hofstede
Favourites by position :
+29 Wout Poels
+15 Louis Meintjes
+12 Michael Woods
+7 Miguel Angel Lopez
+7 David de la Cruz
+5 George Bennett
+5 Fabio Aru
+4 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
+4 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
+1 Simon Yates
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
+1 Christopher Froome
Favourites by time :
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rohan Dennis 9:05:30 (unchanged)
2 Tom Dumoulin 0:01 (unchanged)
3 Jose Goncalves 0:13 (was 4th at 0:13)
4 Alex Dowsett 0:17 (was 5th at 0:17)
5 Pello Bilbao 0:19 (was 6th at 0:19)
6 Simon Yates 0:21 (was 7th at 0:21)
7 Maximilian Schachmann 0:22 (was 8th at 0:22)
8 Tony Martin 0:28 (was 9th at 0:28)
9 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:28 (was 10th at 0:28)
10 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 0:29 (was 11th at 0:29)
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16 Thibaut Pinot 0:34 (unchanged)
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19 Christopher Froome 0:38 (was 20th at 0:38)
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28 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:46 (was 32nd at 0:46)
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30 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:47 (was 34th at 0:47)
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32 George Bennett 0:50 (was 37th at 0:50)
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34 Fabio Aru 0:51 (was 39th at 0:51)
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36 David de la Cruz 0:53 (was 43rd at 0:53)
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45 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:57 (was 52nd at 0:57)
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51 Michael Woods 1:03 (was 63rd at 1:03)
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61 Louis Meintjes 1:09 (was 76th at 1:09)
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85 Wout Poels 1:31 (was 114th at 1:31)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Elia Viviani 130 (was 1st with 68 points)
2 Sacha Modolo 55 (was 8th with 14 points)
3 Jakub Mareczko 53 (was 2nd with 35 points)
4 Sam Bennett 50 (was 4th with 25 points)
5 Guillaume Boivin 48 (was 16th with 8 points)
6 Rohan Dennis 32 (was 3rd with 32 points)
7 Marco Frapporti 24 (was 0 points)
8 Davide Ballerini 20 (was 5th with 20 points)
9 Manuel Belletti 18 (was 15th with 8 points)
10 Niccolo Bonifazio 18 (was 6th with 18 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Enrico Barbin 5 (was 1st with 3 points)
2 Marco Frapporti 3 (was 0 points)
3 Guillaume Boivin 3 (was 2nd with 2 points)
4 Davide Ballerini 1 (was 3rd with 1 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Bahrain-Merida 1
Total retirements : 2