Stage 7 : May 11, 2018 Pizzo - Praia a Mare 159 km
1 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 3.45.27
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors
3 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
4 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
5 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
6 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia
7 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
9 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) BMC Racing Team
10 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Fix All
Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
+7 Sam Bennett
+7 Kristian Sbaragli
+7 Francisco Ventoso
+6 Mads Pedersen
+6 Jens Debusschere
+6 Gijs Van Hoecke
+6 Fabio Sabatini
+6 Eduardo Sepulveda
+6 Christian Knees
Biggest losers by position :
-32 Remi Cavagna
-30 Domen Novak
-9 Koen Bouwman
-8 Hugh Carthy
-8 Markel Irizar Aranburu
-8 Maxim Belkov
-7 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
-7 Niklas Eg
-6 Kenny Elissonde
-5 David de la Cruz
-4 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Sam Bennett
+0:06 Elia Viviani
+0:04 Niccolo Bonifazio
Biggest losers by time :
-10:23 Domen Novak
-10:23 Giuseppe Fonzi
-10:23 Remi Cavagna
-4:21 Hugh Carthy
-3:37 Koen Bouwman
-3:34 Maxim Belkov
-3:19 Jacopo Mosca
-3:18 Markel Irizar Aranburu
-2:59 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
-2:35 David de la Cruz
-2:35 Joe Dombrowski
Favourites by position :
+1 Michael Woods
-5 David de la Cruz
Favourites by time :
-2:35 David de la Cruz
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Simon Yates 26:31:30 (unchanged)
2 Tom Dumoulin 0:16 (unchanged)
3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:26 (unchanged)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:43 (unchanged)
5 Thibaut Pinot 0:45 (unchanged)
6 Rohan Dennis 0:53 (unchanged)
7 Pello Bilbao 1:03 (unchanged)
8 Christopher Froome 1:10 (unchanged)
9 George Bennett 1:11 (unchanged)
10 Fabio Aru 1:12 (unchanged)
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13 Michael Woods 1:39 (was 14th at 1:39)
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17 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 1:47 (unchanged)
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22 Miguel Angel Lopez 2:12 (unchanged)
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26 Louis Meintjes 4:34 (unchanged)
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30 Wout Poels 4:44 (unchanged)
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101 David de la Cruz 32:39 (was 96th at 30:04)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Elia Viviani 178 (was 1st with 131 points)
2 Sam Bennett 100 (was 4th with 50 points)
3 Sacha Modolo 73 (was 2nd with 55 points)
4 Jakub Mareczko 65 (was 3rd with 53 points)
5 Guillaume Boivin 52 (was 6th with 48 points)
6 Davide Ballerini 52 (was 13th with 20 points)
7 Marco Frapporti 49 (was 5th with 49 points)
8 Niccolo Bonifazio 43 (was 19th with 18 points)
9 Maxim Belkov 38 (was 48th with 6 points)
10 Enrico Battaglin 37 (was 7th with 37 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 35 (unchanged)
2 Simon Yates 18 (unchanged)
3 Thibaut Pinot 12 (unchanged)
4 Enrico Barbin 11 (unchanged)
5 George Bennett 9 (unchanged)
6 Marco Frapporti 7 (unchanged)
7 Ryan Mullen 6 (unchanged)
8 Domenico Pozzovivo 6 (unchanged)
9 Eugert Zhupa 5 (unchanged)
10 Andrea Vendrame 4 (unchanged)
Retirements to date : Stage
Edoardo Zardini (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia 7 <<<
Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 6
Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 5
Andrea Guardini (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Bahrain-Merida 1
Total retirements : 5