Stage 9 : May 13, 2018 Pesco Sannita - Gran Sasso d'Italia (Campo Imperatore) 224 km 1 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 5.54.13 2 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Mitchelton-Scott 4 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0.04 5 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar Team 6 Davide Formolo (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 0.10 7 George Bennett (Nzl) LottoNL-Jumbo 0.12 8 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 9 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 10 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Bardiani CSF 0.24 Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 : Biggest gainers by position : +49 Maxim Belkov +44 Antonio Pedrero +29 Vasil Kiryienka +28 Ruben Fernandez +23 Giulio Ciccone +19 Steve Morabito +19 Jan Hirt +19 Francois Bidard +18 Mattia Cattaneo +18 Joe Dombrowski Biggest losers by position : -23 Enrico Battaglin -23 Koen Bouwman -22 Domen Novak -22 Michael Morkov -22 Nathan Brown -22 Nicolas Roche -22 Ruben Plaza Molina -20 Jacques Janse van Rensburg -19 Loic Vliegen -19 Tosh Van der Sande -18 Tanel Kangert Biggest gainers by time : Biggest losers by time : -32:03 Jacopo Mosca -31:20 Sam Bewley -31:20 Svein Tuft -31:17 Paolo Simion -30:57 Alex Dowsett -30:57 Andreas Schillinger -30:57 Boy van Poppel -30:57 Danny van Poppel -30:57 Domen Novak -30:57 Elia Viviani -30:57 Eugert Zhupa Favourites by position : +8 David de la Cruz +7 Miguel Angel Lopez +3 Louis Meintjes +3 George Bennett +2 Wout Poels +2 Michael Woods +1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -1 Tom Dumoulin -2 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya -2 Rohan Dennis -2 Christopher Froome -4 Fabio Aru Favourites by time : -0:04 Thibaut Pinot -0:06 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -0:14 Domenico Pozzovivo -0:22 Tom Dumoulin -0:22 Miguel Angel Lopez -0:22 George Bennett -0:46 Michael Woods -1:10 Louis Meintjes -1:12 Wout Poels -1:12 Rohan Dennis -1:17 Christopher Froome -1:24 Fabio Aru -1:27 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya -8:42 David de la Cruz Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Simon Yates 37:37:15 (unchanged) 2 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:32 (was 3rd at 0:26) 3 Tom Dumoulin 0:38 (was 2nd at 0:16) 4 Thibaut Pinot 0:45 (was 4th at 0:41) 5 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:57 (was 5th at 0:43) 6 Richard Carapaz 1:20 (was 8th at 1:06) 7 George Bennett 1:33 (was 10th at 1:11) 8 Rohan Dennis 2:05 (was 6th at 0:53) 9 Pello Bilbao 2:05 (was 7th at 1:03) 10 Michael Woods 2:25 (was 12th at 1:39) 11 Christopher Froome 2:27 (was 9th at 1:10) ..... 13 Miguel Angel Lopez 2:34 (was 20th at 2:12) ..... 15 Fabio Aru 2:36 (was 11th at 1:12) ..... 18 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 3:14 (was 16th at 1:47) ..... 23 Louis Meintjes 5:44 (was 26th at 4:34) ..... 25 Wout Poels 5:56 (was 27th at 4:44) ..... 71 David de la Cruz 43:30 (was 79th at 34:48) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Davide Ballerini 46 (was 6th with 52 points) 2 Marco Frapporti 41 (was 7th with 49 points) 3 Maxim Belkov 34 (was 10th with 38 points) 4 Guillaume Boivin 24 (was 5th with 52 points) 5 Andrea Vendrame 20 (was 24th with 20 points) 6 Elia Viviani 17 (was 1st with 178 points) 7 Rodolfo Andres Torres Agudelo 16 (was 30th with 16 points) 8 Jacopo Mosca 16 (was 31st with 16 points) 9 Tosh Van der Sande 11 (was 39th with 11 points) 10 Rohan Dennis 10 (was 12th with 32 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Simon Yates 55 (was 2nd with 20 points) 2 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 47 (was 1st with 35 points) 3 Thibaut Pinot 36 (was 3rd with 18 points) 4 Richard Carapaz 23 (was 4th with 17 points) 5 Fausto Masnada 16 (was 0 points) 6 Domenico Pozzovivo 16 (was 9th with 7 points) 7 Natnael Berhane 15 (was 0 points) 8 Mickael Cherel 14 (was 0 points) 9 Davide Formolo 12 (was 7th with 8 points) 10 Enrico Barbin 11 (was 5th with 11 points) Retirements to date : Stage Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia 9 <<< 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 : 6