Stage 8 : May 18, 2019 Tortoreto Lido - Pesaro 239 km 1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 5.43.32 2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 3 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 4 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 5 Manuel Belletti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 6 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 7 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 8 Marco Canola (Ita) Nippo-Vini Fantini-Faizane 9 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Dimension Data 10 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 : Biggest gainers by position : +12 Paul Martens +12 Jan Hirt +11 Florian Senechal +10 Christopher Juul Jensen +9 Manuel Belletti +9 Ion Izagirre Insausti +9 Gianluca Brambilla +9 Fabio Sabatini +9 Domenico Pozzovivo +8 Salvatore Puccio Biggest losers by position : -19 Marco Frapporti -15 Ivan Santaromita -13 Chad Haga -12 Guy Niv -11 Chris Hamilton -10 Cesare Benedetti -10 Lorenzo Rota -10 Lucas Hamilton -10 Ruben Plaza -9 Antonio Pedrero -9 James Knox Biggest gainers by time : +0:10 Caleb Ewan +0:06 Elia Viviani +0:04 Pascal Ackermann Biggest losers by time : -12:51 Umberto Orsini -12:06 Kamil Gradek -11:53 Jack Bauer -11:53 James Knox -11:53 Josef Cerny -11:53 Mark Renshaw -11:53 Markel Irizar Aranburu -11:53 Matteo Moschetti -11:53 Miles Scotson -11:53 Nico Denz -11:53 Roger Kluge Favourites by position : +9 Ion Izagirre Insausti +9 Domenico Pozzovivo -8 Damiano Caruso Favourites by time : -6:48 Damiano Caruso Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Valerio Conti 35:13:06 (unchanged) 2 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 1:32 (unchanged) 3 Giovanni Carboni 1:41 (unchanged) 4 Nans Peters 2:09 (unchanged) 5 Valentin Madouas 2:17 (unchanged) 6 Amaro Manuel Antunes 2:45 (unchanged) 7 Fausto Masnada 3:14 (unchanged) 8 Pieter Serry 3:25 (unchanged) 9 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova 3:27 (unchanged) 10 Sam Oomen 4:57 (unchanged) 11 Pello Bilbao 5:23 (unchanged) 12 Primoz Roglic 5:24 (unchanged) ..... 15 Simon Yates 5:59 (unchanged) 16 Vincenzo Nibali 6:03 (unchanged) 17 Miguel Angel Lopez 6:08 (unchanged) 18 Rafal Majka 6:13 (unchanged) ..... 20 Bauke Mollema 6:19 (unchanged) ..... 25 Richard Carapaz 6:45 (unchanged) ..... 27 Ilnur Zakarin 7:00 (unchanged) ..... 29 Mikel Landa Meana 7:13 (unchanged) ..... 62 Ion Izagirre Insausti 17:25 (was 71st at 17:25) ..... 64 Domenico Pozzovivo 17:34 (was 73rd at 17:34) ..... 93 Damiano Caruso 29:26 (was 85th at 22:38) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Damiano Cima 48 (was 19th with 16 points) 2 Marco Frapporti 38 (was 17th with 18 points) 3 Mirco Maestri 22 (was 18th with 18 points) 4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 21 (was 5th with 32 points) 5 Arnaud Demare 21 (was 2nd with 87 points) 6 Enrico Barbin 20 (was 23rd with 12 points) 7 Pascal Ackermann 12 (was 1st with 133 points) 8 Valerio Conti 10 (was 7th with 29 points) 9 Sho Hatsuyama 10 (was 24th with 12 points) 10 Valentin Madouas 9 (was 25th with 12 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Giulio Ciccone 32 (was 1st with 24 points) 2 Fausto Masnada 18 (unchanged) 3 Antonio Pedrero 18 (unchanged) 4 Marco Frapporti 15 (was 9th with 4 points) 5 Valerio Conti 8 (was 4th with 8 points) 6 Andrey Zeits 8 (was 5th with 8 points) 7 Francois Bidard 7 (was 8th with 6 points) 8 Giovanni Carboni 6 (was 6th with 6 points) 9 Lucas Hamilton 6 (was 7th with 6 points) 10 Louis Vervaeke 5 (was 14th with 3 points) Retirements to date : Stage Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE Team Emirates 7 Laurens De Plus (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 7 Sacha Modolo (Ita) EF Education First 7 Laurens ten Dam (Ned) CCC Team 6 Robert Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 6 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 5 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Bahrain-Merida 5 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 5 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Katusha-Alpecin 4 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) UAE Team Emirates 4 Matti Breschel (Den) EF Education First 4 Total retirements : 11