Stage 5 : Mar 8, ChA˘teauneuf-du-Pape - La Montagne de Lure, 176 km 1 Richie Porte (Aus) Sky Procycling 4.50.54 2 Denis Menchov (Rus) Team Katusha 0.26 3 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin Sharp 0.33 4 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 5 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-Merida 6 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 7 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 9 Simon Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha 10 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre-Merida Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 : Biggest gainers by position : +66 Alessandro De Marchi +56 Yannick Talabardon +46 Rory Sutherland +46 Jens Voigt +45 Simon Clarke +35 Sebastien Minard +35 Romain Zingle +34 Brent Bookwalter +33 Julien Simon +32 Hubert Dupont Biggest losers by position : -47 Samuel Dumoulin -40 Maxim Iglinskiy -40 Ruben Perez Moreno -38 Daniel Oss -38 Mikel Nieve Ituralde -37 Guillaume Bonnafond -34 Kris Boeckmans -33 Francis De Greef -33 Michael Albasini -32 Jerome Coppel -29 Baden Cooke Biggest gainers by time : +0:07 Richie Porte Biggest losers by time : -32:00 David Millar -28:48 Kris Boeckmans -28:45 Alex Howes -28:06 Johan Vansummeren -25:56 Alexis Vuillermoz -25:56 Anders Lund -25:56 Andrea Palini -25:56 Andrey Zeits -25:56 Baden Cooke -25:56 Damien Gaudin -25:56 Daniel Oss Favourites by position : +24 Thomas De Gendt +22 Steven Kruijswijk +18 Ivan Basso +11 Michele Scarponi +11 Denis Menchov +7 Tejay van Garderen +5 Jean-Christophe Peraud +5 Andreas Kloden +4 Maxime Monfort +3 Lieuwe Westra -7 Peter Velits -8 Robert Gesink -11 Thomas Voeckler -33 Michael Albasini Favourites by time : -0:23 Denis Menchov -0:36 Tejay van Garderen -0:36 Michele Scarponi -0:36 Lieuwe Westra -0:36 Jean-Christophe Peraud -0:49 Andreas Kloden -0:52 Peter Velits -1:56 Maxime Monfort -3:08 Ivan Basso -3:54 Robert Gesink -11:31 Thomas De Gendt -14:49 Steven Kruijswijk -14:57 Thomas Voeckler -17:13 Michael Albasini Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Richie Porte 24:26:08 (was 7th at 0:07) 2 Andrew Talansky 0:32 (was 1st at 0:00) 3 Lieuwe Westra 0:42 (was 6th at 0:06) 4 Jean-Christophe Peraud 0:49 (was 9th at 0:13) 5 Tejay van Garderen 0:52 (was 12th at 0:16) 6 Sylvain Chavanel 0:53 (was 4th at 0:04) 7 Simon Spilak 0:53 (was 17th at 0:17) 8 Diego Ulissi 0:54 (was 19th at 0:18) 9 Michele Scarponi 0:54 (was 20th at 0:18) 10 Peter Velits 0:56 (was 3rd at 0:04) 11 Andreas Kloden 1:06 (was 16th at 0:17) ..... 19 Denis Menchov 1:41 (was 30th at 1:18) ..... 29 Maxime Monfort 3:41 (was 33rd at 1:45) ..... 34 Robert Gesink 5:03 (was 26th at 1:09) ..... 36 Ivan Basso 8:18 (was 54th at 5:10) ..... 57 Michael Albasini 18:14 (was 24th at 1:01) 58 Thomas Voeckler 18:23 (was 47th at 3:26) ..... 75 Thomas De Gendt 25:31 (was 99th at 14:00) ..... 107 Steven Kruijswijk 33:27 (was 129th at 18:38) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Andrew Talansky 61 (was 3rd with 41 points) 2 Elia Viviani 55 (was 1st with 55 points) 3 Sylvain Chavanel 50 (was 4th with 41 points) 4 Lieuwe Westra 45 (was 10th with 30 points) 5 Richie Porte 43 (was 27th with 18 points) 6 Peter Velits 43 (was 5th with 36 points) 7 Borut Bozic 43 (was 2nd with 43 points) 8 Diego Ulissi 41 (was 21st with 25 points) 9 Andriy Grivko 33 (was 9th with 30 points) 10 Leigh Howard 33 (was 6th with 33 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Johann Tschopp 31 (was 1st with 29 points) 2 Thierry Hupond 24 (was 0 points) 3 Richie Porte 17 (was 8th with 7 points) 4 Thomas Voeckler 17 (was 2nd with 17 points) 5 Cyril Lemoine 14 (was 0 points) 6 Jens Voigt 11 (was 0 points) 7 Andriy Grivko 9 (was 4th with 9 points) 8 Martijn Keizer 8 (was 5th with 8 points) 9 Denis Menchov 8 (was 0 points) 10 Hubert Dupont 8 (was 6th with 8 points) Retirements to date : Stage Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5 <<< Gaetan Bille (Bel) Lotto Belisol 5 <<< Gianni Meersman (Bel) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 5 <<< Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (GBr) Sky Procycling 5 <<< Sebastien Hinault (Fra) IAM Cycling 5 <<< Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 5 <<< Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 4 Angelo Tulik (Fra) Team Europcar 4 Elia Favilli (Ita) Lampre-Merida 4 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 4 Stef Clement (Ned) Team Blanco 4 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Movistar Team 3 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Team Europcar 2 Jacob Rathe (USA) Garmin Sharp 2 Kevin Seeldrayers (Bel) Astana Pro Team 2 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 2 Jure Kocjan (Slo) Euskaltel Euskadi 1 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) FDJ 1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 1 Total retirements : 19