Stage 5 : March 08, 2018 Salon-de-Provence - Sisteron 165 km 1 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie 3.57.25 2 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0.02 3 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0.04 4 Magnus Cort (Den) Astana Pro Team 5 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 6 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott 8 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb 9 Matti Breschel (Den) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 10 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 : Biggest gainers by position : +31 Pavel Kochetkov +29 Alexander Kristoff +28 Sven Erik Bystrom +25 Ryan Gibbons +25 Jerome Cousin +25 Gregory Rast +25 Fabien Grellier +24 Jurgen Roelandts +24 Ivan Garcia Cortina +24 David Lopez Garcia Biggest losers by position : -59 Lawson Craddock -47 Thomas Boudat -44 Maurits Lammertink -43 Michael Valgren Andersen -42 Robert Gesink -39 Amael Moinard -38 Pierre Rolland -37 Anthony Delaplace -37 Tiago Machado -31 Pierre-Luc Perichon -29 Sebastian Langeveld Biggest gainers by time : +0:16 Jerome Cousin +0:14 Nils Politt +0:04 Andre Greipel +0:02 Julien El Fares Biggest losers by time : -11:40 Thomas Boudat -11:32 Alex Edmondson -11:32 Amael Moinard -11:32 Anthony Delaplace -11:32 Cyril Lemoine -11:32 Dayer Uberney Quintana Rojas -11:32 Dmitriy Gruzdev -11:32 Evaldas Siskevicius -11:32 Jacopo Guarnieri -11:32 Jay Robert Thomson -11:32 Jean-Pierre Drucker Favourites by position : +4 Jakob Fuglsang +4 Ilnur Zakarin +1 Bauke Mollema Favourites by time : Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Luis Leon Sanchez 17:45:26 (unchanged) 2 Wout Poels 0:15 (unchanged) 3 Julian Alaphilippe 0:26 (unchanged) 4 Marc Soler 0:26 (unchanged) 5 Gorka Izagirre Insausti 0:34 (unchanged) 6 Felix GroAŸschartner 0:35 (unchanged) 7 Jon Izagirre Insausti 0:42 (unchanged) 8 Tim Wellens 0:42 (unchanged) 9 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:48 (unchanged) 10 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:48 (unchanged) 11 Simon Yates 0:48 (unchanged) ..... 15 David de la Cruz 1:15 (unchanged) ..... 22 Daniel Martin 1:36 (unchanged) 23 Bauke Mollema 1:50 (was 24th at 1:50) ..... 31 Ilnur Zakarin 2:41 (was 35th at 2:41) ..... 33 Jakob Fuglsang 2:44 (was 37th at 2:44) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Arnaud Demare 31 (unchanged) 2 Andre Greipel 23 (was 9th with 14 points) 3 Mike Teunissen 20 (was 4th with 17 points) 4 Julian Alaphilippe 19 (was 2nd with 19 points) 5 Nils Politt 18 (was 0 points) 6 Jerome Cousin 17 (was 0 points) 7 Gorka Izagirre Insausti 17 (was 3rd with 17 points) 8 Jonathan Hivert 16 (was 5th with 16 points) 9 Luis Leon Sanchez 16 (was 6th with 16 points) 10 Wout Poels 15 (was 7th with 15 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Jerome Cousin 25 (was 0 points) 2 Nicolas Edet 14 (was 0 points) 3 Julien El Fares 12 (was 0 points) 4 Fabien Grellier 11 (was 2nd with 8 points) 5 Pierre-Luc Perichon 11 (was 1st with 8 points) 6 Nils Politt 8 (was 0 points) 7 Julian Alaphilippe 4 (was 3rd with 4 points) 8 Arnaud Demare 4 (was 4th with 4 points) 9 Pierre Rolland 4 (was 5th with 4 points) 10 Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz 3 (was 7th with 3 points) Retirements to date : Stage Amund Grondahl Jansen (Nor) LottoNL-Jumbo 5 <<< Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 5 <<< Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 5 <<< Edward Theuns (Bel) Team Sunweb 5 <<< Lars Boom (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 5 <<< Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha-Alpecin 5 <<< Maxime Bouet (Fra) Fortuneo-Samsic 5 <<< Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Team Sunweb 3 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 3 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 2 Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 1 Total retirements : 11