Stage 7 : July 07, 2017 Troyes - Nuits-Saint-Georges 213.5 km 1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 5.03.18 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 5 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 6 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 7 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 10 Daniel McLay (GBr) Fortuneo - Oscaro Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 : Biggest gainers by position : +8 Yukiya Arashiro +8 Lars Ytting Bak +8 Danilo Wyss +8 Andrea Pasqualon +7 Stefan Kung +7 Rick Zabel +7 Michael Valgren Andersen +7 Maurits Lammertink +7 Matteo Bono +7 Markel Irizar Aranburu Biggest losers by position : -33 Gianluca Brambilla -21 Jos van Emden -18 Jesus Herrada Lopez -17 Pierre Rolland -16 Robert Gesink -15 Pierre-Luc Perichon -14 Alessandro De Marchi -14 Daniel Navarro Garcia -13 Vasil Kiryienka -13 Yohann Gene -10 Christian Knees Biggest gainers by time : +0:10 Marcel Kittel +0:06 Edvald Boasson Hagen +0:04 Michael Matthews Biggest losers by time : -4:15 Gianluca Brambilla -4:15 Julien Vermote -3:33 Jos van Emden -3:28 Alessandro De Marchi -2:19 Frederik Backaert -2:19 Thomas Voeckler -2:19 Yohann Gene -2:01 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev -2:01 Christian Knees -2:01 Damien Howson -2:01 Daniel Navarro Garcia Favourites by position : +3 Thibaut Pinot +1 Bauke Mollema Favourites by time : -0:20 Thibaut Pinot Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Christopher Froome 28:47:51 (unchanged) 2 Geraint Thomas 0:12 (unchanged) 3 Fabio Aru 0:14 (unchanged) 4 Daniel Martin 0:25 (unchanged) 5 Richie Porte 0:39 (unchanged) 6 Simon Yates 0:43 (unchanged) 7 Romain Bardet 0:47 (unchanged) 8 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:52 (unchanged) 9 Nairo Quintana 0:54 (unchanged) 10 Rafal Majka 1:01 (unchanged) ..... 19 Andrew Talansky 1:57 (unchanged) ..... 30 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 2:44 (unchanged) ..... 43 Bauke Mollema 5:23 (was 44th at 5:23) ..... 63 Thibaut Pinot 10:24 (was 66th at 10:04) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Marcel Kittel 197 (was 2nd with 143 points) 2 Arnaud Demare 182 (was 1st with 170 points) 3 Michael Matthews 123 (was 3rd with 96 points) 4 Andre Greipel 110 (was 4th with 93 points) 5 Alexander Kristoff 102 (was 5th with 74 points) 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 66 (was 13th with 36 points) 7 Sonny Colbrelli 60 (was 6th with 49 points) 8 Nacer Bouhanni 54 (was 8th with 44 points) 9 Daniel Martin 47 (was 7th with 47 points) 10 Dylan Groenewegen 44 (was 15th with 30 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Fabio Aru 10 (unchanged) 2 Daniel Martin 8 (unchanged) 3 Christopher Froome 6 (unchanged) 4 Richie Porte 4 (unchanged) 5 Nathan Brown 3 (unchanged) 6 Jan Bakelants 2 (unchanged) 7 Perrig Quemeneur 2 (unchanged) 8 Taylor Phinney 2 (unchanged) 9 Nils Politt 2 (unchanged) 10 Romain Bardet 2 (unchanged) Retirements to date : Stage Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 5 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 1 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 1 Total retirements : 5