Stage 3 - Almodovar-Faro 1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 4:54:51 2 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00 3 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00 4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00 5 Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00 6 Clement Russo (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00 7 Jordi Meeus (Bel) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00 8 Michele Gazzoli (Ita) Astana Qazaqstan Team 0:00 9 Colin Joyce (USA) Human Powered Health 0:00 10 Leangel Linarez (Ven) Tavfer-Mortagua-Ovos Matinados 0:00 Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 : Biggest gainers by position : +15 Helder Goncalves +11 Joao Macedo +11 Goncalo Leaca +10 Leangel Linarez +10 Goncalo Carvalho +9 Tobias Bayer +9 Jhojan Garcia +9 Colin Joyce +8 Venceslau Fernandes +8 Oliviero Troia Biggest losers by position : -20 Nicolas Saenz -16 Fabio Costa -16 Jay Vine -15 Pedro Andrade -13 David Livramento -12 Txomin Juaristi -10 Oscar Riesebeek -9 Nahuel Omar D'Aquila -9 Rafael Silva -8 Afonso Eulalio -8 Rafael Lourenco Biggest gainers by time : Biggest losers by time : -6:28 Jay Vine -6:22 Francisco Pereira -6:22 Nahuel Omar D'Aquila -6:22 Nicolas Saenz -6:22 Pedro Andrade -4:03 Oscar Riesebeek -3:40 David Livramento -3:15 Hector Saez -2:29 Fabio Costa -2:25 Afonso Eulalio -2:18 Kyle Murphy Favourites by position : +1 Warren Barguil +1 Sergio Higuita -2 Daniel Felipe Martinez Favourites by time : -0:33 Geraint Thomas Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 David Gaudu 14:42:11 (unchanged) 2 Brandon Mcnulty 0:01 (unchanged) 3 Ethan Hayter 0:01 (was 4th at 0:01) 4 Remco Evenepoel 0:01 (was 3rd at 0:01) 5 Sven Erik Bystrom 0:01 (was 7th at 0:01) 6 Julien Bernard 0:01 (unchanged) 7 Daniel Felipe Martinez 0:01 (was 5th at 0:01) 8 Tony Gallopin 0:08 (unchanged) 9 Thomas Pidcock 0:17 (unchanged) 10 Dylan Van Baarle 0:18 (unchanged) ..... 13 Sergio Higuita 0:36 (was 14th at 0:36) 14 Warren Barguil 0:36 (was 15th at 0:36) ..... 17 Tobias Foss 0:41 (unchanged) ..... 62 Geraint Thomas 12:21 (was 62nd at 11:48) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Fabio Jakobsen 50 (was 1st with 25 points) 2 Bryan Coquard 36 (was 2nd with 20 points) 3 Alexander Kristoff 29 (was 3rd with 16 points) 4 Tim Merlier 20 (was 0 points) 5 Michele Gazzoli 17 (was 5th with 13 points) 6 David Gaudu 15 (was 4th with 15 points) 7 Samuele Battistella 12 (was 6th with 12 points) 8 Remco Evenepoel 11 (was 7th with 11 points) 9 Brandon Mcnulty 10 (was 8th with 10 points) 10 Ethan Hayter 10 (was 9th with 10 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Joao Matias 12 (was 2nd with 9 points) 2 David Gaudu 10 (was 1st with 10 points) 3 Ethan Hayter 9 (unchanged) 4 Samuele Battistella 8 (unchanged) 5 Hugo Nunes 7 (was 6th with 5 points) 6 Ben Tulett 6 (was 5th with 6 points) 7 Tomas Contte 4 (unchanged) 8 Brandon Mcnulty 4 (unchanged) 9 Jonathan Castroviejo 4 (unchanged) 10 Asier Etxeberria 4 (unchanged) Teams table with previous in parens: 1 INEOS Grenadiers 44:06:46 (was 1st at 29:22:13) 2 Trek - Segafredo 0:32 (was 2nd at 0:17) 3 Team Arkea Samsic 1:44 (unchanged) 4 Groupama - FDJ 2:47 (unchanged) 5 Jumbo-Visma 8:25 (was 5th at 8:10) 6 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 9:15 (unchanged) 7 BORA - hansgrohe 9:35 (unchanged) 8 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 11:37 (unchanged) 9 Efapel Cycling 12:56 (was 9th at 12:41) 10 W52 / FC Porto 13:00 (was 10th at 12:45) 11 UAE Team Emirates 13:11 (unchanged) 12 Radio Popular - Paredes - Boavista 16:01 (was 12th at 15:31) 13 Kelly / Simoldes / UDO 16:46 (was 13th at 16:23) 14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 16:50 (was 15th at 16:35) 15 Astana Qazaqstan Team 16:55 (was 14th at 16:30) 16 Alpecin-Fenix 19:29 (was 16th at 18:59) 17 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 21:21 (unchanged) 18 Atum general / Tavira / Maria Nova Hotel 25:33 (was 18th at 24:48) 19 Tavfer-Mortagua-Ovos Matinados 28:33 (was 20th at 28:03) 20 Aviludo - Louletano - Loule Concelho 28:51 (was 19th at 27:53) 21 Glassdrive Q8 Anicolor 29:51 (was 21th at 29:11) 22 Cofidis 30:38 (unchanged) 23 L.A. Aluminios / Credibom / Marcos Car 40:56 (was 23th at 40:26) 24 Human Powered Health 41:50 (was 24th at 41:17) 25 ABTF - Feirense 42:30 (was 25th at 41:50) Retirements to date : Stage Andrea Pasqualon (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 3 <<< Jonathan Lastra (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 3 <<< Luis-Joe Luhrs (BORA - hansgrohe) 3 <<< Michal Schlegel (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 3 <<< Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) 2 Lars Van Den Berg (Groupama - FDJ) 2 Nils Politt (BORA - hansgrohe) 2 Tim Declercq (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 2 Filippo Baroncini (Trek - Segafredo) 1 Francisco Campos (Efapel Cycling) 1 Jelle Wallays (Cofidis) 1 Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) 1 Ricardo Mestre (W52 / FC Porto) 1 Wessel Krul (Human Powered Health) 1 Total retirements : 15