Stage 5 : April 07, 2017 Bilbo - Eibar 139.8 km 1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 3.26.32 2 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 4 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac 5 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0.03 7 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0.15 8 Sergio Henao (Col) Team Sky 9 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 10 David De La Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0.22 Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 : Biggest gainers by position : +31 Anthony Roux +25 Michael Woods +25 Kristijan Durasek +25 Jonathan Lastra Martinez +25 Fabricio Ferrari +25 Alberto Contador Velasco +24 Simon Clarke +24 Louis Meintjes +21 Toms Skujins +21 Damiano Caruso Biggest losers by position : -26 Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin -24 Michal Kwiatkowski -20 Ruben Fernandez -19 Angel Vicioso Arcos -19 Rudy Molard -19 Tiago Machado -18 Michael Albasini -18 Omar Fraile Matarranza -18 Primoz Roglic -16 Jay McCarthy -16 Laurens ten Dam Biggest gainers by time : +0:03 Romain Bardet +0:03 Rigoberto Uran +0:03 Michael Woods +0:03 Louis Meintjes +0:03 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte Biggest losers by time : -16:59 Michael Schwarzmann -16:33 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev -16:33 Michael Albasini -16:33 Nikita Stalnov -16:33 Robert Power -16:17 Laurent Didier -15:24 Bert-Jan Lindeman -15:24 Juan Jose Lobato -15:24 Julien Berard -15:24 Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet -15:24 Omar Fraile Matarranza Favourites by position : +25 Alberto Contador Velasco +24 Louis Meintjes +21 Damiano Caruso +14 Simon Yates +8 Mikel Nieve Ituralde +7 Romain Bardet +7 Rigoberto Uran +3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte +2 Daniel Moreno Fernandez -24 Michal Kwiatkowski Favourites by time : +0:03 Romain Bardet +0:03 Rigoberto Uran +0:03 Louis Meintjes +0:03 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:12 Simon Yates -1:08 Damiano Caruso -1:57 Mikel Nieve Ituralde -1:57 Michal Kwiatkowski -5:07 Daniel Moreno Fernandez Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 20:05:18 (was 4th at 0:03) 2 Rigoberto Uran 0:00 (was 9th at 0:03) 3 Romain Bardet 0:00 (was 10th at 0:03) 4 Louis Meintjes 0:00 (was 28th at 0:03) 5 Michael Woods 0:00 (was 30th at 0:03) 6 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:03 (was 31st at 0:03) 7 Jon Izagirre Insausti 0:15 (was 12th at 0:03) 8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:15 (was 21st at 0:03) 9 David de la Cruz 0:19 (was 1st at 0:00) 10 Patrick Konrad 0:22 (was 5th at 0:03) ..... 26 Simon Yates 1:45 (was 40th at 1:33) 27 Michal Kwiatkowski 2:00 (was 3rd at 0:03) ..... 30 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 3:25 (was 38th at 1:28) ..... 42 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 8:05 (was 44th at 2:58) ..... 77 Damiano Caruso 24:20 (was 98th at 23:12) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Michael Matthews 59 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde 54 (was 7th with 29 points) 3 Michal Kwiatkowski 40 (was 2nd with 40 points) 4 David De La Cruz 36 (was 4th with 30 points) 5 Jay McCarthy 36 (was 3rd with 36 points) 6 Primoz Roglic 29 (unchanged) 7 Rigoberto Uran 29 (was 16th with 13 points) 8 Giovanni Visconti 28 (unchanged) 9 Patrick Konrad 27 (was 12th with 22 points) 10 Rudy Molard 27 (unchanged) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Alex Howes 27 (was 1st with 16 points) 2 Yoann Bagot 23 (was 2nd with 15 points) 3 Matteo Montaguti 15 (was 7th with 9 points) 4 Igor Anton 14 (was 3rd with 14 points) 5 Stephane Rossetto 14 (was 4th with 14 points) 6 Jack Haig 12 (was 0 points) 7 Louis Meintjes 10 (was 0 points) 8 Omar Fraile 10 (was 0 points) 9 Simon Yates 10 (was 8th with 6 points) 10 Jakob Fuglsang 10 (was 5th with 10 points) Retirements to date : Stage Adrien Niyonshuti (Rwa) Dimension Data 5 <<< Antonio Pedrero (Spa) Movistar Team 5 <<< Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Katusha-Alpecin 5 <<< Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Quick-Step Floors 5 <<< Lachlan Morton (Aus) Dimension Data 5 <<< Martin Velits (Svk) Quick-Step Floors 5 <<< Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Quick-Step Floors 5 <<< Rafael Reis (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 5 <<< Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto Soudal 5 <<< Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-Scott 5 <<< Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 5 <<< Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4 Darwin Atapuma (Col) UAE Team Emirates 4 Jose Herrada Lopez (Spa) Movistar Team 4 Loic Vliegen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 4 Louis Vervaeke (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4 Rafael Valls (Spa) Lotto Soudal 4 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data 4 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 3 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) Trek-Segafredo 3 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 1 Total retirements : 22