Stage 18 : September 10, 2015 Roa - Riaza 204 km
1 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky 5.03.59
2 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek Factory Racing
3 Jose Goncalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 0.18
4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0.38
5 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge
6 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha
7 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step
8 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
9 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx - Quick-Step
10 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
Changes in GC, stage 18 compared to stage 17 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+21 Arnaud Courteille
+19 Simon Pellaud
+19 Pello Bilbao
+18 Timo Roosen
+17 Daniele Bennati
+16 Sebastien Minard
+15 John Degenkolb
+13 Vicente Reynes Mimo
+13 Luka Mezgec
+13 Kristijan Durasek
Biggest losers by position :
-10 Ian Boswell
-8 Ricardo Vilela
-7 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
-7 Natnael Berhane
-7 Omar Fraile Matarranza
-7 Pierre Rolland
-6 George Bennett
-6 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski
-5 Davide Villella
-5 Jay McCarthy
-5 Juan Valencia
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:48 Nicolas Roche
+0:44 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre
+0:24 Jose Goncalves
+0:02 Pieter Serry
+0:01 Andre Fernando S Martins Cardoso
Biggest losers by time :
-23:31 Maciej Bodnar
-20:58 Alex Howes
-20:58 Alexis Gougeard
-20:58 Antoine Duchesne
-20:58 Blel Kadri
-20:58 Boy van Poppel
-20:58 Brayan Stiven Ramirez Chacon
-20:58 Carlos Barbero Cuesta
-20:58 Carlos Quintero
-20:58 Damien Howson
-20:58 Danny van Poppel
Favourites by position :
-1 Geraint Thomas
-2 Mikel Landa Meana
-7 Pierre Rolland
Favourites by time :
-7:14 Geraint Thomas
-11:22 Mikel Landa Meana
-20:58 Pierre Rolland
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tom Dumoulin 73:45:13 (unchanged)
2 Fabio Aru 0:03 (unchanged)
3 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 1:15 (unchanged)
4 Rafal Majka 2:22 (unchanged)
5 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 2:53 (unchanged)
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 3:15 (unchanged)
7 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 3:30 (unchanged)
8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 3:46 (unchanged)
9 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 4:10 (unchanged)
10 Louis Meintjes 6:51 (unchanged)
11 Domenico Pozzovivo 7:41 (unchanged)
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22 Mikel Landa Meana 41:33 (was 20th at 30:11)
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47 Pierre Rolland 1:41:43 (was 40th at 1:20:45)
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61 Geraint Thomas 2:02:19 (was 60th at 1:55:05)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Joaquim Rodriguez 116 (was 1st with 106 points)
2 Alejandro Valverde 114 (was 3rd with 100 points)
3 Esteban Chaves 108 (was 4th with 96 points)
4 Tom Dumoulin 105 (was 2nd with 104 points)
5 Nicolas Roche 97 (was 8th with 72 points)
6 Fabio Aru 97 (was 5th with 92 points)
7 Rafal Majka 85 (was 7th with 81 points)
8 Nairo Quintana 82 (was 6th with 82 points)
9 Jose Joaquin Rojas 70 (unchanged)
10 John Degenkolb 68 (unchanged)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Omar Fraile 82 (unchanged)
2 Frank Schleck 30 (unchanged)
3 Ruben Plaza Molina 27 (unchanged)
4 Mikel Landa Meana 25 (unchanged)
5 Rodolfo Torres 22 (unchanged)
6 Alessandro De Marchi 20 (unchanged)
7 Pierre Rolland 20 (unchanged)
8 Mikael Cherel 18 (unchanged)
9 Jose Joaquin Rojas 18 (was 9th with 17 points)
10 Bertjan Lindeman 16 (unchanged)
Retirements to date : Stage
Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 18 <<<
Cameron Meyer (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 18 <<<
Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Soudal 18 <<<
Niki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx - Quick-Step 18 <<<
Peter Velits (Svk) BMC Racing Team 18 <<<
Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 14
Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 14
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 14
Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 14
Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 13
Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 13
Mitchell Docker (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 13
Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 12
Amets Txurruka (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 11
Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr 11
Romain Hardy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 11
Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Tinkoff-Saxo 11
Vladimir Isaychev (Rus) Team Katusha 11
Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 10
Lorrenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ.fr 10
Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek Factory Racing 9
Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo 9
Thomas Degand (Bel) IAM Cycling 9
Daniel Martin (Irl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 8
Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 8
Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 8
Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 8
Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida 7
David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 6
Matej Mohoric (Slo) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 6
Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 3
Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 3
Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3
David Tanner (Aus) IAM Cycling 2
Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 2
Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2
Total retirements : 36