Stage 20 : September 12, 2015 San Lorenzo de El Escorial - Cercedilla 175.8 km 1 Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Lampre-Merida 4.37.05 2 Jose Goncalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 1.07 3 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 1.08 4 Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar 1.29 5 Amael Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 1.30 6 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 7 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky 8 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ.fr 1.35 9 Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1.43 10 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 2.40 Changes in GC, stage 20 compared to stage 19 : Biggest gainers by position : +15 Moreno Moser +13 Alessandro De Marchi +12 Jelle Vanendert +12 Jay McCarthy +11 Yukiya Arashiro +11 Ruben Plaza Molina +10 Matteo Montaguti +10 Amael Moinard +8 Vasil Kiryienka +8 Andrey Zeits Biggest losers by position : -7 Natnael Berhane -6 Maxime Monfort -6 Tosh Van der Sande -5 Maxime Bouet -5 Tom Dumoulin -5 Vicente Reynes Mimo -4 Cyril Lemoine -4 Fabrice Jeandesboz -4 Jerome Cousin -4 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez -4 Omar Fraile Matarranza Biggest gainers by time : +3:57 Ruben Plaza Molina +2:43 Jose Goncalves +2:42 Alessandro De Marchi +2:15 Romain Sicard +2:14 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya +2:14 Carlos Verona Quintanilla +2:14 Amael Moinard +2:09 Kenny Elissonde +2:01 Matteo Montaguti +1:04 Moreno Moser Biggest losers by time : -19:18 Alessandro Vanotti -19:18 Alexis Gougeard -19:18 Antoine Duchesne -19:18 Blel Kadri -19:18 Boy van Poppel -19:18 Carlos Barbero Cuesta -19:18 Christian Knees -19:18 Cyril Gautier -19:18 Cyril Lemoine -19:18 Danny van Poppel -19:18 Davide Villella Favourites by position : +3 Mikel Landa Meana +1 Rafal Majka +1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver +1 Fabio Aru -1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -2 Pierre Rolland -3 Geraint Thomas -5 Tom Dumoulin Favourites by time : +1:02 Rafal Majka +1:00 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +0:07 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver +0:06 Fabio Aru -0:04 Mikel Landa Meana -3:46 Tom Dumoulin -3:46 Domenico Pozzovivo -3:46 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -14:47 Pierre Rolland -19:18 Geraint Thomas Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Fabio Aru 83:01:40 (was 2nd at 0:06) 2 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 1:17 (was 3rd at 1:24) 3 Rafal Majka 1:29 (was 4th at 2:31) 4 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 2:02 (was 5th at 3:02) 5 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 3:30 (was 7th at 3:39) 6 Tom Dumoulin 3:46 (was 1st at 0:00) 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 7:10 (was 6th at 3:24) 8 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 7:26 (was 9th at 4:19) 9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 7:32 (was 8th at 3:46) 10 Louis Meintjes 10:46 (was 10th at 7:00) 11 Domenico Pozzovivo 11:30 (was 11th at 7:44) ..... 25 Mikel Landa Meana 51:30 (was 28th at 51:26) ..... 49 Pierre Rolland 1:57:45 (was 47th at 1:42:58) ..... 67 Geraint Thomas 2:31:30 (was 64th at 2:12:12) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver 116 (was 0 points) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 114 (was 0 points) 3 Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio 108 (was 0 points) 4 Tom Dumoulin 105 (unchanged) 5 Nicolas Roche 97 (unchanged) 6 Fabio Aru 97 (unchanged) 7 Rafal Majka 89 (was 7th with 85 points) 8 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 84 (was 0 points) 9 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 70 (was 0 points) 10 Jose Goncalves 69 (was 15th with 49 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Omar Fraile Matarranz 82 (was 0 points) 2 Ruben Plaza Molina 63 (was 3rd with 27 points) 3 Frank Schleck 30 (was 2nd with 30 points) 4 Alessandro De Marchi 28 (was 6th with 20 points) 5 Mikel Landa Meana 25 (was 4th with 25 points) 6 Jose Goncalves 24 (was 35th with 6 points) 7 Rodolfo Andres Torres Agudelo 22 (was 0 points) 8 Pierre Rolland 20 (was 7th with 20 points) 9 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 19 (was 0 points) 10 Mikael Cherel 18 (was 8th with 18 points) Retirements to date : Stage Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 20 <<< Arnaud Courteille (Fra) FDJ.fr 19 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 19 Stephane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 19 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 : 40