Stage 7 : August 28, 2015 Jodar - La Alpujarra 191.1 km 1 Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 5.10.24 2 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida 0.09 3 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0.29 4 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Team Europcar 0.34 5 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo 0.36 6 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 8 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 9 Songezo Jim (RSA) MTN - Qhubeka 10 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 : Biggest gainers by position : +127 Nelson Oliveira +63 Bert-Jan Lindeman +56 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze +44 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo +41 Angel Madrazo Ruiz +34 Pieter Serry +34 Carlos Quintero +33 Thomas De Gendt +31 Mickael Cherel +31 Johann Van Zyl Biggest losers by position : -32 Alex Cano Ardila -32 Juan Valencia -32 Lawrence Warbasse -31 Jelle Vanendert -30 Joey Rosskopf -30 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez -30 Natnael Berhane -30 Olivier Le Gac -30 Pawel Poljanski -30 Thomas Degand -27 Pello Bilbao Biggest gainers by time : +26:56 Nelson Oliveira +0:49 Bert-Jan Lindeman +0:33 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze +0:11 Fabio Aru +0:04 Jerome Cousin Biggest losers by time : -28:30 Valerio Conti -27:27 Vladimir Isaychev -23:32 Geoffrey Soupe -23:32 Nacer Bouhanni -23:32 Yoann Bagot -23:18 Peter Sagan -23:15 Maciej Bodnar -23:15 Zico Waeytens -23:08 Arnaud Courteille -23:08 Boy van Poppel -23:08 Caleb Ewan Favourites by position : +14 Andrew Talansky +9 Geraint Thomas +4 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez +4 Domenico Pozzovivo +3 Rafal Majka +2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +2 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver +2 Fabio Aru -3 Tejay van Garderen -3 Mikel Landa Meana -4 Pierre Rolland -5 Christopher Froome Favourites by time : +0:11 Fabio Aru -0:27 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -0:27 Mikel Landa Meana -0:27 Christopher Froome -0:49 Tejay van Garderen -6:00 Andrew Talansky -10:47 Geraint Thomas -11:18 Pierre Rolland Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 27:06:13 (unchanged) 2 Tom Dumoulin 0:10 (unchanged) 3 Daniel Martin 0:33 (unchanged) 4 Nicolas Roche 0:36 (unchanged) 5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:49 (unchanged) 6 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 0:56 (was 8th at 0:56) 7 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:57 (was 9th at 0:57) 8 Fabio Aru 0:57 (was 10th at 1:08) 9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 1:18 (was 6th at 0:51) 10 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:19 (was 14th at 1:19) ..... 12 Christopher Froome 1:22 (was 7th at 0:55) 13 Rafal Majka 1:29 (was 16th at 1:29) 14 Mikel Landa Meana 1:39 (was 11th at 1:12) ..... 16 Tejay van Garderen 2:05 (was 13th at 1:16) ..... 19 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 2:50 (was 23rd at 2:23) ..... 48 Pierre Rolland 18:39 (was 44th at 7:21) ..... 55 Andrew Talansky 22:25 (was 69th at 16:25) ..... 68 Geraint Thomas 28:53 (was 77th at 18:06) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Esteban Chaves 66 (was 2nd with 56 points) 2 Peter Sagan 61 (was 1st with 61 points) 3 Alejandro Valverde 56 (was 3rd with 47 points) 4 Tom Dumoulin 42 (was 4th with 40 points) 5 Nicolas Roche 42 (was 5th with 36 points) 6 Daniel Martin 39 (was 7th with 34 points) 7 Joaquim Rodriguez 37 (was 8th with 33 points) 8 John Degenkolb 36 (was 6th with 36 points) 9 Nairo Quintana 32 (was 12th with 24 points) 10 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 31 (was 9th with 31 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Omar Fraile 13 (unchanged) 2 Bertjan Lindeman 13 (was 13th with 1 points) 3 Walter Pedraza 7 (was 2nd with 7 points) 4 Natnael Berhane 7 (was 3rd with 7 points) 5 Maximiliano Richeze 7 (was 0 points) 6 Esteban Chaves 6 (was 4th with 6 points) 7 Fabio Aru 4 (was 0 points) 8 Sylvain Chavanel 4 (was 5th with 4 points) 9 Amets Txurruka 3 (was 0 points) 10 Cyril Gautier 3 (was 6th with 3 points) Retirements to date : Stage Amael Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team 7 <<< Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 7 <<< Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 7 <<< Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida 7 <<< Tiago Machado (Por) Team Katusha 7 <<< David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 6 Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre-Merida 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 : 14