Stage 3 : August 22, 2016 Marin - Mirador Ezaro 176.4 km 1 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 4.28.36 2 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 0.21 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0.26 4 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 5 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-BikeExchange 6 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0.32 7 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 0.44 8 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) BMC Racing Team 0.54 9 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 10 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx - Quick-Step Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 : Biggest gainers by position : +114 Alexandre Geniez +98 Egor Silin +84 Sander Armee +81 Enrico Battaglin +77 Robert Gesink +77 Louis Meintjes +71 Francois Bidard +69 Yukiya Arashiro +68 Jerome Cousin +68 Dario Cataldo Biggest losers by position : -137 Koen Bouwman -131 Magnus Cort -121 Manuele Boaro -110 Gianni Meersman -110 Yves Lampaert -109 Niki Terpstra -107 Jos van Emden -105 Johan Le Bon -96 Michael Gogl -81 Andrey Zeits -80 Salvatore Puccio Biggest gainers by time : +0:33 Alexandre Geniez Biggest losers by time : -19:13 Federico Zurlo -19:02 Jean-Pierre Drucker -19:02 Michael Gogl -19:02 Nikias Arndt -18:45 Koen Bouwman -18:45 Victor Campenaerts -18:36 Niccolo Bonifazio -18:17 Svein Tuft -18:14 Manuele Boaro -18:14 Michal Golas -17:41 Christophe Riblon Favourites by position : +77 Robert Gesink +57 Jean-Christophe Peraud +42 Mathias Frank +41 Pierre Rolland +28 Alberto Contador Velasco +24 Andrew Talansky +13 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez +11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio +5 Simon Yates +2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +1 Christopher Froome +1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -68 Tejay van Garderen -76 Michal Kwiatkowski Favourites by time : -0:07 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -0:11 Christopher Froome -0:17 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas -0:39 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -0:39 Alberto Contador Velasco -0:51 Leopold Konig -0:56 Mathias Frank -1:00 Andrew Talansky -1:17 Simon Yates -1:17 Jean-Christophe Peraud -1:47 Robert Gesink -5:56 Michal Kwiatkowski -7:40 Tejay van Garderen -8:03 Pierre Rolland Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Ruben Fernandez 9:16:07 (was 9th at 0:00) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:07 (was 3rd at 0:00) 3 Christopher Froome 0:11 (was 4th at 0:00) 4 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:17 (was 15th at 0:06) 5 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:17 (was 7th at 0:00) 6 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 0:46 (was 19th at 0:07) 7 Peter Kennaugh 0:47 (was 6th at 0:00) 8 Leopold Konig 0:51 (was 8th at 0:00) 9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 0:58 (was 11th at 0:01) 10 Gianluca Brambilla 1:01 (was 25th at 0:22) 11 Simon Yates 1:23 (was 16th at 0:06) 12 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:31 (was 40th at 0:52) ..... 18 Andrew Talansky 1:52 (was 42nd at 0:52) ..... 24 Mathias Frank 2:09 (was 66th at 1:13) ..... 47 Jean-Christophe Peraud 3:05 (was 104th at 1:48) ..... 68 Robert Gesink 5:01 (was 145th at 3:14) ..... 77 Michal Kwiatkowski 5:56 (was 1st at 0:00) ..... 90 Tejay van Garderen 7:47 (was 22nd at 0:07) ..... 114 Pierre Rolland 11:44 (was 155th at 3:41) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Alexandre Geniez 26 (was 0 points) 2 Gianni Meersman 25 (was 1st with 25 points) 3 Ruben Fernandez 20 (was 0 points) 4 Michael Schwarzmann 20 (was 2nd with 20 points) 5 Alejandro Valverde 16 (was 0 points) 6 Magnus Cort Nielsen 16 (was 0 points) 7 Christopher Froome 14 (was 0 points) 8 Michal Kwiatkowski 14 (was 4th with 14 points) 9 Esteban Chaves 12 (was 0 points) 10 Jonas Vangenechten 12 (was 0 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Alexandre Geniez 10 (was 0 points) 2 Simon Pellaud 4 (was 0 points) 3 Pieter Serry 4 (was 0 points) 4 Laurent Pichon 3 (was 1st with 3 points) 5 Ruben Fernandez 2 (was 0 points) 6 Cesare Benedetti 2 (was 2nd with 2 points) 7 Alejandro Valverde 1 (was 0 points) 8 Brian Nauleau 1 (was 0 points) Retirements to date : Stage Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 3 <<< Total retirements : 1