Stage 7 : August 26, 2016 Maceda - Puebla de Sanabria 158.5 km 1 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) IAM Cycling 3.55.44 2 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Tinkoff Team 3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team 5 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ 6 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) AG2R La Mondiale 7 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 8 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data 9 Romain Hardy (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 10 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 : Biggest gainers by position : +34 Jacobus Venter +29 Nikias Arndt +26 Kevin Reza +25 Pavel Kochetkov +25 Michal Golas +24 Zico Waeytens +24 Sergey Lagutin +24 Gediminas Bagdonas +23 Lorrenzo Manzin +23 Francois Bidard Biggest losers by position : -37 Silvio Herklotz -36 Tejay van Garderen -31 Enrico Battaglin -29 Ilia Koshevoy -26 Sven Erik Bystrom -25 Igor Anton Hernandez -25 Omar Fraile Matarranza -24 Silvan Dillier -22 Sander Armee -21 Gert Dockx -20 Markel Irizar Aranburu Biggest gainers by time : +0:10 Jonas Van Genechten +0:06 Daniele Bennati +0:04 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte +0:01 Luis Angel Mate Mardones Biggest losers by time : -17:48 Enrico Battaglin -17:48 Igor Anton Hernandez -17:48 Jos van Emden -17:48 Omar Fraile Matarranza -17:48 Tony Hurel -16:34 Bryan Nauleau -16:34 Christophe Riblon -16:34 Dylan Teuns -16:34 Ilia Koshevoy -16:34 Johan Le Bon -16:34 Julien Morice Favourites by position : +7 Pierre Rolland +1 Mathias Frank +1 Jean-Christophe Peraud -14 Robert Gesink -36 Tejay van Garderen Favourites by time : +0:04 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -9:50 Robert Gesink -16:34 Tejay van Garderen Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Darwin Atapuma 25:41:05 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:24 (was 2nd at 0:28) 3 Christopher Froome 0:32 (unchanged) 4 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:38 (unchanged) 5 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:38 (unchanged) 6 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 1:07 (unchanged) 7 Leopold Konig 1:12 (unchanged) 8 Peter Kennaugh 1:14 (unchanged) 9 Gianluca Brambilla 1:22 (unchanged) 10 Simon Yates 1:28 (unchanged) ..... 12 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:52 (unchanged) ..... 15 Andrew Talansky 2:13 (unchanged) ..... 31 Jean-Christophe Peraud 3:49 (was 32nd at 3:49) ..... 36 Mathias Frank 4:35 (was 37th at 4:35) ..... 71 Robert Gesink 31:00 (was 57th at 21:10) ..... 73 Pierre Rolland 34:17 (was 80th at 34:17) ..... 137 Tejay van Garderen 57:10 (was 101st at 40:36) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Gianni Meersman 60 (was 1st with 51 points) 2 Alejandro Valverde 50 (was 3rd with 34 points) 3 Luis Leon Sanchez 39 (was 4th with 34 points) 4 Jonas Vangenechten 37 (was 24th with 12 points) 5 Fabio Felline 36 (was 2nd with 36 points) 6 Kevin Reza 28 (was 16th with 16 points) 7 Alexandre Geniez 26 (was 5th with 26 points) 8 Simon Yates 25 (was 6th with 25 points) 9 Lilian Calmejane 25 (was 7th with 25 points) 10 Romain Hardy 23 (was 13th with 16 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Alexandre Geniez 10 (unchanged) 2 Luis Angel Mate 9 (was 0 points) 3 Thomas De Gendt 8 (was 2nd with 8 points) 4 Omar Fraile 6 (was 3rd with 6 points) 5 Lilian Calmejane 5 (was 4th with 5 points) 6 Simon Pellaud 4 (was 5th with 4 points) 7 Pieter Serry 4 (was 6th with 4 points) 8 Tiago Machado 3 (was 7th with 3 points) 9 Laurent Pichon 3 (was 8th with 3 points) 10 Darwin Atapuma 3 (was 9th with 3 points) Retirements to date : Stage Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 7 <<< Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 7 <<< Rein Taaramae (Est) Team Katusha 7 <<< Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 6 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Tinkoff Team 6 Sebastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 5 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ 5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 5 Federico Zurlo (Ita) Lampre - Merida 4 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) IAM Cycling 4 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 3 Total retirements : 12