Stage 8 : August 27, 2016 Villalpando - La Camperona 181.5 km 1 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha 4.09.30 2 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.10 3 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Direct Energie 0.17 4 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Lampre - Merida 0.24 5 Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 0.40 6 Jacques Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 0.55 7 Scott Thwaites (GBr) Bora-Argon 18 1.11 8 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Astana Pro Team 1.30 9 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Team Katusha 10 Loic Chetout (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1.44 Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 : Biggest gainers by position : +38 Mattia Cattaneo +35 Sergey Lagutin +35 Perrig Quemeneur +35 Jhonatan Restrepo +35 Gatis Smukulis +32 Zico Waeytens +26 Loic Chetout +19 Hugh Carthy +17 Scott Thwaites +17 Pieter Serry Biggest losers by position : -17 Enrico Battaglin -17 Florian Senechal -17 Igor Anton Hernandez -15 Michael Gogl -13 Yoann Bagot -12 Daniele Bennati -12 Ivan Rovny -12 Jack Haig -11 Jonas Van Genechten -11 Nikias Arndt -10 Jean-Pierre Drucker Biggest gainers by time : +5:29 Sergey Lagutin +5:15 Axel Domont +5:06 Perrig Quemeneur +4:55 Mattia Cattaneo +4:39 Pieter Serry +4:24 Jacques Janse van Rensburg +4:08 Scott Thwaites +3:51 Jhonatan Restrepo +3:50 Gatis Smukulis +3:35 Loic Chetout Biggest losers by time : -16:21 Florian Senechal -13:32 Jean-Pierre Drucker -13:32 Yoann Bagot -12:57 Nikias Arndt -12:50 Igor Anton Hernandez -12:46 Tony Hurel -12:27 Enrico Battaglin -12:10 Michael Gogl -11:43 Ilia Koshevoy -11:43 Michael Schwarzmann -11:43 Rudiger Selig Favourites by position : +7 Robert Gesink +6 Jean-Christophe Peraud +5 Alberto Contador Velasco +3 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +3 Andrew Talansky +2 Leopold Konig +1 Mathias Frank +1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -1 Simon Yates -4 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -6 Tejay van Garderen -9 Pierre Rolland Favourites by time : +0:38 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas +0:13 Alberto Contador Velasco +0:05 Christopher Froome +0:05 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:04 Leopold Konig -0:11 Andrew Talansky -0:19 Simon Yates -0:19 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -0:28 Jean-Christophe Peraud -0:39 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -1:57 Mathias Frank -3:23 Robert Gesink -10:03 Tejay van Garderen -10:31 Pierre Rolland Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 29:55:54 (was 4th at 0:38) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:19 (was 2nd at 0:24) 3 Christopher Froome 0:27 (was 3rd at 0:32) 4 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:57 (was 5th at 0:38) 5 Leopold Konig 1:16 (was 7th at 1:12) 6 Darwin Atapuma 1:36 (was 1st at 0:00) 7 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:39 (was 12th at 1:52) 8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 1:44 (was 11th at 1:28) 9 Gianluca Brambilla 1:46 (was 9th at 1:22) 10 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 1:46 (was 6th at 1:07) 11 Simon Yates 1:47 (was 10th at 1:28) 12 Andrew Talansky 2:24 (was 15th at 2:13) ..... 25 Jean-Christophe Peraud 4:17 (was 31st at 3:49) ..... 35 Mathias Frank 6:32 (was 36th at 4:35) ..... 64 Robert Gesink 34:23 (was 71st at 31:00) ..... 82 Pierre Rolland 44:48 (was 73rd at 34:17) ..... 143 Tejay van Garderen 1:07:13 (was 137th at 57:10) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Gianni Meersman 60 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde 50 (unchanged) 3 Luis Leon Sanchez 39 (unchanged) 4 Jonas Vangenechten 37 (unchanged) 5 Fabio Felline 36 (unchanged) 6 Kevin Reza 28 (unchanged) 7 Alexandre Geniez 26 (unchanged) 8 Simon Yates 25 (unchanged) 9 Lilian Calmejane 25 (unchanged) 10 Sergey Lagutin 25 (was 0 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Sergey Lagutin 10 (was 0 points) 2 Alexandre Geniez 10 (was 1st with 10 points) 3 Luis Angel Mate 9 (was 2nd with 9 points) 4 Thomas De Gendt 8 (was 3rd with 8 points) 5 Axel Domont 8 (was 16th with 2 points) 6 Omar Fraile 6 (was 4th with 6 points) 7 Lilian Calmejane 5 (was 5th with 5 points) 8 Pieter Serry 5 (was 7th with 4 points) 9 Simon Pellaud 4 (was 6th with 4 points) 10 Perrig Quemeneur 4 (was 0 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