Stage 9 : August 28, 2016 Cistierna - Alto de Naranco 164.5 km 1 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 3.47.56 2 Dries Devenyns (Bel) IAM Cycling 0.27 3 Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0.33 4 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0.51 5 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 6 Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 0.53 7 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Bora-Argon 18 0.58 8 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1.04 9 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 10 Dylan Teuns (Bel) BMC Racing Team 1.10 Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 : Biggest gainers by position : +31 Dries Devenyns +26 Moreno Moser +26 Alessandro Vanotti +23 Dylan Teuns +21 Sander Armee +21 Omar Fraile Matarranza +20 Hugh Carthy +19 Pavel Kochetkov +18 Koen Bouwman +17 Bram Tankink Biggest losers by position : -22 Jhonatan Restrepo -21 Eduard Prades Reverte -21 Zico Waeytens -17 Jonas Van Genechten -17 Jose Goncalves -17 Valerio Conti -16 Scott Thwaites -15 Mattia Cattaneo -15 Nathan Haas -14 Gediminas Bagdonas -13 Bart De Clercq Biggest gainers by time : +2:46 David de la Cruz Melgarejo +2:13 Dries Devenyns +2:05 Moreno Moser +1:43 Mathias Frank +1:43 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil +1:41 Alexandre Geniez +1:37 Bartosz Huzarski +1:33 Thomas De Gendt +1:30 Pello Bilbao +1:24 Dylan Teuns Biggest losers by time : -21:35 Nikias Arndt -16:39 Bart De Clercq -16:39 Christophe Riblon -16:39 Eduard Prades Reverte -16:39 Florian Senechal -16:39 Ilia Koshevoy -16:39 Jacobus Venter -16:39 Jhonatan Restrepo -16:39 Jonas Van Genechten -16:39 Jose Goncalves -16:39 Julien Morice Favourites by position : +9 Mathias Frank +7 Pierre Rolland +5 Robert Gesink +3 Tejay van Garderen +1 Jean-Christophe Peraud -1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas -1 Leopold Konig -1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -1 Christopher Froome -1 Andrew Talansky -1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte Favourites by time : +1:43 Mathias Frank -0:22 Simon Yates -0:22 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -0:22 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas -0:22 Leopold Konig -0:22 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -0:22 Christopher Froome -0:22 Andrew Talansky -0:22 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:22 Alberto Contador Velasco -0:30 Jean-Christophe Peraud -0:51 Robert Gesink -2:10 Pierre Rolland -9:46 Tejay van Garderen Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 David de la Cruz Melgarejo 33:46:24 (was 15th at 2:46) 2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:22 (was 1st at 0:00) 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:41 (was 2nd at 0:19) 4 Christopher Froome 0:49 (was 3rd at 0:27) 5 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 1:19 (was 4th at 0:57) 6 Leopold Konig 1:38 (was 5th at 1:16) 7 Alberto Contador Velasco 2:01 (was 7th at 1:39) 8 Darwin Atapuma 2:06 (was 6th at 1:36) 9 Gianluca Brambilla 2:07 (was 9th at 1:46) 10 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 2:08 (was 10th at 1:46) 11 Simon Yates 2:09 (was 11th at 1:47) ..... 13 Andrew Talansky 2:46 (was 12th at 2:24) ..... 24 Jean-Christophe Peraud 4:47 (was 25th at 4:17) ..... 26 Mathias Frank 4:49 (was 35th at 6:32) ..... 59 Robert Gesink 35:14 (was 64th at 34:23) ..... 75 Pierre Rolland 46:58 (was 82nd at 44:48) ..... 140 Tejay van Garderen 1:16:59 (was 143rd at 1:07:13) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Gianni Meersman 60 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde 53 (was 2nd with 50 points) 3 Luis Leon Sanchez 53 (was 3rd with 39 points) 4 Jonas Vangenechten 37 (unchanged) 5 Alexandre Geniez 36 (was 7th with 26 points) 6 Fabio Felline 36 (was 5th with 36 points) 7 Kevin Reza 28 (was 6th with 28 points) 8 David De La Cruz 27 (was 0 points) 9 Simon Yates 25 (was 8th with 25 points) 10 Lilian Calmejane 25 (was 9th with 25 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Thomas De Gendt 19 (was 4th with 8 points) 2 Alexandre Geniez 19 (was 2nd with 10 points) 3 Sergey Lagutin 10 (was 1st with 10 points) 4 Luis Angel Mate 9 (was 3rd with 9 points) 5 David De La Cruz 8 (was 0 points) 6 Axel Domont 8 (was 5th with 8 points) 7 Omar Fraile 6 (was 6th with 6 points) 8 Lilian Calmejane 5 (was 7th with 5 points) 9 Simon Clarke 5 (was 18th with 2 points) 10 Pieter Serry 5 (was 8th with 5 points) Retirements to date : Stage Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 9 <<< Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 9 <<< Tony Hurel (Fra) Direct Energie 9 <<< Yoann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9 <<< 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 : 16