Stage 17 : September 06, 2017 Villadiego - Los Machucos 180.5 km 1 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Aqua Blue Sport 4.48.52 2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0.28 3 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 1.04 4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 5 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 7 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac 1.13 8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 1.17 9 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 1.19 10 David de la Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 1.42 Changes in GC, stage 17 compared to stage 16 : Biggest gainers by position : +18 Nicholas Schultz +13 Julian Alaphilippe +10 Stefan Denifl +10 Chad Haga +9 Ivan Garcia Cortina +8 Rein Taaramae +7 Jeremy Maison +7 Jacques Janse van Rensburg +7 Daniel Hoelgaard +7 Bernardo Suaza Biggest losers by position : -11 Lachlan Morton -9 Alberto Losada Alguacil -9 Anthony Perez -9 Nelson Oliveira -8 Daniel Navarro Garcia -8 Jetse Bol -7 Igor Anton Hernandez -6 Hector Saez Benito -6 Tomasz Marczynski -5 Manuele Boaro -5 Niki Terpstra Biggest gainers by time : +1:56 Stefan Denifl +1:24 Alberto Contador Velasco +0:46 Miguel Angel Lopez +0:42 Vincenzo Nibali +0:42 Rafal Majka +0:42 Ilnur Zakarin +0:33 Michael Woods +0:31 Daniel Moreno Fernandez +0:27 Wilco Kelderman +0:04 Steven Kruijswijk Biggest losers by time : -22:46 Christoph Pfingsten -22:46 Manuele Boaro -22:46 Michael Schwarzmann -22:32 Adam Blythe -22:32 Andreas Schillinger -22:32 Niki Terpstra -22:18 Maxim Belkov -22:15 Conor Dunne -22:15 Michel Kreder -22:06 Tom Van Asbroeck -22:06 Toms Skujins Favourites by position : +4 Rafal Majka +2 Steven Kruijswijk +1 Adam Yates -2 Fabio Aru -3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -4 Simon Yates -4 Bob Jungels Favourites by time : +1:24 Alberto Contador Velasco +0:42 Vincenzo Nibali +0:42 Rafal Majka +0:42 Ilnur Zakarin +0:04 Steven Kruijswijk -0:18 Fabio Aru -0:19 Louis Meintjes -0:28 Romain Bardet -4:06 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -4:06 Adam Yates -12:16 Bob Jungels -14:31 Simon Yates Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Christopher Froome 67:44:03 (unchanged) 2 Vincenzo Nibali 1:16 (was 2nd at 1:58) 3 Wilco Kelderman 2:13 (was 3rd at 2:40) 4 Ilnur Zakarin 2:25 (was 4th at 3:07) 5 Alberto Contador Velasco 3:34 (was 5th at 4:58) 6 Miguel Angel Lopez 4:39 (was 6th at 5:25) 7 Michael Woods 6:33 (was 10th at 7:06) 8 Wout Poels 6:40 (was 8th at 6:33) 9 Fabio Aru 6:45 (was 7th at 6:27) 10 David de la Cruz 10:10 (was 12th at 10:14) 11 Steven Kruijswijk 10:13 (was 13th at 10:17) 12 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 10:46 (was 9th at 6:40) ..... 14 Louis Meintjes 13:03 (was 14th at 12:44) ..... 19 Romain Bardet 39:32 (was 19th at 39:04) ..... 25 Adam Yates 1:04:10 (was 26th at 1:00:04) ..... 36 Rafal Majka 1:23:44 (was 40th at 1:24:26) ..... 42 Simon Yates 1:36:27 (was 38th at 1:21:56) ..... 45 Bob Jungels 1:40:51 (was 41st at 1:28:35) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Christopher Froome 137 (was 1st with 135 points) 2 Vincenzo Nibali 118 (was 3rd with 104 points) 3 Matteo Trentin 108 (was 2nd with 108 points) 4 Miguel Angel Lopez 90 (was 5th with 74 points) 5 Wilco Kelderman 89 (was 4th with 82 points) 6 Alberto Contador Velasco 80 (was 8th with 60 points) 7 Ilnur Zakarin 79 (was 6th with 67 points) 8 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 61 (was 7th with 61 points) 9 Pawel Poljanski 58 (unchanged) 10 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 57 (unchanged) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Davide Villella 54 (was 1st with 49 points) 2 Miguel Angel Lopez 47 (was 2nd with 41 points) 3 Christopher Froome 29 (unchanged) 4 Rafal Majka 28 (unchanged) 5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 27 (unchanged) 6 Stefan Denifl 26 (was 0 points) 7 Romain Bardet 20 (was 6th with 20 points) 8 Ilnur Zakarin 20 (was 9th with 18 points) 9 Thomas De Gendt 19 (was 7th with 19 points) 10 Darwin Atapuma 18 (was 8th with 18 points) Retirements to date : Stage Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team 17 <<< Lennard Kamna (Ger) Team Sunweb 17 <<< Alexandre Geniez (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 16 Kilian Frankiny (Swi) BMC Racing Team 16 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 16 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 16 Svein Tuft (Can) Orica-Scott 16 Jimmy Turgis (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 15 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Movistar Team 15 Axel Domont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 14 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb 14 Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Dimension Data 13 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 12 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team 12 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb 12 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Dimension Data 12 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 11 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 9 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 9 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 8 Jesper Hansen (Den) Astana Pro Team 8 Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 8 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb 8 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 7 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 7 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) Aqua Blue Sport 7 Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin (Eri) Dimension Data 7 Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 6 Nicholas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 6 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 5 Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 5 Ben King (USA) Dimension Data 3 Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ 3 Anass Ait El Abdia (Mar) UAE Team Emirates 2 Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 2 Michal Kolar (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 2 Total retirements : 36