Stage 18 : September 07, 2017 Suances - Santo Toribio de Liebana 169 km 1 Sander Armee (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4.09.39 2 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0.31 3 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0.46 4 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 1.02 5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 1.06 6 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) BMC Racing Team 1.19 7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 1.21 8 Sergio Pardilla Bellon (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 9 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 1.38 10 Anthony Roux (Fra) FDJ 1.42 Changes in GC, stage 18 compared to stage 17 : Biggest gainers by position : +21 Toms Skujins +20 Patrick Konrad +20 Alexis Gougeard +18 Matteo Trentin +17 Alexey Lutsenko +12 Stephane Rossetto +12 Magnus Cort +11 Julian Alaphilippe +11 Anthony Roux +10 Marc Soler Biggest losers by position : -6 Adam Yates -5 Daan Olivier -5 Fabricio Ferrari -5 Jacques Janse van Rensburg -5 Thomas De Gendt -5 Tomasz Marczynski -4 Floris De Tier -4 Jetse Bol -4 Ricardo Vilela -4 Richard Carapaz -4 Simon Clarke Biggest gainers by time : +10:18 Sander Armee +9:43 Alexey Lutsenko +9:26 Giovanni Visconti +9:06 Alexis Gougeard +9:02 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil +8:50 Matteo Trentin +8:49 Alessandro De Marchi +8:47 Sergio Pardilla Bellon +8:30 Antwan Tolhoek +8:26 Anthony Roux Biggest losers by time : -15:16 Rafael Reis -14:39 Aaron Gate -14:39 Adam Blythe -14:39 Adam Hansen -14:39 Adam Yates -14:39 Alberto Losada Alguacil -14:39 Andreas Schillinger -14:39 Anthony Turgis -14:39 Antonio Nibali -14:39 Arnaud Courteille -14:39 Bert-Jan Lindeman Favourites by position : +1 Steven Kruijswijk +1 Fabio Aru +1 Bob Jungels -3 Simon Yates -3 Rafal Majka -6 Adam Yates Favourites by time : +0:12 Fabio Aru -0:04 Ilnur Zakarin -0:13 Steven Kruijswijk -0:21 Vincenzo Nibali -0:29 Louis Meintjes -1:11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -2:38 Romain Bardet -9:30 Bob Jungels -14:39 Simon Yates -14:39 Rafal Majka -14:39 Adam Yates Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Christopher Froome 72:03:50 (unchanged) 2 Vincenzo Nibali 1:37 (was 2nd at 1:16) 3 Wilco Kelderman 2:17 (was 3rd at 2:13) 4 Ilnur Zakarin 2:29 (was 4th at 2:25) 5 Alberto Contador Velasco 3:34 (unchanged) 6 Miguel Angel Lopez 5:16 (was 6th at 4:39) 7 Michael Woods 6:33 (unchanged) 8 Fabio Aru 6:33 (was 9th at 6:45) 9 Wout Poels 6:47 (was 8th at 6:40) 10 Steven Kruijswijk 10:26 (was 11th at 10:13) ..... 12 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 11:57 (was 12th at 10:46) ..... 14 Louis Meintjes 13:32 (was 14th at 13:03) ..... 19 Romain Bardet 42:10 (was 19th at 39:32) ..... 31 Adam Yates 1:18:49 (was 25th at 1:04:10) ..... 39 Rafal Majka 1:38:23 (was 36th at 1:23:44) ..... 44 Bob Jungels 1:50:21 (was 45th at 1:40:51) 45 Simon Yates 1:51:06 (was 42nd at 1:36:27) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Christopher Froome 137 (unchanged) 2 Matteo Trentin 121 (was 3rd with 108 points) 3 Vincenzo Nibali 118 (was 2nd with 118 points) 4 Miguel Angel Lopez 90 (unchanged) 5 Wilco Kelderman 89 (unchanged) 6 Alberto Contador Velasco 80 (unchanged) 7 Ilnur Zakarin 79 (unchanged) 8 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 69 (was 10th with 57 points) 9 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 61 (was 8th with 61 points) 10 Pawel Poljanski 58 (was 9th with 58 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Davide Villella 54 (unchanged) 2 Miguel Angel Lopez 47 (unchanged) 3 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 33 (was 5th with 27 points) 4 Christopher Froome 29 (was 3rd with 29 points) 5 Rafal Majka 28 (was 4th with 28 points) 6 Stefan Denifl 26 (unchanged) 7 Romain Bardet 20 (unchanged) 8 Ilnur Zakarin 20 (unchanged) 9 Thomas De Gendt 19 (unchanged) 10 Sander Armee 18 (was 12th with 14 points) Retirements to date : Stage Maxime Monfort (Bel) Lotto Soudal 18 <<< 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 : 37