Stage 15 : September 09, 2018 Ribera de Arriba - Lagos de Covadonga 178.2 km 1 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 5.01.49 2 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0.28 3 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0.30 4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0.32 5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo 6 Enric Mas (Spa) Quick-Step Floors 0.34 7 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 1.25 9 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 1.33 10 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 1.49 Changes in GC, stage 15 compared to stage 14 : Biggest gainers by position : +15 Antonio Molina +14 Sander Armee +13 Pierre Rolland +13 Franco Pellizotti +13 Adam Yates +11 Richie Porte +11 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea +10 Pieter Serry +10 Oscar Cabedo Carda +10 Igor Anton Hernandez Biggest losers by position : -15 Eduard Prades Reverte -14 Llus Guillermo Mas Bonet -14 Thomas De Gendt -12 Sepp Kuss -11 Jay McCarthy -10 Jesus Herrada Lopez -10 Louis Meintjes -10 Vincenzo Nibali -8 Daniel Moreno Fernandez -8 Reto Hollenstein -8 Sergio Pardilla Bellon Biggest gainers by time : +0:36 Thibaut Pinot +0:04 Miguel Angel Lopez Biggest losers by time : -38:06 Alexandre Geniez -37:55 Marcus Burghardt -37:50 Matthias Brandle -37:47 Loic Chetout -37:20 Alex Edmondson -37:20 Nicola Conci -37:20 Simone Consonni -37:05 Alex Aranburu -37:05 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova -37:05 Bert-Jan Lindeman -37:05 Eduard Prades Reverte Favourites by position : +13 Adam Yates +11 Richie Porte +7 Ilnur Zakarin +4 Thibaut Pinot -1 George Bennett -2 Rigoberto Uran -2 Jon Izagirre Insausti -10 Vincenzo Nibali Favourites by time : +0:36 Thibaut Pinot +0:04 Miguel Angel Lopez -0:06 Steven Kruijswijk -0:06 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:08 Nairo Quintana -0:59 Rigoberto Uran -1:23 Jon Izagirre Insausti -2:39 Adam Yates -3:35 Wilco Kelderman -7:56 Ilnur Zakarin -9:51 Richie Porte -12:01 George Bennett -28:33 Vincenzo Nibali Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Simon Yates 64:13:33 (unchanged) 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:26 (was 2nd at 0:20) 3 Nairo Quintana 0:33 (was 3rd at 0:25) 4 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:43 (was 4th at 0:47) 5 Steven Kruijswijk 1:29 (was 5th at 1:23) 6 Enric Mas 1:55 (was 8th at 1:47) 7 Thibaut Pinot 2:10 (was 11th at 2:46) 8 Rigoberto Uran 2:27 (was 6th at 1:28) 9 Jon Izagirre Insausti 3:03 (was 7th at 1:40) 10 Emanuel Buchmann 3:15 (was 10th at 2:08) ..... 12 Wilco Kelderman 6:56 (was 12th at 3:21) ..... 22 George Bennett 22:04 (was 21st at 10:03) ..... 30 Ilnur Zakarin 38:56 (was 37th at 31:00) ..... 71 Adam Yates 1:32:59 (was 84th at 1:30:20) ..... 73 Vincenzo Nibali 1:37:18 (was 63rd at 1:08:45) ..... 81 Richie Porte 1:52:19 (was 92nd at 1:42:28) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 115 (was 1st with 101 points) 2 Peter Sagan 83 (unchanged) 3 Miguel Angel Lopez 71 (was 10th with 51 points) 4 Ben King 69 (was 3rd with 68 points) 5 Dylan Teuns 68 (was 4th with 68 points) 6 Elia Viviani 66 (was 5th with 66 points) 7 Simon Yates 65 (was 11th with 49 points) 8 Thibaut Pinot 56 (was 19th with 31 points) 9 Danny van Poppel 56 (was 6th with 56 points) 10 Michal Kwiatkowski 54 (was 7th with 54 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 64 (unchanged) 2 Thomas De Gendt 57 (was 2nd with 54 points) 3 Ben King 56 (was 3rd with 40 points) 4 Bauke Mollema 50 (was 4th with 34 points) 5 Pierre Rolland 31 (was 5th with 26 points) 6 Miguel Angel Lopez 25 (was 10th with 10 points) 7 Thibaut Pinot 22 (was 31st with 2 points) 8 Simon Yates 22 (was 7th with 12 points) 9 Michal Kwiatkowski 17 (was 6th with 15 points) 10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 16 (was 9th with 10 points) Retirements to date : Stage Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal 15 <<< Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Sky 14 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Team Sky 14 Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 13 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 11 Georg Preidler (Aut) Groupama-FDJ 11 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 11 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates 10 Simone Petilli (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 10 Maurits Lammertink (Ned) Katusha-Alpecin 9 Total retirements : 10