Stage 21 : September 16, 2018 Alcorcon - Madrid 100.9 km
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 2.21.28
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
3 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
4 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
5 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
6 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Euskadi Basque Country-Murias
7 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
8 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
9 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
10 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
Changes in GC, stage 21 compared to stage 20 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+2 Matteo Trentin
+2 Kenneth Van Bilsen
+1 Tom Van Asbroeck
+1 Reto Hollenstein
+1 Nicholas Schultz
+1 Michael Schwarzmann
+1 Maxime Monfort
+1 Luka Pibernik
+1 Jose Joao Pimenta Costa Mendes
+1 Jose Herrada Lopez
Biggest losers by position :
-2 Michal Kwiatkowski
-2 Tom Leezer
-1 Alessandro De Marchi
-1 Antoine Duchesne
-1 Davide Formolo
-1 Ian Boswell
-1 Jelle Wallays
-1 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
-1 Louis Meintjes
-1 Mitchell Docker
-1 Pierre Rolland
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Elia Viviani
+0:06 Peter Sagan
+0:04 Giacomo Nizzolo
+0:03 Nikita Stalnov
+0:02 Leo Vincent
Biggest losers by time :
-4:10 Mitchell Docker
-4:08 Loic Chetout
-2:24 Matthias Brandle
-2:06 Benjamin Thomas
-1:32 Louis Meintjes
-1:30 Antoine Duchesne
-1:12 Bauke Mollema
-1:12 Bert-Jan Lindeman
-1:12 George Bennett
-1:10 Marcus Burghardt
-1:06 Mikel Iturria Segurola
Favourites by position :
-1 Richie Porte
Favourites by time :
-0:19 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:19 Ilnur Zakarin
-0:54 Richie Porte
-1:04 Adam Yates
-1:12 George Bennett
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Simon Yates 82:05:58 (unchanged)
2 Enric Mas 1:46 (unchanged)
3 Miguel Angel Lopez 2:04 (unchanged)
4 Steven Kruijswijk 2:54 (unchanged)
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 4:28 (unchanged)
6 Thibaut Pinot 5:57 (unchanged)
7 Rigoberto Uran 6:07 (unchanged)
8 Nairo Quintana 6:51 (unchanged)
9 Jon Izagirre Insausti 11:09 (unchanged)
10 Wilco Kelderman 11:11 (unchanged)
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20 Ilnur Zakarin 51:36 (was 20th at 51:17)
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35 George Bennett 1:24:17 (was 35th at 1:23:05)
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45 Adam Yates 1:54:33 (was 45th at 1:53:29)
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59 Vincenzo Nibali 2:08:54 (was 59th at 2:08:35)
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84 Richie Porte 2:57:17 (was 83rd at 2:56:23)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 131 (unchanged)
2 Peter Sagan 119 (was 4th with 99 points)
3 Elia Viviani 105 (was 7th with 80 points)
4 Simon Yates 104 (was 2nd with 104 points)
5 Miguel Angel Lopez 103 (was 3rd with 103 points)
6 Thibaut Pinot 95 (was 5th with 95 points)
7 Dylan Teuns 93 (was 6th with 93 points)
8 Steven Kruijswijk 80 (unchanged)
9 Danny van Poppel 80 (was 14th with 66 points)
10 Giacomo Nizzolo 76 (was 17th with 60 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Thomas De Gendt 95 (unchanged)
2 Bauke Mollema 83 (unchanged)
3 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 64 (unchanged)
4 Ben King 56 (unchanged)
5 Miguel Angel Lopez 45 (unchanged)
6 Simon Yates 38 (unchanged)
7 Thibaut Pinot 36 (unchanged)
8 Pierre Rolland 31 (unchanged)
9 Michael Woods 21 (unchanged)
10 Michal Kwiatkowski 20 (unchanged)
Retirements to date : Stage
Laurens De Plus (Bel) Quick-Step Floors 19
Lukas Postlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 19
Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain-Merida 18
Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Sunweb 18
Jordi Simon Casulleras (Spa) Burgos BH 17
Mark Padun (Ukr) Bahrain-Merida 17
Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 17
Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 16
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 : 18