Stage 3 : August 27, 2018 Mijas - Alhaurin de la Torre 178.2 km
1 Elia Viviani (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 4.48.12
2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
5 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
6 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
7 Michael Morkov (Den) Quick-Step Floors
8 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
9 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) Dimension Data
10 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+38 Giacomo Nizzolo
+36 Kenneth Van Bilsen
+36 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
+34 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide
+27 Simone Consonni
+27 Michael Morkov
+27 Jose Joao Pimenta Costa Mendes
+25 Elia Viviani
+24 Mike Teunissen
+23 Sven Erik Bystrom
Biggest losers by position :
-85 Pieter Serry
-70 Victor Campenaerts
-55 Jelle Wallays
-42 Diego Rubio
-42 Tom Leezer
-41 Alex Aranburu
-41 Dario Cataldo
-40 Daniel Martin
-38 Kasper Asgreen
-34 Antoine Duchesne
-34 Oscar Cabedo Carda
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Elia Viviani
+0:06 Giacomo Nizzolo
+0:04 Peter Sagan
Biggest losers by time :
-12:41 Jelle Wallays
-12:41 Matthias Brandle
-12:41 Pieter Serry
-10:42 Johann Van Zyl
-10:42 Nicholas Schultz
-8:55 Alex Aranburu
-8:55 Antoine Duchesne
-8:55 Dario Cataldo
-8:55 Diego Rubio
-8:55 Hector Saez Benito
-8:55 Marcus Burghardt
Favourites by position :
+5 Vincenzo Nibali
+2 Ilnur Zakarin
+1 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Miguel Angel Lopez
+1 George Bennett
-7 Adam Yates
-12 Richie Porte
-40 Daniel Martin
Favourites by time :
-4:09 Daniel Martin
-4:09 Adam Yates
-8:55 Richie Porte
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 9:10:52 (unchanged)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:14 (unchanged)
3 Wilco Kelderman 0:25 (unchanged)
4 Laurens De Plus 0:28 (unchanged)
5 Jon Izagirre Insausti 0:30 (unchanged)
6 Fabio Felline 0:30 (unchanged)
7 Emanuel Buchmann 0:32 (unchanged)
8 Tony Gallopin 0:33 (unchanged)
9 Nairo Quintana 0:33 (unchanged)
10 Bauke Mollema 0:35 (unchanged)
11 Steven Kruijswijk 0:37 (unchanged)
12 Simon Yates 0:37 (unchanged)
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16 Thibaut Pinot 0:43 (unchanged)
17 George Bennett 0:45 (was 18th at 0:45)
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19 Rigoberto Uran 0:48 (was 20th at 0:48)
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25 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:54 (was 26th at 0:54)
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36 Ilnur Zakarin 1:31 (was 38th at 1:31)
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77 Vincenzo Nibali 4:44 (was 82nd at 4:44)
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85 Daniel Martin 6:02 (was 45th at 1:53)
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154 Adam Yates 18:20 (was 147th at 14:11)
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167 Richie Porte 23:17 (was 155th at 14:22)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 43 (was 1st with 40 points)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 29 (was 3rd with 25 points)
3 Elia Viviani 25 (was 0 points)
4 Rohan Dennis 25 (was 2nd with 25 points)
5 Wilco Kelderman 20 (was 4th with 20 points)
6 Giacomo Nizzolo 20 (was 0 points)
7 Laurens De Plus 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
8 Victor Campenaerts 16 (was 6th with 16 points)
9 Peter Sagan 16 (was 0 points)
10 Nelson Oliveira 14 (was 7th with 14 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 24 (was 1st with 11 points)
2 Pierre Rolland 12 (was 3rd with 4 points)
3 Thomas De Gendt 5 (was 2nd with 5 points)
4 Nans Peters 4 (was 0 points)
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 3 (was 4th with 3 points)
6 Jordi Simon Casulleras 3 (was 0 points)
7 Michal Kwiatkowski 2 (was 5th with 2 points)
8 Laurens De Plus 1 (was 6th with 1 points)
9 Alexis Gougeard 1 (was 7th with 1 points)
10 Hector Saez Benito 1 (was 0 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0