Stage 8 : September 01, 2018 Linares - Almaden 195.5 km
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 4.35.54
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
3 Danny van Poppel (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
4 Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
5 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
6 Jesus Herrada Lopez (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
7 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
8 Bjorg Lambrecht (Bel) Lotto Soudal
9 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
10 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+11 Danny van Poppel
+9 Tom Van Asbroeck
+9 Giacomo Nizzolo
+8 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
+7 Mikel Iturria Segurola
+7 Dylan Teuns
+6 Tosh Van der Sande
+6 Nacer Bouhanni
+6 Matteo Trentin
+6 Luka Pibernik
Biggest losers by position :
-20 Maurits Lammertink
-16 Hector Saez Benito
-13 Tiesj Benoot
-12 Ian Boswell
-11 Pieter Serry
-11 Tiago Machado
-10 Benjamin Thomas
-10 Edward Ravasi
-10 Jorge Cubero Galvez
-9 Leo Vincent
-9 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
Biggest gainers by time :
Biggest losers by time :
-11:27 Marcus Burghardt
-11:27 Matthias Brandle
-11:27 Maurits Lammertink
-7:53 Hector Saez Benito
-7:53 Jorge Cubero Galvez
-7:01 Benjamin Thomas
-6:44 Antoine Duchesne
-6:44 Ian Boswell
-6:44 Loic Chetout
-6:44 Marc Sarreau
-6:44 Pieter Serry
Favourites by position :
+4 Richie Porte
+2 Daniel Martin
-3 Ilnur Zakarin
-4 Adam Yates
Favourites by time :
-0:32 Daniel Martin
-1:20 Vincenzo Nibali
-1:32 Ilnur Zakarin
-2:41 Richie Porte
-3:15 Adam Yates
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rudy Molard 31:20:34 (unchanged)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:47 (unchanged)
3 Emanuel Buchmann 0:48 (unchanged)
4 Simon Yates 0:51 (unchanged)
5 Tony Gallopin 0:59 (unchanged)
6 Michal Kwiatkowski 1:06 (unchanged)
7 Jon Izagirre Insausti 1:11 (unchanged)
8 Nairo Quintana 1:14 (unchanged)
9 Steven Kruijswijk 1:18 (unchanged)
10 Enric Mas 1:23 (unchanged)
11 George Bennett 1:26 (unchanged)
12 Miguel Angel Lopez 1:27 (unchanged)
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14 Rigoberto Uran 1:29 (unchanged)
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17 Wilco Kelderman 2:50 (unchanged)
18 Thibaut Pinot 3:08 (unchanged)
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37 Ilnur Zakarin 12:10 (was 34th at 10:38)
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52 Vincenzo Nibali 18:56 (was 52nd at 17:36)
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62 Daniel Martin 25:30 (was 64th at 24:58)
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132 Adam Yates 55:47 (was 128th at 52:32)
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155 Richie Porte 1:04:36 (was 159th at 1:01:55)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 76 (was 1st with 51 points)
2 Peter Sagan 63 (was 3rd with 43 points)
3 Michal Kwiatkowski 50 (was 2nd with 48 points)
4 Danny van Poppel 46 (was 7th with 30 points)
5 Elia Viviani 41 (was 4th with 41 points)
6 Giacomo Nizzolo 37 (was 13th with 25 points)
7 Tony Gallopin 35 (was 5th with 35 points)
8 Jon Izagirre Insausti 31 (was 23rd with 17 points)
9 Simon Clarke 30 (was 6th with 30 points)
10 Ben King 29 (was 8th with 29 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 42 (unchanged)
2 Pierre Rolland 20 (unchanged)
3 Ben King 12 (unchanged)
4 Ben Gastauer 7 (unchanged)
5 Bauke Mollema 6 (unchanged)
6 Nikita Stalnov 6 (unchanged)
7 Thomas De Gendt 5 (unchanged)
8 Hector Saez Benito 4 (was 23rd with 1 points)
9 Simon Clarke 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Nans Peters 4 (was 9th with 4 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0