Stage 9 - Villaviciosa-Les Praeres. Nava 171.4 km 1 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 4:32:39 2 Samuele Battistella (Ita) Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:01 3 Edoardo Zambanini (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 1:14 4 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 1:34 5 Filippo Conca (Ita) Lotto Soudal 1:58 6 Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 2:08 7 Simon Guglielmi (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 2:08 8 Enric Mas (Spa) Movistar Team 2:18 9 Carlos Rodriguez (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers 2:20 10 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 2:26 Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 : Biggest gainers by position : +26 Filippo Conca +22 Samuele Battistella +22 Jimmy Janssens +21 Simon Guglielmi +19 Daniel Navarro +16 Jose Manuel Diaz +15 Patrick Bevin +13 Louis Meintjes +13 Equipo Kern Pharma eEPA Vojtech +12 Robert Stannard Biggest losers by position : -18 Jonathan Klever Caicedo -17 Bruno Armirail -16 Alexey Lutsenko -14 Elie Gesbert -13 Marco Brenner -12 Luke Plapp -10 Antonio Tiberi -8 Dries Devenyns -8 Jetse Bol -8 Julien Bernard -8 Mike Teunissen Biggest gainers by time : +1:44 Louis Meintjes +0:39 Samuele Battistella +0:24 Edoardo Zambanini Biggest losers by time : -31:46 Mike Teunissen -31:06 Mathias Norsgaard -29:34 Alexey Lutsenko -29:13 Boy Van Poppel -28:52 Antonio Tiberi -28:52 Julius Johansen -26:59 Ivo Oliveira -26:50 Floris De Tier -26:50 Lluis Mas -26:31 Juan Sebastian Molano -26:23 Lionel Taminiaux Favourites by position : +1 Simon Yates +1 Joao Almeida +1 Hugh Carthy -1 Richard Carapaz -1 Mikel Landa -2 Vincenzo Nibali -3 Wilco Kelderman -3 Ben O'Connor -4 Gino Mader -7 Tao Geoghegan Hart -7 Sergio Higuita -16 Alexey Lutsenko Favourites by time : -0:44 Enric Mas -0:52 Primoz Roglic -1:03 Simon Yates -1:46 Hugh Carthy -1:48 Joao Almeida -2:45 Jai Hindley -2:54 Ben O'Connor -3:57 Tao Geoghegan Hart -4:32 Gino Mader -4:50 Wilco Kelderman -6:04 Sergio Higuita -7:48 Richard Carapaz -8:50 Mikel Landa -12:15 Vincenzo Nibali -29:34 Alexey Lutsenko Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Remco Evenepoel 34:02:32 (unchanged) 2 Enric Mas 1:12 (was 2nd at 0:28) 3 Primoz Roglic 1:53 (was 3rd at 1:01) 4 Carlos Rodriguez 2:33 (was 4th at 1:47) 5 Juan Ayuso 2:36 (was 6th at 2:02) 6 Simon Yates 3:08 (was 7th at 2:05) 7 Joao Almeida 4:32 (was 8th at 2:44) 8 Miguel Angel Lopez 5:03 (was 13th at 3:39) 9 Jai Hindley 5:36 (was 9th at 2:51) 10 Pavel Sivakov 5:39 (was 12th at 3:31) ..... 12 Tao Geoghegan Hart 5:51 (was 5th at 1:54) 13 Ben O'Connor 5:53 (was 10th at 2:59) ..... 15 Hugh Carthy 5:58 (was 16th at 4:12) ..... 19 Gino Mader 8:15 (was 15th at 3:43) ..... 21 Sergio Higuita 9:45 (was 14th at 3:41) ..... 23 Wilco Kelderman 10:18 (was 20th at 5:28) ..... 26 Richard Carapaz 14:34 (was 25th at 6:46) ..... 28 Mikel Landa 17:00 (was 27th at 8:10) ..... 53 Vincenzo Nibali 40:42 (was 51st at 28:27) ..... 101 Alexey Lutsenko 1:20:51 (was 85th at 51:17) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Mads Pedersen 147 (unchanged) 2 Sam Bennett 142 (unchanged) 3 Marc Soler 81 (unchanged) 4 Samuele Battistella 67 (was 11th with 40 points) 5 Remco Evenepoel 65 (was 5th with 52 points) 6 Fred Wright 64 (was 4th with 64 points) 7 Primoz Roglic 56 (was 6th with 50 points) 8 Enric Mas 55 (was 7th with 47 points) 9 Daniel Mclay 41 (was 8th with 41 points) 10 Jay Vine 40 (was 9th with 40 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Jay Vine 40 (unchanged) 2 Robert Stannard 21 (was 0 points) 3 Jimmy Janssens 17 (was 17th with 4 points) 4 Marc Soler 16 (was 2nd with 16 points) 5 Thibaut Pinot 12 (was 3rd with 12 points) 6 Ruben Fernandez 11 (was 4th with 11 points) 7 Louis Meintjes 10 (was 0 points) 8 Mark Padun 10 (was 5th with 10 points) 9 Jesus Herrada 10 (was 6th with 10 points) 10 Remco Evenepoel 9 (was 7th with 7 points) Teams table with previous in parens: 1 UAE Team Emirates 101:27:48 (was 1st at 87:40:20) 2 INEOS Grenadiers 1:44 (was 2nd at 1:56) 3 Bahrain - Victorious 9:34 (was 3rd at 4:07) 4 EF Education-EasyPost 10:07 (was 6th at 7:55) 5 Movistar Team 11:00 (was 5th at 7:29) 6 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 12:42 (was 8th at 13:24) 7 Astana Qazaqstan Team 13:14 (was 9th at 15:04) 8 BORA - hansgrohe 14:45 (was 4th at 5:55) 9 Jumbo-Visma 18:58 (was 7th at 11:46) 10 Groupama - FDJ 37:56 (was 10th at 24:46) 11 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 45:18 (was 11th at 34:02) 12 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 50:06 (was 12th at 36:54) 13 Burgos-BH 50:49 (was 13th at 41:29) 14 Equipo Kern Pharma 1:12:43 (was 14th at 59:37) 15 AG2R Citroen Team 1:15:00 (was 15th at 1:00:49) 16 Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:20:15 (was 19th at 1:12:42) 17 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1:24:49 (was 18th at 1:10:27) 18 Cofidis 1:25:24 (was 17th at 1:05:24) 19 Team DSM 1:38:24 (was 16th at 1:02:33) 20 Trek - Segafredo 2:08:23 (was 20th at 1:36:12) 21 Israel - Premier Tech 2:18:02 (was 21th at 2:01:41) 22 Team Arkea Samsic 2:36:31 (was 22th at 2:02:36) 23 Lotto Soudal 2:47:23 (was 23th at 2:22:19) Retirements to date : Stage Gerben Thijssen (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 9 <<< Henri Vandenabeele (Team DSM) 9 <<< Pieter Serry (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 9 <<< Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) 9 <<< Wout Poels (Bahrain - Victorious) 9 <<< Anthony Delaplace (Team Arkea Samsic) 8 Itamar Einhorn (Israel - Premier Tech) 8 Jake Stewart (Groupama - FDJ) 8 Mark Donovan (Team DSM) 8 Nikias Arndt (Team DSM) 8 Victor Langellotti (Burgos-BH) 8 Andrea Vendrame (AG2R Citroen Team) 7 Jaakko Hanninen (AG2R Citroen Team) 7 Remy Rochas (Cofidis) 7 Jan Hirt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 6 Daan Hoole (Trek - Segafredo) 5 Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech) 3 Steff Cras (Lotto Soudal) 2 Total retirements : 18