Changes in stage 3 compared to stage 2
Biggest gainers by position :
+88 David De La Fuente
+76 Joseba Zubeldia
+70 Christian Knees
+29 Michael Blaudzun
+28 Luis Pérez Rodriguez
+23 Marco Velo
+22 Imanol Erviti
+21 Patxi Vila
+20 Ezequiel Mosquera
+19 Iván Gutiérrez
Biggest losers by position :
-43 Marco Marcato
-42 Tiziano Dall'Antonia
-40 Gustavo Dominguez
-38 Assan Bazayev
-36 Diego Milan Jimenez
-34 Joost Posthuma
-33 Xavier Florencio
-29 Alejandro Valverde
-29 Marcus Ljungqvist
-24 Carlos Castaño
-23 Koos Moerenhout
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:02 Daniele Bennati
Biggest losers by time :
-2:57 Raúl Alarcón
-2:24 Juan Carlos Carinena
-1:12 Vicente Peiro Marqueno
-0:08 Adrián Palomares
-0:08 Aitor Hernández
-0:08 Alberto Contador
-0:08 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla
-0:08 Alejandro Valverde
-0:08 Alexander Vinokourov
-0:08 Alexandr Kolobnev
-0:08 Andrey Mizourov
Favourites by position :
+19 Iván Gutiérrez
+12 Mikel Pradera
+8 Rui Lavarinhas
+7 Oscar Sevilla
+4 Florent Brard
+3 Mikel Astarloza
+3 Didier Rous
+2 Damiano Cunego
+1 David Millar
-1 José Luis Rubiera
-2 Tadej Valjavec
-4 Daniele Nardello
-11 Iñigo Cuesta
-13 Michael Boogerd
-16 Samuel Sánchez
-19 Alexander Vinokourov
-29 Alejandro Valverde
Favourites by time :
-0:08 Thomas Voeckler
-0:08 Tadej Valjavec
-0:08 Samuel Sánchez
-0:08 Rui Lavarinhas
-0:08 Pavel Padrnos
-0:08 Oscar Sevilla
-0:08 Mikel Pradera
-0:08 Mikel Astarloza
-0:08 Michael Boogerd
-0:08 Laurent Brochard
-0:08 José Luis Rubiera
-0:08 Iñigo Cuesta
-0:08 Iván Gutiérrez
-0:08 Florent Brard
-0:08 Didier Rous
-0:08 David Millar
-0:08 Daniele Nardello
-0:08 Damiano Cunego
-0:08 Alexander Vinokourov
-0:08 Alejandro Valverde
-0:08 Alberto Contador
Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Daniele Bennati 10.45.56
2 Alessandro Petacchi 0.02
3 Vicente Reynes 0.14
4 Thomas Voeckler 0.18
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12 Laurent Brochard 0.24
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18 Mikel Pradera 0.24
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21 Oscar Sevilla 0.24
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24 Mikel Astarloza 0.24
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37 Samuel Sánchez 0.24
38 Iván Gutiérrez 0.24
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43 Alejandro Valverde 0.24
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48 Tadej Valjavec 0.24
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75 Alexander Vinokourov 0.24
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88 Iñigo Cuesta 0.24
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90 Rui Lavarinhas 0.24
91 Daniele Nardello 0.24
92 Didier Rous 0.24
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96 Michael Boogerd 0.24
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104 David Millar 1.02
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113 Alberto Contador 1.55
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115 José Luis Rubiera 1.55
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117 Pavel Padrnos 1.57
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127 Damiano Cunego 6.18
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129 Florent Brard 6.19
Retirements to date :
Ceramica Panaria-Navigare Ruben Bongiorno
Discovery Channel Jurgen Van Goolen
Grupo Nicolás Mateos José Antonio Banos Ballester
Team LPR Ignacio Gutierrez
Total retirements : 4