Tour of California, stage 5 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 5 compared to stage 4

Biggest gainers by position :
+22 Fabian Cancellara
+17 Jason Mccartney
+17 Dimitri Fofonov
+14 Sven Krauss
+14 Jakob Piil
+14 Glen Alan Chadwick
+13 Tom Zirbel
+13 Cyril Lemoine
+12 Viktar Rapinski
+10 Christian Vandevelde

Biggest losers by position :
-27 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano
-16 Karsten Kroon
-16 Lucas Euser
-16 Veleriy Kobzarenko
-15 Luca Paolini
-11 Matthew Lloyd
-11 Taylor Tolleson
-11 Timothy Johnson
-10 David Vitoria
-10 Geert Verheyen
-10 Jonathan Patrick McCarty

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-6:19 Lucas Euser
-6:01 Peter Wrolich
-5:46 Michael Jones
-5:44 Luca Paolini
-5:40 Caleb Fairly
-5:36 Ken Hanson
-5:36 Michael Sayers
-5:33 Brian Dziewa
-5:23 Charly Wegelius
-5:15 Kirk O'bee
-5:12 Caleb Manion

Favourites by position :
+22 Fabian Cancellara
+9 Bobby Julich
+7 Ivan Basso
+6 George Hincapie
+2 Franco Pellizotti
+1 Michael Rogers
-2 Paolo Bettini
-7 Christopher Horner

Favourites by time :
-0:18 Jens Voigt
-0:37 Fabian Cancellara
-0:40 George Hincapie
-0:42 Bobby Julich
-1:03 Ivan Basso
-1:15 Michael Rogers
-1:18 Franco Pellizotti
-1:53 Christopher Horner
-3:39 Paolo Bettini

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Levi Leipheimer 18.21.52
2 Jens Voigt 0.21
3 Jason Mccartney 0.54
4 Bobby Julich 1.06
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7 Michael Rogers 1.34
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9 Franco Pellizotti 1.41
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11 Christopher Horner 2.09
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34 George Hincapie 3.55
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36 Ivan Basso 4.26
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39 Paolo Bettini 4.31
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47 Fabian Cancellara 6.00

Retirements to date :
CSC David Zabriskie
Colavita/Sutter Home David Mccann
" Gustavo Artacho
Discovery Allan Davis
Gerolsteiner Torsten Hiekmann
Liquigas Frederik Willems
Priority Health Emile Abraham
" Omer Kem
" Scott Zwizanski
Quick Step-Innergetic Leonardo Scarselli
Toyota United Pro Heath Blackgrove
USA National Team Chad Beyer
" Christopher Stockburger
" John Devine
" Scott Stewart
" Sheldon Deeny
" Tejay Van Garderen
Total retirements : 17