Changes in stage 5 compared to stage 4
Biggest gainers by position :
+35 Rémy Di Gregorio
+28 Iker Flores
+28 Giuseppe Guerini
+25 Juan José Cobo
+23 Philip Deignan
+23 Dimitri Champion
+19 Paolo Bossoni
+19 José Ruiz
+17 Sergio Paulinho
+17 Pieter Weening
Biggest losers by position :
-40 Allan Johansen
-38 Marcel Strauss
-30 Xavier Florencio
-26 Filippo Pozzato
-21 Baden Cooke
-21 Rémi Pauriol
-20 Frederik Willems
-19 Allan Davis
-19 Imanol Erviti
-19 Samuel Dumoulin
-18 Benjamin Noval
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:35 Denis Menchov
+0:31 Vladimir Karpets
+0:11 Rémy Di Gregorio
+0:07 Alexander Vinokourov
Biggest losers by time :
-11:29 Jaime Castañeda
-9:57 Allan Johansen
-9:06 Antonio Cruz
-8:22 Marcel Strauss
-8:21 Aitor Galdos
-8:20 José Antonio Lopez
-7:41 Mark Cavendish
-7:35 Jason Donald
-7:33 Allan Davis
-7:30 Filippo Pozzato
-7:22 Javier Cherro Molina
Favourites by position :
+28 Iker Flores
+28 Giuseppe Guerini
+16 Alexander Vinokourov
+11 Unai Etxebarria
+9 Santiago Perez
+7 Iván Gutiérrez
+5 Denis Menchov
+2 Francisco Mancebo
+1 Vladimir Karpets
+1 Samuel Sánchez
+1 Marcos Serrano
+1 Christophe Moreau
-2 Serguei Ivanov
-2 Oscar Pereiro
-2 Florent Brard
-3 Oscar Sevilla
-4 Iñigo Cuesta
Favourites by time :
+0:35 Denis Menchov
+0:31 Vladimir Karpets
+0:07 Alexander Vinokourov
-0:45 Christophe Moreau
-0:53 Giuseppe Guerini
-0:54 Marcos Serrano
-0:56 Francisco Mancebo
-1:06 Oscar Sevilla
-1:13 Samuel Sánchez
-1:57 Iker Flores
-2:12 Isidro Nozal
-2:27 Iñigo Cuesta
-3:00 Serguei Ivanov
-3:03 Iván Gutiérrez
-3:46 Oscar Pereiro
-3:50 Santiago Perez
-3:56 Florent Brard
-4:19 Unai Etxebarria
Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Vladimir Karpets 15.34.55
2 Denis Menchov 0.16
3 Michael Rogers 0.40
4 Oscar Sevilla 1.06
5 Christophe Moreau 1.34
6 Francisco Mancebo 1.49
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9 Marcos Serrano 2.29
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15 Samuel Sánchez 3.41
16 Alexander Vinokourov 3.42
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21 Iñigo Cuesta 4.59
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59 Serguei Ivanov 10.46
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69 Isidro Nozal 14.10
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75 Giuseppe Guerini 16.12
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88 Santiago Perez 17.41
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103 Iván Gutiérrez 20.08
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123 Oscar Pereiro 26.01
124 Florent Brard 26.11
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127 Iker Flores 26.35
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136 Unai Etxebarria 27.33
Retirements to date :
Bouygues Telecom Laurent Lefèvre
Crédit Agricole Dmitriy Fofonov
Euskaltel-Euskadi Andoni Lafuente
Gerolsteiner Markus Zberg
Liquigas Guido Trenti
" Magnus Backstedt
Milram Erik Zabel
" Igor Astarloa
" Niki Terpstra
Predictor-Lotto Dominique Cornu
Rabobank Michael Boogerd
" Thorwald Veneberg
T-Mobile Jakob Piil
Total retirements : 13