Tour de France, stage 3 summary
 

Stage 3 : July 06, 2015 Anvers - Huy 159.5 km

1 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 3.26.54
2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky
3 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.04
4 Daniel Martin (Irl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0.05
5 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 0.08
6 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0.11
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team
8 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge
9 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
10 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+121 Julian Arredondo
+115 Giampaolo Caruso
+114 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
+113 Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin
+112 Armindo Fonseca
+110 Pierre Rolland
+106 Cyril Gautier
+104 Eduardo Sepulveda
+96 Mickael Cherel
+96 Daniel Navarro Garcia

Biggest losers by position :
-108 Fabian Cancellara
-101 Gregory Henderson
-100 John Degenkolb
-99 Mark Renshaw
-98 Alex Dowsett
-98 Andre Greipel
-97 Alexander Kristoff
-97 Ian Stannard
-97 Manuel Quinziato
-97 Mark Cavendish
-96 Marcel Sieberg

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:52 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+0:48 Christopher Froome
+0:42 Alexis Vuillermoz
+0:37 Daniel Martin
+0:34 Tony Gallopin
+0:31 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:31 Tejay van Garderen
+0:31 Simon Yates
+0:31 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
+0:31 Bauke Mollema

Biggest losers by time :
-20:56 Michael Matthews
-13:31 Gregory Henderson
-12:56 Laurens ten Dam
-11:05 Alexander Kristoff
-11:05 Marco Haller
-11:03 Sam Bennett
-11:01 Fabian Cancellara
-11:01 Markel Irizar Aranburu
-10:54 Davide Cimolai
-10:54 Filippo Pozzato
-10:46 Daryl Impey

Favourites by position :
+53 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+52 Romain Bardet
+27 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
+23 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+22 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+20 Vincenzo Nibali
+20 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+10 Mathias Frank
+9 Christopher Froome
+7 Leopold Konig
+6 Alberto Contador Velasco
+5 Tejay van Garderen
+4 Thibaut Pinot

Favourites by time :
+0:52 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+0:48 Christopher Froome
+0:31 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:31 Tejay van Garderen
+0:31 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
+0:31 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+0:24 Alberto Contador Velasco
+0:18 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+0:08 Rigoberto Uran
+0:06 Romain Bardet
-0:31 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-0:43 Leopold Konig
-0:51 Thibaut Pinot
-1:17 Mathias Frank
-3:16 Richie Porte

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Christopher Froome 7:11:37 (was 10th at 0:48)
2 Tony Martin 0:01 (was 2nd at 0:03)
3 Tejay van Garderen 0:13 (was 8th at 0:44)
4 Tony Gallopin 0:26 (was 15th at 1:00)
5 Greg Van Avermaet 0:28 (was 9th at 0:48)
6 Peter Sagan 0:31 (was 4th at 0:33)
7 Rigoberto Uran 0:34 (was 7th at 0:42)
8 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:36 (was 14th at 1:00)
9 Geraint Thomas 1:03 (was 5th at 0:35)
10 Zdenek Stybar 1:04 (was 12th at 0:54)
.....
13 Vincenzo Nibali 1:38 (was 33rd at 2:09)
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16 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 1:51 (was 39th at 2:22)
17 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 1:56 (was 44th at 2:27)
18 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 2:00 (was 71st at 2:52)
.....
21 Jean-Christophe Peraud 2:07 (was 41st at 2:25)
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25 Leopold Konig 2:52 (was 32nd at 2:09)
26 Romain Bardet 2:54 (was 78th at 3:00)
27 Thibaut Pinot 2:58 (was 31st at 2:07)
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30 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 3:10 (was 52nd at 2:39)
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40 Mathias Frank 3:55 (was 50th at 2:38)
.....
46 Richie Porte 5:48 (was 46th at 2:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Andre Greipel 75 (was 1st with 55 points)
2 Peter Sagan 48 (was 2nd with 39 points)
3 Christopher Froome 40 (was 14th with 12 points)
4 Mark Cavendish 37 (was 4th with 26 points)
5 Fabian Cancellara 35 (was 3rd with 35 points)
6 Joaquim Rodriguez 30 (was 0 points)
7 John Degenkolb 28 (was 15th with 11 points)
8 Tony Martin 25 (was 5th with 25 points)
9 Alexis Vuillermoz 22 (was 0 points)
10 Nacer Bouhanni 22 (was 24th with 7 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table
1 Joaquim Rodriguez 2
2 Rafal Majka 1
3 Michael Schar 1
4 Christopher Froome 1

Retirements to date : Stage
Dmitrii Kozonchok (Rus) Team Katusha 3
Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 3
Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 3
William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ.fr 3
Total retirements : 4


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