Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, stage 6 summary
 

Stage 6 : Mar 26, Tarragona - Mollet-del-Valles, 195 km

1 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 4.22.19
2 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Team RadioShack
3 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
4 Daniel Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Cervelo
5 Diego Milan Jimenez (Spa) Caja Rural
6 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre - ISD
7 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
8 Kenny De Haes (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
9 Remi Cusin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
10 Michal Golas (Pol) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+5 Brent Bookwalter
+3 Samuel Dumoulin
+3 Nicki Sorensen
+3 Martin Velits
+3 Marcel Wyss
+3 Kenny De Haes
+3 Jose Luis Cano
+3 Ivan Rovny
+3 Diego Milan Jimenez
+3 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Mariusz Witecki
-5 Romain Sicard
-4 Craig Lewis
-4 Julian Sanchez Pimienta
-3 William Clarke
-3 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy
-2 Mauricio Ardila Cano
-2 Nicolas Vogondy
-1 Bauke Mollema
-1 Jason McCartney
-1 Joost Van Leijen

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-8:39 Joost Van Leijen
-7:09 William Clarke
-1:41 Mariusz Witecki
-1:13 Andre Steensen
-0:48 David Loosli
-0:48 Jason McCartney
-0:48 Travis Meyer
-0:45 Julian Sanchez Pimienta
-0:45 Nicolas Vogondy
-0:38 Oscar Pujol Munoz
-0:32 Romain Sicard

Favourites by position :
+2 Denis Menchov
+1 Linus Gerdemann
+1 Janez Brajkovic
+1 Christian Vande Velde
+1 Carlos Sastre Candil

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 26:50:47 (unchanged)
2 Levi Leipheimer 0:23 (unchanged)
3 Michele Scarponi 0:23 (unchanged)
4 Daniel Martin 0:35 (unchanged)
5 Christopher Horner 0:35 (unchanged)
6 Rigoberto Uran Uran 0:38 (unchanged)
7 Ivan Basso 0:38 (unchanged)
8 Xavier Tondo Volpini 0:38 (unchanged)
9 Cadel Evans 0:50 (unchanged)
10 Kevin Seeldraeyers 1:12 (was 11th at 1:12)
.....
15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 1:12 (unchanged)
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17 Janez Brajkovic 1:20 (was 18th at 1:20)
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22 Christian Vande Velde 1:37 (was 23rd at 1:37)
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54 Linus Gerdemann 7:44 (was 55th at 7:44)
.....
67 Vladimir Karpets 9:01 (unchanged)
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122 Denis Menchov 23:22 (was 124th at 23:22)
.....
135 Frantisek Rabon 29:44 (unchanged)
.....
162 Carlos Sastre Candil 36:17 (was 163rd at 36:17)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Ruben Perez Moreno 18 (was 1st with 15 points)
2 Jose Vicente Toribio Alcolea 11 (was 2nd with 10 points)
3 Ben Gastauer 5 (unchanged)
4 Gatis Smukulis 4 (unchanged)
5 Marek Rutkiewicz 4 (unchanged)
6 Kanstantsin Sivtsov 3 (was 0 points)
7 Francesco Masciarelli 3 (was 6th with 3 points)
8 Javier Ramirez Abeja 3 (was 7th with 3 points)
9 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado 2 (was 0 points)
10 Alan Perez Lezaun 2 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Nairo Quintana Rojas 47 (was 1st with 46 points)
2 Alberto Contador Velasco 42 (unchanged)
3 Steven Kruijswijk 41 (unchanged)
4 Julian Sanchez Pimienta 39 (unchanged)
5 Michele Scarponi 37 (was 5th with 35 points)
6 Gatis Smukulis 28 (unchanged)
7 Levi Leipheimer 22 (was 8th with 21 points)
8 Christopher Horner 22 (was 7th with 22 points)
9 Jose Alberto Benitez Roman 20 (was 0 points)
10 Francesco Masciarelli 20 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Katusha Team 6
Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Leopard Trek 6
Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) Katusha Team 5
Dalivier Ospina Navarro (Col) Colombia Es Pasion - Cafe De Colombia 5
Frederique Robert (Bel) Quickstep Cycling Team 5
Jan Tratnik (Slo) Quickstep Cycling Team 5
Karsten Kroon (Ned) BMC Racing Team 5
Maxim Belkov (Rus) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 5
Pierre Cazaux (Fra) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5
Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 4
Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4
Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 4
Bart De Clercq (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 3
David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Caja Rural 3
Davide Appollonio (Ita) Sky Procycling 3
Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 3
Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 3
Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1
Total retirements : 18


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