Cycling & bikes - Giro d'Italia, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : May 11, 2015 Rapallo - Sestri Levante 136 km

1 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 3.33.53
2 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek Factory Racing
3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team
4 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha
5 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team
6 Luca Paolini (Ita) Team Katusha
7 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Southeast Pro Cycling
8 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bardiani CSF
9 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
10 Jonathan Monsalve (Ven) Southeast Pro Cycling

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+89 Davide Villella
+87 Matteo Montaguti
+81 Andrey Zeits
+78 David De La Cruz
+77 Elia Favilli
+74 Pieter Weening
+73 Nikolay Mihaylov
+71 Stefan Kung
+59 Sander Armee
+58 Pavel Kochetkov

Biggest losers by position :
-118 Davide Malacarne
-115 Gianni Meersman
-104 Kevin Reza
-100 Alexander Porsev
-94 Tom Boonen
-85 Nicola Ruffoni
-83 Andre Greipel
-82 Bartlomiej Matysiak
-82 Marek Rutkiewicz
-80 Luka Mezgec
-80 Stig Broeckx

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-30:10 Aleksejs Saramotins
-30:10 Marco Coledan
-30:10 Matteo Pelucchi
-30:10 Robert Wagner
-22:22 Alessandro Malaguti
-22:22 Alexander Porsev
-22:22 Anthony Roux
-22:22 Arnaud Courteille
-22:22 Bartlomiej Matysiak
-22:22 Bert De Backer
-22:22 Boy Van Poppel

Favourites by position :
+74 Pieter Weening
+43 Thomas Danielson
+32 Tanel Kangert
+12 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+8 Leopold Konig
+7 Richie Porte
+4 Rigoberto Uran
+2 Fabio Aru

Favourites by time :
-0:10 Tanel Kangert
-0:10 Roman Kreuziger
-0:10 Rigoberto Uran
-0:10 Richie Porte
-0:10 Michael Rogers
-0:10 Leopold Konig
-0:10 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-0:10 Fabio Aru
-0:10 Alberto Contador
-3:28 Pieter Weening
-14:17 Thomas Danielson

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Michael Matthews 8:06:27 (unchanged)
2 Simon Clarke 0:06 (was 3rd at 0:00)
3 Simon Gerrans 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:00)
4 Esteban Chaves 0:10 (was 4th at 0:00)
5 Roman Kreuziger 0:17 (was 5th at 0:07)
6 Alberto Contador 0:17 (was 6th at 0:07)
7 Michael Rogers 0:17 (was 7th at 0:07)
8 Paolo Tiralongo 0:23 (was 10th at 0:13)
9 Fabio Aru 0:23 (was 11th at 0:13)
10 Diego Rosa 0:23 (was 12th at 0:13)
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15 Rigoberto Uran 0:29 (was 19th at 0:19)
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30 Richie Porte 0:37 (was 37th at 0:27)
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32 Leopold Konig 0:37 (was 40th at 0:27)
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36 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 0:39 (was 48th at 0:29)
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53 Tanel Kangert 1:32 (was 85th at 1:22)
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77 Pieter Weening 8:11 (was 151st at 4:43)
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126 Thomas Danielson 20:08 (was 169th at 5:51)

Retirements to date : Stage
Anton Vorobyev (Rus) Team Katusha 3
Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 2
Ramon Carretero (Pan) Southeast Pro Cycling 2
Total retirements : 4

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