Cycling & bikes - Tour de Suisse, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Jun 10, Montreux - Meiringen, 203.3 km

1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale Pro Cycling 4.46.27
2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Movistar Team
3 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff
4 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team 0.39
6 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0.46
7 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp
8 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ
9 Tanel Kangert (Est) Astana Pro Team
10 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+100 Christophe Riblon
+69 Martin Kohler
+62 Hayden Roulston
+60 Martin Elmiger
+53 Tom Boonen
+53 Peter Sagan
+53 Marcus Burghardt
+51 Thomas Peterson
+49 Arnold Jeannesson
+39 Simon Geschke

Biggest losers by position :
-52 Anthony Delaplace
-52 Jesus Herrada Lopez
-49 Vladimir Karpets
-44 Damiano Caruso
-44 Stefan Denifl
-39 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
-38 Robert Vrecer
-34 Davide Vigano
-32 Matteo Montaguti
-31 Michael Morkov
-29 David Millar

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:05 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+0:05 Roman Kreuziger
+0:05 Peter Sagan
+0:05 Mathias Frank

Biggest losers by time :
-22:43 Aidis Kruopis
-22:43 Alex Rasmussen
-22:43 Anthony Delaplace
-22:43 Arman Kamyshev
-22:43 Baden Cooke
-22:43 David Millar
-22:43 Davide Vigano
-22:43 Enrique Sanz
-22:43 Fabian Wegmann
-22:43 Jacopo Guarnieri
-22:43 Jesus Herrada Lopez

Favourites by position :
+25 Michael Albasini
+16 Simon Spilak
+12 Tejay van Garderen
+9 Maxime Monfort
+8 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+8 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+5 Daniel Martin
+4 Roman Kreuziger
+2 Bauke Mollema
-1 Janez Brajkovic
-4 Wilco Kelderman
-15 Steven Kruijswijk
-20 Michele Scarponi
-22 Andy Schleck

Favourites by time :
+0:05 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+0:05 Roman Kreuziger
-0:34 Bauke Mollema
-0:41 Tejay van Garderen
-0:41 Simon Spilak
-0:41 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-0:41 Daniel Martin
-1:42 Maxime Monfort
-1:42 Janez Brajkovic
-2:20 Michael Albasini
-3:52 Wilco Kelderman
-6:40 Michele Scarponi
-11:09 Steven Kruijswijk
-17:03 Andy Schleck

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathias Frank 7:39:38 (was 3rd at 0:05)
2 Roman Kreuziger 0:23 (was 6th at 0:28)
3 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 0:35 (was 11th at 0:40)
4 Giovanni Visconti 0:53 (was 4th at 0:12)
5 Thibaut Pinot 0:57 (was 5th at 0:16)
6 Bauke Mollema 1:08 (was 8th at 0:34)
7 Daniel Martin 1:23 (was 12th at 0:42)
8 Tanel Kangert 1:26 (was 16th at 0:45)
9 Jean-Christophe Peraud 1:28 (was 17th at 0:47)
10 Tejay van Garderen 1:39 (was 22nd at 0:58)
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12 Simon Spilak 1:50 (was 28th at 1:09)
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14 Janez Brajkovic 2:24 (was 13th at 0:42)
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21 Maxime Monfort 3:00 (was 30th at 1:18)
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23 Wilco Kelderman 4:45 (was 19th at 0:53)
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33 Michael Albasini 6:32 (was 58th at 4:12)
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35 Michele Scarponi 7:24 (was 15th at 0:44)
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57 Steven Kruijswijk 14:21 (was 42nd at 3:12)
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78 Andy Schleck 21:14 (was 56th at 4:11)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Bauke Mollema 23 (was 2nd with 15 points)
2 Mathias Frank 22 (was 4th with 13 points)
3 Roman Kreuziger 16 (was 14th with 6 points)
4 Cameron Meyer 15 (was 1st with 15 points)
5 Peter Sagan 15 (was 0 points)
6 Thibaut Pinot 15 (was 6th with 10 points)
7 Giovanni Visconti 13 (was 13th with 6 points)
8 Daniel Martin 13 (was 11th with 7 points)
9 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 12 (was 0 points)
10 Niki Terpstra 12 (was 5th with 12 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Roman Kreuziger 12 (was 0 points)
2 Mathias Frank 8 (was 0 points)
3 Domenico Pozzovivo 8 (was 2nd with 8 points)
4 Thibaut Pinot 6 (was 3rd with 6 points)
5 Peter Sagan 6 (was 0 points)
6 Philippe Gilbert 5 (was 0 points)
7 Tanel Kangert 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
8 Michele Scarponi 4 (was 0 points)
9 Tom Boonen 3 (was 0 points)
10 Matti Breschel 3 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Frederique Robert (Bel) Lotto Belisol 3
Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida 3
Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin Sharp 3
Total retirements : 3

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