Paris Nice, stage 3 summary
 

Stage 3 : March 11, 2015 Saint-Amand-Montrond - Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule 179 km

1 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 4.32.12
2 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Lampre-Merida
3 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek Factory Racing
4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
6 Matti Breschel (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo
7 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
9 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar
10 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ.fr


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+23 Daniel McLay
+22 Anthony Roux
+21 Yauheni Hutarovich
+21 Mickael Cherel
+21 Edward King
+20 Gorka Izagirre Insausti
+19 Vicente Reynes Mimo
+19 Nacer Bouhanni
+19 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
+19 Laurens De Vreese

Biggest losers by position :
-95 Jack Bauer
-90 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
-85 Sebastian Langeveld
-72 Florian Vachon
-60 Dylan Van Baarle
-54 Stijn Vandenbergh
-50 Gert Steegmans
-48 Heinrich Haussler
-46 Lars Boom
-44 Nicki Sorensen
-38 Jos van Emden

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:09 Michael Matthews
+0:05 Gorka Izagirre Insausti
+0:05 Davide Cimolai
+0:03 Philippe Gilbert
+0:03 Giacomo Nizzolo

Biggest losers by time :
-9:31 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
-9:31 Stijn Vandenbergh
-5:47 Jonas Ahlstrand
-5:19 Nicki Sorensen
-4:04 Maarten Tjallingii
-4:04 Zico Waeytens
-3:16 Alex Howes
-3:11 Mario Jorge Faria da Costa
-1:44 Michael Albasini
-1:04 Jacopo Guarnieri
-1:04 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Favourites by position :
+9 Rafal Majka
+9 Nicolas Roche
+8 Romain Bardet
+8 Fabio Aru
+7 Mathias Frank
+7 Jakob Fuglsang
+6 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga
+4 Andrew Talansky
+2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+2 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-1 Michal Kwiatkowski
-19 Bradley Wiggins

Favourites by time :
-0:01 Wilco Kelderman
-0:01 Tejay van Garderen
-0:01 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-0:01 Romain Bardet
-0:01 Richie Porte
-0:01 Rafal Majka
-0:01 Nicolas Roche
-0:01 Michal Kwiatkowski
-0:01 Mathias Frank
-0:01 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-0:01 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:01 Fabio Aru
-0:01 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga
-0:01 Andrew Talansky
-0:49 Bradley Wiggins

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Michael Matthews 14:25:27 (was 5th at 0:09)
2 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:01 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Rohan Dennis 0:01 (was 2nd at 0:00)
4 John Degenkolb 0:03 (was 3rd at 0:02)
5 Tony Martin 0:08 (was 4th at 0:07)
6 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 0:11 (was 6th at 0:10)
7 Sylvain Chavanel 0:11 (was 8th at 0:10)
8 Tom Dumoulin 0:14 (was 9th at 0:13)
9 Geraint Thomas 0:14 (was 10th at 0:13)
10 Philippe Gilbert 0:14 (was 18th at 0:17)
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12 Tejay van Garderen 0:15 (was 12th at 0:14)
13 Richie Porte 0:16 (was 13th at 0:15)
14 Wilco Kelderman 0:17 (was 14th at 0:16)
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24 Jean-Christophe Peraud 0:22 (was 26th at 0:21)
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27 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 0:22 (was 29th at 0:21)
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37 Andrew Talansky 0:26 (was 41st at 0:25)
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44 Jakob Fuglsang 0:29 (was 51st at 0:28)
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49 Mathias Frank 0:30 (was 56th at 0:29)
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57 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:32 (was 63rd at 0:31)
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62 Fabio Aru 0:34 (was 70th at 0:33)
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66 Romain Bardet 0:36 (was 74th at 0:35)
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71 Rafal Majka 0:37 (was 80th at 0:36)
72 Nicolas Roche 0:38 (was 81st at 0:37)
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118 Bradley Wiggins 1:31 (was 99th at 0:42)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Michael Matthews 29 (was 6th with 14 points)
2 Alexander Kristoff 27 (was 1st with 20 points)
3 Nacer Bouhanni 20 (was 3rd with 17 points)
4 John Degenkolb 18 (was 2nd with 18 points)
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas 17 (was 9th with 11 points)
6 Michal Kwiatkowski 15 (was 4th with 15 points)
7 Andre Greipel 15 (was 5th with 15 points)
8 Giacomo Nizzolo 15 (was 17th with 6 points)
9 Arnaud Demare 13 (was 8th with 12 points)
10 Rohan Dennis 12 (was 7th with 12 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Philippe Gilbert 15 (was 3rd with 3 points)
2 Jonathan Hivert 6 (was 1st with 5 points)
3 Florian Vachon 6 (was 0 points)
4 Arnaud Gerard 4 (was 2nd with 4 points)
5 Thomas De Gendt 2 (was 4th with 2 points)
6 Thomas Voeckler 2 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Sebastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1
Tom Boonen (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 1
Total retirements : 3


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