Tour de France, stage 7 summary
 

Stage 7 : July 07, 2017 Troyes - Nuits-Saint-Georges 213.5 km

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 5.03.18
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin
5 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo
6 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
7 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
9 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
10 Daniel McLay (GBr) Fortuneo - Oscaro


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+8 Yukiya Arashiro
+8 Lars Ytting Bak
+8 Danilo Wyss
+8 Andrea Pasqualon
+7 Stefan Kung
+7 Rick Zabel
+7 Michael Valgren Andersen
+7 Maurits Lammertink
+7 Matteo Bono
+7 Markel Irizar Aranburu

Biggest losers by position :
-33 Gianluca Brambilla
-21 Jos van Emden
-18 Jesus Herrada Lopez
-17 Pierre Rolland
-16 Robert Gesink
-15 Pierre-Luc Perichon
-14 Alessandro De Marchi
-14 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-13 Vasil Kiryienka
-13 Yohann Gene
-10 Christian Knees

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Marcel Kittel
+0:06 Edvald Boasson Hagen
+0:04 Michael Matthews

Biggest losers by time :
-4:15 Gianluca Brambilla
-4:15 Julien Vermote
-3:33 Jos van Emden
-3:28 Alessandro De Marchi
-2:19 Frederik Backaert
-2:19 Thomas Voeckler
-2:19 Yohann Gene
-2:01 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev
-2:01 Christian Knees
-2:01 Damien Howson
-2:01 Daniel Navarro Garcia

Favourites by position :
+3 Thibaut Pinot
+1 Bauke Mollema

Favourites by time :
-0:20 Thibaut Pinot

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Christopher Froome 28:47:51 (unchanged)
2 Geraint Thomas 0:12 (unchanged)
3 Fabio Aru 0:14 (unchanged)
4 Daniel Martin 0:25 (unchanged)
5 Richie Porte 0:39 (unchanged)
6 Simon Yates 0:43 (unchanged)
7 Romain Bardet 0:47 (unchanged)
8 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:52 (unchanged)
9 Nairo Quintana 0:54 (unchanged)
10 Rafal Majka 1:01 (unchanged)
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19 Andrew Talansky 1:57 (unchanged)
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30 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 2:44 (unchanged)
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43 Bauke Mollema 5:23 (was 44th at 5:23)
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63 Thibaut Pinot 10:24 (was 66th at 10:04)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Marcel Kittel 197 (was 2nd with 143 points)
2 Arnaud Demare 182 (was 1st with 170 points)
3 Michael Matthews 123 (was 3rd with 96 points)
4 Andre Greipel 110 (was 4th with 93 points)
5 Alexander Kristoff 102 (was 5th with 74 points)
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 66 (was 13th with 36 points)
7 Sonny Colbrelli 60 (was 6th with 49 points)
8 Nacer Bouhanni 54 (was 8th with 44 points)
9 Daniel Martin 47 (was 7th with 47 points)
10 Dylan Groenewegen 44 (was 15th with 30 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Fabio Aru 10 (unchanged)
2 Daniel Martin 8 (unchanged)
3 Christopher Froome 6 (unchanged)
4 Richie Porte 4 (unchanged)
5 Nathan Brown 3 (unchanged)
6 Jan Bakelants 2 (unchanged)
7 Perrig Quemeneur 2 (unchanged)
8 Taylor Phinney 2 (unchanged)
9 Nils Politt 2 (unchanged)
10 Romain Bardet 2 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 5
Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 5
Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott 2
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 1
Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 1
Total retirements : 5


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