Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, stage 6 summary
 

Stage 6 : April 11, 2015 Aia - Aia (ITT) 18.3 km

1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 0.28.46
2 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 0.04
3 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team 0.05
4 Sergio Luis Henao (Col) Team Sky 0.17
5 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Movistar Team 0.21
6 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek Factory Racing 0.23
7 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0.30
8 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 0.34
9 Rein Taaramae (Est) Astana Pro Team 0.36
10 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Etixx - Quick-Step 0.37


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+15 Rinaldo Nocentini
+15 Omar Fraile
+15 Mario Costa
+14 Xabier Zandio Echaide
+14 Valerio Conti
+14 Timo Roosen
+14 Nathan Brown
+14 Maxim Belkov
+14 Carlos Betancur
+14 Brent Bookwalter

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Simon Spilak
-4 Pawel Poljanski
-3 Daniel Moreno Fernandez
-2 Ilnur Zakarin
-2 Rafal Majka
-2 Simon Yates
-2 Tejay Van Garderen
-1 Bart De Clercq
-1 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado
-1 Hubert Dupont
-1 Michele Scarponi

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:04 Tom Dumoulin

Biggest losers by time :
-6:54 Francis Mourey
-5:32 Alexander Kolobnev
-5:04 Lawson Craddock
-4:52 Joseph Rosskopf
-4:41 Bruno Pires
-4:31 Matteo Bono
-4:30 Nick Van Der Lijke
-4:24 Antonio Molina
-4:24 Julian Arredondo
-4:21 Clement Chevrier
-4:18 Sebastien Reichenbach

Favourites by position :
+6 Pieter Weening
+5 Andrew Talansky
+3 Michal Kwiatkowski
+3 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+1 Joaquim Rodriguez
-1 Thomas Danielson
-1 Michele Scarponi
-2 Tejay Van Garderen
-2 Rafal Majka

Favourites by time :
-0:33 Michal Kwiatkowski
-0:44 Michele Scarponi
-0:44 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-0:57 Thibaut Pinot
-0:59 Tejay Van Garderen
-1:14 Andrew Talansky
-2:15 Rafal Majka
-2:16 Thomas Danielson
-3:45 Pieter Weening

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joaquim Rodriguez 21:49:38 (was 2nd at 0:00)
2 Sergio Luis Henao 0:13 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Ion Izagirre 0:29 (was 8th at 0:28)
4 Nairo Quintana 0:38 (was 4th at 0:12)
5 Simon Yates 0:46 (was 3rd at 0:07)
6 Michele Scarponi 1:06 (was 5th at 0:22)
7 Rui Costa 1:14 (was 12th at 0:44)
8 Michal Kwiatkowski 1:15 (was 11th at 0:42)
9 Ilnur Zakarin 1:25 (was 7th at 0:28)
10 Thibaut Pinot 1:33 (was 10th at 0:36)
11 Tejay Van Garderen 1:35 (was 9th at 0:36)
.....
15 Rafal Majka 3:11 (was 13th at 0:56)
16 Jean-Christophe Peraud 3:16 (was 19th at 2:32)
.....
33 Thomas Danielson 14:06 (was 32nd at 11:50)
.....
49 Andrew Talansky 23:36 (was 54th at 22:22)
.....
60 Pieter Weening 38:37 (was 66th at 34:52)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Joaquim Rodriguez 78 (was 1st with 58 points)
2 Michal Kwiatkowski 62 (was 2nd with 56 points)
3 Sergio Luis Henao 55 (was 4th with 41 points)
4 Fabio Felline 44 (was 6th with 34 points)
5 Simon Yates 38 (was 7th with 34 points)
6 Nairo Quintana 37 (was 9th with 28 points)
7 Ion Izagirre 36 (was 13th with 20 points)
8 Ilnur Zakarin 30 (unchanged)
9 Mikel Landa Meana 25 (was 10th with 25 points)
10 Tom Dumoulin 25 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Omar Fraile 81 (unchanged)
2 Amets Txurruka 45 (unchanged)
3 Thomas Danielson 33 (unchanged)
4 Tony Martin 23 (unchanged)
5 Sergio Luis Henao 22 (unchanged)
6 Mikel Landa Meana 17 (unchanged)
7 Sebastien Reichenbach 17 (unchanged)
8 Sander Armee 15 (unchanged)
9 Hugh Carthy 15 (unchanged)
10 Pello Bilbao 13 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 6
Caleb Fairly (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 6
Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 6
Igor Anton (Spa) Movistar Team 6
Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 6
Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 6
Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team 6
Jose Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 6
Matteo Montaguti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 6
Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 6
Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Team Katusha 6
Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 6
Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 6
Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal 6
Bertjan Lindeman (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 5
Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 5
Danny Pate (USA) Team Sky 5
Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 5
Janier Acevedo (Col) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 5
Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Astana Pro Team 5
Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Tinkoff-Saxo 5
Angel Vicioso (Spa) Team Katusha 4
Carter Jones (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 4
Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin 4
David Tanner (Aus) IAM Cycling 4
Fredrik Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 4
Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 4
Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 4
Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 4
Patrick Schelling (Swi) IAM Cycling 4
Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Tinkoff-Saxo 4
Thierry Hupond (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 4
Calvin Watson (Aus) Trek Factory Racing 3
Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr 3
Adam Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge 2
Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ.fr 2
Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky 2
Brian Bulgac (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2
Jarlinson Pantano (Col) IAM Cycling 2
Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2
Peter Stetina (USA) BMC Racing Team 2
Sergio Pardilla (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2
Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2
Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 1
Total retirements : 44


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