Giro d'Italia, stage 16 summary
 

Stage 16 : May 24, 2016 Bressanone - Andalo 132 km

1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 2.58.54
2 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
3 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 0.08
4 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida 0.37
5 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx - Quick-Step
6 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Team Sky 0.38
7 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
8 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 0.42
9 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 0.50
10 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1.47


Changes in GC, stage 16 compared to stage 15 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+16 David Lopez Garcia
+9 Benoit Vaugrenard
+7 Riccardo Zoidl
+5 Sergey Firsanov
+5 Rein Taaramae
+4 Nicolas Roche
+4 Moreno Moser
+3 Sebastian Henao Gomez
+3 Pawel Poljanski
+3 Manuel Senni

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Georg Preidler
-3 Gianluca Brambilla
-3 Giovanni Visconti
-3 Manuele Boaro
-3 Maxime Monfort
-3 Stefano Pirazzi
-2 Davide Malacarne
-2 Igor Anton Hernandez
-2 Simon Clarke
-1 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova
-1 Andrey Zeits

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:06 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Biggest losers by time :
-18:25 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
-18:25 Sam Bewley
-18:23 Eduard Michael Grosu
-18:11 Alexander Porsev
-18:11 Alexandr Kolobnev
-18:11 Andrey Solomennikov
-18:11 Arnaud Courteille
-18:11 A�ukasz Wisniowski
-18:11 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev
-18:11 Davide Malacarne
-18:11 Egor Silin

Favourites by position :
+2 Domenico Pozzovivo
+1 Bob Jungels
+1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-1 Vincenzo Nibali
-1 Rafal Majka
-1 Mikel Nieve Ituralde
-1 Jakob Fuglsang

Favourites by time :
+0:06 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:43 Bob Jungels
-0:48 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
-0:56 Rafal Majka
-1:52 Vincenzo Nibali
-1:53 Domenico Pozzovivo
-3:26 Jakob Fuglsang
-5:34 Rigoberto Uran
-5:34 Davide Formolo
-11:30 Mikel Nieve Ituralde

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Steven Kruijswijk 63:40:10 (unchanged)
2 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 3:00 (was 2nd at 2:12)
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 3:23 (was 4th at 3:29)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 4:43 (was 3rd at 2:51)
5 Ilnur Zakarin 4:50 (was 6th at 4:40)
6 Rafal Majka 5:34 (was 5th at 4:38)
7 Bob Jungels 7:57 (was 8th at 7:14)
8 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova 8:53 (was 7th at 5:27)
9 Domenico Pozzovivo 10:05 (was 11th at 8:12)
10 Kanstantsin Siutsou 11:03 (was 9th at 7:37)
11 Jakob Fuglsang 11:21 (was 10th at 7:55)
12 Rigoberto Uran 13:53 (was 12th at 8:19)
.....
24 Davide Formolo 42:08 (was 24th at 36:34)
.....
32 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 1:00:48 (was 31st at 49:18)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Giacomo Nizzolo 138 (unchanged)
2 Diego Ulissi 130 (was 2nd with 112 points)
3 Matteo Trentin 86 (was 6th with 80 points)
4 Sacha Modolo 84 (was 3rd with 84 points)
5 Alejandro Valverde 83 (was 10th with 52 points)
6 Maarten Tjallingii 83 (was 4th with 83 points)
7 Daniel Oss 83 (was 5th with 80 points)
8 Steven Kruijswijk 76 (was 7th with 58 points)
9 Bob Jungels 61 (was 9th with 54 points)
10 Andrey Amador 57 (was 8th with 57 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Damiano Cunego 134 (unchanged)
2 Stefan Denifl 72 (unchanged)
3 Darwin Atapuma 69 (unchanged)
4 Giovanni Visconti 61 (unchanged)
5 David Lopez Garcia 54 (was 7th with 39 points)
6 Mikel Nieve 50 (was 5th with 50 points)
7 Steven Kruijswijk 42 (was 12th with 23 points)
8 Alexander Foliforov 41 (was 6th with 41 points)
9 Kanstantsin Siutsou 36 (was 8th with 36 points)
10 Alejandro Valverde 27 (was 22nd with 14 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Artur Ershov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 16
David de la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 16
Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx - Quick-Step 15
Leigh Howard (Aus) IAM Cycling 15
Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ 14
Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 14
Giacomo Berlato (Ita) Nippo - Vini Fantini 14
Liam Bertazzo (Ita) Southeast - Venezuela 14
Matthias Brandle (Aut) IAM Cycling 14
Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre - Merida 14
Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Trek-Segafredo 14
Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 13
Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 13
Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 13
Marc Sarreau (Fra) FDJ 13
Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 13
Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 13
Patrick Gretsch (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 13
Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Astana Pro Team 12
Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 11
Alexey Tsatevich (Rus) Team Katusha 10
Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek-Segafredo 10
Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Team Sky 10
Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 9
Boy van Poppel (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 8
Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky 8
Iuri Filosi (Ita) Nippo - Vini Fantini 8
Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Movistar Team 7
Lawrence Warbasse (USA) IAM Cycling 7
Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 7
Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Southeast - Venezuela 5
Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Dimension Data 5
Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ 4
Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC Racing Team 3
Total retirements : 35


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