Giro d'Italia, stage 10 summary
 

Stage 10 : May 17, Termoli - Teramo, 159 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) HTC-Highroad 4.00.49
2 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Movistar Team
3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
4 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
5 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Sky Procycling
6 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Quickstep Cycling Team
7 Klaas Lodewyck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
8 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Colnago - CSF Inox
9 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) BMC Racing Team
10 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli


Changes in GC, stage 10 compared to stage 9 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+4 Tiziano Dall'antonia
+4 Manuel Belletti
+3 Simone Stortoni
+3 Sergey Lagutin
+3 Sebastian Lang
+3 Richie Porte
+3 Danilo Wyss
+2 Roberto Ferrari
+2 Robert Hunter
+2 Miguel Minguez Ayala

Biggest losers by position :
-13 Lars Ytting Bak
-9 Craig Lewis
-8 Kristof Vandewalle
-8 Martin Kohler
-7 Addy Engels
-7 Lars Petter Nordhaug
-6 Patrick Gretsch
-5 Mickael Cherel
-4 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-4 Davide Malacarne
-4 Jussi Veikkanen

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Mark Cavendish
+0:12 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi
+0:08 Alessandro Petacchi
+0:06 Fumiyuki Beppu

Biggest losers by time :
-5:20 Jos van Emden
-4:51 Patrick Gretsch
-3:56 Craig Lewis
-3:56 Lars Ytting Bak
-3:50 Martin Kohler
-3:50 Matthew Wilson
-3:47 Addy Engels
-3:47 Kristof Vandewalle
-2:39 Pierre Cazaux
-2:18 Federico Canuti
-2:18 Maxim Gourov

Favourites by position :
+3 Richie Porte
-13 Lars Ytting Bak

Favourites by time :
-1:19 Frantisek Rabon
-3:56 Lars Ytting Bak

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 37:04:40 (unchanged)
2 Kanstantsin Siutsou 0:59 (unchanged)
3 Christophe Le Mevel 1:19 (unchanged)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 1:21 (unchanged)
5 Michele Scarponi 1:28 (unchanged)
6 David Arroyo Duran 1:37 (unchanged)
7 Roman Kreuziger 1:41 (unchanged)
8 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez 1:47 (unchanged)
9 Dario Cataldo 2:21 (unchanged)
10 Matteo Carrara 2:21 (unchanged)
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13 Stefano Garzelli 2:39 (unchanged)
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20 Denis Menchov 3:18 (unchanged)
21 Thomas Lovkvist 3:27 (unchanged)
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26 Carlos Sastre Candil 4:57 (unchanged)
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39 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 14:16 (unchanged)
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71 Danilo Di Luca 35:05 (unchanged)
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100 Richie Porte 48:33 (was 103rd at 48:33)
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135 Lars Ytting Bak 1:00:19 (was 122nd at 56:23)
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161 Frantisek Rabon 1:13:04 (was 161st at 1:11:45)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jan Bakelants 12 (was 1st with 10 points)
2 Pablo Lastras Garcia 5 (unchanged)
3 Matteo Montaguti 5 (unchanged)
4 Fumiyuki Beppu 5 (was 0 points)
5 Sebastian Lang 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
6 Martin Kohler 5 (was 4th with 5 points)
7 Kristof Vandewalle 5 (was 5th with 5 points)
8 Mirko Selvaggi 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
9 Matteo Tosatto 5 (was 8th with 5 points)
10 Giovanni Visconti 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Filippo Savini 16 (unchanged)
2 Alberto Contador Velasco 15 (unchanged)
3 Bart De Clercq 11 (unchanged)
4 Martin Kohler 10 (unchanged)
5 Federico Canuti 9 (unchanged)
6 Jose Rujano Guillen 9 (unchanged)
7 Mathias Frank 9 (unchanged)
8 Gianluca Brambilla 8 (unchanged)
9 Roman Kreuziger 8 (unchanged)
10 Stefano Garzelli 8 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Adam Blyth (GBr) Omega Pharma-Lotto 10
Chris Butler (USA) BMC Racing Team 9
Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank Cycling Team 9
Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) Androni Giocattoli 9
Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team RadioShack 9
Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Col) Geox-TMC 8
Brice Feillu (Fra) Leopard Trek 5
Bruno Pires (Por) Leopard Trek 5
Chris Barton (USA) BMC Racing Team 5
Davide ViganA² (Ita) Leopard Trek 5
Dominic Klemme (Ger) Leopard Trek 5
Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Leopard Trek 5
Francesco Failli (Ita) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli 5
Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Leopard Trek 5
Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Leopard Trek 5
Tom Slagter (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 5
Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Leopard Trek 5
Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 5
Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Leopard Trek 3
Total retirements : 19


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