Giro d'Italia, stage 9 summary
 

Stage 9 : May 12, Sansepolcro - Firenze, 170 km

1 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Katusha 4.31.31
2 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Ag2R La Mondiale 0.44
3 Jarlinson Pantano (Col) Colombia 0.46
4 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Argos-Shimano 0.54
5 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 1.03
6 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
7 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia
8 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia
9 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+50 Gianluca Brambilla
+45 Tobias Ludvigsson
+31 Dmitry Kozontchuk
+29 Oscar Gatto
+26 Alan Marangoni
+25 Maxim Belkov
+24 Patrick Gretsch
+21 Vladimir Gusev
+21 Stefano Garzelli
+20 Sylvain Georges

Biggest losers by position :
-28 Fabio Aru
-27 Pieter Weening
-20 Marco Canola
-15 Diego Rosa
-15 Edoardo Zardini
-15 Giairo Ermeti
-15 Petr Ignatenko
-15 Rory Sutherland
-15 Sacha Modolo
-12 Angel Vicioso Arcos
-12 Brett Lancaster

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:35 Maxim Belkov
+0:31 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
+0:27 Jarlinson Pantano
+0:09 Tobias Ludvigsson

Biggest losers by time :
-22:03 Edoardo Zardini
-22:03 Giairo Ermeti
-22:03 Marco Canola
-22:03 Mattia Gavazzi
-18:31 Adam Blythe
-18:31 Dalivier Ospina Navarro
-18:31 Davide Appollonio
-18:31 Elia Viviani
-18:31 Jack Bobridge
-18:31 Manuel Belletti
-18:31 Maurits Lammertink

Favourites by position :
+17 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+3 Steven Kruijswijk
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+1 Rigoberto Uran Uran
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-5 Ryder Hesjedal
-7 Thomas Danielson
-10 Christian Vande Velde

Favourites by time :
-1:06 Thomas Danielson
-1:06 Ryder Hesjedal
-4:33 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-16:20 Christian Vande Velde

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Vincenzo Nibali 34:19:31 (unchanged)
2 Cadel Evans 0:29 (unchanged)
3 Robert Gesink 1:15 (unchanged)
4 Bradley Wiggins 1:16 (unchanged)
5 Michele Scarponi 1:24 (unchanged)
6 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 2:11 (was 7th at 2:11)
7 Mauro Santambrogio 2:43 (was 8th at 2:43)
8 Przemyslaw Niemiec 2:44 (was 9th at 2:44)
9 Rigoberto Uran Uran 2:49 (was 10th at 2:49)
10 Tanel Kangert 3:02 (was 12th at 3:02)
11 Ryder Hesjedal 3:11 (was 6th at 2:05)
12 Wilco Kelderman 3:26 (was 13th at 3:26)
.....
14 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 3:43 (was 15th at 3:43)
15 Domenico Pozzovivo 4:05 (was 16th at 4:05)
.....
20 Steven Kruijswijk 5:09 (was 23rd at 5:09)
.....
26 Thomas Danielson 5:43 (was 19th at 4:37)
.....
93 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 53:37 (was 110th at 49:04)
.....
117 Christian Vande Velde 1:05:00 (was 107th at 48:40)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Cadel Evans 61 (was 3rd with 49 points)
2 Mark Cavendish 58 (was 1st with 58 points)
3 Elia Viviani 52 (was 2nd with 52 points)
4 Enrico Battaglin 45 (unchanged)
5 Maxim Belkov 41 (was 0 points)
6 Adam Hansen 39 (was 5th with 39 points)
7 Mauro Santambrogio 37 (was 10th with 29 points)
8 Luca Paolini 35 (was 6th with 35 points)
9 Jarlinson Pantano 32 (was 39th with 12 points)
10 Nacer Bouhanni 31 (was 7th with 31 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Stefano Pirazzi 38 (was 3rd with 12 points)
2 Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez 23 (was 5th with 9 points)
3 Giovanni Visconti 16 (was 1st with 14 points)
4 Emanuele Sella 13 (was 2nd with 13 points)
5 Maxim Belkov 13 (was 0 points)
6 Adam Hansen 12 (was 4th with 12 points)
7 Jarlinson Pantano 12 (was 26th with 1 points)
8 Willem Wauters 9 (was 6th with 9 points)
9 Danilo Di Luca 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
10 Manuele Boaro 5 (was 8th with 5 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ 9
Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia 9
Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez (Ven) Androni Giocattoli 9
Julien Berard (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 8
Klaas Lodewyck (Bel) BMC Racing Team 7
Leigh Howard (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 7
Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 7
Ji Cheng (Chn) Team Argos-Shimano 6
Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5
Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ 4
Total retirements : 10


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