Tour de France, stage 16 summary
 

Stage 16 : July 23, 2019 Nimes - Nimes 177 km

1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 3.57.08
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
3 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
4 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
5 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Direct Energie
6 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
8 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
9 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
10 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team


Changes in GC, stage 16 compared to stage 15 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+11 Dylan Groenewegen
+10 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze
+10 Andre Greipel
+9 Michael Morkov
+8 Simon Clarke
+7 Roger Kluge
+7 Niccolo Bonifazio
+6 Peter Sagan
+6 Marco Haller
+6 Lilian Calmejane

Biggest losers by position :
-12 Maxime Monfort
-11 Kevin Van Melsen
-11 Thomas Scully
-10 Cees Bol
-9 Hugo Houle
-9 Magnus Cort
-8 Michael Valgren Andersen
-5 Luis Leon Sanchez
-5 Marc Soler
-4 Kasper Asgreen
-3 Alexey Lutsenko

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Caleb Ewan
+0:06 Elia Viviani
+0:04 Dylan Groenewegen

Biggest losers by time :
-12:34 Michael Valgren Andersen
-12:31 Tony Martin
-10:34 Alexey Lutsenko
-10:34 Hugo Houle
-10:34 Luis Leon Sanchez
-10:34 Magnus Cort
-10:34 Maxime Monfort
-8:55 Cees Bol
-8:44 Enric Mas
-8:44 Kevin Van Melsen
-8:44 Marc Soler

Favourites by position :
+3 Ilnur Zakarin
+1 Romain Bardet
+1 Patrick Konrad
+1 Nairo Quintana
+1 Adam Yates
-1 Enric Mas
-3 Simon Yates

Favourites by time :
-0:21 Romain Bardet
-1:02 Nairo Quintana
-2:00 Vincenzo Nibali
-2:00 Ilnur Zakarin
-2:00 Adam Yates
-3:49 Simon Yates
-3:49 Patrick Konrad
-8:44 Enric Mas

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Julian Alaphilippe 64:57:30 (unchanged)
2 Geraint Thomas 1:35 (unchanged)
3 Steven Kruijswijk 1:47 (unchanged)
4 Thibaut Pinot 1:50 (unchanged)
5 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 2:02 (unchanged)
6 Emanuel Buchmann 2:14 (unchanged)
7 Mikel Landa Meana 4:54 (unchanged)
8 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 5:00 (unchanged)
9 Rigoberto Uran 5:33 (was 10th at 5:33)
10 Richie Porte 6:30 (was 11th at 6:30)
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12 Nairo Quintana 9:30 (was 13th at 8:28)
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18 Romain Bardet 27:33 (was 19th at 27:12)
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23 Adam Yates 35:18 (was 24th at 33:18)
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27 Enric Mas 44:02 (was 26th at 35:18)
28 Patrick Konrad 46:01 (was 29th at 42:12)
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53 Vincenzo Nibali 1:19:50 (was 53rd at 1:17:50)
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55 Simon Yates 1:21:37 (was 52nd at 1:17:48)
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63 Ilnur Zakarin 1:27:18 (was 66th at 1:25:18)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 309 (was 1st with 284 points)
2 Elia Viviani 224 (was 4th with 184 points)
3 Sonny Colbrelli 203 (was 2nd with 191 points)
4 Michael Matthews 201 (was 3rd with 187 points)
5 Caleb Ewan 198 (was 5th with 148 points)
6 Jasper Stuyven 142 (was 6th with 132 points)
7 Matteo Trentin 130 (was 7th with 118 points)
8 Julian Alaphilippe 117 (unchanged)
9 Dylan Groenewegen 116 (was 10th with 96 points)
10 Greg Van Avermaet 101 (was 9th with 101 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tim Wellens 64 (unchanged)
2 Thibaut Pinot 50 (unchanged)
3 Thomas De Gendt 37 (unchanged)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 33 (unchanged)
5 Giulio Ciccone 30 (unchanged)
6 Simon Yates 29 (unchanged)
7 Xandro Meurisse 27 (unchanged)
8 Steven Kruijswijk 24 (unchanged)
9 Emanuel Buchmann 24 (unchanged)
10 Natnael Berhane 20 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 16
Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 16
Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 14
Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 13
Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Dimension Data 12
Jasper Philipsen (Bel) UAE Team Emirates 12
Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 12
Niki Terpstra (Ned) Direct Energie 11
Rick Zabel (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 11
Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team 9
Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 8
Tejay van Garderen (USA) EF Education First 8
Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 6
Patrick Bevin (Nzl) CCC Team 6
Total retirements : 15


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