Tour of California, stage 6 summary
 

Stage 6 : May 19, 2017 Big Bear Lake (ITT) 24 km

1 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) Team Sky 0.28.27
2 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0.07
3 Andrew Talansky (USA) Cannondale-Drapac 0.16
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0.18
5 Filippo Ganna (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0.21
6 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Quick-Step Floors
7 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0.23
8 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
9 Martin Elmiger (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.25
10 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0.27


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+16 Maciej Bodnar
+11 Tom Bohli
+11 Jonathan Dibben
+10 Daniel Eaton
+9 Martin Elmiger
+9 Marcel Kittel
+8 Taylor Phinney
+8 Filippo Ganna
+7 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
+6 Miles Scotson

Biggest losers by position :
-11 Tanner Putt
-8 Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez
-8 Sean Bennett
-7 Wouter Wippert
-6 Jonas Van Genechten
-6 Joshua Berry
-6 Juraj Sagan
-6 Kiel Reijnen
-6 Laurens De Vreese
-6 Michal Kolar
-6 Rick Zabel

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:24 Jonathan Dibben
+0:17 Brent Bookwalter
+0:08 Andrew Talansky
+0:06 George Bennett
+0:03 Maximilian Schachmann
+0:03 Filippo Ganna
+0:01 Peter Sagan
+0:01 Maciej Bodnar

Biggest losers by time :
-4:41 Yoann Bagot
-4:36 Romain Gioux
-4:35 Arman Kamyshev
-4:33 Tyler Farrar
-3:59 Jonas Van Genechten
-3:55 Guillaume Bonnafond
-3:54 Wouter Wippert
-3:45 Yousif Mirza
-3:44 Roy Curvers
-3:43 David Lozano Riba
-3:42 Martin Velits

Favourites by position :
+1 George Bennett
+1 Andrew Talansky
-1 Rafal Majka
-5 Robert Gesink

Favourites by time :
+0:08 Andrew Talansky
+0:06 George Bennett
-0:35 Rafal Majka
-2:22 Robert Gesink

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 George Bennett 20:16:48 (was 2nd at 0:06)
2 Rafal Majka 0:35 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Andrew Talansky 0:36 (was 4th at 0:44)
4 Brent Bookwalter 0:45 (was 6th at 1:02)
5 Ian Boswell 1:00 (was 3rd at 0:25)
6 Vegard Stake Laengen 1:54 (was 10th at 1:50)
7 Tao Geoghegan Hart 2:12 (was 9th at 1:34)
8 Sam Oomen 2:15 (was 7th at 1:14)
9 Lachlan Morton 2:20 (was 5th at 0:49)
10 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre 3:14 (was 12th at 2:36)
.....
13 Robert Gesink 3:53 (was 8th at 1:31)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 41 (was 1st with 37 points)
2 George Bennett 31 (was 3rd with 24 points)
3 Rafal Majka 28 (was 2nd with 28 points)
4 Andrew Talansky 25 (was 6th with 16 points)
5 Brent Bookwalter 23 (was 14th with 11 points)
6 Marcel Kittel 18 (was 4th with 18 points)
7 Evan Huffman 17 (was 5th with 17 points)
8 Ian Boswell 16 (was 7th with 16 points)
9 Jonathan Dibben 15 (was 0 points)
10 Rob Britton 14 (was 8th with 14 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Daniel Jaramillo 38 (unchanged)
2 Rafal Majka 25 (unchanged)
3 Evan Huffman 25 (unchanged)
4 George Bennett 20 (unchanged)
5 Ian Boswell 18 (unchanged)
6 Scott Thwaites 16 (unchanged)
7 Andrew Talansky 15 (unchanged)
8 Lachlan Morton 15 (unchanged)
9 Gavin Mannion 14 (unchanged)
10 Rob Britton 13 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Andrea Guardini (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 5
Andrea Peron (Ita) Team Novo Nordisk 5
Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Sky 5
Erik BaA¡ka (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 5
Mark Renshaw (Aus) Dimension Data 5
Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 5
Riccardo Minali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 5
Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 3
Eric Young (USA) Rally Cycling 2
Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 2
Taylor Sheldon (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis 2
Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 2
Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Tea 1
Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1
Total retirements : 14


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