Stage 7 : Jun 15, Gossau (ITT), 34.3 km

1 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (Swe) Pro Team Astana 0.46.36
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack-Nissan 0.02
3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) RadioShack-Nissan 0.20
4 Jeremy Roy (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 0.25
5 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0.27
6 Tanel Kangert (Est) Pro Team Astana 0.34
7 Andreas Kloden (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan 0.38
8 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team 0.41
9 Peter Velits (Svk) Omega Pharma - QuickStep 0.43
10 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0.51


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+57 Vladimir Gusev
+16 Robert Gesink
+14 Maxime Monfort
+13 Tanel Kangert
+12 Steven Cummings
+9 Fabian Cancellara
+8 Tiziano Dall'Antonia
+8 Niki Terpstra
+7 Vladimir Karpets
+6 Steven Kruijswijk

Biggest losers by position :
-16 Giampaolo Caruso
-14 John Gadret
-14 Marco Marcato
-10 Damiano Cunego
-10 Nicolas Roche
-10 Thibaut Pinot
-9 Ben Swift
-9 Robert Kiserlovski
-7 Alex Howes
-7 Baden Cooke
-7 Daniel Oss

Biggest gainers by time :
+11:26 Vladimir Gusev
+0:41 Fredrik Kessiakoff
+0:39 Fabian Cancellara
+0:21 Maxime Monfort
+0:16 Jeremy Roy
+0:14 Robert Gesink
+0:07 Tanel Kangert
+0:03 Andreas Kloden

Biggest losers by time :
-7:17 Mehdi Sohrabi
-7:08 Ignatas Konovalovas
-6:43 Guillaume Boivin
-6:30 Troels Ronning Vinther
-6:11 Leonardo Bertagnolli
-6:02 Marco Marcato
-5:54 Kris Boeckmans
-5:43 Baden Cooke
-5:26 Tyler Farrar
-5:24 Matteo Trentin
-5:22 Ben Swift

Favourites by position :
+16 Robert Gesink
+14 Maxime Monfort
+6 Steven Kruijswijk
+6 Levi Leipheimer
+6 Bauke Mollema
+5 Andreas Kloden
+4 Thomas Danielson
+4 Peter Velits
+3 Cameron Meyer
+3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+1 Roman Kreuziger
+1 Jakob Fuglsang
-3 Frank Schleck
-10 Damiano Cunego
-14 John Gadret

Favourites by time :
+0:21 Maxime Monfort
+0:14 Robert Gesink
+0:03 Andreas Kloden
-0:02 Peter Velits
-0:35 Roman Kreuziger
-0:38 Levi Leipheimer
-0:40 Steven Kruijswijk
-0:41 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:43 Thomas Danielson
-0:56 Frank Schleck
-1:01 Jakob Fuglsang
-1:01 Bauke Mollema
-1:59 Damiano Cunego
-2:15 John Gadret
-2:32 Cameron Meyer

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 26:10:55 (unchanged)
2 Roman Kreuziger 0:50 (was 3rd at 0:15)
3 Robert Gesink 0:55 (was 19th at 1:09)
4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 1:04 (was 7th at 0:23)
5 Frank Schleck 1:04 (was 2nd at 0:08)
6 Thomas Danielson 1:12 (was 10th at 0:29)
7 Levi Leipheimer 1:15 (was 13th at 0:37)
8 Vladimir Gusev 1:17 (was 65th at 12:43)
9 Thomas Lovkvist 1:22 (was 6th at 0:21)
10 Steven Kruijswijk 1:27 (was 16th at 0:47)
11 Jakob Fuglsang 1:34 (was 12th at 0:33)
.....
21 Maxime Monfort 2:25 (was 35th at 2:46)
22 John Gadret 2:39 (was 8th at 0:24)
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27 Damiano Cunego 2:56 (was 17th at 0:57)
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39 Andreas Kloden 6:23 (was 44th at 6:26)
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71 Bauke Mollema 16:30 (was 77th at 15:29)
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75 Peter Velits 17:47 (was 79th at 17:45)
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121 Cameron Meyer 37:10 (was 124th at 34:38)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 102 (unchanged)
2 Michael Albasini 36 (unchanged)
3 Ben Swift 36 (unchanged)
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 27 (unchanged)
5 Allan Davis 27 (unchanged)
6 Ruben Perez Moreno 26 (unchanged)
7 Vladimir Isaichev 25 (unchanged)
8 Fabian Cancellara 24 (was 24th with 12 points)
9 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff 23 (was 37th with 8 points)
10 Lloyd Mondory 23 (was 8th with 23 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Vladimir Isaichev 21 (unchanged)
2 Matteo Montaguti 21 (unchanged)
3 Frank Schleck 20 (unchanged)
4 Ryan Anderson 20 (unchanged)
5 Brian Vandborg 17 (unchanged)
6 Michael Morkov 17 (unchanged)
7 Ruben Perez Moreno 16 (unchanged)
8 Thomas Danielson 15 (unchanged)
9 Alessandro Bazzana 15 (unchanged)
10 Sebastien Minard 13 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7
Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank 5
Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Garmin-Barracuda 5
Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5
Matthew Wilson (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team 5
Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 4
Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team 4
Gaetan Bille (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team 4
Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team 4
Sander Cordeel (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team 4
Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 4
Will Routley (Can) Spidertech powered by C10 4
Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha Team 3
Total retirements : 13


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