Stage 2 - Neuhausen am Rheinfall-Lachen 178 km

1 Mathieu Van Der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 4:12:30
2 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 0:01
3 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain - Victorious 0:04
4 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04
5 Marc Hirschi (Swi) UAE-Team Emirates 0:04
6 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers 0:04
7 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:04
8 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:04
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana - Premier Tech 0:04
10 Andreas Kron (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:09


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+111 Esteban Chaves
+103 Wout Poels
+102 Michael Woods
+94 Georg Zimmermann
+92 Petr Vakoc
+92 Alexis Vuillermoz
+88 Lorenzo Rota
+87 Nans Peters
+83 Marc Hirschi
+78 Jonas Gregaard

Biggest losers by position :
-128 Sebastian Langeveld
-119 Alexys Brunel
-110 Tom Scully
-107 Tom Dumoulin
-103 Maciej Bodnar
-103 Tobias Ludvigsson
-102 Fabian Lienhard
-96 Juan Sebastian Molano
-86 Alvaro Jose Hodeg
-80 Stefan Bissegger
-79 Jannik Steimle

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:32 Mathieu Van Der Poel
+0:27 Maximilian Schachmann
+0:22 Wout Poels
+0:18 Richard Carapaz
+0:18 Michael Woods
+0:18 Marc Hirschi
+0:18 Julian Alaphilippe
+0:18 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:18 Ivan Garcia Cortina
+0:13 Andreas Kron

Biggest losers by time :
-14:59 Alexys Brunel
-14:59 Jordi Meeus
-14:59 Pieter Vanspeybrouck
-14:59 Sebastian Langeveld
-14:59 Szymon Sajnok
-13:11 Alvaro Jose Hodeg
-13:11 Baptiste Planckaert
-13:11 Fabian Lienhard
-13:11 Hugo Hofstetter
-13:11 Jack Bauer
-13:11 Juan Sebastian Molano

Favourites by position :
+111 Esteban Chaves
+103 Wout Poels
+46 Tiesj Benoot
+46 Lucas Hamilton
+46 David De La Cruz
+45 Jakob Fuglsang
+29 Rigoberto Uran
+26 Matteo Fabbro
+9 Maximilian Schachmann
+8 Richard Carapaz
+3 Julian Alaphilippe
-4 Jan Hirt
-26 Domenico Pozzovivo
-77 Rohan Dennis
-107 Tom Dumoulin

Favourites by time :
+0:27 Maximilian Schachmann
+0:22 Wout Poels
+0:18 Richard Carapaz
+0:18 Julian Alaphilippe
+0:18 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:11 Rigoberto Uran
-1:53 Domenico Pozzovivo
-2:38 Matteo Fabbro
-2:38 David De La Cruz
-4:33 Rohan Dennis
-9:45 Tom Dumoulin
-9:45 Jan Hirt

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Stefan Kung 4:24:52 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:01 (was 5th at 0:19)
3 Maximilian Schachmann 0:02 (was 12th at 0:29)
4 Mathieu Van Der Poel 0:06 (was 25th at 0:38)
5 Ivan Garcia Cortina 0:12 (was 14th at 0:30)
6 Mattia Cattaneo 0:12 (was 3rd at 0:12)
7 Richard Carapaz 0:13 (was 15th at 0:31)
8 Neilson Powless 0:25 (was 11th at 0:25)
9 Gino Mader 0:30 (was 29th at 0:41)
10 Andreas Kron 0:33 (was 43rd at 0:46)
.....
12 Rigoberto Uran 0:35 (was 41st at 0:46)
13 Jakob Fuglsang 0:35 (was 58th at 0:53)
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18 Wout Poels 0:52 (was 121st at 1:14)
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20 Lucas Hamilton 0:55 (was 66th at 0:55)
21 Tiesj Benoot 0:55 (was 67th at 0:55)
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39 Esteban Chaves 1:36 (was 150th at 1:36)
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56 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:34 (was 30th at 0:41)
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70 Matteo Fabbro 3:43 (was 96th at 1:05)
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77 David De La Cruz 3:53 (was 123rd at 1:15)
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87 Rohan Dennis 4:56 (was 10th at 0:23)
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123 Tom Dumoulin 10:17 (was 16th at 0:32)
.....
136 Jan Hirt 11:04 (was 132nd at 1:19)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Stefan Kung 12 (unchanged)
2 Mathieu Van Der Poel 12 (was 0 points)
3 Claudio Imhof 8 (was 0 points)
4 Maximilian Schachmann 8 (was 0 points)
5 Stefan Bissegger 8 (was 2nd with 8 points)
6 Mattia Cattaneo 6 (was 3rd with 6 points)
7 Wout Poels 6 (was 0 points)
8 Ivan Garcia Cortina 4 (was 0 points)
9 Tom Scully 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
10 Julian Alaphilippe 2 (was 5th with 2 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tom Bohli 10 (was 0 points)
2 Nickolas Zukowsky 10 (was 36th with 1:08 points)
3 Gino Mader 6 (was 7th with 0:37 points)
4 Matteo Dal-Cin 6 (was 0 points)
5 Julian Alaphilippe 4 (was 0 points)
6 Claudio Imhof 4 (was 0 points)
7 Michael Woods 3 (was 0 points)
8 Mathieu Van Der Poel 2 (was 0 points)
9 Richard Carapaz 2 (was 0 points)
10 Otto Vergaerde 1 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Deceuninck - Quick Step 13:15:54 (was 2nd at 0:12)
2 Movistar Team 0:09 (was 5th at 1:05)
3 Bahrain - Victorious 0:31 (was 12th at 1:38)
4 Ineos|Grenadiers 0:49 (was 0th at XTM.Ineos|Grenadiers )
5 Team BikeExchange 1:16 (was 17th at 1:53)
6 Alpecin-Fenix 1:25 (was 13th at 1:40)
7 Team DSM 2:15 (was 11th at 1:24)
8 Team Total Direct Energie 2:24 (was 20th at 2:17)
9 AG2R Citroen Team 2:30 (was 15th at 1:46)
10 Lotto Soudal 2:32 (was 8th at 1:16)
11 Astana - Premier Tech 2:44 (was 6th at 1:08)
12 Trek - Segafredo 2:48 (was 19th at 2:00)
13 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 3:14 (was 10th at 1:22)
14 Ef|Education - Nippo 3:22 (was 0th at XTM.Ef|Education - Nippo )
15 - |hansgrohe 3:42 (was 0th at XTM.- |hansgrohe )
16 Team Jumbo-Visma 4:47 (was 7th at 1:12)
17 UAE-Team Emirates 5:13 (was 16th at 1:50)
18 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 5:33 (was 23th at 2:44)
19 Groupama - FDJ 7:13 (was 3rd at 0:39)
20 Israel Start-Up Nation 11:00 (was 21th at 2:35)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 11:38 (was 14th at 1:44)
22 Switzerland 12:42 (was 18th at 1:58)
23 Rally Cycling 15:42 (was 22th at 2:40)

Retirements to date : Stage
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Total Direct Energie) 1
Total retirements : 1


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