Stage 18 - Rovereto-Stradella 231 km

1 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education - Nippo 5:14:43
2 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:17
3 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team DSM 0:18
4 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team DSM 0:18
5 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE-Team Emirates 0:18
6 Samuele Battistella (Ita) Astana - Premier Tech 0:18
7 Filippo Zana (Ita) Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 0:18
8 Natnael Tesfatsion (Eri) Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 0:18
9 Remi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:24
10 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 1:12


Changes in GC, stage 18 compared to stage 17 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+20 Simone Consonni
+18 Filippo Zana
+17 Simon Pellaud
+17 Samuele Rivi
+17 Samuele Battistella
+16 Patrick Bevin
+16 Nico Denz
+15 Nicolas Roche
+15 Jacopo Mosca
+14 Dario Cataldo

Biggest losers by position :
-1 Alessandro Covi
-1 Callum Scotson
-1 Dries De Bondt
-1 Gianni Moscon
-1 Giovanni Aleotti
-1 Giovanni Visconti
-1 Harm Vanhoucke
-1 Harold Tejada
-1 Jimmy Janssens
-1 Mark Christian
-1 Rafael Valls

Biggest gainers by time :
+23:42 Alberto Bettiol
+23:19 Simone Consonni
+23:17 Nicolas Roche
+23:12 Samuele Battistella
+23:12 Nikias Arndt
+23:12 Natnael Tesfatsion
+23:12 Filippo Zana
+23:12 Diego Ulissi
+23:09 Remi Cavagna
+22:18 Jacopo Mosca

Biggest losers by time :
-0:48 Callum Scotson
-0:48 Julius Van Den Berg
-0:48 Mauro Schmid
-0:48 Pieter Serry

Favourites by position :
+1 Tejay Van Garderen
+1 Pello Bilbao
+1 Dan Martin
+1 Bauke Mollema
-1 Vincenzo Nibali

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Bernal 77:10:18 (unchanged)
2 Damiano Caruso 2:21 (unchanged)
3 Simon Yates 3:23 (unchanged)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 6:03 (unchanged)
5 Hugh Carthy 6:09 (unchanged)
6 Romain Bardet 6:31 (unchanged)
7 Daniel Felipe Martinez 7:17 (unchanged)
8 Joao Almeida 8:45 (unchanged)
9 Tobias Foss 9:18 (unchanged)
10 Dan Martin 13:37 (was 11th at 13:37)
.....
12 Pello Bilbao 27:30 (was 13th at 27:30)
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21 Vincenzo Nibali 45:12 (was 20th at 45:12)
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29 Bauke Mollema 1:14:51 (was 30th at 1:14:51)
.....
84 Tejay Van Garderen 2:53:10 (was 85th at 2:53:10)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 135 (unchanged)
2 Davide Cimolai 113 (unchanged)
3 Fernando Gaviria 110 (unchanged)
4 Elia Viviani 86 (unchanged)
5 Dries De Bondt 63 (unchanged)
6 Simone Consonni 60 (was 32nd with 22 points)
7 Egan Bernal 59 (was 6th with 59 points)
8 Alberto Bettiol 53 (was 81st with 3 points)
9 Nikias Arndt 53 (was 15th with 35 points)
10 Edoardo Affini 50 (was 7th with 50 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Geoffrey Bouchard 180 (unchanged)
2 Egan Bernal 109 (unchanged)
3 Dan Martin 79 (unchanged)
4 Bauke Mollema 53 (unchanged)
5 Lorenzo Fortunato 52 (unchanged)
6 Damiano Caruso 41 (unchanged)
7 Dries De Bondt 39 (unchanged)
8 Joao Almeida 30 (was 9th with 30 points)
9 Jan Tratnik 26 (was 10th with 26 points)
10 Romain Bardet 22 (was 11th with 22 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team DSM 31:54:20 (was 5th at 1:02:11)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 5:07 (was 1st at 15:04:48)
3 Trek - Segafredo 13:18 (was 3rd at 30:29)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 28:53 (was 6th at 1:03:19)
5 Team Jumbo-Visma 31:47 (was 2nd at 26:40)
6 Team BikeExchange 49:33 (was 4th at 44:26)
7 Movistar Team 52:35 (was 7th at 1:09:24)
8 EF Education - Nippo 54:54 (was 8th at 1:13:17)
9 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:10:34 (was 10th at 1:28:33)
10 UAE-Team Emirates 1:21:39 (was 11th at 1:54:37)
11 Bahrain - Victorious 1:21:59 (was 9th at 1:16:52)
12 Groupama - FDJ 2:01:09 (was 12th at 1:56:02)
13 EOLO-Kometa 2:01:10 (was 14th at 2:32:56)
14 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:08:29 (was 13th at 2:16:23)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 3:11:31 (was 15th at 3:27:43)
16 Israel Start-Up Nation 3:25:55 (was 17th at 3:41:02)
17 BORA - hansgrohe 3:39:55 (was 16th at 3:34:48)
18 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 3:49:25 (was 19th at 4:49:06)
19 Alpecin-Fenix 4:05:33 (was 18th at 4:20:06)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 4:53:25 (was 20th at 5:11:30)
21 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 6:37:50 (was 21th at 6:55:56)
22 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 7:02:49 (was 22th at 6:57:42)

Retirements to date : Stage
Giulio Ciccone (Trek - Segafredo) 18
Nick Schultz (Team BikeExchange) 18
Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 18
Remy Rochas (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 17
Victor Campenaerts (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 17
Sebastien Reichenbach (Groupama - FDJ) 16
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 16
Emanuel Buchmann (BORA - hansgrohe) 15
Giacomo Nizzolo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 15
Jos Van Emden (Team Jumbo-Visma) 15
Natnael Berhane (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 15
Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education - Nippo) 15
David Dekker (Team Jumbo-Visma) 14
Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) 14
Jai Hindley (Team DSM) 14
Nicolas Edet (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 14
Roger Kluge (Lotto Soudal) 14
Alessandro De Marchi (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Alex Dowsett (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Fausto Masnada (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 12
Gino Mader (Bahrain - Victorious) 12
Kobe Goossens (Lotto Soudal) 12
Marc Soler (Movistar Team) 12
Jonathan Klever Caicedo (EF Education - Nippo) 11
Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) 11
Clement Champoussin (AG2R Citroen Team) 9
Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal) 9
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain - Victorious) 9
Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) 9
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 8
Domenico Pozzovivo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 7
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 38


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