Stage 9 : August 27, 2017 Orihuela - Cumbre del Sol 174 km

1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 4.07.13
2 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Orica-Scott 0.04
3 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac 0.05
4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0.08
5 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin
6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0.12
7 David de la Cruz (Spa) Quick-Step Floors
8 Sam Oomen (Ned) Team Sunweb
9 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0.14
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+34 Antonio Pedrero
+31 Stefan Denifl
+23 Hector Saez Benito
+22 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez
+22 Anthony Roux
+21 Matvey Mamykin
+21 Alexandre Geniez
+19 Stephane Rossetto
+19 Omar Fraile Matarranza
+17 Juan Felipe Osorio

Biggest losers by position :
-32 Toms Skujins
-29 Michel Kreder
-24 Davide Villella
-23 Matteo Trentin
-20 Alexis Gougeard
-20 Arnaud Courteille
-20 Brendan Canty
-20 Jacques Janse van Rensburg
-20 Laurens De Vreese
-19 Julien Bernard
-19 Przemyslaw Niemiec

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-24:14 Toms Skujins
-24:14 William Clarke
-22:20 Jelle Wallays
-22:20 Magnus Cort
-21:35 Andreas Schillinger
-21:35 Michael Morkov
-21:35 Michael Schwarzmann
-21:35 Michel Kreder
-21:35 Niki Terpstra
-21:35 Patrick Konrad
-21:35 Sacha Modolo

Favourites by position :
+4 Alberto Contador Velasco
+3 Steven Kruijswijk
+3 Romain Bardet
+2 Louis Meintjes
+2 Bob Jungels
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1 Fabio Aru
-1 Adam Yates
-4 George Bennett
-15 Simon Yates

Favourites by time :
-0:08 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
-0:18 Ilnur Zakarin
-0:22 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:24 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:27 Fabio Aru
-0:37 Adam Yates
-0:39 Steven Kruijswijk
-1:19 Louis Meintjes
-1:19 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1:27 Romain Bardet
-4:18 Rafal Majka
-6:03 Bob Jungels
-10:47 Simon Yates
-20:46 George Bennett

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Christopher Froome 36:33:16 (unchanged)
2 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 0:36 (was 2nd at 0:28)
3 Nicolas Roche 1:05 (was 3rd at 0:41)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 1:17 (was 4th at 0:53)
5 Tejay van Garderen 1:27 (was 5th at 0:58)
6 David de la Cruz 1:30 (was 7th at 1:08)
7 Fabio Aru 1:33 (was 6th at 1:06)
8 Michael Woods 1:52 (was 9th at 1:41)
9 Adam Yates 1:55 (was 8th at 1:18)
10 Ilnur Zakarin 2:15 (was 10th at 1:57)
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13 Alberto Contador Velasco 3:32 (was 17th at 3:10)
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17 Louis Meintjes 4:42 (was 19th at 3:23)
18 Steven Kruijswijk 4:46 (was 21st at 4:07)
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25 Romain Bardet 10:51 (was 28th at 9:24)
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29 Simon Yates 13:21 (was 14th at 2:34)
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32 Domenico Pozzovivo 14:03 (was 33rd at 12:44)
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36 Rafal Majka 22:29 (was 36th at 18:11)
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47 Bob Jungels 32:40 (was 49th at 26:37)
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157 George Bennett 1:34:33 (was 153rd at 1:13:47)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Christopher Froome 55 (was 7th with 30 points)
2 Matteo Trentin 49 (was 1st with 49 points)
3 Pawel Poljanski 44 (was 2nd with 44 points)
4 Matej Mohoric 43 (was 3rd with 43 points)
5 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 38 (was 19th with 18 points)
6 Vincenzo Nibali 37 (was 6th with 31 points)
7 Julian Alaphilippe 34 (was 4th with 34 points)
8 Jan Polanc 32 (was 5th with 32 points)
9 Alexey Lutsenko 29 (was 8th with 29 points)
10 David de la Cruz 29 (was 16th with 20 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Davide Villella 38 (unchanged)
2 Thomas De Gendt 17 (unchanged)
3 Christopher Froome 15 (was 9th with 5 points)
4 Darwin Atapuma 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
5 Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet 11 (was 4th with 11 points)
6 Rafal Majka 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
7 Alexandre Geniez 10 (was 6th with 10 points)
8 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 9 (was 19th with 3 points)
9 Marc Soler 6 (was 37th with 1 points)
10 Alexey Lutsenko 6 (was 7th with 6 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 9
Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 9
Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 8
Jesper Hansen (Den) Astana Pro Team 8
Sven Erik Bystrom (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 8
Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb 8
Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 7
Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 7
Lawrence Warbasse (USA) Aqua Blue Sport 7
Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin (Eri) Dimension Data 7
Jose Goncalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 6
Nicholas Dougall (RSA) Dimension Data 6
John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 5
Youcef Reguigui (Alg) Dimension Data 5
Ben King (USA) Dimension Data 3
Marc Fournier (Fra) FDJ 3
Anass Ait El Abdia (Mar) UAE Team Emirates 2
Javier Moreno Bazan (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 2
Michal Kolar (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 2
Total retirements : 19


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