Stage 3 - Nice Sisteron

1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 5:17:42
2 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
3 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:00
4 Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
6 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
7 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00
8 Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC Team 0:00
9 Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels - Vital Concept p/b KTM 0:00
10 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Team Total Direct Energie 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+13 Omar Fraile
+13 Jose Joaquin Rojas
+12 Luis Leon Sanchez
+10 Simon Geschke
+10 Nils Politt
+10 Hugo Hofstetter
+10 David Gaudu
+10 Damiano Caruso
+10 Alexey Lutsenko
+9 Warren Barguil

Biggest losers by position :
-35 Dayer Quintana
-33 Tony Martin
-29 Wout Poels
-27 Benoit Cosnefroy
-19 Lukas Postlberger
-19 Michal Kwiatkowski
-19 Wout van Aert
-18 Remi Cavagna
-14 Alessandro De Marchi
-14 Mikael Cherel
-13 Geoffrey Soupe

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Caleb Ewan
+0:06 Sam Bennett
+0:04 Giacomo Nizzolo

Biggest losers by time :
-7:32 Lukas Postlberger
-5:11 Benoit Cosnefroy
-5:11 Dayer Quintana
-5:11 Jerome Cousin
-5:11 Michal Kwiatkowski
-5:11 Mikael Cherel
-5:11 Pavel Sivakov
-5:11 Remi Cavagna
-5:11 Tony Martin
-5:11 Winner Anacona
-5:11 Wout Poels

Favourites by position :
+8 Miguel Angel Lopez
+4 Romain Bardet
+3 Tom Dumoulin
+3 Thibaut Pinot
+2 Nairo Quintana
+2 Alejandro Valverde
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1 Emanuel Buchmann
-3 Enric Mas
-4 Rigoberto Uran
-4 Richie Porte
-4 Primoz Roglic
-5 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Julian Alaphilippe 13:59:17 (unchanged)
2 Adam Yates 0:04 (unchanged)
3 Marc Hirschi 0:07 (unchanged)
4 Tadej Pogacar 0:17 (was 5th at 0:17)
5 Davide Formolo 0:17 (was 7th at 0:17)
6 Egan Bernal 0:17 (was 8th at 0:17)
7 Tom Dumoulin 0:17 (was 10th at 0:17)
8 Sergio Higuita 0:17 (was 4th at 0:17)
9 Guillaume Martin 0:17 (was 14th at 0:17)
10 Esteban Chaves 0:17 (was 6th at 0:17)
11 Nairo Quintana 0:17 (was 13th at 0:17)
.....
14 Richard Carapaz 0:17 (was 9th at 0:17)
15 Primoz Roglic 0:17 (was 11th at 0:17)
16 Emanuel Buchmann 0:17 (was 15th at 0:17)
17 Romain Bardet 0:17 (was 21st at 0:17)
.....
21 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:17 (was 29th at 0:17)
22 Enric Mas 0:17 (was 19th at 0:17)
.....
25 Alejandro Valverde 0:17 (was 27th at 0:17)
.....
29 Rigoberto Uran 0:17 (was 25th at 0:17)
30 Thibaut Pinot 0:17 (was 33rd at 0:17)
.....
34 Richie Porte 0:17 (was 30th at 0:17)
.....
38 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:31 (was 39th at 1:31)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 79 (was 2nd with 46 points)
2 Alexander Kristoff 77 (was 1st with 64 points)
3 Sam Bennett 74 (was 4th with 35 points)
4 Matteo Trentin 54 (was 3rd with 36 points)
5 Caleb Ewan 50 (was 0 points)
6 Giacomo Nizzolo 46 (was 21st with 13 points)
7 Bryan Coquard 37 (was 9th with 22 points)
8 Cees Bol 32 (was 11th with 20 points)
9 Julian Alaphilippe 30 (was 5th with 30 points)
10 Mads Pedersen 30 (was 6th with 30 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Benoit Cosnefroy 21 (was 1st with 18 points)
2 Michael Gogl 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
3 Toms Skujins 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
4 Kasper Asgreen 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
5 Nicolas Roche 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
6 Jerome Cousin 3 (was 0 points)
7 Robert Gesink 3 (unchanged)
8 Michael Schar 2 (unchanged)
9 Fabien Grellier 2 (unchanged)
10 Marc Hirschi 2 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Trek - Segafredo 41:58:42 (was 1st at 26:05:36)
2 EF Pro Cycling 0:00 (was 2nd at 0:00)
3 Astana Pro Team 0:00 (was 3rd at 0:00)
4 Bahrain - McLaren 0:00 (was 4th at 0:00)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 1:02 (was 5th at 1:02)
6 Movistar Team 1:10 (was 6th at 1:10)
7 Team Jumbo-Visma 1:14 (was 7th at 1:14)
8 UAE-Team Emirates 2:07 (was 8th at 2:07)
9 Groupama - FDJ 2:07 (was 9th at 2:07)
10 AG2R La Mondiale 3:36 (was 10th at 3:36)
11 Mitchelton-Scott 4:22 (was 11th at 4:22)
12 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4:23 (was 12th at 4:23)
13 BORA - hansgrohe 10:17 (was 13th at 10:17)
14 Team Arkea Samsic 11:23 (was 14th at 11:23)
15 Team Sunweb 13:48 (was 15th at 13:48)
16 Deceuninck - Quick Step 21:29 (was 16th at 21:29)
17 CCC Team 22:06 (was 17th at 22:06)
18 B&B Hotels - Vital Concept p/b KTM 28:00 (was 18th at 28:00)
19 Israel Start-Up Nation 35:00 (was 19th at 35:00)
20 NTT Pro Cycling 36:40 (was 20th at 36:40)
21 Team Total Direct Energie 1:00:49 (was 21th at 1:00:49)
22 Lotto Soudal 1:26:39 (was 22th at 1:26:39)

Retirements to date : Stage
Anthony Perez (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 3
Philippe Gilbert (Lotto Soudal) 2
Rafael Valls (Bahrain - McLaren) 2
John Degenkolb (Lotto Soudal) 1
Toms Skujiss (Trek - Segafredo) 1
Total retirements : 5


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