Stage 1 : March 09, 2015 Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse - Contres 196.5 km

1 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha 5.15.18
2 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
3 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar
4 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling
5 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek Factory Racing
6 Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
7 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
8 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Lampre-Merida
9 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
10 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge


Changes in GC, stage 1 compared to stage 0 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+85 Michal Kwiatkowski
+24 Alexander Kristoff
+23 Bryan Coquard
+22 Anthony Delaplace
+21 Nacer Bouhanni
+20 Jonathan Hivert
+17 Thomas Voeckler
+15 Sebastien Chavanel
+14 Zico Waeytens
+14 Stijn Vandenbergh

Biggest losers by position :
-118 Christian Knees
-78 William Bonnet
-75 Davide Cimolai
-75 Simon Clarke
-70 Cyril Lemoine
-68 Lars Ytting Bak
-56 Thomas De Gendt
-50 Daryl Impey
-36 Jens Keukeleire
-35 Angelo Tulik
-27 Marco Coledan

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:35 Michal Kwiatkowski
+0:10 Alexander Kristoff
+0:06 Nacer Bouhanni
+0:06 Gorka Izagirre Insausti
+0:04 Bryan Coquard
+0:03 Jonathan Hivert
+0:03 Anthony Delaplace
+0:02 Thomas Voeckler
+0:02 Michael Matthews
+0:01 John Degenkolb

Biggest losers by time :
-1:37 Christian Knees
-1:37 Daryl Impey
-1:37 Lars Ytting Bak
-1:08 Adam Hansen
-1:08 Thomas De Gendt
-1:08 William Bonnet
-0:59 Jens Keukeleire
-0:57 Luke Rowe
-0:45 Davide Cimolai
-0:45 Eugenio Alafaci
-0:45 Marco Coledan

Favourites by position :
+6 Romain Bardet
+6 Rafal Majka
+6 Nicolas Roche
+6 Fabio Aru
+4 Arthur Vichot
+2 Mathias Frank
+2 Jakob Fuglsang
-1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-1 Andrew Talansky

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 5:22:58 (was 86th at 0:35)
2 Rohan Dennis 0:00 (unchanged)
3 Tony Martin 0:07 (unchanged)
4 John Degenkolb 0:09 (was 6th at 0:10)
5 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 0:10 (was 4th at 0:10)
6 Lars Boom 0:10 (was 5th at 0:10)
7 Michael Matthews 0:10 (was 8th at 0:12)
8 Sylvain Chavanel 0:10 (was 7th at 0:10)
9 Tom Dumoulin 0:13 (unchanged)
10 Geraint Thomas 0:13 (was 10th at 0:14)
11 Tejay van Garderen 0:14 (unchanged)
12 Bradley Wiggins 0:15 (unchanged)
13 Richie Porte 0:15 (unchanged)
14 Wilco Kelderman 0:16 (unchanged)
.....
30 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 0:21 (was 29th at 0:21)
.....
40 Andrew Talansky 0:25 (was 39th at 0:25)
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53 Jakob Fuglsang 0:28 (was 55th at 0:28)
.....
58 Mathias Frank 0:29 (was 60th at 0:29)
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64 Arthur Vichot 0:31 (was 68th at 0:31)
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75 Fabio Aru 0:33 (was 81st at 0:33)
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79 Romain Bardet 0:35 (was 85th at 0:35)
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88 Rafal Majka 0:36 (was 94th at 0:36)
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90 Nicolas Roche 0:37 (was 96th at 0:37)

Top 10 on Points table
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 15
2 Alexander Kristoff 15
3 Rohan Dennis 12
4 Nacer Bouhanni 12
5 Tony Martin 9
6 Bryan Coquard 9
7 Luis Leon Sanchez 7
8 Heinrich Haussler 7
9 John Degenkolb 6
10 Lars Boom 6

Top 10 on Mountains table
1 Jonathan Hivert 4
2 Thomas De Gendt 2
3 Philippe Gilbert 1

Retirements to date : Stage
Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1
Tom Boonen (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 1
Michal Golas (Pol) Etixx - Quick-Step 0
Total retirements : 3


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