Stage 7 : March 19, 2019 San Benedetto del Tronto - San Benedetto del Tronto 10.1 km

1 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0.11.23
2 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education First 0.03
3 Jos van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0.04
4 Sebastian Langeveld (Ned) EF Education First 0.06
5 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0.07
6 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0.08
7 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb
8 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 0.09
9 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0.11
10 Filippo Ganna (Ita) Team Sky 0.12


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+9 Tom Bohli
+8 Miles Scotson
+6 Victor Campenaerts
+6 Stephen Cummings
+6 Dmitriy Gruzdev
+5 Taylor Phinney
+5 Silvan Dillier
+5 Oliviero Troia
+5 Michael Morkov
+5 Michael Hepburn

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Richard Carapaz
-3 Toms Skujins
-2 Brent Bookwalter
-2 Davide Gabburo
-2 Ivan Rovny
-2 Simone Velasco
-1 Adam Yates
-1 Alexey Lutsenko
-1 Christopher Juul Jensen
-1 Julian Alaphilippe
-1 Julien Simon

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:38 Victor Campenaerts
+0:35 Alberto Bettiol
+0:34 Jos van Emden
+0:32 Sebastian Langeveld
+0:31 Yves Lampaert
+0:30 Tom Dumoulin
+0:30 Mads Pedersen
+0:29 Rohan Dennis
+0:27 Michael Hepburn
+0:26 Filippo Ganna

Biggest losers by time :
-2:03 Cyril Lemoine
-1:29 Dayer Uberney Quintana Rojas
-1:24 Luca Wackermann
-1:17 Luca Pacioni
-1:13 Sebastian Schonberger
-1:12 Oscar Gatto
-1:07 Enrico Barbin
-1:07 Paolo Simion
-1:05 Eduard Prades Reverte
-1:05 Oliviero Troia
-1:04 Alexander Cataford

Favourites by position :
+2 Thibaut Pinot
+1 Rafal Majka
+1 Primoz Roglic
-1 Wout Poels
-1 Tiesj Benoot
-1 Sam Oomen
-1 Adam Yates
-3 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :
+0:30 Tom Dumoulin
+0:25 Primoz Roglic
+0:14 Thibaut Pinot
+0:08 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+0:05 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:02 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:01 Adam Yates
-0:02 Tiesj Benoot
-0:03 Wout Poels
-0:08 Davide Formolo
-0:10 Rafal Majka
-0:14 Sam Oomen
-0:34 Richard Carapaz

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 25:28:00 (was 2nd at 0:25)
2 Adam Yates 0:01 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Jakob Fuglsang 0:30 (was 3rd at 0:35)
4 Tom Dumoulin 1:25 (was 4th at 1:55)
5 Thibaut Pinot 2:32 (was 7th at 2:46)
6 Julian Alaphilippe 2:34 (was 5th at 2:24)
7 Wout Poels 2:42 (was 6th at 2:39)
8 Simon Clarke 3:01 (was 9th at 3:03)
9 Sam Oomen 3:12 (was 8th at 2:58)
10 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 3:18 (was 10th at 3:26)
.....
12 Tiesj Benoot 3:37 (was 11th at 3:35)
.....
15 Vincenzo Nibali 4:34 (was 15th at 4:36)
.....
20 Richard Carapaz 5:21 (was 17th at 4:47)
.....
22 Davide Formolo 6:06 (was 22nd at 5:58)
.....
52 Rafal Majka 28:35 (was 53rd at 28:25)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mirco Maestri 31 (unchanged)
2 Adam Yates 27 (unchanged)
3 Julian Alaphilippe 26 (unchanged)
4 Alberto Bettiol 23 (was 10th with 13 points)
5 Jakob Fuglsang 22 (was 4th with 22 points)
6 Primoz Roglic 22 (was 5th with 22 points)
7 Elia Viviani 20 (was 6th with 20 points)
8 Alexey Lutsenko 17 (was 7th with 17 points)
9 Peter Sagan 16 (was 8th with 16 points)
10 Davide Cimolai 15 (was 9th with 15 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Alexey Lutsenko 35 (unchanged)
2 Jakob Fuglsang 34 (unchanged)
3 Adam Yates 25 (unchanged)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 23 (unchanged)
5 Davide Gabburo 20 (unchanged)
6 Natnael Berhane 20 (unchanged)
7 Primoz Roglic 18 (unchanged)
8 Mads Pedersen 14 (unchanged)
9 Sebastian Schonberger 12 (unchanged)
10 Giovanni Visconti 10 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7
Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 7
Michael Valgren Andersen (Den) Dimension Data 7
Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Astana Pro Team 7
Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Katusha-Alpecin 6
Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Dimension Data 5
Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Movistar Team 5
Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 5
Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 4
Dimitri Claeys (Bel) Cofidis Solutions Credits 4
Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 4
Ian Boswell (USA) Katusha-Alpecin 4
Ildar Arslanov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 4
Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4
Marco Maronese (Ita) Bardiani CSF 4
Stepan Kurianov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 4
Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 3
Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 3
Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 3
Gianni Moscon (Ita) Team Sky 2
Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis Solutions Credits 2
Total retirements : 21


(This report and archives etc can be seen at http://rvmartin.uk/cycling)