Itzulia Basque Country stage 3 summary

Stage 3 - Amurrio-Ermualde (Laudio)

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE-Team Emirates 4:04:50
2 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05
4 Adam Yates (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:05
5 Mikel Landa (Spa) Bahrain - Victorious 0:05
6 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:08
7 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:16
8 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:16
9 Mauri Vansevenant (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:16
10 Brandon Mcnulty (USA) UAE-Team Emirates 0:18


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+53 Unai Cuadrado
+51 Anthony Perez
+48 Jose Felix Parra
+47 Luis Angel Mate
+36 Juan Pedro Lopez
+34 Hector Carretero
+33 Carlos Canal
+32 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
+30 Cristian Rodriguez
+29 Fabien Grellier

Biggest losers by position :
-54 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-51 AG2R Citroen Team PARET-PEINTRE Aurelien
-48 Antwan Tolhoek
-48 Michael Woods
-39 Alejandro Osorio
-38 Sergio Samitier
-37 Ben Gastauer
-35 Benoit Cosnefroy
-34 Gotzon Martin
-34 Mattia Cattaneo
-33 Bruno Armirail

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:04 Tadej Pogacar

Biggest losers by time :
-21:51 Alexander Evans
-16:11 Clement Davy
-14:44 Mikel Aristi
-13:47 Jon Aberasturi
-13:46 Oier Lazkano
-13:42 Andrey Amador
-13:42 Ben Gastauer
-13:42 Bruno Armirail
-13:42 Mikel Iturria
-13:38 Alex Howes
-13:38 Antwan Tolhoek

Favourites by position :
+22 Guillaume Martin
+15 Bauke Mollema
+14 Richard Carapaz
+11 Enric Mas
+8 Alejandro Valverde
+7 Rafal Majka
+6 Sergio Higuita
+5 Patrick Konrad
+2 Tadej Pogacar
+2 Emanuel Buchmann
+1 Adam Yates
-4 Maximilian Schachmann

Favourites by time :
+0:04 Tadej Pogacar
-0:07 Alejandro Valverde
-0:11 Adam Yates
-0:26 Sergio Higuita
-0:38 Maximilian Schachmann
-0:38 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:42 Emanuel Buchmann
-1:09 Enric Mas
-1:26 Guillaume Martin
-1:28 Richard Carapaz
-2:02 Patrick Konrad
-2:05 Rafal Majka
-3:30 Bauke Mollema

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 8:07:48 (unchanged)
2 Tadej Pogacar 0:20 (was 4th at 0:24)
3 Brandon Mcnulty 0:30 (was 3rd at 0:06)
4 Adam Yates 0:39 (was 5th at 0:28)
5 Alejandro Valverde 0:50 (was 13th at 0:43)
6 Jonas Vingegaard 0:54 (was 7th at 0:32)
7 Mikel Landa 1:00 (was 15th at 0:49)
8 Pello Bilbao 1:08 (was 10th at 0:42)
9 Mauri Vansevenant 1:09 (was 14th at 0:47)
10 Maximilian Schachmann 1:09 (was 6th at 0:31)
11 Sergio Higuita 1:19 (was 17th at 0:53)
12 Jakob Fuglsang 1:21 (was 12th at 0:43)
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14 Emanuel Buchmann 1:33 (was 16th at 0:51)
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22 Enric Mas 3:12 (was 33rd at 2:03)
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24 Richard Carapaz 3:47 (was 38th at 2:19)
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27 Patrick Konrad 3:51 (was 32nd at 1:49)
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35 Rafal Majka 4:32 (was 42nd at 2:27)
36 Guillaume Martin 4:50 (was 58th at 3:24)
.....
49 Bauke Mollema 7:33 (was 64th at 4:03)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 55 (was 1st with 35 points)
2 Tadej Pogacar 53 (was 3rd with 28 points)
3 Alex Aranburu 32 (was 2nd with 32 points)
4 Adam Yates 27 (was 12th with 13 points)
5 Brandon Mcnulty 26 (was 4th with 20 points)
6 Jonas Vingegaard 24 (was 7th with 16 points)
7 David Gaudu 24 (was 10th with 14 points)
8 Alejandro Valverde 22 (was 18th with 6 points)
9 Mikel Landa 20 (was 15th with 8 points)
10 Omar Fraile 20 (was 5th with 20 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tadej Pogacar 13 (was 5th with 3 points)
2 Quinten Hermans 12 (was 2nd with 6 points)
3 Primoz Roglic 12 (was 3rd with 4 points)
4 Maximilian Schachmann 6 (was 1st with 6 points)
5 Oier Lazkano 6 (was 0 points)
6 Adam Yates 6 (was 7th with 2 points)
7 Alejandro Valverde 6 (was 0 points)
8 Carlos Verona 4 (was 0 points)
9 Jon Irisarri 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
10 Brandon Mcnulty 2 (was 6th with 2 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 24:27:48 (was 4th at 0:17)
2 UAE-Team Emirates 0:01 (was 3rd at 0:16)
3 BORA - hansgrohe 0:42 (was 2nd at 0:10)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 1:25 (was 6th at 2:42)
5 Astana - Premier Tech 2:16 (was 1st at 12:10:46)
6 INEOS Grenadiers 5:19 (was 7th at 3:46)
7 Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:42 (was 5th at 1:22)
8 Movistar Team 7:43 (was 9th at 4:42)
9 Team Total Direct Energie 7:57 (was 10th at 4:43)
10 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 8:08 (was 13th at 5:39)
11 EF Education - Nippo 8:41 (was 15th at 5:56)
12 Team DSM 9:01 (was 14th at 5:44)
13 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 9:31 (was 12th at 5:27)
14 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 14:22 (was 16th at 7:26)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 16:19 (was 11th at 5:08)
16 Trek - Segafredo 17:37 (was 20th at 11:25)
17 Israel Start-Up Nation 19:24 (was 8th at 4:22)
18 Team BikeExchange 20:21 (was 19th at 10:16)
19 Burgos-BH 20:34 (was 17th at 9:36)
20 Groupama - FDJ 23:33 (was 18th at 10:03)
21 Euskaltel - Euskadi 24:34 (was 22th at 15:16)
22 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 29:17 (was 21th at 15:06)
23 Lotto Soudal 32:26 (was 23th at 15:26)
24 Equipo Kern Pharma 32:31 (was 24th at 19:21)

Retirements to date : Stage
Amund Grondahl Jansen (Team BikeExchange) 3
James Whelan (EF Education - Nippo) 3
Mikel Bizkarra (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 3
Mikel Nieve (Team BikeExchange) 3
Wilco Kelderman (BORA - hansgrohe) 3
Aurelien Paret-peintre (AG2R Citroen Team) 1
Christopher Juul-jensen (Team BikeExchange) 1
Francisco Galvan (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Marti Marquez (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Total retirements : 9


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