Tirreno Adriatico, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 : Mar 13, San Vincenzo - Cascina, 166 km

1 Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 3.56.12
2 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ.fr
3 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol
4 Sam Bennett (Irl) Team NetApp - Endura
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale
6 Davide Appollonio (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani-CSF
8 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida
9 Tony Hurel (Fra) Team Europcar
10 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) MTN - Qhubeka


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+27 Nicola Ruffoni
+24 Ignatas Konovalovas
+24 Filippo Fortin
+23 Kristian Sbaragli
+22 Vincent Jerome
+22 Andre Greipel
+20 Sonny Colbrelli
+20 Romain Sicard
+20 Giampaolo Caruso
+20 Gerald Ciolek

Biggest losers by position :
-161 Wout Poels
-133 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-132 Dario Cataldo
-131 Bart De Clercq
-107 Jens Mouris
-95 Hayden Roulston
-87 Stijn Devolder
-74 David De La Cruz Melgarejo
-66 Cesare Benedetti
-60 Alexey Lutsenko
-42 Simon Geschke

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Matteo Pelucchi
+0:06 Arnaud Demare
+0:06 Alex Dowsett
+0:04 Andre Greipel

Biggest losers by time :
-11:30 Bart De Clercq
-11:30 Jacopo Guarnieri
-11:30 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-7:32 Alexey Lutsenko
-7:32 Dario Cataldo
-7:32 David De La Cruz Melgarejo
-7:32 Tom Leezer
-7:32 Tom Stamsnijder
-7:32 Wout Poels
-7:31 Marco Canola
-7:28 Davide Malacarne

Favourites by position :
+20 Damiano Cunego
+16 Andrew Talansky
+15 Daniel Martin
+13 Daniel Moreno Fernandez
+12 Cadel Evans
+11 Michele Scarponi
+5 Bauke Mollema
+4 Robert Gesink
+4 Alberto Contador Velasco
+3 Roman Kreuziger
+3 Richie Porte
-2 Ivan Basso
-2 Bradley Wiggins
-133 Jurgen Van Den Broeck

Favourites by time :
-11:30 Jurgen Van Den Broeck

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mark Cavendish 4:16:25 (unchanged)
2 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:00 (unchanged)
3 Rigoberto Uran 0:00 (unchanged)
4 Mark Renshaw 0:00 (unchanged)
5 Alessandro Petacchi 0:02 (was 6th at 0:02)
6 Tony Martin 0:03 (was 7th at 0:03)
7 Simon Clarke 0:11 (was 9th at 0:11)
8 Daryl Impey 0:11 (unchanged)
9 Svein Tuft 0:11 (was 11th at 0:11)
10 Ivan Santaromita 0:11 (was 13th at 0:11)
.....
22 Roman Kreuziger 0:24 (was 25th at 0:24)
23 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:24 (was 27th at 0:24)
.....
32 Ivan Basso 0:26 (was 30th at 0:26)
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35 Richie Porte 0:27 (was 38th at 0:27)
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39 Bradley Wiggins 0:27 (was 37th at 0:27)
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51 Bauke Mollema 0:37 (was 56th at 0:37)
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53 Robert Gesink 0:37 (was 57th at 0:37)
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65 Cadel Evans 0:47 (was 77th at 0:47)
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82 Damiano Cunego 0:53 (was 102nd at 0:53)
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95 Michele Scarponi 0:54 (was 106th at 0:54)
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105 Andrew Talansky 1:04 (was 121st at 1:04)
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108 Daniel Martin 1:04 (was 123rd at 1:04)
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114 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 1:06 (was 127th at 1:06)
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174 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 11:58 (was 41st at 0:28)

Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0


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