Tour de Romandie, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 : Apr 28, Romont, 171.8 km

1 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD 4.10.53
2 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0.02
3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Pro Team Astana
4 Rui Alberto Faria Costa (Por) Movistar Team
5 David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Movistar Team
6 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
7 Andrew Talansky (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo
8 Tony Martin (Ger) HTC-Highroad
9 Denis Menchov (Rus) Geox-TMC
10 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+36 Marco Bandiera
+32 Rafal Majka
+32 Matteo Carrara
+31 Cyril Gautier
+30 Marco Corti
+30 Amets Txurruka
+26 Oscar Freire Gomez
+26 Davide Vigano
+25 Brice Feillu
+23 Mikael Cherel

Biggest losers by position :
-92 Jack Bobridge
-68 Branislau Samoilau
-47 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas
-47 Richie Porte
-43 Marc De Maar
-41 Jurgen Van De Walle
-41 Maxime Bouet
-37 Mauricio Ardila Cano
-29 Leigh Howard
-27 David Lelay
-26 Martijn Keizer

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:30 Damiano Cunego
+1:24 Cadel Evans
+1:22 Alexandre Vinokourov
+1:18 Tony Martin
+1:18 Thomas Rohregger
+1:18 Thomas Danielson
+1:18 Sylvester Szmyd
+1:18 Steve Morabito
+1:18 Simon Spilak
+1:18 Rui Alberto Faria Costa

Biggest losers by time :
-11:14 Addy Engels
-11:14 Alan Perez Lezaun
-11:14 Alessandro Vanotti
-11:14 Artem Ovechkin
-11:14 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
-11:14 Bert Grabsch
-11:14 Enrique Sanz
-11:14 Fabio Sabatini
-11:14 Francesco Chicchi
-11:14 Gerald Ciolek
-11:14 Ignatas Konovalovas

Favourites by position :
+22 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
+17 Ivan Basso
+13 Roman Kreuziger
+13 Bradley Wiggins
+8 David Zabriskie
+7 Vladimir Karpets
+6 Linus Gerdemann
+5 Tony Martin
+4 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+4 Cadel Evans
+3 Janez Brajkovic
+3 Denis Menchov
-47 Richie Porte

Favourites by time :
+1:24 Cadel Evans
+1:18 Tony Martin
+1:18 Janez Brajkovic
+1:18 Denis Menchov
+1:04 Linus Gerdemann
+0:50 Ivan Basso
-0:38 Vladimir Karpets
-0:38 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
-0:38 David Zabriskie
-0:47 Roman Kreuziger
-2:11 Bradley Wiggins
-11:14 Richie Porte

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Pavel Brutt 8:43:39 (unchanged)
2 Damiano Cunego 0:38 (was 9th at 2:08)
3 Cadel Evans 0:42 (was 7th at 2:06)
4 Alexandre Vinokourov 0:42 (was 5th at 2:04)
5 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui 0:46 (was 6th at 2:04)
6 Steve Morabito 0:50 (was 8th at 2:08)
7 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:51 (was 10th at 2:09)
8 Oliver Zaugg 0:51 (was 11th at 2:09)
9 Pieter Weening 0:51 (was 12th at 2:09)
10 Thomas Rohregger 0:52 (was 13th at 2:10)
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17 Janez Brajkovic 0:58 (was 20th at 2:16)
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19 Denis Menchov 1:03 (was 22nd at 2:21)
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24 Tony Martin 1:22 (was 29th at 2:40)
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26 Linus Gerdemann 1:39 (was 32nd at 2:43)
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32 Ivan Basso 2:24 (was 49th at 3:14)
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41 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 3:09 (was 45th at 3:09)
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54 David Zabriskie 4:20 (was 62nd at 3:42)
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56 Vladimir Karpets 4:26 (was 63rd at 3:48)
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68 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 6:18 (was 90th at 5:40)
69 Roman Kreuziger 6:24 (was 82nd at 5:37)
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75 Bradley Wiggins 7:50 (was 88th at 5:39)
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101 Richie Porte 14:43 (was 54th at 3:29)

Top 10 on Points table
1 Pavel Brutt 6
2 Dario David Cioni 6
3 Jack Bobridge 6
4 Christophe Kern 6
5 Oleksandr Kvachuk 4
6 Branislau Samoilau 4
7 David Millar 3
8 Maxime Bouet 3
9 Mikael Cherel 1
10 Aliaksandr Kuchynski 1

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Oleksandr Kvachuk 28 (was 1st with 24 points)
2 Pavel Brutt 22 (unchanged)
3 Branislau Samoilau 22 (unchanged)
4 Roman Kreuziger 12 (was 0 points)
5 Jack Bobridge 12 (was 4th with 12 points)
6 Egoi Martinez De Esteban 8 (was 0 points)
7 Christophe Kern 8 (was 0 points)
8 Marcel Wyss 8 (was 0 points)
9 Alexandre Vinokourov 6 (was 0 points)
10 Mikael Cherel 6 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Ben Hermans (Bel) Team RadioShack 2
Sebastien Rosseler (Bel) Team RadioShack 2
Simone Ponzi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 2
Thomas Leezer (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 2
Daniele Bennati (Ita) Leopard Trek 1
Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Pro Team Astana 1
Nicki Sorensen (Den) Saxo Bank Sungard 1
Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Pro Team Astana 1
Total retirements : 8


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