Tour de Suisse stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Monday, June 15 2009, Davos - Lumino, 198 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia - Highroad 4:39:27
2 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
3 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo TestTeam
4 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Silence-Lotto
7 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux
9 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Francaise Des Jeux
10 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank


Changes in stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+30 Davide Vigano
+29 Yauheni Hutarovich
+29 Robert Kiserlovsky
+29 Reto Hollenstein
+29 John Gadret
+29 Javier Aramendia Lorente
+27 Ivan Velasco
+27 Herve Duclos-Lassalle
+24 Frederic Guesdon
+23 Michael Schar

Biggest losers by position :
-46 Enrico Gasparotto
-44 Kim Kirchen
-43 Bernhard Eisel
-41 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-37 Lloyd Mondory
-36 William Frischkorn
-35 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova
-33 Maxim Iglinskiy
-32 Alexander Efimkin
-29 Cameron Meyer
-29 Ronny Scholz

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Mark Cavendish
+0:06 Oscar Freire Gomez
+0:04 Thor Hushovd

Biggest losers by time :
-27:43 Rene Haselbacher
-5:29 Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta
-5:29 Leonardo Duque
-5:29 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-5:29 Ricardo Serrano
-4:23 Bjorn Schroder
-4:23 Ronny Scholz
-4:05 Maryan Hary
-4:04 Samuel Dumoulin
-3:44 Josef Benetseder
-3:43 William Frischkorn

Favourites by position :
+9 Andy Schleck
+8 Tadej Valjavec
+6 Frank Schleck
+5 Johan Van Summeren
+4 Damiano Cunego
+3 Linus Gerdemann
+2 Sylvain Chavanel
+1 Vladimir Karpets
+1 Maxime Monfort
-11 Christian Vandevelde
-44 Kim Kirchen
-46 Enrico Gasparotto

Favourites by time :
-0:30 Kim Kirchen
-0:30 Johan Van Summeren
-0:53 Enrico Gasparotto
-0:59 Christian Vandevelde

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Fabian Cancellara 8.25.39
2 Roman Kreuziger 0.22
3 Andreas Kloden 0.25
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6 Maxime Monfort 0.35
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13 Vladimir Karpets 0.41
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16 Sylvain Chavanel 0.43
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18 Linus Gerdemann 0.45
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24 Damiano Cunego 0.46
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26 Frank Schleck 0.48
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28 Tadej Valjavec 0.49
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34 Andy Schleck 0.52
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50 Kim Kirchen 1.04
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69 Johan Van Summeren 1.34
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77 Enrico Gasparotto 1.41
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141 Christian Vandevelde 16.02

Retirements to date : Stage
Sebastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3
Sebastien Turgot (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 3
Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1
Total retirements : 3