Tour de France, stage 19 summary

Changes in stage 19 compared to stage 18

Biggest gainers by position :
+15 Leif Hoste
+7 Bert Grabsch
+6 William Bonnet
+5 Sébastien Rosseler
+5 Marcel Sieberg
+4 Fabian Cancellara
+3 Thomas Dekker
+3 Steven De Jongh
+3 Marzio Bruseghin
+3 Bram De Groot

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Benoît Salmon
-6 Manuel Quinziato
-5 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
-5 Marcus Burghardt
-5 Matteo Tosatto
-5 Tom Boonen
-4 Bernhard Eisel
-4 Claudio Corioni
-3 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo
-3 Jérôme Pineau
-3 Nicolas Jalabert

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:18 Levi Leipheimer
+1:27 Cadel Evans
+0:22 Vladimir Karpets
+0:17 Yaroslav Popovych

Biggest losers by time :
-8:46 Robert Förster
-8:42 Peter Wrolich
-8:24 Johann Tschopp
-8:17 Marcus Burghardt
-8:08 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo
-8:00 Benoît Salmon
-7:53 Daniele Bennati
-7:43 Wim Vansevenant
-7:42 Manuel Quinziato
-7:42 Sandy Casar
-7:38 Tom Boonen

Favourites by position :
+4 Fabian Cancellara
+3 Marzio Bruseghin
+2 Vladimir Karpets
+2 George Hincapie
+1 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+1 Michael Boogerd
-1 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-1 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-1 Christophe Moreau
-2 Iban Mayo Diez

Favourites by time :
+2:18 Levi Leipheimer
+1:27 Cadel Evans
+0:22 Vladimir Karpets
+0:17 Yaroslav Popovych
-0:15 George Hincapie
-0:18 Oscar Pereiro Sio
-0:37 Fabian Cancellara
-0:42 Kim Kirchen
-1:06 Carlos Sastre Candil
-1:19 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-1:48 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
-1:55 Michael Boogerd
-1:55 Marzio Bruseghin
-3:00 Frank Schleck
-3:36 Christophe Moreau
-3:37 Tadej Valjavec
-4:16 Manuel Beltran Martinez
-4:45 Iban Mayo Diez
-5:34 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-5:50 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-6:03 Dario David Cioni

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 87.09.18
2 Cadel Evans 0.23
3 Levi Leipheimer 0.31
4 Carlos Sastre Candil 7.08
5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 8.17
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 11.37
7 Kim Kirchen 12.18
8 Yaroslav Popovych 12.30
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10 Oscar Pereiro Sio 14.25
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12 Michael Boogerd 21.05
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14 Vladimir Karpets 24.05
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16 Iban Mayo Diez 26.59
17 Frank Schleck 31.38
18 Manuel Beltran Martinez 34.04
19 Tadej Valjavec 36.58
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24 George Hincapie 54.50
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37 Christophe Moreau 1.32.56
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40 Marzio Bruseghin 1.36.34
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51 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 1.58.35
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56 Dario David Cioni 2.10.32
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80 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 2.44.07
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101 Fabian Cancellara 3.15.53

Retirements to date :
AG2r Prévoyance Cyril Dessel
" Sylvain Calzati
Agritubel Cédric Hervé
" Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
" Romain Feillu
Astana Alexandre Vinokourov
" Andreas Klöden
" Andrey Kashechkin
" Antonio Colom Mas
" Daniel Navarro Garcia
" Grégory Rast
" Maxim Iglinskiy
" Paolo Savoldelli
" Serguei Ivanov
Barloworld Enrico Degano
Bouygues Telecom Matthieu Sprick
" Stef Clement
Caisse d'Epargne Xabier Zandio Echaide
Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Bradley Wiggins
" Cristian Moreni
" Geoffroy Lequatre
" Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto
" Nick Nuyens
" Rik Verbrugghe
" Staf Scheirlinckx
" Stéphane Augé
" Sylvain Chavanel
Crédit Agricole Christophe Le Mével
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Tomas Vaitkus
Euskaltel - Euskadi Igor Anton Hernandez
Française des Jeux Philippe Gilbert
" Rémy Di Grégorio
Lampre - Fondital Danilo Napolitano
Liquigas Filippo Pozzato
Predictor - Lotto Fred Rodriguez
" Robbie McEwen
Rabobank Denis Menchov
" Michael Rasmussen
" Oscar Freire Gomez
Saunier Duval - Prodir Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi
" Ruben Lobato Elvira
T-Mobile Team Mark Cavendish
" Michael Rogers
" Patrik Sinkewitz
Team CSC David Zabriskie
" Stuart O'Grady
Team Milram Alberto Ongarato
" Brett Lancaster
Total retirements : 48