Tour de France, stage 8 summary

Stage 8 : July 11, 2015 Rennes - Mur de Bretagne 181.5 km

1 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 4.20.55
2 Daniel Martin (Irl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0.05
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0.10
4 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo
5 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal
6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
7 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge
8 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky
9 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing
10 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+19 Julien Simon
+18 Marcel Wyss
+18 Julian Arredondo
+18 Jacques Janse van Rensburg
+17 Steven Kruijswijk
+17 Paul Martens
+17 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
+17 Bob Jungels
+16 Simon Geschke
+16 Pierrick Fedrigo

Biggest losers by position :
-25 Damien Gaudin
-25 Ramunas Navardauskas
-20 Mark Cavendish
-20 Mark Renshaw
-19 Nathan Haas
-18 Adriano Malori
-18 Nelson Oliveira
-18 Romain Sicard
-16 Bartosz Huzarski
-16 John Degenkolb
-16 Luke Rowe

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Alexis Vuillermoz
+0:11 Daniel Martin
+0:04 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Biggest losers by time :
-10:48 Damien Gaudin
-10:48 Davide Cimolai
-10:48 Dylan Van Baarle
-10:48 Emanuel Buchmann
-10:48 Nathan Haas
-10:48 Ramunas Navardauskas
-10:48 Sebastian Langeveld
-10:48 Wout Poels
-9:39 Kenneth Van Bilsen
-9:39 Nicolas Edet
-8:59 Adriano Malori

Favourites by position :
+12 Richie Porte
+5 Leopold Konig
+3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+1 Mathias Frank
-1 Vincenzo Nibali

Favourites by time :
+0:04 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:10 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:15 Thibaut Pinot
-0:21 Romain Bardet
-0:35 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-2:58 Richie Porte
-3:57 Leopold Konig

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Christopher Froome 31:01:56 (unchanged)
2 Peter Sagan 0:11 (unchanged)
3 Tejay van Garderen 0:13 (unchanged)
4 Tony Gallopin 0:26 (unchanged)
5 Greg Van Avermaet 0:28 (unchanged)
6 Rigoberto Uran 0:34 (unchanged)
7 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:36 (unchanged)
8 Warren Barguil 1:07 (was 10th at 1:07)
9 Zdenek Stybar 1:15 (was 8th at 0:52)
10 Bauke Mollema 1:32 (was 11th at 1:32)
.....
12 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 1:47 (was 15th at 1:51)
13 Vincenzo Nibali 1:48 (was 12th at 1:38)
.....
16 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 1:56 (unchanged)
17 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 2:00 (unchanged)
18 Jean-Christophe Peraud 2:07 (unchanged)
.....
20 Romain Bardet 3:15 (was 20th at 2:54)
.....
22 Mathias Frank 3:55 (was 23rd at 3:55)
23 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 4:33 (was 24th at 3:58)
.....
29 Thibaut Pinot 6:33 (was 29th at 6:18)
.....
135 Leopold Konig 38:58 (was 140th at 35:01)
.....
147 Richie Porte 44:04 (was 159th at 41:06)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 213 (was 2nd with 187 points)
2 Andre Greipel 210 (was 1st with 199 points)
3 Mark Cavendish 159 (was 3rd with 151 points)
4 John Degenkolb 158 (was 4th with 148 points)
5 Bryan Coquard 102 (was 5th with 96 points)
6 Greg Van Avermaet 73 (was 7th with 58 points)
7 Zdenek Stybar 63 (was 6th with 63 points)
8 Tony Gallopin 61 (was 11th with 44 points)
9 Alexis Vuillermoz 52 (was 19th with 22 points)
10 Christopher Froome 51 (was 12th with 40 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Daniel Teklehaimanot 4 (unchanged)
2 Joaquim Rodriguez 2 (unchanged)
3 Alexis Vuillermoz 2 (was 0 points)
4 Michael Schar 1 (was 3rd with 1 points)
5 Romain Sicard 1 (was 0 points)
6 Rafal Majka 1 (was 4th with 1 points)
7 Thomas De Gendt 1 (was 5th with 1 points)
8 Christopher Froome 1 (was 6th with 1 points)
9 Daniel Martin 1 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Luca Paolini (Ita) Team Katusha 8
Gregory Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal 7
Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 7
Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica GreenEdge 6
Jack Bauer (NZl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 5
Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5
Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 4
Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica GreenEdge 4
Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 4
Dmitrii Kozonchok (Rus) Team Katusha 3
Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica GreenEdge 3
Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 3
William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ.fr 3
Total retirements : 13


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