Vuelta-a-Espana stage 21 summary

Changes in stage 21 compared to stage 20

Biggest gainers by position :
+2 Aurélien Clerc
+1 Ian Mcleod
+1 Francesco Failli
+1 Florian Stalder
+1 Fabien Patanchon
+1 Enrico Poitschke
+1 Daniel Moreno

Biggest losers by position :
-1 Addy Engels
-1 Alessandro Spezialetti
-1 Cyril Lemoine
-1 Dario Andriotto
-1 Kevin De Weert
-1 Kevin Van Impe
-1 Pietro Caucchioli
-1 Sébastien Rosseler
0 Aaron Kemps
0 Aketza Peña
0 Alberto Benítez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:23 Erik Zabel
+0:21 Thor Hushovd
+0:11 Aurélien Clerc
+0:09 Daniel Moreno
+0:04 Eric Leblacher
+0:03 Walter Beneteau
+0:03 Vladimir Gusev
+0:03 Stuart O'Grady
+0:03 Scott Davis
+0:03 Samuel Sánchez

Biggest losers by time :
-3:18 Cyril Lemoine
-2:05 Kevin De Weert
-1:00 Mads Kaggestad
-1:00 Pietro Caucchioli
-0:37 José Luis Arrieta
-0:32 Sebastian Siedler
-0:27 Björn Leukemans
-0:18 Addy Engels
-0:18 Alessandro Spezialetti
-0:18 Benoît Poilvet
-0:18 Dario Andriotto

Favourites by position :
-1 Pietro Caucchioli

Favourites by time :
+0:03 Vladimir Gusev
+0:03 Samuel Sánchez
-1:00 Pietro Caucchioli

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alexandre Vinokourov 81.23.07
2 Alejandro Valverde 1.12
3 Andrey Kashechkin 3.12
4 Carlos Sastre 3.35
5 José Ange Gomez Marchante 6.51
.....
7 Samuel Sánchez 8.26
8 Vladimir Karpets 10.36
9 Manuel Beltran 10.47
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13 Leonardo Piepoli 17.23
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23 Vladimir Gusev 34.45
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27 Iñigo Cuesta 46.21
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34 Haimar Zubeldia 56.12
35 Iban Mayo 56.48
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37 Pietro Caucchioli 1.02.55
38 Dario David Cioni 1.04.33
.....
49 Oscar Pereiro 1.30.54
50 Daniele Nardello 1.30.58

Retirements to date :
AG2R Prevoyance Cyril Dessel DNS 16
Astana Team Luis León Sánchez DNF 11
Bouygues Telecom Anthony Geslin DNF 16
" Christophe Kern DNF 11
" Jérôme Pineau DNF 11
" Mathieu Claude DNF 9
" Rony Martias DNF 10
" Xavier Florencio DNS 16
Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone Hervé Duclos-Lassalle DNF 11
Credit Agricole Anthony Charteau DNF 10
" Mark Renshaw DNF 16
Davitamon-Lotto Bart Dockx DNF 17
" Josep Jufre DNF 8
" Robbie Mcewen
" Wim De Vocht DNF 9
Euskaltel-Euskadi Inaki Isasi DNF 9
Française des Jeux Bernhard Eisel DNS 16
" Christophe Detilloux
" Freddy Bichot
" Frédéric Finot
Gerolsteiner Andrea Moletta DNF 12
" Davide Rebellin DNS 15
" Marcel Strauss DNS 10
" Markus Fothen DNF 12
" René Haselbacher DNS 16
" Sven Montgomery DNF 12
Lampre-Fondital Danilo Napolitano DNF 16
" Marco Marzano DNF 8
" Matteo Carrara DNS 20
" Ruggero Marzoli DNS 15
Liquigas Charles Wegelius DNF 5
" Danilo Di Luca DNS 18
" Luca Paolini DNS 16
Phonak Hearing Systems Miguel A. Martín Perdiguero DNF 5
" Nicolas Jalabert DNF 9
" Ryder Hesjedal DNF 17
" Steve Zampieri DNF 7
Quick Step-Innergetic Matteo Tosatto DNF 17
" Paolo Bettini DNS 18
Rabobank Denis Menchov DNS 11
" Michael Boogerd DNS 16
" Michael Rasmussen DNF 17
Relax-Gam Jesús Hernández DNF 16
" Nacor Burgos DNF 16
Saunier Duval-Prodir Juan José Cobo DNF 9
" Ángel Gómez Gómez DNF 12
T-Mobile Team André Greipel DNF 9
" André Korff DNS 5
" Bernhard Kohl DNF 9
" Lorenzo Bernucci DNS 13
" Thomas Ziegler DNF 9
Team CSC Fabian Cancellara DNS 16
Team Milram Alessandro Petacchi DNS 16
" Daniel Becke DNF 18
" Volodymyr Dyudya
Total retirements : 55