Tour de Pologne, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 : Jul 28, Marilleva Val di Sole - Passo Pordoi Val di Fassa, 206.5 km

1 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6.03.40
2 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) RadioShack Leopard 1.02
3 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Argos-Shimano 1.18
4 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Sky Procycling 1.35
5 Rafal Majka (Pol) Team Saxo-Tinkoff
6 Pieter Weening (Ned) Orica-GreenEdge 1.38
7 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 1.40
8 Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
9 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 1.44
10 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+41 Pawel Cieslik
+41 Grega Bole
+40 Kamil Gradek
+38 Michele Scarponi
+38 Maciej Paterski
+37 Miguel Minguez Ayala
+36 Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide
+30 Timothy Duggan
+28 Leigh Howard
+28 Alexsandr Dyachenko

Biggest losers by position :
-52 Diego Ulissi
-35 Leopold Konig
-31 Ben Swift
-29 Cedric Pineau
-27 Simon Spilak
-25 Jelle Vanendert
-25 Tosh Van Der Sande
-24 Mirko Selvaggi
-21 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado
-21 Rafael Valls Ferri
-20 Rigoberto Uran Uran

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:01 Christophe Riblon
+1:15 Thomas Rohregger
+0:27 Georg Preidler
+0:06 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
+0:06 Rafal Majka
+0:03 Pieter Weening
+0:01 Jon Izaguirre Insausti

Biggest losers by time :
-43:10 Tosh Van Der Sande
-43:07 Ji Cheng
-42:41 Leonardo Fabio Duque
-42:40 Jens Mouris
-42:31 Aidis Kruopis
-42:31 Alessandro Vanotti
-42:31 Bartlomiej Matysiak
-42:31 Cedric Pineau
-42:31 Danny Pate
-42:31 Gediminas Bagdonas
-42:31 Jacob Rathe

Favourites by position :
+38 Michele Scarponi
+12 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
+9 Bradley Wiggins
+7 Pieter Weening
+5 Przemyslaw Niemiec
+3 Robert Kiserlovski
+3 Rafal Majka
+2 Tanel Kangert
-1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-4 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
-5 Ivan Basso
-11 Mathias Frank
-20 Rigoberto Uran Uran
-27 Simon Spilak

Favourites by time :
+0:06 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
+0:06 Rafal Majka
+0:03 Pieter Weening
-0:03 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:06 Robert Kiserlovski
-0:10 Ivan Basso
-0:31 Tanel Kangert
-8:14 Michele Scarponi
-13:59 Bradley Wiggins
-19:24 Mathias Frank
-22:03 Vincenzo Nibali
-25:45 Przemyslaw Niemiec
-26:36 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
-27:32 Simon Spilak
-29:13 Rigoberto Uran Uran

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rafal Majka 11:04:43 (was 4th at 0:06)
2 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:04 (was 14th at 0:10)
3 Christophe Riblon 0:06 (was 29th at 2:07)
4 Pieter Weening 0:07 (was 11th at 0:10)
5 Jon Izaguirre Insausti 0:09 (was 8th at 0:10)
6 Chris Anker Sorensen 0:09 (was 2nd at 0:00)
7 Eros Capecchi 0:13 (was 5th at 0:10)
8 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:13 (was 7th at 0:10)
9 Robert Kiserlovski 0:16 (was 12th at 0:10)
10 Thomas Rohregger 0:18 (was 27th at 1:33)
11 Ivan Basso 0:20 (was 6th at 0:10)
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15 Tanel Kangert 1:34 (was 17th at 1:03)
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47 Mathias Frank 22:29 (was 36th at 3:05)
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49 Bradley Wiggins 23:22 (was 58th at 9:23)
50 Michele Scarponi 25:07 (was 88th at 16:53)
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58 Simon Spilak 29:51 (was 31st at 2:19)
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60 Vincenzo Nibali 31:26 (was 60th at 9:23)
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67 Rigoberto Uran Uran 35:42 (was 47th at 6:29)
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72 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo 37:48 (was 68th at 11:12)
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97 Przemyslaw Niemiec 54:31 (was 102nd at 28:46)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Rafal Majka 34 (was 3rd with 18 points)
2 Eros Capecchi 28 (was 4th with 17 points)
3 Jon Izaguirre Insausti 27 (was 7th with 14 points)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 27 (was 6th with 15 points)
5 Pieter Weening 26 (was 10th with 11 points)
6 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 24 (was 14th with 7 points)
7 Ivan Basso 24 (was 5th with 16 points)
8 Chris Anker Sorensen 22 (was 13th with 8 points)
9 Christophe Riblon 20 (was 0 points)
10 Diego Ulissi 20 (was 1st with 20 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Thomas Rohregger 27 (was 0 points)
2 Christophe Riblon 20 (was 0 points)
3 Bartosz Huzarski 15 (was 1st with 15 points)
4 Chris Anker Sorensen 13 (was 2nd with 10 points)
5 Georg Preidler 12 (was 0 points)
6 Serge Pauwels 10 (was 3rd with 10 points)
7 Eros Capecchi 7 (was 4th with 7 points)
8 Vincenzo Nibali 7 (was 0 points)
9 Marco Pinotti 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
10 Pieter Weening 5 (was 6th with 5 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland 2
Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 2
Manuel Belletti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 2
Total retirements : 3


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