Vuelta-a-Espana stage 18 summary

Changes in stage 18 compared to stage 17

Biggest gainers by position :
+16 Olivier Kaisen
+15 Stuart O'Grady
+15 José Antonio Garrido
+14 Torsten Hiekmann
+14 Heinrich Haussler
+14 Aketza Peña
+12 Mario De Sarraga
+12 Franck Renier
+11 Marcus Ljungqvist
+11 Leonardo Duque

Biggest losers by position :
-9 Sébastien Joly
-8 David Millar
-8 Janez Brajkovic
-6 David George
-6 Florian Stalder
-6 Kevin De Weert
-4 David Loosli
-4 Vladimir Gusev
-3 Carlos Barredo
-3 Iñigo Landaluze
-3 Pietro Caucchioli

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:08 Andrey Kashechkin

Biggest losers by time :
-22:22 Aaron Kemps
-22:22 Addy Engels
-22:22 Alberto Benítez
-22:22 Alberto Ongarato
-22:22 Assan Bazayev
-22:22 Aurélien Clerc
-22:22 Bastiaan Giling
-22:22 Carlos Barredo
-22:22 Claudio Corioni
-22:22 Cyril Lemoine
-22:22 Dario Andriotto

Favourites by position :
+4 Iñigo Cuesta
+3 Dario David Cioni
+2 Daniele Nardello
+1 Samuel Sánchez
+1 Iban Mayo
+1 Haimar Zubeldia
+1 Andrey Kashechkin
-1 Vladimir Karpets
-1 Oscar Pereiro
-1 Manuel Beltran
-1 Carlos Sastre
-3 Pietro Caucchioli
-4 Vladimir Gusev

Favourites by time :
+0:08 Andrey Kashechkin
-0:34 José Ange Gomez Marchante
-0:44 Alejandro Valverde
-0:47 Leonardo Piepoli
-0:58 Samuel Sánchez
-1:00 Carlos Sastre
-1:55 Manuel Beltran
-2:17 Vladimir Karpets
-2:25 Iñigo Cuesta
-3:28 Dario David Cioni
-6:14 Iban Mayo
-6:24 Haimar Zubeldia
-12:30 Vladimir Gusev
-13:14 Daniele Nardello
-13:27 Pietro Caucchioli
-14:47 Oscar Pereiro

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alexandre Vinokourov 71.27.08
2 Alejandro Valverde 0.53
3 Andrey Kashechkin 2.06
4 Carlos Sastre 2.51
5 José Ange Gomez Marchante 5.06
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7 Samuel Sánchez 8.23
8 Manuel Beltran 8.28
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10 Vladimir Karpets 10.06
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13 Leonardo Piepoli 14.11
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27 Iñigo Cuesta 44.09
28 Vladimir Gusev 44.49
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33 Iban Mayo 52.52
34 Haimar Zubeldia 53.09
35 Pietro Caucchioli 57.37
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38 Dario David Cioni 1.01.32
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48 Daniele Nardello 1.27.52
49 Oscar Pereiro 1.28.18

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
" 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 : 54