Vuelta-a-Espana stage 7 summary

Changes in stage 7 compared to stage 6

Biggest gainers by position :
+74 Dmitriy Fofonov
+65 Stéphane Goubert
+61 Staf Scheirlinckx
+57 Pierre Drancourt
+57 David Loosli
+52 Jérémy Roy
+51 Nacor Burgos
+51 Jorge García
+51 Florian Stalder
+47 Mikel Astarloza

Biggest losers by position :
-34 Kevin De Weert
-28 David Millar
-23 Fabian Cancellara
-20 Daniele Nardello
-20 Erik Zabel
-20 Joan Horrach
-20 Raúl García De Mateo
-19 Denis Menchov
-19 Inaki Isasi
-19 Iñigo Landaluze
-19 José Antonio Garrido

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:31 Alejandro Valverde
+0:19 Carlos Sastre
+0:13 José Ange Gomez Marchante
+0:04 Manuel Beltran
+0:04 Janez Brajkovic

Biggest losers by time :
-20:48 Fabian Cancellara
-20:38 Aaron Kemps
-20:38 Addy Engels
-20:38 Alberto Benítez
-20:38 Alberto Ongarato
-20:38 Alessandro Petacchi
-20:38 Alexandre Usov
-20:38 André Greipel
-20:38 Anthony Charteau
-20:38 Assan Bazayev
-20:38 Aurélien Clerc

Favourites by position :
+19 Dario David Cioni
+12 Michael Rasmussen
+12 Davide Rebellin
+11 Pietro Caucchioli
+11 Michael Boogerd
+10 Haimar Zubeldia
+9 Alexandre Vinokourov
+5 Iban Mayo
+4 Alejandro Valverde
+2 Vladimir Karpets
+1 Manuel Beltran
+1 Carlos Sastre
-2 Andrey Kashechkin
-3 Vladimir Gusev
-4 Samuel Sánchez
-8 Danilo Di Luca
-9 Iñigo Cuesta
-11 Markus Fothen
-14 Leonardo Piepoli
-16 Oscar Pereiro
-19 Denis Menchov
-20 Daniele Nardello
-23 Fabian Cancellara

Favourites by time :
+0:31 Alejandro Valverde
+0:19 Carlos Sastre
+0:04 Manuel Beltran
-0:01 Alexandre Vinokourov
-0:05 Andrey Kashechkin
-0:27 Michael Boogerd
-0:28 Iban Mayo
-0:59 Davide Rebellin
-1:35 Vladimir Karpets
-1:47 Danilo Di Luca
-2:29 Samuel Sánchez
-3:17 Vladimir Gusev
-3:17 Pietro Caucchioli
-3:51 Haimar Zubeldia
-4:05 Dario David Cioni
-4:30 Leonardo Piepoli
-5:16 Michael Rasmussen
-7:56 Iñigo Cuesta
-10:21 Denis Menchov
-12:34 Oscar Pereiro
-20:38 Markus Fothen
-20:38 Daniele Nardello
-20:48 Fabian Cancellara

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Janez Brajkovic 26.48.27
2 Alejandro Valverde 0.05
3 Carlos Sastre 0.10
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5 Andrey Kashechkin 0.23
6 Manuel Beltran 0.51
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9 Danilo Di Luca 1.47
10 Alexandre Vinokourov 2.28
11 Iban Mayo 2.37
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15 Samuel Sánchez 3.33
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19 Vladimir Karpets 4.21
20 Michael Boogerd 4.29
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26 Leonardo Piepoli 5.59
27 Davide Rebellin 6.08
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30 Vladimir Gusev 7.10
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39 Haimar Zubeldia 10.26
40 Pietro Caucchioli 10.33
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42 Iñigo Cuesta 12.17
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49 Denis Menchov 14.23
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58 Oscar Pereiro 18.26
59 Michael Rasmussen 18.34
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61 Dario David Cioni 19.23
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81 Daniele Nardello 30.21
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138 Fabian Cancellara 48.58
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141 Markus Fothen 49.03

Retirements to date :
Davitamon-Lotto Robbie Mcewen
Française des Jeux Christophe Detilloux
" Freddy Bichot
Liquigas Charles Wegelius DNF 5
Phonak Hearing Systems Miguel A. Martín Perdiguero DNF 5
" Steve Zampieri DNF 7
T-Mobile Team André Korff DNS 5
Team Milram Volodymyr Dyudya
Total retirements : 8