Vuelta a Espana, stage 10 summary

Stage 10 : Sep 7, Tarragona - Vilanova i la GeltrAº, 175.7 km

1 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 4.13.31
2 Romain Zingle (Bel) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 0.37
3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
4 Mauro Finetto (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
5 Javier Moreno (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur
6 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo Bank
7 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) FDJ
8 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Footon-Servetto
9 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 0.42
10 Dmitry Fofonov (Kaz) Astana 1.36


Changes in GC, stage 10 compared to stage 9 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+15 Sebastian Langeveld
+15 Dmitry Kozontchuk
+13 Martin Pedersen
+13 Grega Bole
+13 Anders Lund
+12 Kevin De Weert
+11 Romain Zingle
+11 Giampaolo Cheula
+11 Frederik Willems
+11 Daniele Bennati

Biggest losers by position :
-16 Thomas Peterson
-14 Joan Horrach
-13 Markus Fothen
-13 Mikael Cherel
-13 Serafin Martinez
-12 David Lopez
-12 Mathieu Sprick
-12 Roy Sentjens
-11 Kanstantin Sivtsov
-11 Sebastien Minard
-10 Andrey Zeits

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:56 Imanol Erviti
+1:11 Romain Zingle
+1:11 Greg Van Avermaet
+1:01 Giampaolo Cheula
+0:59 Mauro Finetto
+0:59 Javier Moreno
+0:59 Christophe Le Mevel
+0:59 Anders Lund
+0:54 Laurens Ten Dam
+0:04 Philippe Gilbert

Biggest losers by time :
-15:02 Alexandre Pichot
-15:02 Andreas Stauff
-15:02 Andrey Zeits
-15:02 Arnaud Labbe
-15:02 Arthur Vichot
-15:02 Benat Intxausti
-15:02 Bjorn Schroder
-15:02 Christophe Riblon
-15:02 Daniele Righi
-15:02 Danilo Hondo
-15:02 David Gutierrez Gutierrez

Favourites by position :
+3 David Zabriskie
+1 Joaquin Rodriguez
+1 Allan Davis
-1 Christian Vande Velde
-10 Roman Kreuziger

Favourites by time :
-0:02 Xavier Tondo
-0:02 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:02 Ruben Plaza
-0:02 Luis-Leon Sanchez
-0:02 Frank Schleck
-0:02 Ezequiel Mosquera
-0:02 Denis Menchov
-0:02 David Arroyo
-0:02 Carlos Sastre
-9:01 Roman Kreuziger
-9:01 Christian Vande Velde
-11:09 Allan Davis
-15:02 David Zabriskie

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joaquin Rodriguez 42:11:49 (was 2nd at 0:00)
2 Igor Anton 0:02 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Vincenzo Nibali 0:04 (was 3rd at 0:02)
4 Xavier Tondo 0:44 (was 4th at 0:42)
5 Jean-Christophe Peraud 0:54 (was 5th at 0:52)
6 Ruben Plaza 1:17 (was 6th at 1:15)
7 Ezequiel Mosquera 1:20 (was 7th at 1:18)
8 Nicholas Roche 1:21 (was 8th at 1:19)
9 Marzio Bruseghin 1:24 (was 9th at 1:22)
10 Peter Velits 1:28 (was 10th at 1:26)
.....
13 Frank Schleck 1:49 (was 13th at 1:47)
.....
17 Carlos Sastre 2:13 (was 17th at 2:11)
18 David Arroyo 2:17 (was 18th at 2:15)
19 Luis-Leon Sanchez 2:23 (was 19th at 2:21)
20 Denis Menchov 3:31 (was 20th at 3:29)
.....
41 Roman Kreuziger 15:03 (was 31st at 6:02)
.....
105 Christian Vande Velde 1:05:07 (was 104th at 56:06)
.....
109 Allan Davis 1:12:46 (was 110th at 1:01:37)
.....
161 David Zabriskie 1:46:32 (was 164th at 1:31:30)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 60 (was 1st with 56 points)
2 Philippe Gilbert 57 (was 4th with 50 points)
3 Tyler Farrar 55 (was 2nd with 53 points)
4 Igor Anton 50 (was 3rd with 50 points)
5 Joaquin Rodriguez 48 (was 5th with 47 points)
6 David Moncoutie 45 (unchanged)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 44 (unchanged)
8 Yauheni Hutarovich 33 (unchanged)
9 Daniele Bennati 33 (was 10th with 28 points)
10 Grega Bole 32 (was 11th with 28 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 David Moncoutie 41 (unchanged)
2 Serafin Martinez 36 (unchanged)
3 Gonzalo Rabunal 25 (unchanged)
4 Christophe Le Mevel 10 (was 0 points)
5 Oscar Pujol 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
6 Dario Cataldo 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Johann Tschopp 7 (was 6th with 7 points)
8 Javier Moreno 6 (was 0 points)
9 Xavier Tondo 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
10 Vladimir Karpets 5 (was 8th with 5 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 10
Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 10
Yoann Offredo (Fra) FDJ 10
Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 9
Freddy Bichot (Fra) BBOX Bouygues Telecom 9
Mickael Delage (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto 9
Pierre Rolland (Fra) BBOX Bouygues Telecom 9
Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Quick Step 8
Ian Stannard (GBR) Team Sky 8
Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Team Sky 8
Lars-Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Team Sky 8
Peter Kennaugh (GBR) Team Sky 8
Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Sky 8
Thomas Lofkvist (Swi) Team Sky 8
Juan-Antonio Flecha (Spa) Team Sky 7
Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC-Columbia 4
Benjamin Swift (GBR) Team Sky 3
John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Sky 3
Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Footon-Servetto 2
Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 2
Total retirements : 20


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