Vuelta a Espana stage 7 summary

Stage 7 - Vitoria-Gasteiz Villanueva de Valdegovia (159.7k)

1 Michael Woods (Can) EF Pro Cycling 3:48:16
2 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:04
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04
4 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08
5 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:08
6 Rui Costa (Por) UAE-Team Emirates 0:13
7 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:13
8 Ide Schelling (Ned) BORA - hansgrohe 0:13
9 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek - Segafredo 0:13
10 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE-Team Emirates 0:13


Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+41 Hector Saez
+26 Magnus Cort
+22 Jonas Vingegaard
+17 Jesus Ezquerra
+16 Juan Felipe Osorio
+16 Alexandr Riabushenko
+15 Quentin Jauregui
+15 Ivo Oliveira
+14 Stefan de Bod
+14 Jasha Sutterlin

Biggest losers by position :
-16 Cameron Wurf
-16 Chris Froome
-16 Omer Goldstein
-13 Enrico Gasparotto
-12 Emils Liepins
-12 James Piccoli
-12 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-12 Mark Donovan
-12 Remi Cavagna
-12 Valentin Ferron
-11 Carlos Barbero

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:06 Michael Woods
+0:58 Omar Fraile
+0:57 Alejandro Valverde
+0:48 Nans Peters
+0:48 Guillaume Martin
+0:43 Thymen Arensman
+0:43 Rui Costa
+0:43 Mikel Nieve
+0:43 Michael Storer
+0:43 Ide Schelling

Biggest losers by time :
-28:10 Jakub Mareczko
-28:10 Mickael Delage
-16:02 Alex Edmondson
-16:02 Alex Molenaar
-16:02 Alexander Kamp
-16:02 Alfred Wright
-16:02 Benjamin Dyball
-16:02 Cameron Wurf
-16:02 Carlos Barbero
-16:02 Chris Froome
-16:02 Dion Smith

Favourites by position :
+8 Michael Woods
+3 George Bennett
+2 Tejay van Garderen
+1 Guillaume Martin
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-1 Aleksandr Vlasov
-2 Wout Poels
-6 Tom Dumoulin
-7 Jan Hirt

Favourites by time :
+1:06 Michael Woods
+0:57 Alejandro Valverde
+0:48 Guillaume Martin
+0:43 George Bennett
-10:20 Tom Dumoulin
-10:20 Tejay van Garderen
-10:20 Jan Hirt

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Richard Carapaz 28:23:51 (unchanged)
2 Hugh Carthy 0:18 (unchanged)
3 Dan Martin 0:20 (unchanged)
4 Primoz Roglic 0:30 (unchanged)
5 Enric Mas 1:07 (unchanged)
6 Felix Grosschartner 1:30 (unchanged)
7 Marc Soler 1:42 (unchanged)
8 Esteban Chaves 2:02 (unchanged)
9 Alejandro Valverde 2:03 (was 10th at 3:00)
10 George Bennett 2:39 (was 13th at 3:22)
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13 Wout Poels 3:19 (was 11th at 3:19)
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20 Guillaume Martin 6:27 (was 21st at 7:15)
21 Aleksandr Vlasov 6:34 (was 20th at 6:34)
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48 Michael Woods 39:23 (was 56th at 40:29)
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53 Tom Dumoulin 42:25 (was 47th at 32:05)
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66 Jan Hirt 52:47 (was 59th at 42:27)
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100 Tejay van Garderen 1:15:44 (was 102nd at 1:05:24)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 79 (unchanged)
2 Richard Carapaz 61 (unchanged)
3 Dan Martin 57 (unchanged)
4 Guillaume Martin 48 (was 4th with 36 points)
5 Michael Woods 45 (was 16th with 20 points)
6 Alejandro Valverde 35 (was 19th with 18 points)
7 Hugh Carthy 33 (was 5th with 33 points)
8 Enric Mas 33 (was 6th with 33 points)
9 Felix Grosschartner 33 (was 7th with 33 points)
10 Marc Soler 29 (was 8th with 29 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Guillaume Martin 27 (was 4th with 15 points)
2 Sepp Kuss 24 (was 5th with 14 points)
3 Tim Wellens 19 (was 1st with 19 points)
4 Richard Carapaz 18 (was 2nd with 18 points)
5 Dan Martin 16 (was 3rd with 16 points)
6 Michael Woods 16 (was 11th with 6 points)
7 Ion Izagirre 11 (was 6th with 11 points)
8 Alejandro Valverde 11 (was 10th with 6 points)
9 Primoz Roglic 7 (was 7th with 7 points)
10 Quentin Jauregui 6 (was 8th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Movistar Team 85:16:40 (was 1st at 73:49:56)
2 UAE-Team Emirates 3:03 (was 2nd at 3:37)
3 Team Jumbo-Visma 7:43 (was 3rd at 8:09)
4 Astana Pro Team 9:23 (was 4th at 10:06)
5 Mitchelton-Scott 24:27 (was 5th at 24:18)
6 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 39:25 (was 7th at 39:21)
7 INEOS Grenadiers 43:03 (was 6th at 35:13)
8 Trek - Segafredo 55:34 (was 8th at 41:52)
9 Groupama - FDJ 1:01:20 (was 9th at 53:30)
10 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:05:58 (was 12th at 1:05:06)
11 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:11:01 (was 10th at 1:01:31)
12 EF Pro Cycling 1:17:57 (was 15th at 1:18:01)
13 AG2R La Mondiale 1:21:26 (was 16th at 1:21:22)
14 NTT Pro Cycling 1:26:05 (was 14th at 1:16:35)
15 CCC Team 1:26:12 (was 11th at 1:04:40)
16 Israel Start-Up Nation 1:30:21 (was 13th at 1:12:34)
17 Team Sunweb 1:39:38 (was 19th at 1:40:12)
18 BORA - hansgrohe 1:55:38 (was 20th at 1:45:09)
19 Bahrain - McLaren 1:56:24 (was 17th at 1:29:10)
20 Team Total Direct Energie 1:58:51 (was 18th at 1:37:19)
21 Lotto Soudal 2:04:37 (was 21th at 1:47:13)
22 Burgos-BH 2:25:16 (was 22th at 2:08:36)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jay Mccarthy (BORA - hansgrohe) 7
Matteo Moschetti (Trek - Segafredo) 7
Romain Seigle (Groupama - FDJ) 7
Fernando Barcelo (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 6
Francisco Jose Ventoso (CCC Team) 5
Grega Bole (Bahrain - McLaren) 5
Natnael Berhane (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 5
Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) 4
Simon Geschke (CCC Team) 4
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain - McLaren) 3
Thibaut Pinot (Groupama - FDJ) 3
Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale) 2
Brandon Smith Rivera (INEOS Grenadiers) 2
Alexandre Geniez (AG2R La Mondiale) 1
Ilan Van Wilder (Team Sunweb) 1
Mathias Frank (AG2R La Mondiale) 1
Total retirements : 16


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