Volta a Catalunya, stage 7 summary

Stage 7 - May 24: Centre d'Alt Rendiment, Sant Cugat - Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, 110.8km

First 10 finishers :
1 Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Columbia - Highroad 2.26.51 (45.271 km/h)
2 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
3 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Liquigas
4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
5 Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
6 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank
7 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Silence-Lotto
8 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
9 William Bonnet (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom
10 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Silence-Lotto


Changes in stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Rafael Serrano
+7 Benat Intxausti
+6 Markus Eichler
+6 Christophe Kern
+5 Javier Benitez
+5 Hilton Clarke
+4 Wilfried Cretskens
+4 Servais Knaven
+4 Nikolay Trusov
+4 Martijn Maaskant

Biggest losers by position :
-25 Ivan Rovny
-17 Guennadi Mikhailov
-6 Daniel Oss
-5 Julian Sanchez
-4 Benoit Vaugrenard
-4 Dominique Cornu
-4 Oscar Garcia-Casarrubios
-3 Alexei Markov
-3 Angelo Furlan
-3 Marcel Wyss
-3 Sebastian Langeveld

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Greg Henderson
+0:06 Lloyd Mondory
+0:04 Fabio Sabatini
+0:03 Samuel Dumoulin
+0:03 Cyril Dessel
+0:02 Matti Breschel
+0:02 Hayden Roulston
+0:01 Matthieu Ladagnous
+0:01 Hilton Clarke

Biggest losers by time :
-10:28 Alexei Markov
-10:28 Angelo Furlan
-10:28 Guennadi Mikhailov
-10:28 Ivan Rovny
-10:28 Marcin Sapa
-10:28 Massimiliano Mori
-10:27 Jose Antonio Lopez Gil
-3:15 Dominique Cornu
-2:23 Julian Sanchez
-2:23 Oscar Garcia-Casarrubios
-2:22 Adam Hansen

Favourites by position :
+1 Vladimir Efimkin
+1 Thomas Dekker
+1 Stuart O'Grady
+1 Kim Kirchen
+1 Igor Anton

Favourites by time :
-0:21 Remi Pauriol
-0:23 Sylvain Chavanel
-0:36 Thomas Dekker

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alejandro Valverde 24.12.10
2 Daniel Martin 0.15
3 Haimar Zubeldia 0.22
4 Mikel Astarloza 0.34
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8 Xavier Tondo 0.56
9 Samuel Sanchez 1.42
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13 Rigoberto Uran 2.43
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19 Vladimir Karpets 4.16
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22 Vladimir Efimkin 4.48
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27 Kim Kirchen 6.28
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32 Igor Anton 8.16
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44 Sylvain Chavanel 14.57
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54 Thomas Dekker 19.30
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68 Remi Pauriol 24.17
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89 Stuart O'Grady 35.04

Retirements to date : Stage
Christian Kux (Ger) Team Milram 7
Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Team Katusha 7
Inigo Cuesta (Spa) Cervelo Test Team 7
Mike Friedman (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 7
Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team Columbia - Highroad 6
Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram 6
Ivan Velasco (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 6
Steven Cozza (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 6
Trent Lowe (Aus) Garmin - Slipstream 6
Francisco Jose Martinez (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 5
Martin Velits (Svk) Team Milram 5
Paul Voss (Ger) Team Milram 5
Carlos Barredo (Spa) Quick Step 4
Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 4
Francesco Tomei (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C. 4
Jose Ruiz (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 4
Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Astana 4
Boris Shpilevsky (Rus) Fuji-Servetto 3
Javier Moreno (Spa) Andalucia-Cajasur 3
Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3
Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence-Lotto 3
Jose Herrada (Spa) Contentpolis-AMPO 2
Total retirements : 22