Vuelta-a-Espana stage 20 summary

Changes in stage 20 compared to stage 19

Biggest gainers by position :
+5 Sébastien Rosseler
+5 Magnus Backstedt
+4 Kevin Van Impe
+3 Torsten Hiekmann
+3 Stuart O'Grady
+3 Olivier Kaisen
+3 Kjell Carlström
+3 Fabio Sacchi
+3 David Millar
+3 Alessandro Spezialetti

Biggest losers by position :
-4 Leonardo Duque
-3 Mauricio Ardila
-3 Sébastien Joly
-2 Aurélien Clerc
-2 Benoît Poilvet
-2 Franck Renier
-2 Serguei Yakovlev
-1 Bingen Fernández
-1 Daniele Nardello
-1 David Arroyo
-1 David George

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-6:29 Enrico Franzoi
-6:07 Leonardo Duque
-6:05 William Walker
-5:50 Uros Murn
-5:28 Enrico Poitschke
-5:18 Robert Förster
-5:18 Serguei Yakovlev
-5:13 Kevin Hulsmans
-5:12 Alberto Ongarato
-5:11 Aurélien Clerc
-5:03 Alberto Benítez

Favourites by position :
+2 Vladimir Karpets
+1 Oscar Pereiro
+1 Iñigo Cuesta
+1 Haimar Zubeldia
-1 Manuel Beltran
-1 Iban Mayo
-1 Daniele Nardello

Favourites by time :
-0:06 Samuel Sánchez
-0:19 Alejandro Valverde
-0:30 Vladimir Karpets
-0:44 Carlos Sastre
-0:49 Vladimir Gusev
-1:06 Andrey Kashechkin
-1:45 José Ange Gomez Marchante
-2:12 Iñigo Cuesta
-2:19 Manuel Beltran
-2:36 Oscar Pereiro
-3:01 Dario David Cioni
-3:03 Haimar Zubeldia
-3:06 Daniele Nardello
-3:12 Leonardo Piepoli
-3:56 Iban Mayo
-4:18 Pietro Caucchioli

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alexandre Vinokourov 77.42.17
2 Alejandro Valverde 1.12
3 Andrey Kashechkin 3.12
4 Carlos Sastre 3.35
5 José Ange Gomez Marchante 6.51
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7 Samuel Sánchez 8.29
8 Vladimir Karpets 10.36
9 Manuel Beltran 10.47
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13 Leonardo Piepoli 17.23
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23 Vladimir Gusev 34.48
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27 Iñigo Cuesta 46.21
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34 Haimar Zubeldia 56.12
35 Iban Mayo 56.48
36 Pietro Caucchioli 1.01.55
.....
38 Dario David Cioni 1.04.33
.....
49 Oscar Pereiro 1.30.54
50 Daniele Nardello 1.30.58

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
" Matteo Carrara DNS 20
" 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 : 55