Tour de France, stage 5 summary

Stage 5 : Jul 5, Rouen - Saint-Quentin, 196.5 km

1 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol Team 4.41.30
2 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team
3 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank
4 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
5 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Sky Procycling
6 Tom Veelers (Ned) Argos-Shimano
7 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Katusha Team
8 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
9 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Yohann Gene (Fra) Team Europcar


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+1 Yann Huguet
+1 Tony Martin
+1 Simone Stortoni
+1 Jeremy Roy
+1 Giampaolo Caruso
+1 Brice Feillu
+1 Blel Kadri

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Anthony Roux

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-4:07 Brice Feillu
-3:01 Anthony Roux

Favourites by position :

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Fabian Cancellara 24:45:32 (unchanged)
2 Bradley Wiggins 0:07 (unchanged)
3 Sylvain Chavanel 0:07 (unchanged)
4 Tejay Van Garderen 0:10 (unchanged)
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen 0:11 (unchanged)
6 Denis Menchov 0:13 (unchanged)
7 Cadel Evans 0:17 (unchanged)
8 Vincenzo Nibali 0:18 (unchanged)
9 Ryder Hesjedal 0:18 (unchanged)
10 Andreas Kloden 0:19 (unchanged)
11 Bauke Mollema 0:21 (unchanged)
.....
23 Robert Gesink 0:26 (unchanged)
24 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 0:28 (unchanged)
.....
26 Ivan Basso 0:29 (unchanged)
.....
30 Michele Scarponi 0:37 (unchanged)
31 Frank Schleck 0:38 (unchanged)
.....
33 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 0:40 (unchanged)
.....
38 Levi Leipheimer 0:45 (unchanged)
.....
50 Christopher Froome 1:41 (unchanged)
.....
148 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 11:43 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 155 (was 1st with 147 points)
2 Matthew Harley Goss 137 (was 2nd with 92 points)
3 Andre Greipel 132 (was 3rd with 87 points)
4 Mark Cavendish 119 (was 4th with 86 points)
5 Alessandro Petacchi 91 (was 7th with 71 points)
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 88 (was 5th with 81 points)
7 Tom Veelers 76 (was 8th with 56 points)
8 Fabian Cancellara 74 (was 6th with 74 points)
9 Mark Renshaw 55 (was 9th with 46 points)
10 Juan Jose Haedo 46 (was 37th with 16 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Michael Morkov 9 (unchanged)
2 Ivan Basso 2 (unchanged)
3 Peter Sagan 2 (unchanged)
4 Anthony Delaplace 2 (was 5th with 2 points)
5 David Moncoutie 2 (was 4th with 2 points)
6 Pablo Urtasun Perez 1 (unchanged)
7 Tony Gallopin 1 (unchanged)
8 Sebastien Minard 1 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Marcel Kittel (Ger) Argos-Shimano 5
Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 4
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 3
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Sky Procycling 3
Total retirements : 4


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