Vuelta al Pais Vasco, stage 3 summary

Changes in stage 3 compared to stage 2

Biggest gainers by position :
+38 Mikel Artetxe
+38 Matthias Russ
+36 Jurgen Van Goolen
+36 Gustavo César Veloso
+35 Daniel Navarro
+33 Isidro Nozal
+32 Michael Barry
+29 Tim Klinger
+29 Addy Engels
+25 Yoann Le Boulanger

Biggest losers by position :
-79 Francisco Mancebo
-67 Andrey Mizourov
-65 Wim Van Huffel
-62 Luis Pasamontes
-49 Steve Zampieri
-46 Mirko Celestino
-31 Geert Verheyen
-28 Matej Jurco
-26 Gorka Verdugo
-25 Axel Merckx
-24 Carl Naibo

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:26 Ángel Vicioso
+0:26 Patxi Vila
+0:26 Isidro Nozal
+0:26 Iker Camaño
+0:26 Hubert Dupont
+0:26 Bram Tankink
+0:23 José Lui Rubiera
+0:21 Morris Possoni

Biggest losers by time :
-22:41 Andrey Mizourov
-22:41 Axel Merckx
-22:41 Björn Schröder
-22:41 Carl Naibo
-22:41 David Loosli
-22:41 Didier Rous
-22:41 Francisco Mancebo
-22:41 Fumiyuki Beppu
-22:41 Geert Verheyen
-22:41 Ian McLeod
-22:41 Iban Mayo

Favourites by position :
+33 Isidro Nozal
+12 Iker Flores
+11 José Lui Rubiera
+10 Dario Cioni
+9 Leonardo Piepoli
+9 Carlos Sastre
+8 Iñigo Cuesta
+7 Bobby Julich
+6 Serhiy Honchar
+5 Santiago Perez
-1 Tadej Valjavec
-1 Oscar Sevilla
-1 Danilo Di Luca
-1 Cadel Evans
-1 Alejandro Valverde
-2 Manuel Beltrán
-2 Juan José Cobo
-2 José Antonio Redondo
-2 José Angel Gomez Marchante
-2 Iban Mayo
-2 Fränk Schleck
-2 Damiano Cunego
-2 Alexandre Botcharov
-3 Samuel Sánchez
-3 Koldo Gil
-3 Davide Rebellin
-3 Constantino Zaballa
-3 Alberto Contador
-11 Marcos Serrano
-79 Francisco Mancebo

Favourites by time :
+0:26 Isidro Nozal
+0:23 José Lui Rubiera
-0:32 Iker Flores
-1:23 Dario Cioni
-2:14 Tadej Valjavec
-2:14 Serhiy Honchar
-2:14 Santiago Perez
-2:14 Samuel Sánchez
-2:14 Oscar Sevilla
-2:14 Manuel Beltrán
-2:14 Leonardo Piepoli
-2:14 Koldo Gil
-2:14 Juan José Cobo
-2:14 José Antonio Redondo
-2:14 José Angel Gomez Marchante
-2:14 Joaquím Rodríguez
-2:14 Iñigo Cuesta
-2:14 Fränk Schleck
-2:14 Davide Rebellin
-2:14 Danilo Di Luca
-2:14 Damiano Cunego
-2:14 Constantino Zaballa
-2:14 Carlos Sastre
-2:14 Cadel Evans
-2:14 Bobby Julich
-2:14 Alexandre Botcharov
-2:14 Alejandro Valverde
-2:14 Alberto Contador
-22:41 Marcos Serrano
-22:41 Iban Mayo
-22:41 Francisco Mancebo

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Ángel Vicioso 12.39.58
2 Bram Tankink 2.00
3 Juan José Cobo 2.14
4 José Angel Gomez Marchante 2.20
5 Manuel Beltrán 2.20
6 Tadej Valjavec 2.29
7 Koldo Gil 2.29
8 Joaquím Rodríguez 2.31
9 Samuel Sánchez 2.31
10 Davide Rebellin 2.31
11 Fränk Schleck 2.33
12 José Antonio Redondo 2.35
13 Damiano Cunego 2.37
14 Alejandro Valverde 2.41
15 Oscar Sevilla 2.43
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19 Danilo Di Luca 3.15
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21 Cadel Evans 3.20
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24 Alexandre Botcharov 3.46
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32 Constantino Zaballa 6.09
33 Alberto Contador 6.21
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42 José Lui Rubiera 6.58
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64 Santiago Perez 15.01
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71 Serhiy Honchar 16.30
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78 Iker Flores 18.31
79 Bobby Julich 18.40
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83 Leonardo Piepoli 20.26
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87 Iñigo Cuesta 21.25
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90 Isidro Nozal 21.39
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92 Dario Cioni 21.41
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97 Carlos Sastre 23.25
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110 Francisco Mancebo 26.49
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146 Marcos Serrano 49.42
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155 Iban Mayo 53.26

Retirements to date :
Ag2r Prévoyance David Navas
" Samuel Dumoulin
" Sylvain Calzati
Discovery Channel Allan Davis
Française Des Jeux Bradley McGee
Gerolsteiner Beat Zberg
" Ronny Scholz
Karpin-Galicia Carlos Castaño
" Santos Gonzalez
Milram Carlo Scognamiglio
Predictor-Lotto Chris Horner
T-Mobile Giuseppe Guerini
Unibet.com Alexander Khatuntsev
" Michal Golas
" Sergey Kolesnikov
" Victor Hugo Peña
Total retirements : 16