Paris Nice, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Mar 8, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire - Nuits-Saint-Georges, 202 km

1 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) HTC-Highroad 5.16.48
2 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) Team Garmin-Cervelo
3 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus) Katusha Team
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling
6 Greg Henderson (NZl) Sky Procycling
7 Anthony Ravard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
9 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
10 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+87 Blel Kadri
+73 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
+51 Cedric Pineau
+42 Anthony Ravard
+41 Cyril Gautier
+36 Lars Ytting Bak
+34 Yuriy Trofimov
+34 Francesco Reda
+33 Michael Rogers
+33 Grega Bole

Biggest losers by position :
-139 Gert Steegmans
-133 Wouter Weylandt
-132 Jos Van Emden
-128 Rob Ruijgh
-86 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
-58 Sebastien Turgot
-42 Kevin De Weert
-41 Dominik Nerz
-41 Jeremy Hunt
-39 Lieuwe Westra
-38 Nikolas Maes

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:59 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
+0:08 Matthew Harley Goss
+0:04 Heinrich Haussler
+0:03 Cyril Gautier
+0:03 Cedric Pineau
+0:02 Denis Galimzyanov

Biggest losers by time :
-6:30 Gert Steegmans
-6:30 Jeffry Louder
-6:30 Jeremy Hunt
-6:30 Jos Van Emden
-6:28 Damien Gaudin
-6:28 Martijn Maaskant
-6:22 Alex Rasmussen
-6:22 Andreas Stauff
-6:22 Grischa Niermann
-6:22 Jakob Fuglsang
-6:22 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios

Favourites by position :
+73 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
+36 Lars Ytting Bak
+33 Michael Rogers
+25 Xavier Tondo Volpini
+24 Janez Brajkovic
+10 Tony Martin
+6 Linus Gerdemann
+6 Bradley Wiggins
+3 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+2 Frank Schleck
+1 Levi Leipheimer
-2 Jens Voigt
-3 Roman Kreuziger
-17 Rein Taaramae

Favourites by time :
+0:59 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
-0:02 Xavier Tondo Volpini
-0:02 Tony Martin
-0:02 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
-0:02 Roman Kreuziger
-0:02 Rein Taaramae
-0:02 Michael Rogers
-0:02 Linus Gerdemann
-0:02 Levi Leipheimer
-0:02 Lars Ytting Bak
-0:02 Jens Voigt
-0:02 Janez Brajkovic
-0:02 Frank Schleck
-0:02 Bradley Wiggins
-0:02 Andreas Kloden

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Matthew Harley Goss 14:22:34 (was 4th at 0:08)
2 Thomas De Gendt 0:02 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Heinrich Haussler 0:06 (was 6th at 0:10)
4 Greg Henderson 0:06 (was 2nd at 0:04)
5 Denis Galimzyanov 0:08 (was 7th at 0:10)
6 Jeremy Roy 0:09 (was 3rd at 0:07)
7 Tony Gallopin 0:10 (was 5th at 0:08)
8 Cyril Gautier 0:11 (was 49th at 0:14)
9 Cedric Pineau 0:11 (was 60th at 0:14)
10 Jens Voigt 0:14 (was 8th at 0:12)
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22 Andreas Kloden 0:16 (was 22nd at 0:14)
23 Linus Gerdemann 0:16 (was 29th at 0:14)
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28 Roman Kreuziger 0:16 (was 25th at 0:14)
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31 Tony Martin 0:16 (was 41st at 0:14)
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43 Janez Brajkovic 0:16 (was 67th at 0:14)
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63 Michael Rogers 0:16 (was 96th at 0:14)
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69 Xavier Tondo Volpini 0:16 (was 94th at 0:14)
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72 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 0:16 (was 145th at 1:15)
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77 Bradley Wiggins 0:16 (was 83rd at 0:14)
78 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 0:16 (was 81st at 0:14)
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81 Rein Taaramae 0:16 (was 64th at 0:14)
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89 Lars Ytting Bak 0:16 (was 125th at 0:14)
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121 Levi Leipheimer 0:16 (was 122nd at 0:14)
122 Frank Schleck 0:16 (was 124th at 0:14)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Heinrich Haussler 60 (was 2nd with 38 points)
2 Greg Henderson 56 (was 1st with 41 points)
3 Matthew Harley Goss 55 (was 4th with 30 points)
4 Denis Galimzyanov 40 (was 10th with 20 points)
5 Romain Feillu 40 (was 6th with 28 points)
6 Peter Sagan 34 (was 3rd with 34 points)
7 Danilo Wyss 33 (was 7th with 24 points)
8 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 31 (was 15th with 13 points)
9 Thomas De Gendt 29 (was 5th with 29 points)
10 Jeremy Roy 23 (was 8th with 23 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Jussi Veikkanen 7 (was 0 points)
2 Cyril Gautier 5 (was 0 points)
3 Damien Gaudin 4 (was 1st with 4 points)
4 Blel Kadri 3 (was 0 points)
5 Cedric Pineau 2 (was 0 points)
6 Gorka Izagirre Insausti 2 (was 2nd with 2 points)
7 Romain Feillu 1 (was 3rd with 1 points)
8 Romain Hardy 1 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Romain Sicard (Fra) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3
Simone Ponzi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 3
David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 2
Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Saxo Bank Sungard 2
Martin Velits (Svk) HTC-Highroad 2
Total retirements : 5


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