Vuelta a Espana, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Aug 20, Faustino V - Arrate (Eibar), 155.3 km

1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 3.49.37
2 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team
3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank
5 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Katusha Team 0.06
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
7 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
8 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
9 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin - Sharp
10 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+104 Andrew Talansky
+104 Alexandre Geniez
+101 Christophe Le Mevel
+100 Arnaud Courteille
+95 Laurent Didier
+89 Ivan Velasco
+87 Marcos Garcia
+86 Alexsandr Dyachenko
+85 Hernani Broco
+82 Sergey Lagutin

Biggest losers by position :
-142 Angel Vicioso Arcos
-137 Dennis van Winden
-132 Jens Debusschere
-124 Lars Boom
-116 Wouter Mol
-115 Allan Davis
-110 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni
-106 Imanol Erviti Ollo
-89 Nacer Bouhanni
-88 Philippe Gilbert
-86 Tiziano Dall'Antonia

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:01 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Biggest losers by time :
-16:34 Angel Vicioso Arcos
-16:34 Ben Swift
-16:34 Imanol Erviti Ollo
-16:34 Jens Debusschere
-16:34 Joost van Leijen
-16:34 Juan Lobato Del Valle
-16:34 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso
-16:34 Martijn Keizer
-16:34 Martijn Maaskant
-16:34 Matti Breschel
-16:34 Nacer Bouhanni

Favourites by position :
+64 Maxime Monfort
+45 Damiano Cunego
+40 Tony Martin
+35 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+29 John Gadret
+27 Alberto Contador Velasco
+21 Thomas De Gendt
+21 Rigoberto Uran
+20 Christopher Froome
+8 Robert Gesink
+8 Bauke Mollema
-3 Denis Menchov
-7 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-21 Cameron Meyer
-35 Jurgen Van Den Broeck

Favourites by time :
-0:04 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
-0:08 Christopher Froome
-0:10 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:18 Robert Gesink
-0:18 Rigoberto Uran
-0:18 Bauke Mollema
-1:02 Maxime Monfort
-1:02 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-1:30 John Gadret
-1:40 Damiano Cunego
-2:04 Denis Menchov
-2:19 Thomas De Gendt
-3:35 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-4:02 Cameron Meyer
-6:54 Tony Martin

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 8:46:56 (was 4th at 0:01)
2 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:18 (was 5th at 0:01)
3 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 0:19 (was 38th at 0:15)
4 Christopher Froome 0:20 (was 24th at 0:12)
5 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:24 (was 32nd at 0:14)
6 Bauke Mollema 0:28 (was 14th at 0:10)
7 Robert Gesink 0:28 (was 15th at 0:10)
8 Rigoberto Uran 0:30 (was 29th at 0:12)
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 0:33 (was 40th at 0:15)
10 Igor Anton Hernandez 0:46 (was 46th at 0:28)
.....
13 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 1:06 (was 6th at 0:04)
.....
29 Maxime Monfort 1:57 (was 93rd at 0:55)
.....
31 John Gadret 2:04 (was 60th at 0:34)
.....
39 Denis Menchov 2:19 (was 36th at 0:15)
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42 Damiano Cunego 2:34 (was 87th at 0:54)
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44 Thomas De Gendt 2:54 (was 65th at 0:35)
.....
60 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 3:47 (was 25th at 0:12)
.....
73 Cameron Meyer 4:35 (was 52nd at 0:33)
.....
149 Tony Martin 10:44 (was 189th at 3:50)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 25 (was 0 points)
2 John Degenkolb 25 (was 1st with 25 points)
3 Allan Davis 20 (was 2nd with 20 points)
4 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver 20 (was 0 points)
5 Ben Swift 16 (was 3rd with 16 points)
6 Christopher Froome 16 (was 0 points)
7 Alberto Contador Velasco 15 (was 18th with 1 points)
8 Elia Viviani 14 (was 4th with 14 points)
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 12 (was 0 points)
10 Klaas Lodewyck 12 (was 5th with 12 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pim Ligthart 11 (was 0 points)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 10 (was 0 points)
3 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver 6 (was 0 points)
4 Philippe Gilbert 6 (was 0 points)
5 Alberto Contador Velasco 4 (was 0 points)
6 Javier Chacon 3 (was 1st with 3 points)
7 Christopher Froome 2 (was 0 points)
8 Andrey Zeits 2 (was 0 points)
9 Nico Sijmens 2 (was 0 points)
10 Javier Francisco Aramendia Lorente 2 (was 2nd with 2 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Pro Team Astana 1
Total retirements : 1


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On 20/08/2012 21:32, Bob Martin wrote:

Stage 3 : Aug 20, Faustino V - Arrate (Eibar), 155.3 km

1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 3.49.37
2 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team
3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank
5 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Katusha Team 0.06
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team
7 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
8 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
9 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin - Sharp

Garmin must really rate Talansky to have thrown him into what might be the
toughest Grand Tour of the modern era, he did ok today given the brutality of
the attacks up the Arrate that have already blown a couple of GC contenders out
of the water.
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