Vuelta a Espana, stage 12 summary

Changes in stage 12 compared to stage 11

Biggest gainers by position :
+24 Cycril Lemoine
+16 Pedro Horrillo Munoz
+16 Juan Jose Haedo
+16 Gorazd Stangelj
+15 Claudio Corioni
+14 Tomas Vaitkus
+14 Mikhail Ignatiev
+14 Enrico Franzoi
+13 Sebastian Schwager
+13 Pavel Brutt

Biggest losers by position :
-28 Gustavo Dominguez Lemos
-28 Patrice Halgand
-27 Julien Loubet
-25 Theo Eltink
-24 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-24 Sebastien Joly
-23 Ivan Rovny
-21 Vasili Kiryienka
-20 Amets Txurruka
-18 Jose Luis Arrieta Lujambio
-11 Christophe Kern

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:24 Paolo Bettini
+0:15 Davide Rebellin
+0:11 Damiano Cunego
+0:03 Alessandro Ballan
+0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco

Biggest losers by time :
-18:55 Christophe Kern
-18:49 Artur Gajek
-18:49 Christian Kux
-18:49 Dimitri Champion
-18:49 Emanuele Bindi
-18:49 Fabio Sabatini
-18:49 Francisco Jose Martinez Perez
-18:49 Gustavo Dominguez Lemos
-18:49 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-18:49 Ivan Rovny
-18:49 Jesus Rosendo Prado

Favourites by position :
+9 Yaroslav Popovych
+7 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau
+6 Stefan Schumacher
+4 Davide Rebellin
+4 Damiano Cunego
+4 Andreas Kloden
+3 Robert Gesink
+3 Alessandro Ballan
+2 Marzio Bruseghin
+1 Igor Anton Hernandez
+1 Ezequiel Mosquera Miguez
+1 Carlos Sastre Candil
-7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Favourites by time :
+0:15 Davide Rebellin
+0:11 Damiano Cunego
+0:03 Alessandro Ballan
+0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:23 Marzio Bruseghin
-0:25 Yaroslav Popovych
-0:27 Andreas Kloden
-0:49 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau
-3:19 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-4:42 Stefan Schumacher

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Egoi Martinez De Esteban 45.48.33
2 Levi Leipheimer 0.11
3 Alberto Contador Velasco 0.29
4 Carlos Sastre Candil 1.38
5 Ezequiel Mosquera Miguez 2.10
6 Igor Anton Hernandez 2.23
7 Robert Gesink 3.22
8 Davide Rebellin 3.40
9 Marzio Bruseghin 4.09
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11 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 4.19
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18 Andreas Kloden 10.17
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31 Alessandro Ballan 17.29
32 Damiano Cunego 19.17
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43 Yaroslav Popovych 27.51
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47 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau 29.28
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102 Stefan Schumacher 1.00.38

Retirements to date : Stage
Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom 7
Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 5
Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10
Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10
Maryan Hary (Fra) Cofidis - Le Credit par Telephone 5
Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Credit par Telephone 1
Jean-Marc Marino (Fra) Credit Agricole 8
Gianni Meersman (Bel) Francaise des Jeux 12
Stephan Schreck (Ger) Gerolsteiner 12
Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 12
Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 10
Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 7
Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence - Lotto 9
Volodymyr Diudia (Ukr) Team Milram 7
Ricardo Serrano Gonzalez (Spa) Tinkoff Credit Systems 4
Nikolay Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 7
Total retirements : 16