Vuelta a Espana, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Monday, August 31 2009, Zutphen - Venlo, 185 km

1 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Columbia-HTC 4.41.01
2 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil
3 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank
4 Andre Greipel (Ger) Columbia-HTC
5 William Bonnet (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
6 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step
7 Roger Hammond (GBr) Cervelo TestTeam
8 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step
9 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Saxo Bank
10 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto


Changes in stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+32 Oscar Freire
+32 Borut Bozic
+25 Gregory Henderson
+24 Lars Boom
+19 Johnny Hoogerland
+19 Jesus Rosendo
+4 Pierrick Fedrigo
+4 Oscar Garcia-Casarrubios
+4 Martijn Maaskant
+4 Frantisek Rabon

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Francisco Perez
-3 Marcel Sieberg
-3 Roger Hammond
-3 William Bonnet
-2 Alejandro Valverde
-2 Bert Grabsch
-2 Bjorn Schroder
-2 Cadel Evans
-2 Chris Horner
-2 Daniele Bennati
-2 David Garcia

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Gregory Henderson
+0:12 Borut Bozic
+0:10 Lars Boom
+0:08 Oscar Freire
+0:08 Johnny Hoogerland
+0:06 Jesus Rosendo

Biggest losers by time :
-0:49 Jose Ruiz
-0:49 Maarten Wynants

Favourites by position :
+2 Damiano Cunego
+2 Andy Schleck
-1 Xavier Tondo
-1 Samuel Sanchez
-1 Linus Gerdemann
-1 Kim Kirchen
-1 Haimar Zubeldia
-2 Roman Kreuziger
-2 Robert Gesink
-2 Ivan Basso
-2 Cadel Evans
-2 Alejandro Valverde

Favourites by time :

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Fabian Cancellara 9.29.33
2 Gregory Henderson 0.06
3 Gerald Ciolek 0.08
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9 Roman Kreuziger 0.17
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11 Ivan Basso 0.18
12 Alejandro Valverde 0.18
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14 Cadel Evans 0.19
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24 Robert Gesink 0.24
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33 Kim Kirchen 0.27
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39 Haimar Zubeldia 0.28
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62 Ezequiel Mosquera 0.33
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74 Linus Gerdemann 0.37
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85 Samuel Sanchez 0.42
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87 Xavier Tondo 0.42
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112 Frank Schleck 0.53
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136 Damiano Cunego 1.02
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149 Andy Schleck 1.08

Retirements to date : Stage
Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3
Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 3
Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence-Lotto 3
Total retirements : 3