Tirreno Adriatico, stage 6 summary

Changes in stage 6 compared to stage 5

Biggest gainers by position :
+50 Giovanni Visconti
+43 Leonardo Piepoli
+42 Paolo Bettini
+42 Matteo Bono
+38 Carlos Barredo
+37 Matthias Kessler
+35 Vladimir Gusev
+35 Simone Masciarelli
+35 Martin Elmiger
+34 Ivan Mayoz

Biggest losers by position :
-47 Bram Tankink
-41 Alessandro Spezialetti
-40 Rinaldo Nocentini
-40 Thomas Dekker
-36 Johann Tschopp
-34 Filippo Pozzato
-32 Nick Nuyens
-26 Koldo Fernández
-23 Serguei Yakovlev
-22 Jason McCartney
-21 Andrea Moletta

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:56 Matteo Bono
+1:20 Enrico Gasparotto
+1:09 Giovanni Visconti
+1:03 Vasil Kiryienka
+0:55 Stéphane Goubert
+0:14 Riccardo Riccò
+0:09 Kim Kirchen
+0:07 Michele Scarponi
+0:03 Andreas Klöden

Biggest losers by time :
-21:34 Erki Pütsep
-19:55 Jason McCartney
-17:40 Peter Wrolich
-17:40 Sven Krauss
-16:54 Bram Tankink
-16:10 Raúl Alarcón
-14:35 Aketza Peña
-14:35 Alexei Markov
-14:35 Bernhard Eisel
-14:35 Björn Leukemans
-14:35 Bram De Groot

Favourites by position :
+43 Leonardo Piepoli
+42 Paolo Bettini
+13 Fabian Cancellara
+9 Serguei Ivanov
+5 Laurent Brochard
+3 Dario Cioni
+1 David Arroyo
+1 Andreas Klöden
-5 Stefano Garzelli
-5 Peter Wrolich
-19 Unai Etxebarria

Favourites by time :
+0:03 Andreas Klöden
-0:03 Jens Voigt
-0:03 Alexander Vinokourov
-0:14 Michael Boogerd
-0:14 Leonardo Piepoli
-0:17 David Arroyo
-0:58 Laurent Brochard
-1:07 Stefano Garzelli
-1:30 Dario Cioni
-2:04 Paolo Bettini
-8:54 Serguei Ivanov
-12:16 Unai Etxebarria
-12:16 Fabian Cancellara
-17:40 Peter Wrolich

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Andreas Klöden 23.52.44
2 Kim Kirchen 0.03
3 Alexander Vinokourov 0.12
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6 Jens Voigt 0.33
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10 Michael Boogerd 1.11
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17 David Arroyo 2.13
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19 Stefano Garzelli 2.22
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26 Laurent Brochard 4.08
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29 Dario Cioni 4.45
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71 Leonardo Piepoli 15.48
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81 Unai Etxebarria 17.54
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88 Serguei Ivanov 21.04
89 Paolo Bettini 21.06
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128 Peter Wrolich 34.00
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143 Fabian Cancellara 57.33

Retirements to date :
Bouygues Telecom Aurélien Clerc
" Dimitri Champion
Caisse d'Epargne Iván Gutiérrez
Ceramica Panaria-Navigare Moisés Aldape Chavez
" Tiziano Dall'Antonia
Cofidis Geoffroy Lequatre
" Kevin De Weert
" Michiel Elijzen
" Sébastien Minard
Crédit Agricole Yannick Talabardon
Discovery Channel Ivan Basso
" José Luis Rubiera
" Pavel Padrnos
Euskaltel-Euskadi Jon Bru
Française Des Jeux Arnaud Gerard
" Cyrille Monnerais
Gerolsteiner Robert Förster
" Sebastian Lang
Lampre-Fondital Paolo Fornaciari
Milram Enrico Poitschke
" Erik Zabel
Predictor-Lotto Fred Rodriguez
" Leif Hoste
Rabobank Grischa Niermann
T-Mobile Marco Pinotti
Team CSC Lars Michaelsen
Tinkoff Credit Systems Pavel Brutt
" Ruggero Marzoli
" Tyler Hamilton
Total retirements : 29

On Mar 19, 11:17 am, Bob Martin wrote:
Changes in stage 6 compared to stage 5

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:56 Matteo Bono

For what it's worth, Bono did the last 4km by himself in 12:12, so
averaging close to 20km/h (something like 12mph)

bjorn