Paris Nice, stage 5 summary

Stage 5 : Mar 8, Onet-le-Chateau - Mende, 178 km

1 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM 4.52.46
2 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0.06
3 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Omega Pharma-Quick Step
5 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha Team
6 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0.16
7 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ-Bigmat
8 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Liquigas-Cannondale 0.24
9 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling
10 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar 0.30


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+39 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+35 Christophe Le Mevel
+35 Cedric Pineau
+33 Karsten Kroon
+33 David Lopez Garcia
+32 Sergey Lagutin
+32 Bart De Clercq
+31 Pierre Cazaux
+31 Ivan Basso
+31 Hubert Dupont

Biggest losers by position :
-64 Grega Bole
-54 Heinrich Haussler
-53 Gaetan Bille
-41 Andreas Klier
-41 Kris Boeckmans
-41 Marcus Burghardt
-40 Geraint Thomas
-39 Danilo Wyss
-35 Murilo Antonio Fischer
-32 Anthony Ravard
-29 Laurens ten Dam

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:12 Lieuwe Westra
+0:02 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Biggest losers by time :
-20:15 Alexander Kristoff
-20:15 Andreas Klier
-20:15 Andrey Kashechkin
-20:15 Anthony Ravard
-20:15 Damien Gaudin
-20:15 Daniele Righi
-20:15 Danny Pate
-20:15 Elia Viviani
-20:15 Geraint Thomas
-20:15 Grega Bole
-20:15 Gregory Henderson

Favourites by position :
+31 Ivan Basso
+27 Rein Taaramae
+23 Thomas Voeckler
+20 Janez Brajkovic
+19 Damiano Cunego
+18 Frank Schleck
+17 Denis Menchov
+15 Andreas Kloden
+9 Tony Martin
+7 David Arroyo Duran
+3 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
-1 Levi Leipheimer
-5 Bauke Mollema

Favourites by time :
-0:04 Levi Leipheimer
-0:14 Damiano Cunego
-0:28 Thomas Voeckler
-0:46 Frank Schleck
-0:51 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
-0:51 Denis Menchov
-1:02 Andreas Kloden
-1:58 Janez Brajkovic
-2:43 Tony Martin
-3:42 Rein Taaramae
-4:03 Bauke Mollema
-6:21 David Arroyo Duran
-7:38 Ivan Basso

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Bradley Wiggins 18:23:40 (unchanged)
2 Lieuwe Westra 0:06 (was 6th at 0:18)
3 Levi Leipheimer 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:06)
4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:18 (was 7th at 0:20)
5 Simon Spilak 0:37 (was 9th at 0:33)
6 Tejay Van Garderen 0:39 (was 3rd at 0:11)
7 Maxime Monfort 0:46 (was 5th at 0:18)
8 Arnold Jeannesson 1:06 (was 12th at 0:52)
9 Sylvain Chavanel 1:16 (was 4th at 0:14)
10 Robert Kiserlovski 1:21 (was 10th at 0:36)
.....
16 Damiano Cunego 3:42 (was 35th at 3:28)
17 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 3:51 (was 20th at 3:00)
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26 Thomas Voeckler 4:51 (was 49th at 4:23)
27 Denis Menchov 4:58 (was 44th at 4:07)
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29 Frank Schleck 5:05 (was 47th at 4:19)
30 Andreas Kloden 5:13 (was 45th at 4:11)
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43 Bauke Mollema 7:40 (was 38th at 3:37)
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49 Tony Martin 8:56 (was 58th at 6:13)
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72 Janez Brajkovic 15:10 (was 92nd at 13:12)
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91 David Arroyo Duran 19:58 (was 98th at 13:37)
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97 Rein Taaramae 23:00 (was 124th at 19:18)
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112 Ivan Basso 31:03 (was 143rd at 23:25)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Alejandro Valverde 74 (was 1st with 52 points)
2 Bradley Wiggins 67 (was 2nd with 47 points)
3 Lieuwe Westra 63 (was 5th with 38 points)
4 Levi Leipheimer 50 (was 10th with 32 points)
5 Gianni Meersman 45 (was 3rd with 45 points)
6 Maxime Monfort 45 (was 7th with 35 points)
7 Tejay Van Garderen 43 (was 8th with 34 points)
8 Francesco Gavazzi 40 (was 4th with 40 points)
9 Tom Boonen 35 (was 6th with 35 points)
10 Xavier Florencio Cabre 34 (was 9th with 34 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Frederik Veuchelen 36 (was 17th with 1 points)
2 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 20 (was 1st with 18 points)
3 David Lelay 20 (was 0 points)
4 Yukiya Arashiro 19 (was 0 points)
5 Bart De Clercq 15 (was 2nd with 14 points)
6 Thomas De Gendt 14 (was 3rd with 10 points)
7 Alejandro Valverde 13 (was 4th with 5 points)
8 Lieuwe Westra 10 (was 0 points)
9 Simon Clarke 8 (was 0 points)
10 Bradley Wiggins 6 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 5
Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 5
Tom Veelers (Ned) Project 1t4i 5
Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Belisol Team 4
Jan Bakelants (Bel) RadioShack-Nissan 4
Joost Posthuma (Ned) RadioShack-Nissan 4
Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team 4
Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 4
Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) GreenEdge Cycling Team 3
Andy Schleck (Lux) RadioShack-Nissan 3
Vladimir Isaychev (Rus) Katusha Team 3
Nick Nuyens (Bel) Team Saxo Bank 2
Total retirements : 12


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