Paris Nice, stage 5 summary

Stage 5 : Mar 13, Creche-sur-Saone - Rive-de-Gier, 152.5 km

1 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) AG2R La Mondiale 3.38.15
2 Bob Jungels (Lux) Trek Factory Racing
3 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team
4 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar 0.02
5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team
6 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Team Giant-Shimano
7 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Belisol
8 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
9 Borut Bozic (Slo) Astana Pro Team
10 Marco Marcato (Ita) Cannondale


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+55 Borut Bozic
+54 Michael Matthews
+45 Edvald Boasson Hagen
+43 Simon Gerrans
+42 Niki Terpstra
+41 Christophe Laborie
+38 Amael Moinard
+38 Alexander Kristoff
+36 Jonathan Hivert
+35 Tyler Farrar

Biggest losers by position :
-100 Samuel Dumoulin
-80 Lars Petter Nordhaug
-78 Enrico Gasparotto
-70 Luca Wackermann
-56 Simon Yates
-53 Davide Villella
-53 Julien Simon
-53 Stephen Cummings
-40 Pim Ligthart
-30 Sebastien Turgot
-27 Egor Silin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:12 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
+0:08 Bob Jungels
+0:06 Jan Bakelants
+0:06 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:03 Brice Feillu
+0:02 Gorka Izagirre Insausti
+0:01 Sylvain Chavanel

Biggest losers by time :
-14:33 Adrien Petit
-14:33 Aleksejs Saramotins
-14:33 Bert De Backer
-14:33 Christian Knees
-14:33 Davide Villella
-14:33 Egor Silin
-14:33 Enrico Gasparotto
-14:33 Gabriel Rasch
-14:33 Geoffrey Soupe
-14:33 Jesus Herrada Lopez
-14:33 Jetse Bol

Favourites by position :
+28 Lieuwe Westra
+21 Rafal Majka
+20 Andy Schleck
+13 Thomas Voeckler
+12 Przemyslaw Niemiec
+11 Frank Schleck
+3 Michael Albasini
+3 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
+2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+2 Maxime Monfort
-1 Vincenzo Nibali
-1 Simon Spilak
-2 Wilco Kelderman
-12 Mathias Frank

Favourites by time :
+0:12 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
-2:27 Lieuwe Westra
-7:28 Thomas Voeckler
-7:28 Mathias Frank
-7:28 Andy Schleck
-14:33 Michael Albasini

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Geraint Thomas 21:52:42 (unchanged)
2 John Degenkolb 0:03 (unchanged)
3 Tom Slagter 0:04 (unchanged)
4 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 0:05 (was 7th at 0:17)
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 0:08 (was 4th at 0:08)
6 Jakob Fuglsang 0:13 (was 13th at 0:19)
7 Jan Bakelants 0:13 (was 20th at 0:19)
8 Wilco Kelderman 0:15 (was 6th at 0:15)
9 Zdenek Stybar 0:19 (was 8th at 0:19)
10 Cyril Gautier 0:19 (was 9th at 0:19)
.....
12 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 0:19 (was 14th at 0:19)
13 Vincenzo Nibali 0:19 (was 12th at 0:19)
.....
16 Simon Spilak 0:19 (was 15th at 0:19)
.....
29 Maxime Monfort 0:32 (was 31st at 0:32)
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42 Frank Schleck 1:39 (was 53rd at 1:39)
43 Przemyslaw Niemiec 1:39 (was 55th at 1:39)
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57 Rafal Majka 4:29 (was 78th at 4:29)
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69 Lieuwe Westra 8:16 (was 97th at 5:49)
.....
85 Mathias Frank 11:36 (was 73rd at 4:08)
.....
118 Thomas Voeckler 17:42 (was 131st at 10:14)
.....
132 Andy Schleck 23:17 (was 152nd at 15:49)
.....
159 Michael Albasini 36:54 (was 162nd at 22:21)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 John Degenkolb 39 (unchanged)
2 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 20 (was 3rd with 20 points)
3 Bryan Coquard 17 (was 9th with 10 points)
4 Moreno Hofland 16 (unchanged)
5 Tom Jelte Slagter 15 (unchanged)
6 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 15 (was 0 points)
7 Geraint Thomas 13 (was 6th with 13 points)
8 Bob Jungels 12 (was 0 points)
9 Tom Boonen 12 (was 17th with 6 points)
10 Alexander Kristoff 12 (was 7th with 12 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Sylvain Chavanel 12 (was 0 points)
2 Valerio Agnoli 12 (was 1st with 12 points)
3 Tom Jelte Slagter 9 (was 3rd with 7 points)
4 Christophe Laborie 9 (was 2nd with 9 points)
5 Geraint Thomas 8 (was 5th with 5 points)
6 Vincenzo Nibali 7 (was 0 points)
7 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 6 (was 16th with 1 points)
8 Brice Feillu 6 (was 0 points)
9 Perrig Quemeneur 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
10 Romain Feillu 4 (was 6th with 4 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5
Maxime Bouet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 5
Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ.fr 5
Matti Breschel (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo 4
Gianni Meersman (Bel) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 3
Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Belisol 3
Lars Boom (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 3
Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 1
Total retirements : 8


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