Tour de France, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Jul 4, Olonne-sur-Mer - Redon, 198 km

1 Tyler Farrar (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 4.40.21
2 Romain Feillu (Fra) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
3 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
4 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
5 Mark Cavendish (GBr) HTC-Highroad
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Team Garmin-Cervelo
7 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Cervelo
8 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
9 Andre Greipel (Ger) Omega Pharma-Lotto
10 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Saur - Sojasun


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+10 Yannick Talabardon
+10 Michael Schar
+10 Fabio Sabatini
+9 Vladimir Isiachev
+9 Tristan Valentin
+9 Mikhail Ignatiev
+9 Maciej Bodnar
+9 Frederik Willems
+9 Christian Knees
+9 Brian Vandborg

Biggest losers by position :
-133 Lars Ytting Bak
-94 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi
-94 Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
-88 Leonardo Duque
-54 Paolo Tiralongo
-48 David Zabriskie
-40 Pavel Brutt
-39 Romain Zingle
-37 Chris Anker Sorensen
-31 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-26 Mark Renshaw

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-5:57 Vincent Jerome
-4:23 Addy Engels
-4:23 Chris Anker Sorensen
-4:23 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-4:23 Dmitriy Muravyev
-4:23 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez
-4:23 Lars Ytting Bak
-4:23 Niki Terpstra
-3:22 Blel Kadri
-3:22 David Zabriskie
-3:22 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi

Favourites by position :
+8 Jens Voigt
+8 David Arroyo Duran
+6 Roman Kreuziger
+6 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
+6 Alberto Contador Velasco
+5 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+2 Janez Brajkovic
+2 Bradley Wiggins
+2 Andy Schleck
+1 Robert Gesink
+1 Ivan Basso
+1 Andreas Kloden
-1 Frank Schleck

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Thor Hushovd 9:46:46 (unchanged)
2 David Millar 0:00 (unchanged)
3 Cadel Evans 0:01 (unchanged)
4 Geraint Thomas 0:04 (unchanged)
5 Linus Gerdemann 0:04 (unchanged)
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 0:04 (was 8th at 0:04)
7 Frank Schleck 0:04 (was 6th at 0:04)
8 Andy Schleck 0:04 (was 10th at 0:04)
9 Jakob Fuglsang 0:04 (was 11th at 0:04)
10 Bradley Wiggins 0:04 (was 12th at 0:04)
.....
19 Andreas Kloden 0:10 (was 20th at 0:10)
.....
21 Janez Brajkovic 0:10 (was 23rd at 0:10)
22 Levi Leipheimer 0:10 (unchanged)
.....
24 Robert Gesink 0:12 (was 25th at 0:12)
.....
46 Ivan Basso 0:57 (was 47th at 0:57)
.....
67 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 1:26 (was 73rd at 1:26)
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69 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:42 (was 75th at 1:42)
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86 Roman Kreuziger 2:21 (was 92nd at 2:21)
.....
99 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 2:36 (was 104th at 2:36)
.....
137 David Arroyo Duran 3:39 (was 145th at 3:39)
.....
146 Jens Voigt 4:20 (was 154th at 4:20)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 64 (was 4th with 26 points)
2 Tyler Farrar 58 (was 13th with 13 points)
3 Thor Hushovd 54 (was 3rd with 30 points)
4 Philippe Gilbert 51 (was 1st with 45 points)
5 Mark Cavendish 37 (was 24th with 5 points)
6 Romain Feillu 36 (was 0 points)
7 Cadel Evans 35 (was 2nd with 35 points)
8 Denis Galimzyanov 28 (was 18th with 9 points)
9 Sebastien Hinault 26 (was 0 points)
10 Borut Bozic 26 (was 20th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Philippe Gilbert 1 (unchanged)
2 Mickael Delage 1 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0


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