Itzulia Basque Country stage 2 summary

Stage 2 - Zalla-Sestao

1 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 3:45:32
2 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 0:15
3 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE-Team Emirates 0:15
4 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:15
5 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:15
6 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:15
7 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 0:15
8 Mikel Landa (Spa) Bahrain - Victorious 0:15
9 Sergio Higuita (Col) EF Education - Nippo 0:15
10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:15


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+95 Benoit Cosnefroy
+93 Sergio Samitier
+93 Jonathan Lastra
+87 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
+83 Einer Augusto Rubio
+74 Gotzon Martin
+72 Simon Clarke
+72 Nicolas Prodhomme
+67 Lorenzo Rota
+65 Jon Agirre

Biggest losers by position :
-106 Mauro Schmid
-105 Josef Cerny
-88 Andrey Amador
-84 Christoph Pfingsten
-81 Stefan De Bod
-76 Alexey Lutsenko
-73 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-72 Pieter Serry
-70 Magnus Cort
-67 Thomas De Gendt
-63 Oscar Rodriguez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:25 Alex Aranburu
+0:06 Omar Fraile
+0:04 Tadej Pogacar

Biggest losers by time :
-21:29 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-21:01 Clement Davy
-18:52 Alexander Evans
-14:35 Andrey Amador
-14:35 Cesare Benedetti
-14:35 Lennard Hofstede
-14:35 Mauro Schmid
-12:44 Christoph Pfingsten
-12:44 Diego Andres Camargo
-12:44 Hector Carretero
-12:44 Jon Aberasturi

Favourites by position :
+23 Enric Mas
+16 Guillaume Martin
+11 Sergio Higuita
+8 Emanuel Buchmann
+6 Alejandro Valverde
+5 Bauke Mollema
+4 Maximilian Schachmann
+2 Wilco Kelderman
+2 Jakob Fuglsang
+1 Tadej Pogacar
+1 Adam Yates
-10 Rafal Majka
-12 Patrick Konrad
-17 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :
+0:04 Tadej Pogacar
-0:04 Wilco Kelderman
-0:04 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:04 Emanuel Buchmann
-0:46 Enric Mas
-1:06 Patrick Konrad
-1:27 Rafal Majka
-1:34 Richard Carapaz
-1:55 Guillaume Martin
-2:38 Bauke Mollema

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 4:03:04 (unchanged)
2 Alex Aranburu 0:05 (was 9th at 0:30)
3 Brandon Mcnulty 0:06 (was 2nd at 0:02)
4 Tadej Pogacar 0:24 (was 5th at 0:28)
5 Adam Yates 0:28 (was 6th at 0:28)
6 Maximilian Schachmann 0:31 (was 10th at 0:31)
7 Jonas Vingegaard 0:32 (was 3rd at 0:18)
8 Omar Fraile 0:34 (was 16th at 0:40)
9 Wilco Kelderman 0:40 (was 11th at 0:36)
10 Pello Bilbao 0:42 (was 13th at 0:38)
.....
12 Jakob Fuglsang 0:43 (was 14th at 0:39)
13 Alejandro Valverde 0:43 (was 19th at 0:43)
.....
16 Emanuel Buchmann 0:51 (was 24th at 0:47)
17 Sergio Higuita 0:53 (was 28th at 0:53)
.....
32 Patrick Konrad 1:49 (was 20th at 0:43)
33 Enric Mas 2:03 (was 56th at 1:17)
.....
38 Richard Carapaz 2:19 (was 21st at 0:45)
.....
42 Rafal Majka 2:27 (was 32nd at 1:00)
.....
58 Guillaume Martin 3:24 (was 74th at 1:29)
.....
64 Bauke Mollema 4:03 (was 69th at 1:25)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 25 (unchanged)
2 Brandon Mcnulty 20 (unchanged)
3 Jonas Vingegaard 16 (unchanged)
4 Mikel Iturria 16 (was 0 points)
5 Tobias Foss 14 (was 4th with 14 points)
6 Ben Gastauer 14 (was 0 points)
7 Tadej Pogacar 12 (was 5th with 12 points)
8 Adam Yates 10 (was 6th with 10 points)
9 Patrick Bevin 9 (was 7th with 9 points)
10 Ide Schelling 8 (was 8th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Maximilian Schachmann 6 (was 0 points)
2 Quinten Hermans 6 (was 0 points)
3 Primoz Roglic 4 (was 0 points)
4 Jon Irisarri 4 (was 0 points)
5 Tadej Pogacar 3 (was 1st with 3 points)
6 Brandon Mcnulty 2 (was 3rd with 1 points)
7 Adam Yates 2 (was 2nd with 2 points)
8 Sergio Higuita 2 (was 0 points)
9 Oscar Cabedo 1 (was 0 points)
10 Kevin Vermaerke 1 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Astana - Premier Tech 12:10:46 (was 4th at 1:07)
2 BORA - hansgrohe 0:10 (was 3rd at 0:54)
3 UAE-Team Emirates 0:16 (was 2nd at 0:25)
4 Team Jumbo-Visma 0:17 (was 1st at 0:52:33)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 1:22 (was 5th at 1:27)
6 Bahrain - Victorious 2:42 (was 8th at 2:05)
7 INEOS Grenadiers 3:46 (was 7th at 1:37)
8 Israel Start-Up Nation 4:22 (was 6th at 1:27)
9 Movistar Team 4:42 (was 15th at 3:21)
10 Team Total Direct Energie 4:43 (was 11th at 2:41)
11 AG2R Citroen Team 5:08 (was 21th at 3:54)
12 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 5:27 (was 19th at 3:44)
13 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5:39 (was 14th at 3:12)
14 Team DSM 5:44 (was 10th at 2:18)
15 EF Education - Nippo 5:56 (was 9th at 2:10)
16 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 7:26 (was 24th at 5:10)
17 Burgos-BH 9:36 (was 22th at 4:41)
18 Groupama - FDJ 10:03 (was 13th at 2:52)
19 Team BikeExchange 10:16 (was 18th at 3:44)
20 Trek - Segafredo 11:25 (was 16th at 3:23)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 15:06 (was 17th at 3:40)
22 Euskaltel - Euskadi 15:16 (was 23th at 5:09)
23 Lotto Soudal 15:26 (was 12th at 2:51)
24 Equipo Kern Pharma 19:21 (was 20th at 3:53)

Retirements to date : Stage
Aurelien Paret-peintre (AG2R Citroen Team) 1
Christopher Juul-jensen (Team BikeExchange) 1
Francisco Galvan (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Marti Marquez (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
O'CONNOR Ben Mathias Frank (AG2R Citroen Team) 1
Total retirements : 5


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