Stage 18 - Pinzolo Laghi di Cancano

1 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 6:03:03
2 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
3 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain - McLaren 0:46
4 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 1:25
5 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 2:18
6 Patrick Konrad (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 4:04
7 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 4:51
8 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 4:51
9 Hermann Pernsteiner (Aut) Bahrain - McLaren 4:51
10 Fausto Masnada (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 4:55


Changes in GC, stage 18 compared to stage 17 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+18 Domen Novak
+15 Rohan Dennis
+13 Filippo Ganna
+9 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda
+8 Stephane Rossetto
+8 Daniel Navarro
+7 Matthew Holmes
+7 Mathias Le Turnier
+6 Simon Pellaud
+6 Ruben Guerreiro

Biggest losers by position :
-9 Jesper Hansen
-8 Harm Vanhoucke
-7 Julien Bernard
-6 Andrea Vendrame
-6 Davide Villella
-6 Matteo Fabbro
-6 Salvatore Puccio
-5 Attila Valter
-5 Dario Cataldo
-5 Jonathan Klever Caicedo
-5 Nicola Conci

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:46 Jai Hindley
+2:44 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+1:53 Pello Bilbao
+1:10 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:17 Wilco Kelderman

Biggest losers by time :
-48:23 Albert Torres
-48:23 Alessandro Bisolti
-48:23 Alvaro Jose Hodeg
-48:23 Andrea Vendrame
-48:23 Arnaud Demare
-48:23 Cesare Benedetti
-48:23 Davide Cimolai
-48:23 Davide Villella
-48:23 Edoardo Zardini
-48:23 Elia Viviani
-48:23 Etienne van Empel

Favourites by position :
+15 Rohan Dennis
+6 Jakob Fuglsang
+4 Carl Fredrik Hagen
+2 Patrick Konrad
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Fausto Masnada
-1 Vincenzo Nibali
-4 Rafal Majka
-4 Domenico Pozzovivo

Favourites by time :
+1:10 Jakob Fuglsang
+0:17 Wilco Kelderman
-1:29 Patrick Konrad
-2:16 Vincenzo Nibali
-2:20 Fausto Masnada
-4:08 Rafal Majka
-5:42 Domenico Pozzovivo
-5:56 Rohan Dennis
-24:21 Carl Fredrik Hagen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Wilco Kelderman 77:46:56 (was 2nd at 0:17)
2 Jai Hindley 0:12 (was 3rd at 2:58)
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart 0:15 (was 4th at 2:59)
4 Pello Bilbao 1:19 (was 5th at 3:12)
5 Joao Almeida 2:16 (was 1st at 0:00)
6 Jakob Fuglsang 3:59 (was 12th at 5:09)
7 Patrick Konrad 5:40 (was 9th at 4:11)
8 Vincenzo Nibali 5:47 (was 7th at 3:31)
9 Fausto Masnada 6:46 (was 10th at 4:26)
10 Rafal Majka 7:28 (was 6th at 3:20)
.....
12 Domenico Pozzovivo 9:34 (was 8th at 3:52)
.....
42 Rohan Dennis 2:04:35 (was 57th at 1:58:39)
.....
44 Carl Fredrik Hagen 2:07:53 (was 48th at 1:43:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Arnaud Demare 221 (unchanged)
2 Peter Sagan 184 (unchanged)
3 Joao Almeida 94 (was 3rd with 90 points)
4 Diego Ulissi 77 (unchanged)
5 Filippo Ganna 72 (was 5th with 66 points)
6 Andrea Vendrame 66 (unchanged)
7 Patrick Konrad 61 (was 7th with 56 points)
8 Tao Geoghegan Hart 51 (was 12th with 39 points)
9 Simon Pellaud 50 (was 8th with 50 points)
10 Thomas De Gendt 48 (was 16th with 36 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Ruben Guerreiro 234 (was 1st with 198 points)
2 Thomas De Gendt 122 (was 3rd with 82 points)
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart 115 (was 7th with 45 points)
4 Rohan Dennis 103 (was 5th with 53 points)
5 Ben O'Connor 71 (was 4th with 59 points)
6 Wilco Kelderman 54 (was 11th with 34 points)
7 Jai Hindley 52 (was 25th with 14 points)
8 Filippo Ganna 48 (was 6th with 48 points)
9 Jonathan Castroviejo 45 (was 8th with 45 points)
10 Jonathan Klever Caicedo 40 (was 9th with 40 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 233:28:48 (was 1st at 214:56:18)
2 Bahrain - McLaren 28:01 (was 5th at 37:30)
3 Team Sunweb 28:37 (was 4th at 28:57)
4 Deceuninck - Quick Step 34:56 (was 2nd at 21:33)
5 BORA - hansgrohe 51:45 (was 3rd at 27:04)
6 Astana Pro Team 1:51:58 (was 8th at 1:23:34)
7 NTT Pro Cycling 1:55:52 (was 10th at 1:32:10)
8 AG2R La Mondiale 1:59:25 (was 9th at 1:25:48)
9 Movistar Team 2:05:30 (was 6th at 1:04:36)
10 Trek - Segafredo 2:39:52 (was 11th at 1:36:23)
11 CCC Team 2:56:36 (was 7th at 1:18:51)
12 UAE-Team Emirates 3:27:29 (was 12th at 2:19:24)
13 Lotto Soudal 4:05:01 (was 13th at 3:07:25)
14 EF Pro Cycling 5:30:51 (was 14th at 4:06:56)
15 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 7:15:22 (was 15th at 5:41:34)
16 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 7:30:05 (was 16th at 5:59:29)
17 Vini Zabu - KTM 8:33:41 (was 17th at 6:28:01)
18 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 8:51:42 (was 18th at 7:06:09)
19 Israel Start-Up Nation 10:38:22 (was 19th at 9:03:42)
20 Groupama - FDJ 12:30:56 (was 20th at 10:21:23)

Retirements to date : Stage
Giovanni Visconti (Vini Zabu - KTM) 18
Manuele Boaro (Astana Pro Team) 18
Fernando Gaviria (UAE-Team Emirates) 16
Maximiliano Richeze (UAE-Team Emirates) 16
Gianluca Brambilla (Trek - Segafredo) 15
Jhonatan Narvaez (INEOS Grenadiers) 15
Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE-Team Emirates) 15
Nicolas Edet (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 15
Giulio Ciccone (Trek - Segafredo) 14
Alexander Cataford (Israel Start-Up Nation) 12
Antwan Tolhoek (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Cameron Meyer (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Chris Harper (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Christoph Pfingsten (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Damien Howson (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Jos Van Emden (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Koen Bouwman (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Lawson Craddock (EF Pro Cycling) 10
Lucas Hamilton (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Michael Hepburn (Mitchelton-Scott) 10
Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) 10
Ramon Sinkeldam (Groupama - FDJ) 10
Steven Kruijswijk (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Tobias Foss (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Tony Martin (Team Jumbo-Visma) 10
Pavel Kochetkov (CCC Team) 9
Rudy Barbier (Israel Start-Up Nation) 9
Ben Gastauer (AG2R La Mondiale) 8
Edoardo Affini (Mitchelton-Scott) 8
Patrick Gamper (BORA - hansgrohe) 8
Sean Bennett (EF Pro Cycling) 8
Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) 8
Tony Gallopin (AG2R La Mondiale) 8
Brent Bookwalter (Mitchelton-Scott) 6
Benjamin Thomas (Groupama - FDJ) 5
Luca Wackermann (Vini Zabu - KTM) 5
Pieter Weening (Trek - Segafredo) 5
Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) 4
Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana Pro Team) 2
Luca Covili (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane) 1
Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Pro Team) 1
Total retirements : 42


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