Giro d'Italia stage 9 summary

Stage 9 - Castel di Sangro-Campo Felice (Rocca di Cambio) 158 km

1 Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 4:08:23
2 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 0:07
3 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana - Premier Tech 0:07
4 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:10
5 Dan Martin (Irl) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:10
6 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 0:12
7 Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM 0:12
8 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:12
9 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:12
10 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:12


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+35 Giovanni Visconti
+32 Oscar Riesebeek
+29 Simon Carr
+24 Remy Rochas
+24 Jimmy Janssens
+20 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier
+19 Vadim Pronskiy
+19 Simon Pellaud
+19 Rafael Valls
+19 Dries De Bondt

Biggest losers by position :
-24 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-24 Nikias Arndt
-24 Victor Campenaerts
-24 Victor Lafay
-21 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda
-20 Fernando Gaviria
-18 Kobe Goossens
-18 Patrick Bevin
-17 Marton Dina
-16 Gianni Vermeersch
-16 Simone Ravanelli

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:16 Egan Bernal
+0:05 Giulio Ciccone
+0:03 Aleksandr Vlasov

Biggest losers by time :
-26:24 Giacomo Nizzolo
-26:05 Dylan Groenewegen
-26:02 Maximiliano Richeze
-25:57 Elia Viviani
-25:57 Fernando Gaviria
-25:57 Samuele Rivi
-25:57 Simone Consonni
-25:57 Victor Campenaerts
-25:56 Matteo Moschetti
-25:51 Alexander Krieger
-25:51 Filippo Tagliani

Favourites by position :
+8 Tejay Van Garderen
+6 Bauke Mollema
+2 Joao Almeida
+2 Egan Bernal
+1 Jai Hindley
+1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1 Hugh Carthy
-2 Fausto Masnada

Favourites by time :
+0:16 Egan Bernal
+0:03 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:04 Dan Martin
-0:06 Simon Yates
-0:06 Joao Almeida
-0:06 Hugh Carthy
-0:06 Emanuel Buchmann
-0:06 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-0:29 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:47 Jai Hindley
-0:55 Pello Bilbao
-1:41 Bauke Mollema
-2:51 Fausto Masnada
-8:43 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Bernal 35:19:22 (was 3rd at 0:16)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:15 (was 2nd at 0:11)
3 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:21 (was 4th at 0:24)
4 Giulio Ciccone 0:36 (was 7th at 0:41)
5 Attila Valter 0:43 (was 1st at 0:00)
6 Hugh Carthy 0:44 (was 5th at 0:38)
7 Damiano Caruso 0:45 (was 6th at 0:39)
8 Dan Martin 0:51 (was 8th at 0:47)
9 Simon Yates 0:55 (was 9th at 0:49)
10 Davide Formolo 1:01 (was 11th at 0:55)
11 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:12 (was 12th at 1:06)
.....
15 Emanuel Buchmann 1:46 (was 15th at 1:40)
16 Vincenzo Nibali 2:12 (was 16th at 1:43)
.....
21 Pello Bilbao 3:26 (was 21st at 2:31)
22 Jai Hindley 4:27 (was 23rd at 3:40)
23 Joao Almeida 4:55 (was 25th at 4:49)
24 Fausto Masnada 6:00 (was 22nd at 3:09)
.....
34 Bauke Mollema 18:37 (was 40th at 16:56)
.....
91 Tejay Van Garderen 58:12 (was 99th at 49:29)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Tim Merlier 83 (unchanged)
2 Giacomo Nizzolo 76 (unchanged)
3 Elia Viviani 69 (unchanged)
4 Davide Cimolai 66 (unchanged)
5 Peter Sagan 57 (unchanged)
6 Fernando Gaviria 56 (unchanged)
7 Matteo Moschetti 42 (unchanged)
8 Filippo Tagliani 39 (unchanged)
9 Filippo Fiorelli 39 (unchanged)
10 Dylan Groenewegen 36 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Geoffrey Bouchard 51 (was 2nd with 18 points)
2 Egan Bernal 48 (was 11th with 8 points)
3 Gino Mader 44 (was 1st with 26 points)
4 Bauke Mollema 23 (was 18th with 5 points)
5 Giulio Ciccone 20 (was 24th with 2 points)
6 Kobe Goossens 18 (was 3rd with 18 points)
7 Francesco Gavazzi 17 (was 4th with 17 points)
8 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
9 Rein Taaramae 13 (was 6th with 13 points)
10 Remco Evenepoel 13 (was 20th with 4 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 6:01:14 (was 1st at 93:35:22)
2 Team BikeExchange 3:26 (was 3rd at 2:15)
3 Trek - Segafredo 5:47 (was 4th at 3:59)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 6:49 (was 2nd at 1:05)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 7:44 (was 5th at 5:08)
6 EF Education - Nippo 10:49 (was 7th at 9:32)
7 Team DSM 11:05 (was 6th at 8:16)
8 Movistar Team 14:07 (was 8th at 10:00)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 20:07 (was 9th at 18:00)
10 Astana - Premier Tech 26:40 (was 11th at 21:36)
11 UAE-Team Emirates 37:19 (was 10th at 21:17)
12 BORA - hansgrohe 39:00 (was 12th at 36:02)
13 Groupama - FDJ 49:52 (was 16th at 47:56)
14 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 50:30 (was 15th at 46:59)
15 Israel Start-Up Nation 55:37 (was 13th at 40:48)
16 EOLO-Kometa 59:46 (was 14th at 41:46)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 1:01:19 (was 17th at 57:13)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 1:39:47 (was 20th at 1:27:43)
19 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:40:01 (was 18th at 1:19:31)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 1:47:48 (was 19th at 1:26:22)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 2:19:10 (was 21th at 1:32:46)
22 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 2:26:18 (was 22th at 1:46:22)
23 Lotto Soudal 2:49:54 (was 23th at 2:04:00)

Retirements to date : Stage
Clement Champoussin (AG2R Citroen Team) 9
Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal) 9
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain - Victorious) 9
Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) 9
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 8
Domenico Pozzovivo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 7
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 13


(This report and archives etc can be seen at http://rvmartin.uk/cycling)