Tour de Suisse, stage 8 summary

Stage 8 : June 22, 2019 Goms - Goms 19.2 km

1 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0.21.59
2 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0.05
3 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0.10
4 Thomas Scully (Nzl) EF Education First 0.13
5 Patrick Bevin (Nzl) CCC Team
6 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 0.19
7 Stefan Kung (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0.20
8 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0.32
9 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0.34
10 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott 0.36


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Thomas Scully
+5 Elia Viviani
+4 Tom Bohli
+4 Szymon Sajnok
+4 Soren Kragh Andersen
+4 Reto Hollenstein
+4 Patrick Bevin
+4 Kasper Asgreen
+4 Claudio Imhoff
+4 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Francois Bidard
-6 Matteo Badilatti
-5 Fabio Aru
-4 Antwan Tolhoek
-4 Domenico Pozzovivo
-3 Lilian Calmejane
-3 Pim Ligthart
-3 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
-3 Simon Pellaud
-2 Ben Swift
-2 Fabian Lienhard

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:38 Yves Lampaert
+0:33 Kasper Asgreen
+0:28 Soren Kragh Andersen
+0:25 Thomas Scully
+0:25 Patrick Bevin
+0:19 Rohan Dennis
+0:18 Stefan Kung
+0:06 Benjamin Thomas
+0:04 Nikias Arndt
+0:02 Matteo Trentin

Biggest losers by time :
-3:18 Kenny Elissonde
-2:53 Jelle Vanendert
-2:52 Antonio Nibali
-2:47 Matteo Badilatti
-2:43 Enzo Wouters
-2:30 Lilian Calmejane
-2:30 Pim Ligthart
-2:25 Svein Tuft
-2:24 Andreas Schillinger
-2:24 Owain Doull
-2:24 Tosh Van der Sande

Favourites by position :
+3 Simon Spilak
+2 Tiesj Benoot
+2 Pierre Latour
+2 Marc Soler
+1 Luis Leon Sanchez
+1 Enric Mas
-1 Wilco Kelderman
-2 Mathias Frank
-4 Domenico Pozzovivo
-5 Fabio Aru

Favourites by time :
+0:19 Rohan Dennis
-0:04 Marc Soler
-0:27 Simon Spilak
-0:33 Patrick Konrad
-0:35 Tiesj Benoot
-0:36 Enric Mas
-1:05 Luis Leon Sanchez
-1:15 Wilco Kelderman
-1:18 Pierre Latour
-1:24 Fabio Aru
-1:39 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1:40 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-2:12 Mathias Frank

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 24:40:24 (unchanged)
2 Rohan Dennis 0:22 (was 2nd at 0:41)
3 Patrick Konrad 1:46 (was 3rd at 1:13)
4 Tiesj Benoot 1:54 (was 6th at 1:19)
5 Jan Hirt 1:55 (was 5th at 1:19)
6 Enric Mas 2:43 (was 7th at 2:07)
7 Simon Spilak 2:53 (was 10th at 2:26)
8 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:56 (was 4th at 1:17)
9 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 3:17 (was 13th at 2:57)
10 Nicolas Roche 3:17 (was 9th at 2:23)
.....
13 Fabio Aru 3:44 (was 8th at 2:20)
.....
15 Marc Soler 4:18 (was 17th at 4:14)
.....
28 Luis Leon Sanchez 11:01 (was 29th at 9:56)
.....
30 Mathias Frank 11:16 (was 28th at 9:04)
.....
37 Wilco Kelderman 16:51 (was 36th at 15:36)
.....
67 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 31:04 (was 67th at 29:24)
.....
96 Pierre Latour 47:11 (was 98th at 45:53)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 37 (unchanged)
2 Elia Viviani 32 (unchanged)
3 Matteo Trentin 22 (unchanged)
4 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 20 (unchanged)
5 Michael Matthews 19 (unchanged)
6 Rohan Dennis 18 (unchanged)
7 Kasper Asgreen 18 (was 9th with 10 points)
8 Luis Leon Sanchez 12 (was 7th with 12 points)
9 Antwan Tolhoek 12 (was 8th with 12 points)
10 Yves Lampaert 12 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 30 (unchanged)
2 Claudio Imhoff 25 (unchanged)
3 Domenico Pozzovivo 21 (unchanged)
4 Gavin Mannion 19 (unchanged)
5 Koen Bouwman 18 (unchanged)
6 Rohan Dennis 18 (unchanged)
7 Antwan Tolhoek 12 (unchanged)
8 Matej Mohoric 9 (unchanged)
9 Fabien Grellier 9 (unchanged)
10 Jan Hirt 8 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 8
Claudio Imhoff (Sui) Switzerland 8
Fabian Lienhard (Sui) Switzerland 8
Gian Friesecke (Sui) Switzerland 8
Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 8
Matteo Badilatti (Swi) Israel Cycling Academy 8
Patrick Schelling (Sui) Switzerland 8
Roland Thalmann (Sui) Switzerland 8
Simon Pellaud (Sui) Switzerland 8
Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 7
Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 7
Omar Fraile Matarranza (Spa) Astana Pro Team 6
Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 4
Floris De Tier (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 4
Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos 4
Daniel McLay (GBr) EF Education First 3
Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 2
Danny van Poppel (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 2
Total retirements : 18


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