Tour de Suisse, stage 9 summary

Stage 9 : June 23, 2019 Goms - Goms 144.4 km

1 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Education First 3.01.49
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bahrain-Merida 1.02
3 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Team Ineos
4 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 1.52
5 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin
6 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 2.15
7 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Lotto Soudal
8 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Jan Hirt (Cze) Astana Pro Team


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+38 Rob Britton
+37 Gavin Mannion
+23 Antonio Nibali
+22 Reto Hollenstein
+21 Jerome Cousin
+20 Luke Rowe
+20 Hugh Carthy
+16 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze
+15 Szymon Sajnok
+15 Michael Gogl

Biggest losers by position :
-23 Francois Bidard
-17 Nicola Conci
-12 Gianluca Brambilla
-11 Robert Stannard
-10 Matteo Trentin
-10 Simon Pellaud
-9 Nathan Brown
-8 Fabio Aru
-8 Nathan Haas
-5 Greg Van Avermaet
-5 Lennard Kamna

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:13 Hugh Carthy
+0:03 Rohan Dennis

Biggest losers by time :
-26:20 Elia Viviani
-26:20 Francois Bidard
-26:20 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze
-26:20 Michael Morkov
-26:20 Mitchell Docker
-26:20 Robert Stannard
-25:02 Bert-Jan Lindeman
-25:02 Fabian Lienhard
-25:02 Jay Robert Thomson
-24:01 Claudio Imhoff
-24:01 Taco Van Der Hoorn

Favourites by position :
+11 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+10 Mathias Frank
+8 Wilco Kelderman
+3 Marc Soler
+1 Simon Spilak
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-3 Enric Mas
-4 Luis Leon Sanchez
-8 Fabio Aru

Favourites by time :
+0:03 Rohan Dennis
-0:55 Simon Spilak
-0:55 Mathias Frank
-1:18 Tiesj Benoot
-1:18 Patrick Konrad
-1:18 Domenico Pozzovivo
-2:09 Marc Soler
-2:10 Enric Mas
-3:55 Wilco Kelderman
-9:34 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-9:34 Fabio Aru
-11:05 Luis Leon Sanchez

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 27:43:10 (unchanged)
2 Rohan Dennis 0:19 (was 2nd at 0:22)
3 Patrick Konrad 3:04 (was 3rd at 1:46)
4 Tiesj Benoot 3:12 (was 4th at 1:54)
5 Jan Hirt 3:13 (was 5th at 1:55)
6 Simon Spilak 3:48 (was 7th at 2:53)
7 Domenico Pozzovivo 4:14 (was 8th at 2:56)
8 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez 4:35 (was 9th at 3:17)
9 Enric Mas 4:53 (was 6th at 2:43)
10 Nicolas Roche 5:27 (was 10th at 3:17)
.....
12 Marc Soler 6:27 (was 15th at 4:18)
.....
20 Mathias Frank 12:11 (was 30th at 11:16)
21 Fabio Aru 13:18 (was 13th at 3:44)
.....
29 Wilco Kelderman 20:46 (was 37th at 16:51)
.....
32 Luis Leon Sanchez 22:06 (was 28th at 11:01)
.....
56 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 40:38 (was 67th at 31:04)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 37 (unchanged)
2 Elia Viviani 32 (unchanged)
3 Rohan Dennis 28 (was 6th with 18 points)
4 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 27 (was 4th with 20 points)
5 Matteo Trentin 22 (was 3rd with 22 points)
6 Hugh Carthy 20 (was 0 points)
7 Kasper Asgreen 18 (unchanged)
8 Luis Leon Sanchez 12 (unchanged)
9 Antwan Tolhoek 12 (unchanged)
10 Domenico Pozzovivo 10 (was 11th with 10 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Hugh Carthy 60 (was 0 points)
2 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez 40 (was 1st with 30 points)
3 Rohan Dennis 33 (was 6th with 18 points)
4 Lennard Kamna 28 (was 25th with 3 points)
5 Claudio Imhoff 25 (was 2nd with 25 points)
6 Domenico Pozzovivo 21 (was 3rd with 21 points)
7 Gavin Mannion 19 (was 4th with 19 points)
8 Koen Bouwman 18 (was 5th with 18 points)
9 Mathias Frank 17 (was 28th with 3 points)
10 Simon Spilak 15 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alex Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 9
Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 9
Brandon McNulty (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 9
Enzo Wouters (Bel) Lotto Soudal 9
Fabien Grellier (Fra) Direct Energie 9
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) CCC Team 9
Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 9
Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 9
Lawson Craddock (USA) EF Education First 9
Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 9
Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 9
Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 9
Robin Carpenter (USA) Rally UHC Cycling 9
Ryan Anderson (Can) Rally UHC Cycling 9
Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) EF Education First 9
Svein Tuft (Can) Rally UHC Cycling 9
Thomas Scully (Nzl) EF Education First 9
Tom Bohli (Swi) UAE Team Emirates 9
Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 9
Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 9
Yves Lampaert (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 9
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 : 39


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