Tour de Suisse, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 : Jun 12, Airolo - Crans-Montana, 149 km

1 Juan Mauricio Soler (Col) Movistar Team 4.23.20
2 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0.12
3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek
4 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Katusha Team 0.16
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0.18
6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 0.34
7 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) HTC-Highroad 0.36
8 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0.39
9 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 0.47
10 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team


Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+122 Ruslan Podgornyy
+121 Andy Schleck
+109 Cristiano Salerno
+101 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente
+100 Bartosz Huzarski
+99 Angel Madrazo Ruiz
+98 Giampaolo Caruso
+83 Sergey Lagutin
+77 Dmitriy Muravyev
+66 Valery Kobzarenko

Biggest losers by position :
-101 Fabian Cancellara
-98 Gregory Henderson
-82 Manuele Boaro
-78 Thor Hushovd
-75 Rinaldo Nocentini
-74 Stuart O'Grady
-73 Andrew Talansky
-73 Heinrich Haussler
-73 Maciej Bodnar
-72 Martin Velits
-70 Luke Roberts

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:28 Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez
+0:12 Damiano Cunego
+0:10 Frank Schleck
+0:02 Danilo Di Luca

Biggest losers by time :
-23:41 Allan Davis
-22:14 Gregory Henderson
-22:14 Mirco Lorenzetto
-19:51 Bert Grabsch
-18:00 Laszlo Bodrogi
-17:26 Alessandro Ballan
-17:26 Alexander Gottfried
-17:26 Alfredo Balloni
-17:26 Aliaksandr Kuchynski
-17:26 Andrew Talansky
-17:26 Baden Cooke

Favourites by position :
+121 Andy Schleck
+57 Frank Schleck
+54 Danilo Di Luca
+30 Ryder Hesjedal
+15 Damiano Cunego
+12 Sylvain Chavanel
+3 Levi Leipheimer
-6 Linus Gerdemann
-12 Allan Davis
-32 Jens Voigt
-32 Christian Vande Velde
-50 Alessandro Ballan
-66 Andreas Kloden
-74 Stuart O'Grady
-101 Fabian Cancellara

Favourites by time :
+0:12 Damiano Cunego
+0:10 Frank Schleck
+0:02 Danilo Di Luca
-0:16 Levi Leipheimer
-1:21 Andy Schleck
-1:29 Linus Gerdemann
-5:09 Sylvain Chavanel
-5:35 Ryder Hesjedal
-10:28 Jens Voigt
-10:28 Andreas Kloden
-12:32 Christian Vande Velde
-17:26 Stuart O'Grady
-17:26 Fabian Cancellara
-17:26 Alessandro Ballan
-23:41 Allan Davis

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez 4:33:19 (was 18th at 0:28)
2 Damiano Cunego 0:16 (was 17th at 0:28)
3 Bauke Mollema 0:22 (was 8th at 0:22)
4 Tejay Van Garderen 0:27 (was 2nd at 0:09)
5 Frank Schleck 0:31 (was 62nd at 0:41)
6 Levi Leipheimer 0:38 (was 9th at 0:22)
7 Danilo Di Luca 0:39 (was 61st at 0:41)
8 Mathias Frank 0:52 (was 24th at 0:31)
9 Christopher Froome 1:02 (was 11th at 0:24)
10 Eros Capecchi 1:05 (was 42nd at 0:36)
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16 Linus Gerdemann 1:51 (was 10th at 0:22)
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26 Andy Schleck 2:39 (was 147th at 1:18)
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40 Sylvain Chavanel 5:47 (was 52nd at 0:38)
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46 Ryder Hesjedal 6:23 (was 76th at 0:48)
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71 Andreas Kloden 10:46 (was 5th at 0:18)
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76 Jens Voigt 11:04 (was 44th at 0:36)
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86 Christian Vande Velde 13:11 (was 54th at 0:39)
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102 Fabian Cancellara 17:26 (was 1st at 0:00)
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105 Stuart O'Grady 17:59 (was 31st at 0:33)
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113 Alessandro Ballan 18:08 (was 63rd at 0:42)
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160 Allan Davis 24:59 (was 148th at 1:18)

Top 10 on Points table
1 Lloyd Mondory 12
2 Jose Gutierrez Palacios 6
3 Andre Greipel 1
4 Alessandro Bazzana 1

Top 10 on Mountains table
1 Matti Breschel 20
2 Heinrich Haussler 15
3 Mathias Frank 12
4 Damiano Caruso 10
5 Laurens Ten Dam 8
6 Levi Leipheimer 6
7 Lloyd Mondory 6
8 Damiano Cunego 4
9 Enrico Magazzini 4
10 Bauke Mollema 2

Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0


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