Tour de Suisse, stage 5 summary

Stage 5 : Jun 15, Huttwil - Tobel-Tagerschen, 204.2 km

1 Borut Bozic (Slo) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 4.44.48
2 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank Cycling Team
3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale
4 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) HTC-Highroad
5 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
6 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
7 Anthony Ravard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Leopard Trek
9 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
10 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling


Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+8 Leopold Konig
+8 Borut Bozic
+8 Ben Swift
+7 Daniele Calligarin
+7 Baden Cooke
+6 Thor Hushovd
+6 Robert Hunter
+6 Luca Paolini
+6 Anthony Ravard
+6 Andreas Dietziker

Biggest losers by position :
-26 Manuele Boaro
-15 Jan Barta
-8 Dario David Cioni
-8 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente
-7 Daniel Sesma
-7 Daniele Righi
-6 Aliaksandr Kuchynski
-6 Daniel Schorn
-6 Dmitriy Muravyev
-4 Andreas Kloden
-4 Christopher Froome

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Borut Bozic
+0:06 Oscar Freire Gomez
+0:04 Peter Sagan
+0:03 Andreas Dietziker

Biggest losers by time :
-7:00 Manuele Boaro
-3:09 Daniel Schorn
-3:09 Daniel Sesma
-3:09 Daniele Righi
-3:09 Dario David Cioni
-3:09 Dmitriy Muravyev
-3:09 Jack Bobridge
-3:09 Vicente Reynes Mimo
-3:08 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente
-3:07 Jan Barta
-3:06 Alessandro Bazzana

Favourites by position :
+4 Fabian Cancellara
+3 Sylvain Chavanel
+2 Christian Vande Velde
+1 Jens Voigt
-1 Stuart O'Grady
-2 Alessandro Ballan
-4 Andreas Kloden

Favourites by time :
-0:09 Sylvain Chavanel
-0:13 Ryder Hesjedal
-0:13 Fabian Cancellara
-0:17 Andy Schleck
-0:53 Stuart O'Grady
-0:53 Jens Voigt
-0:53 Christian Vande Velde
-0:53 Andreas Kloden
-1:02 Alessandro Ballan

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Damiano Cunego 17:14:11 (unchanged)
2 Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez 0:54 (unchanged)
3 Bauke Mollema 1:16 (unchanged)
4 Laurens ten Dam 1:19 (unchanged)
5 Tejay Van Garderen 1:21 (unchanged)
6 Frank Schleck 1:25 (unchanged)
7 Jakob Fuglsang 1:32 (unchanged)
8 Danilo Di Luca 1:53 (unchanged)
9 Steven Kruijswijk 2:00 (unchanged)
10 Levi Leipheimer 2:10 (unchanged)
.....
14 Linus Gerdemann 3:09 (unchanged)
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20 Andy Schleck 6:27 (was 20th at 6:10)
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26 Ryder Hesjedal 10:11 (was 26th at 9:58)
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45 Andreas Kloden 20:12 (was 41st at 19:19)
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50 Christian Vande Velde 22:36 (was 52nd at 21:43)
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77 Sylvain Chavanel 31:09 (was 80th at 31:00)
78 Jens Voigt 31:17 (was 79th at 30:24)
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84 Fabian Cancellara 32:47 (was 88th at 32:34)
.....
87 Alessandro Ballan 33:08 (was 85th at 32:06)
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104 Stuart O'Grady 37:39 (was 103rd at 36:46)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Lloyd Mondory 27 (was 0 points)
2 Alessandro Bazzana 7 (was 0 points)
3 Jan Bakelants 6 (was 0 points)
4 Andreas Dietziker 6 (was 0 points)
5 Jens Voigt 6 (was 0 points)
6 Jose Gutierrez Palacios 6 (was 0 points)
7 Cesare Benedetti 6 (was 0 points)
8 Daryl Impey 3 (was 24th with 6 points)
9 Enrico Gasparotto 3 (was 13th with 11 points)
10 Jan Barta 3 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Laurens Ten Dam 34 (unchanged)
2 Damiano Cunego 24 (unchanged)
3 Matti Breschel 20 (unchanged)
4 Lloyd Mondory 17 (unchanged)
5 Ryder Hesjedal 15 (unchanged)
6 Mathias Frank 12 (unchanged)
7 Wouter Poels 12 (unchanged)
8 Daniel Sesma 11 (was 0 points)
9 Cesare Benedetti 10 (was 8th with 10 points)
10 Jakob Fuglsang 10 (was 9th with 10 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 5
Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 5
Alfredo Balloni (Ita) Lampre - ISD 3
Allan Davis (Aus) Pro Team Astana 3
Andrew Talansky (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 3
Cristiano Salerno (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 3
Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Team Garmin-Cervelo 3
Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Omega Pharma-Lotto 3
Total retirements : 8


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That was a tough finish, Tejay was right up there. That guy is the
real deal.