Vuelta a Espana, stage 6 summary

Stage 6 : Aug 23, Tarazona - Jaca, 175.4 km

1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team 4.35.22
2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 0.05
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0.10
4 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank - Tinkoff Bank 0.19
5 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
6 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling
7 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0.25
8 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0.28
9 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0.33


Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+55 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
+45 Angel Vicioso Arcos
+44 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni
+42 Javier Moreno Bazan
+41 Gianni Meersman
+40 Xabier Zandio Echaide
+40 Pieter Weening
+37 Pablo Lastras Garcia
+36 Pim Ligthart
+33 Philippe Gilbert

Biggest losers by position :
-45 Adrian Palomares Villaplana
-45 Egor Silin
-44 Mikel Landa Meana
-38 Pablo Lechuga Rodriguez
-35 Assan Bazayev
-33 Michel Kreder
-32 Yannick Eijssen
-31 David Moncoutie
-30 Simon Clarke
-28 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
-28 Gabriel Rasch

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-20:28 Joost van Leijen
-20:26 Jens Debusschere
-19:23 Javier Ramirez Abeja
-19:21 Michel Kreder
-19:21 Steven Cummings
-19:18 Assan Bazayev
-19:18 Cheng Ji
-19:16 Cameron Meyer
-19:16 Egor Silin
-19:16 Nacer Bouhanni
-19:16 Thomas Peterson

Favourites by position :
+13 Thomas De Gendt
+11 Denis Menchov
+2 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Maxime Monfort
+1 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+1 Damiano Cunego
-4 Bauke Mollema
-11 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-19 John Gadret
-21 Cameron Meyer
-28 Tony Martin

Favourites by time :
-0:09 Christopher Froome
-0:31 Rigoberto Uran
-0:31 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:45 Robert Gesink
-0:47 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-0:56 Maxime Monfort
-1:03 Bauke Mollema
-1:45 Damiano Cunego
-3:42 Thomas De Gendt
-5:24 Denis Menchov
-8:50 John Gadret
-8:57 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-17:13 Tony Martin
-19:16 Cameron Meyer

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 22:04:32 (unchanged)
2 Christopher Froome 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:01)
3 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:36 (was 3rd at 0:05)
4 Rigoberto Uran 0:42 (was 6th at 0:11)
5 Robert Gesink 0:54 (was 5th at 0:09)
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:54 (was 9th at 0:36)
7 Nicolas Roche 1:04 (was 8th at 0:24)
8 Bauke Mollema 1:12 (was 4th at 0:09)
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 1:17 (was 7th at 0:14)
10 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 1:34 (was 11th at 0:47)
.....
22 Maxime Monfort 2:34 (was 23rd at 1:38)
.....
27 Damiano Cunego 4:00 (was 28th at 2:15)
.....
47 Thomas De Gendt 11:04 (was 60th at 7:22)
.....
50 John Gadret 11:30 (was 31st at 2:40)
.....
63 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 15:35 (was 52nd at 6:38)
64 Denis Menchov 16:20 (was 75th at 10:56)
.....
97 Tony Martin 27:00 (was 69th at 9:47)
.....
143 Cameron Meyer 39:54 (was 122nd at 20:38)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 John Degenkolb 51 (was 1st with 50 points)
2 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 45 (was 8th with 20 points)
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 41 (was 6th with 25 points)
4 Christopher Froome 37 (was 12th with 17 points)
5 Allan Davis 29 (was 2nd with 29 points)
6 Alberto Contador Velasco 29 (was 15th with 15 points)
7 Simon Clarke 27 (was 3rd with 27 points)
8 Elia Viviani 27 (was 4th with 27 points)
9 Daniele Bennati 26 (was 5th with 26 points)
10 Nicolas Roche 24 (was 14th with 17 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Simon Clarke 16 (unchanged)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 11 (was 3rd with 10 points)
3 Pim Ligthart 11 (was 2nd with 11 points)
4 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 10 (unchanged)
5 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 9 (was 6th with 6 points)
6 Tony Martin 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Philippe Gilbert 6 (unchanged)
8 Assan Bazayev 5 (unchanged)
9 Christopher Froome 4 (was 12th with 2 points)
10 Alberto Contador Velasco 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
David Boucher (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 4
Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Pro Team Astana 1
Total retirements : 2


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