Tour de Suisse, stage 3 summary

Stage 3 : Jun 11, Martigny - Aarberg, 194.7 km

1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale 4.35.32
2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team
3 Ben Swift (GBr) Sky Procycling
4 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Pro Team Astana 0.03
5 Allan Davis (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team
6 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) FDJ-Big Mat
7 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Barracuda
9 Daniele Colli (Ita) Team Type 1 - Sanofi
10 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team


Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+27 Daniele Colli
+24 Jacopo Guarnieri
+24 Baden Cooke
+22 Davide Vigano
+22 Ben Swift
+21 Tom Boonen
+21 Ruben Perez Moreno
+21 Matteo Trentin
+21 Mathew Hayman
+21 Lloyd Mondory

Biggest losers by position :
-67 Cameron Meyer
-67 Fredrik Kessiakoff
-62 Sergey Lagutin
-59 Raymond Kunzli
-57 Brian Vandborg
-55 Morris Possoni
-53 Xabier Zandio Echaide
-48 Gaetan Bille
-46 Javier Mejias Leal
-44 Alexander Efimkin
-41 David Boucher

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:21 Wout Poels
+0:13 Peter Sagan
+0:09 Baden Cooke
+0:07 Ben Swift
+0:05 Guillaume Bonnafond

Biggest losers by time :
-13:20 Cameron Meyer
-13:20 Frederique Robert
-13:20 Igor Anton Hernandez
-13:20 Matthew Wilson
-13:20 Pablo Urtasun Perez
-13:20 Will Routley
-10:59 Sergey Lagutin
-10:57 Adam Blythe
-10:57 Mehdi Sohrabi
-10:57 Nikita Novikov
-10:54 David Boucher

Favourites by position :
+9 Andreas Kloden
+3 Peter Velits
+3 Maxime Monfort
+3 Bauke Mollema
-67 Cameron Meyer

Favourites by time :
-0:24 Bauke Mollema
-0:24 Andreas Kloden
-13:20 Cameron Meyer

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 11:06:57 (unchanged)
2 Frank Schleck 0:08 (unchanged)
3 Roman Kreuziger 0:15 (unchanged)
4 Thibaut Pinot 0:19 (unchanged)
5 Nicolas Roche 0:21 (unchanged)
6 Thomas Lovkvist 0:21 (unchanged)
7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:23 (unchanged)
8 John Gadret 0:24 (unchanged)
9 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 0:26 (unchanged)
10 Thomas Danielson 0:29 (unchanged)
.....
12 Jakob Fuglsang 0:33 (unchanged)
13 Levi Leipheimer 0:37 (unchanged)
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16 Steven Kruijswijk 0:47 (unchanged)
17 Damiano Cunego 0:57 (unchanged)
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20 Robert Gesink 1:09 (unchanged)
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32 Peter Velits 2:13 (was 35th at 2:13)
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43 Maxime Monfort 2:46 (was 46th at 2:46)
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51 Bauke Mollema 4:16 (was 54th at 3:52)
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62 Andreas Kloden 5:56 (was 71st at 5:32)
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142 Cameron Meyer 19:17 (was 75th at 5:57)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Frank Schleck 20 (unchanged)
2 Ryan Anderson 20 (unchanged)
3 Michael Morkov 17 (was 6th with 10 points)
4 Thomas Danielson 15 (was 3rd with 15 points)
5 Alessandro Bazzana 15 (was 4th with 15 points)
6 John Gadret 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
7 Guillaume Bonnafond 6 (was 0 points)
8 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
9 Manuele Mori 6 (was 8th with 6 points)
10 Chris Anker Sorensen 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha Team 3
Total retirements : 1


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