Volta a Catalunya, stage 2 summary

Stage 2 - May 19: Girona - Roses, 163.1km

First 10 finishers :
1 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank 4.11.34 (38.9 km/h)
2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Quick Step
3 Xavier Florencio (Spa) Cervelo Test Team
4 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
5 David De La Fuente (Spa) Fuji-Servetto
6 Yury Trofimov (Rus) BBox Bouygues Telecom
7 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank
8 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank
9 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Michael Albasini (Swi) Team Columbia - Highroad


Changes in stage 2 compared to stage 1 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+106 Sandy Casar
+101 Jesus Hernandez
+100 Manuel Calvente
+100 Ivan Velasco
+97 Julian Sanchez
+94 Inigo Landaluze
+89 David De La Fuente
+82 Alexandre Botcharov
+73 Hubert Dupont
+73 Alexsandr Dyachenko

Biggest losers by position :
-117 Brett Lancaster
-117 Daniel Oss
-112 Carlos Barredo
-103 Thor Hushovd
-98 Niki Terpstra
-96 Nikolay Trusov
-92 Bernhard Eisel
-84 Gerald Ciolek
-81 William Bonnet
-73 Fabio Sabatini
-73 Samuel Dumoulin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:11 Matti Breschel
+0:07 Jerome Pineau
+0:05 Xavier Florencio
+0:01 Yury Trofimov
+0:01 Xavier Tondo
+0:01 Xabier Zandio
+0:01 Vladimir Karpets
+0:01 Vladimir Efimkin
+0:01 Sylvain Chavanel
+0:01 Stephane Goubert

Biggest losers by time :
-10:37 Angelo Furlan
-10:37 Benat Intxausti
-10:37 Benoit Vaugrenard
-10:37 Bernhard Eisel
-10:37 Boris Shpilevsky
-10:37 Brett Lancaster
-10:37 Carlos Barredo
-10:37 Christian Kux
-10:37 Christophe Kern
-10:37 Daniel Oss
-10:37 Denis Galimzyanov

Favourites by position :
+61 Vladimir Efimkin
+44 Xavier Tondo
+34 Rigoberto Uran
+34 Igor Anton
+26 Remi Pauriol
+23 Kim Kirchen
+22 Mikel Astarloza
+9 Samuel Sanchez
+5 Vladimir Karpets
+5 Haimar Zubeldia
+1 Sylvain Chavanel
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-40 Thomas Dekker
-43 Stuart O'Grady
-64 Johan Van Summeren

Favourites by time :
+0:01 Xavier Tondo
+0:01 Vladimir Karpets
+0:01 Vladimir Efimkin
+0:01 Sylvain Chavanel
+0:01 Samuel Sanchez
+0:01 Rigoberto Uran
+0:01 Remi Pauriol
+0:01 Mikel Astarloza
+0:01 Kim Kirchen
+0:01 Igor Anton
+0:01 Haimar Zubeldia
+0:01 Alejandro Valverde
-1:00 Thomas Dekker
-1:00 Stuart O'Grady
-10:37 Johan Van Summeren

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alejandro Valverde 4.16.22
2 Jerome Pineau 0.00
3 Xavier Florencio 0.01
4 Sylvain Chavanel 0.02
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8 Haimar Zubeldia 0.04
9 Vladimir Karpets 0.04
10 Samuel Sanchez 0.05
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14 Mikel Astarloza 0.07
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17 Kim Kirchen 0.08
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21 Remi Pauriol 0.08
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27 Rigoberto Uran 0.10
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29 Igor Anton 0.11
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35 Xavier Tondo 0.13
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43 Vladimir Efimkin 0.16
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58 Stuart O'Grady 1.05
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62 Thomas Dekker 1.06
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133 Johan Van Summeren 10.50

Retirements to date : Stage
Jose Herrada (Spa) Contentpolis-AMPO 2
Total retirements : 1