Stage 18 : Gap > Barcelonnette (179.5 km)

1 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) 4:10:20
2 Matteo Vercher (Fra) 0:00
3 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) 0:00
4 Toms Skujins (Lva) 0:22
5 Oier Lazkano (Spa) 0:22
6 Bart Lemmen (Ned) 0:22
7 Krists Neilands (Lva) 0:22
8 Jai Hindley (Aus) 0:22
9 Wout Van Aert (Bel) 0:37
10 Michael Matthews (Aus) 0:37


Changes in GC, stage 18 compared to stage 17 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+16 Raul Garcia Pierna
+15 Sean Quinn
+15 Oier Lazkano
+15 Matteo Vercher
+13 Dorian Godon
+12 Victor Campenaerts
+12 Mathieu Burgaudeau
+12 Clement Champoussin
+10 Bart Lemmen
+9 Gregor Muhlberger

Biggest losers by position :
-15 Kobe Goossens
-7 Anthony Turgis
-7 Biniam Girmay
-7 Kevin Geniets
-6 Christophe Laporte
-6 Harm Vanhoucke
-6 Marco Haller
-6 Mike Teunissen
-6 Ryan Gibbons
-6 Tim Wellens
-5 Davide Formolo

Biggest gainers by time :
+13:50 Victor Campenaerts
+13:46 Matteo Vercher
+13:44 Michal Kwiatkowski
+13:18 Toms Skujins
+13:18 Oier Lazkano
+13:18 Krists Neilands
+13:18 Jai Hindley
+13:18 Bart Lemmen
+13:03 Wout Van Aert
+13:03 Wout Poels

Biggest losers by time :
-9:11 Soren Warenskjold
-9:02 Harm Vanhoucke
-8:59 Daniel Mclay
-8:29 Luca Mozzato
-7:11 Cees Bol
-7:11 Davide Ballerini
-7:11 Jarrad Drizners
-7:11 Jasper Philipsen
-7:11 Kevin Geniets
-7:11 Mark Cavendish
-7:00 Robbe Ghys

Favourites by position :
+6 Geraint Thomas
+1 Richard Carapaz
+1 Jai Hindley
-2 Enric Mas
-3 David Gaudu

Favourites by time :
+13:18 Jai Hindley
+12:31 Richard Carapaz
+10:33 Geraint Thomas
-2:49 David Gaudu
-3:52 Enric Mas

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tadej Pogacar 74:45:27 (unchanged)
2 Jonas Vingegaard 3:11 (unchanged)
3 Remco Evenepoel 5:09 (unchanged)
4 Joao Almeida 12:57 (unchanged)
5 Mikel Landa 13:24 (unchanged)
6 Carlos Rodriguez 13:30 (unchanged)
7 Adam Yates 15:41 (unchanged)
8 Giulio Ciccone 17:51 (unchanged)
9 Derek Gee 18:15 (unchanged)
10 Santiago Buitrago 18:35 (unchanged)
.....
17 Richard Carapaz 39:10 (was 18th at 51:41)
18 Jai Hindley 40:51 (was 19th at 54:09)
.....
23 Enric Mas 1:01:26 (was 21st at 57:34)
.....
37 Geraint Thomas 1:50:01 (was 43rd at 2:00:34)
.....
67 David Gaudu 2:54:52 (was 64th at 2:52:03)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Biniam Girmay 387 (unchanged)
2 Jasper Philipsen 354 (unchanged)
3 Bryan Coquard 188 (unchanged)
4 Anthony Turgis 163 (unchanged)
5 Arnaud De Lie 161 (unchanged)
6 Wout Van Aert 152 (was 8th with 130 points)
7 Tadej Pogacar 136 (was 6th with 136 points)
8 Jonas Abrahamsen 136 (was 7th with 136 points)
9 Pascal Ackermann 118 (unchanged)
10 Remco Evenepoel 112 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tadej Pogacar 77 (unchanged)
2 Jonas Vingegaard 58 (unchanged)
3 Remco Evenepoel 42 (unchanged)
4 Oier Lazkano 41 (was 5th with 35 points)
5 Richard Carapaz 37 (was 6th with 34 points)
6 Jonas Abrahamsen 36 (was 4th with 36 points)
7 David Gaudu 30 (unchanged)
8 Carlos Rodriguez 24 (unchanged)
9 Ben Healy 21 (unchanged)
10 Tobias Halland Johannessen 19 (was 11th with 17 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 224:41:24 (was 1st at 211:29:24)
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 27:57 (was 2nd at 54:18)
3 INEOS Grenadiers 52:14 (was 4th at 1:16:27)
4 Soudal Quick-Step 59:21 (was 3rd at 59:21)
5 Lidl - Trek 1:29:03 (was 5th at 1:55:24)
6 Movistar Team 1:39:10 (was 6th at 2:18:34)
7 EF Education - EasyPost 2:08:08 (was 9th at 2:33:42)
8 Bahrain - Victorious 2:11:47 (was 7th at 2:24:50)
9 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:17:45 (was 8th at 2:31:03)
10 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 2:34:20 (was 10th at 3:09:28)
11 Israel - Premier Tech 2:49:19 (was 11th at 3:15:40)
12 TotalEnergies 3:10:00 (was 13th at 3:49:46)
13 Uno-X Mobility 3:11:50 (was 12th at 3:24:53)
14 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 3:52:11 (was 14th at 3:59:36)
15 Groupama - FDJ 3:53:00 (was 16th at 4:19:06)
16 Team Jayco AlUla 4:01:57 (was 15th at 4:12:17)
17 Intermarche - Wanty 4:33:59 (was 17th at 4:57:16)
18 Cofidis 5:42:01 (was 18th at 5:52:15)
19 Arkea - B&B Hotels 6:49:46 (was 19th at 7:15:52)
20 Lotto Dstny 7:33:03 (was 20th at 7:41:11)
21 Alpecin - Deceuninck 9:01:46 (was 21th at 8:52:23)
22 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:40:08 (was 22th at 9:20:49)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 17
Elmar Reinders (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 17
Fernando Gaviria (Movistar Team (WT)) 17
Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 17
Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (WT)) 17
Chris Harper (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 16
Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 16
Bram Welten (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 15
Gerben Thijssen (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 15
Alberto Bettiol (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 14
Amaury Capiot (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 14
Guillaume Boivin (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 14
Louis Vervaeke (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 14
Thomas Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 14
Jesus Herrada (Cofidis (WT)) 13
Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 13
Primoz Roglic (Red Bull e BORA e hansgrohe (WT)) 13
Fabio Jakobsen (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 12
Jonas Rickaert (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 12
Michael Morkov (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 12
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 12
Soren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 12
Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 12
Alexis Renard (Cofidis (WT)) 11
Fred Wright (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 11
Ion Izagirre (Cofidis (WT)) 11
Tim Declercq (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 11
Aleksandr Vlasov (Red Bull e BORA e hansgrohe (WT)) 10
Mads Pedersen (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 8
Casper Pedersen (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 4
Michele Gazzoli (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 1
Total retirements : 31


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