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Stage 8 : Beckenried > Stockhutte (10 km)

1 Joao Almeida (Por) 27.33
2 Felix Gall (Aut) 0.24
3 Oscar Onley (GBr) 1.11
4 Kevin Vauquelin (Fra) 1.40
5 Harry Sweeny (Aus) 1.54
6 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) 2.03
7 Ben O'Connor (Aus) 2.06
8 Will Barta (USA) 2.12
9 Finlay Pickering (GBr) 2.14
10 Ilan Van Wilder (Bel) 2.19


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+8 Samuele Battistella
+5 Vincenzo Albanese
+5 Vegard Stake Laengen
+5 Sylvain Moniquet
+5 Stefan Bissegger
+5 Sebastien Grignard
+5 Pavel Bittner
+5 Olivier Le Gac
+5 Julius Johansen
+5 Jimmy Janssens

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Martin Tjotta
-2 Ben Swift
-2 Julian Alaphilippe
-2 Matej Mohoric
-1 Bart Lemmen
-1 Ewen Costiou
-1 Georg Zimmermann
-1 George Bennett
-1 Hugo Houle
-1 Jan Maas
-1 Juan Pedro Lopez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:33 Joao Almeida
+0:08 Felix Gall

Biggest losers by time :
-7:26 Max Walker
-7:23 Patrick Gamper
-7:22 Martin Tjotta
-7:17 Jasper De Buyst
-7:14 Luc Wirtgen
-7:03 Arnaud De Lie
-6:57 Eddy Le Huitouze
-6:57 Sean Flynn
-6:49 Olivier Le Gac
-6:48 Danny Van Poppel
-6:46 Ayco Bastiaens

Favourites by position :
+3 Pello Bilbao
+2 Aleksandr Vlasov
+1 Joao Almeida
+1 Ion Izagirre
+1 Ilan Van Wilder
+1 Felix Gall
-1 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-2 Matej Mohoric

Favourites by time :
+0:33 Joao Almeida
+0:08 Felix Gall
-1:31 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1:34 Ben O'Connor
-1:46 Ilan Van Wilder
-1:53 Lennard Kamna
-1:55 Pello Bilbao
-2:41 Neilson Powless
-2:59 Ion Izagirre
-5:10 Stefan Kung
-5:24 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-6:00 Matej Mohoric

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joao Almeida 29:29:01 (was 2nd at 0:33)
2 Kevin Vauquelin 1:07 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Oscar Onley 1:58 (was 4th at 1:19)
4 Felix Gall 2:20 (was 5th at 2:28)
5 Julian Alaphilippe 3:57 (was 3rd at 0:41)
6 Lennard Kamna 4:52 (was 6th at 2:59)
7 Ben O'Connor 5:08 (was 7th at 3:34)
8 Ilan Van Wilder 6:16 (was 9th at 4:30)
9 Pablo Castrillo 6:41 (was 8th at 4:27)
10 Clement Champoussin 8:30 (was 10th at 6:07)
.....
21 Aleksandr Vlasov 28:14 (was 23rd at 26:43)
.....
25 Tao Geoghegan Hart 35:17 (was 24th at 29:53)
.....
38 Neilson Powless 49:36 (was 38th at 46:55)
.....
52 Ion Izagirre 1:01:33 (was 53rd at 58:34)
.....
57 Pello Bilbao 1:04:59 (was 60th at 1:03:04)
58 Stefan Kung 1:07:14 (was 58th at 1:02:04)
.....
63 Matej Mohoric 1:09:32 (was 61st at 1:03:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Joao Almeida 58 (was 1st with 46 points)
2 Oscar Onley 44 (was 2nd with 38 points)
3 Kevin Vauquelin 28 (was 3rd with 24 points)
4 Romain Gregoire 22 (unchanged)
5 Felix Gall 18 (was 9th with 10 points)
6 Quinn Simmons 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
7 Vincenzo Albanese 12 (was 6th with 12 points)
8 Lewis Askey 12 (was 7th with 12 points)
9 Aleksandr Vlasov 10 (was 8th with 10 points)
10 Ben O'Connor 8 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Aleksandr Vlasov 45 (unchanged)
2 Joao Almeida 29 (unchanged)
3 Mauro Schmid 24 (unchanged)
4 Oscar Onley 23 (unchanged)
5 Pello Bilbao 23 (unchanged)
6 Kevin Vauquelin 17 (unchanged)
7 Felix Engelhardt 15 (unchanged)
8 Quinn Simmons 13 (unchanged)
9 Felix Gall 13 (unchanged)
10 Neilson Powless 12 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Israel - Premier Tech 89:05:10 (was 1st at 87:31:13)
2 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 11:41 (was 2nd at 17:34)
3 Lidl - Trek 20:03 (was 3rd at 20:22)
4 Movistar Team 27:27 (was 4th at 30:21)
5 Team Picnic PostNL 27:52 (was 5th at 32:00)
6 XDS Astana Team 48:39 (was 6th at 49:00)
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 50:36 (was 7th at 52:25)
8 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 52:34 (was 8th at 57:58)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 58:20 (was 9th at 1:01:48)
10 Soudal Quick-Step 1:11:47 (was 10th at 1:13:13)
11 Arkea - B&B Hotels 1:13:38 (was 11th at 1:13:14)
12 Groupama - FDJ 1:22:26 (was 12th at 1:20:35)
13 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 1:26:17 (was 13th at 1:25:19)
14 INEOS Grenadiers 1:28:23 (was 14th at 1:29:52)
15 Team Jayco AlUla 1:29:39 (was 16th at 1:31:42)
16 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 1:32:17 (was 15th at 1:30:19)
17 Intermarche - Wanty 1:35:44 (was 18th at 1:33:58)
18 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 1:37:40 (was 17th at 1:33:00)
19 Cofidis 1:41:05 (was 19th at 1:42:10)
20 Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:59:59 (was 20th at 2:01:09)
21 Lotto 2:25:59 (was 21th at 2:23:57)
22 EF Education - EasyPost 2:43:00 (was 22th at 2:45:05)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alex Edmondson (Team Picnic PostNL (WT)) 8 <<<
Fabio Van Den Bossche (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 8 <<<
Marc Hirschi (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 8 <<<
Marco Haller (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 8 <<<
Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates - XRG (WT)) 8 <<<
Albert Torres (Movistar Team (WT)) 7
Andrea Bagioli (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 7
Jasha Sutterlin (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 7
Jordi Meeus (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 7
Matthew Riccitello (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Petr Kelemen (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Roger Adria (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 7
Simon Clarke (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Sjoerd Bax (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Steven Kruijswijk (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 7
Alessandro Verre (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 6
Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates - XRG (WT)) 6
Nolann Mahoudo (Cofidis (WT)) 6
Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 6
David De La Cruz (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 5
Kevin Colleoni (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 5
Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 4
Laurens De Plus (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 4
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 4
Pelayo Sanchez (Movistar Team (WT)) 4
James Knox (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 3
Laurens Huys (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 3
Menno Huising (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 3
Anton Palzer (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
Filippo Zana (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 2
Max Van Der Meulen (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 2
Benoit Cosnefroy (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (WT)) 1
Elie Gesbert (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 1
Johan Jacobs (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 1
Total retirements : 34


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