• Volta a Catalunya stage 6 summary

    From Bob Martin@bob.martin@excite.com to rec.bicycles.racing on Sat Mar 25 18:33:07 2023
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    Stage 6 - Martorell -Molins de Rei 174.1 km

    1 Kaden Groves (Aus) Alpecin-Deceuninck 3:50:32
    2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
    3 Ide Schelling (Ned) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
    4 Maxim Van Gils (Bel) Lotto Dstny 0:00
    5 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal - Quick Step 0:00
    6 Andreas Kron (Den) Lotto Dstny 0:00
    7 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
    8 Patrick Konrad (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
    9 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
    10 Finn Fisher-Black (Nzl) UAE Team Emirates 0:00


    Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

    Biggest gainers by position :
    +28 Kaden Groves
    +21 Bryan Coquard
    +21 Andreas Kron
    +20 Patrick Konrad
    +19 Ide Schelling
    +19 Abel Balderstone
    +18 Tsgabu Grmay
    +18 Clement Venturini
    +17 Corbin Strong
    +16 Nans Peters

    Biggest losers by position :
    -22 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
    -17 Matthew Riccitello
    -15 Jose Felix Parra
    -15 Richard Carapaz
    -14 David Gonzalez
    -12 Eduard Prades
    -12 Rainer Kepplinger
    -11 Ben Tulett
    -11 Frederik Wandahl
    -11 Jonathan Klever Caicedo
    -10 Antonio Pedrero

    Biggest gainers by time :
    +0:05 Kaden Groves
    +0:01 Bryan Coquard

    Biggest losers by time :
    -15:56 David Gonzalez
    -15:56 Eduard Prades
    -15:56 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
    -15:56 Jose Felix Parra
    -15:56 Pablo Castrillo
    -15:56 Txomin Juaristi
    -10:59 Alessandro De Marchi
    -10:59 Alexandre Delettre
    -10:59 Andrey Amador
    -10:59 Antonio Pedrero
    -10:59 Arne Marit

    Favourites by position :
    +6 Gino Mader
    +3 Romain Bardet
    +2 Guillaume Martin
    +2 Adam Yates
    +1 Geraint Thomas
    -1 Mikel Landa
    -15 Richard Carapaz

    Favourites by time :
    -0:05 Romain Bardet
    -0:05 Rigoberto Uran
    -0:05 Mikel Landa
    -0:05 Joao Almeida
    -0:05 Jai Hindley
    -0:05 Jack Haig
    -0:05 Guillaume Martin
    -0:05 Gino Mader
    -0:05 Ben O'Connor
    -0:05 Adam Yates
    -2:12 Geraint Thomas
    -10:59 Richard Carapaz

    Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
    1 Primoz Roglic 25:19:52 (unchanged)
    2 Remco Evenepoel 0:10 (unchanged)
    3 Joao Almeida 1:07 (was 3rd at 1:02)
    4 Marc Soler 1:54 (was 5th at 1:50)
    5 Mikel Landa 1:55 (was 4th at 1:50)
    6 Michael Woods 1:59 (was 6th at 1:54)
    7 Giulio Ciccone 2:02 (was 7th at 1:57)
    8 Jai Hindley 2:07 (was 8th at 2:02)
    9 Cian Uijtdebroeks 2:28 (was 9th at 2:23)
    10 Rigoberto Uran 2:49 (was 10th at 2:44)
    .....
    15 Ben O'Connor 4:42 (was 15th at 4:37)
    .....
    17 Jack Haig 5:51 (was 17th at 5:46)
    .....
    22 Guillaume Martin 9:20 (was 24th at 9:15)
    .....
    26 Romain Bardet 10:51 (was 29th at 10:46)
    .....
    31 Adam Yates 13:48 (was 33rd at 13:43)
    .....
    43 Geraint Thomas 23:41 (was 44th at 21:29)
    .....
    51 Gino Mader 26:50 (was 57th at 26:45)
    52 Richard Carapaz 27:16 (was 37th at 16:17)

    Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
    1 Primoz Roglic 37 (was 1st with 32 points)
    2 Remco Evenepoel 31 (was 2nd with 26 points)
    3 Kaden Groves 20 (was 4th with 10 points)
    4 Giulio Ciccone 14 (was 3rd with 14 points)
    5 Bryan Coquard 12 (was 6th with 6 points)
    6 Simone Petilli 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
    7 Ide Schelling 8 (was 10th with 4 points)
    8 Hector Carretero 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
    9 Rune Herregodts 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
    10 Roger Adria 4 (was 9th with 4 points)

    Retirements to date : Stage
    Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) 6 <<<
    Jimmy Janssens (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 6 <<<
    Lukasz Owsian (Team Arkea Samsic) 6 <<<
    Marc Brustenga (Trek - Segafredo) 6 <<<
    Marco Brenner (Team DSM) 6 <<<
    Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 6 <<<
    Rudiger Selig (Lotto Dstny) 6 <<<
    Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 5
    Oscar Riesebeek (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5
    Quinn Simmons (Trek - Segafredo) 5
    Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) 4
    Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty) 4
    Michael Storer (Groupama - FDJ) 4
    Alexandre Balmer (Team Jayco AlUla) 3
    Clement Davy (Groupama - FDJ) 3
    Anthony Delaplace (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
    Chris Hamilton (Team DSM) 2
    Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto Dstny) 2
    Hugo Hofstetter (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
    Kenny Elissonde (Trek - Segafredo) 2
    Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 2
    Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos-BH) 2
    Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 1
    Luke Plapp (INEOS Grenadiers) 1
    Maxime Bouet (Team Arkea Samsic) 1
    Total retirements : 25


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  • From Bob Martin@bob.martin@excite.com to rec.bicycles.racing on Sat Mar 23 19:54:49 2024
    From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.racing


    Stage 6 : Berga > Queralt (154.7 km)

    1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) 4:11:53
    2 Egan Bernal (Col) 0:57
    3 Mikel Landa (Spa) 0:57
    4 Enric Mas (Spa) 2:14
    5 Chris Harper (Aus) 2:16
    6 Antonio Tiberi (Ita) 2:16
    7 Joao Almeida (Por) 2:18
    8 Lenny Martinez (Fra) 2:18
    9 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) 2:34
    10 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) 2:38


    Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

    Biggest gainers by position :
    +29 Eduardo Sepulveda
    +23 Pavel Sivakov
    +23 Johannes Adamietz
    +22 Torstein Traen
    +21 Jokin Murguialday
    +18 Jesus David Pena
    +18 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier
    +17 Victor De La Parte
    +17 Tobias Halland Johannessen
    +17 Anders Halland Johannessen

    Biggest losers by position :
    -13 Enzo Paleni
    -13 Jorge Gutierrez
    -12 Nairo Quintana
    -12 Patrick Konrad
    -9 Axel Laurance
    -8 Frederik Wandahl
    -8 Michael Woods
    -7 Alessandro Verre
    -7 Edoardo Zambanini
    -7 Jacopo Mosca
    -6 Anton Palzer

    Biggest gainers by time :

    Biggest losers by time :
    -31:19 Emils Liepins
    -31:19 Tim Naberman
    -26:49 Alessandro Verre
    -26:49 Arne Marit
    -26:49 Bryan Coquard
    -26:49 Jacopo Mosca
    -26:49 Jan Maas
    -26:49 Mario Aparicio
    -26:48 Domen Novak
    -26:02 Axel Laurance
    -26:02 Henri Uhlig

    Favourites by position :
    +13 Jack Haig
    +10 Jan Hirt
    +1 Joao Almeida
    +1 Enric Mas
    +1 Damiano Caruso
    -1 Cian Uijtdebroeks
    -1 Aleksandr Vlasov
    -2 Simon Yates
    -3 Louis Meintjes
    -5 Sepp Kuss
    -6 Sergio Higuita
    -12 Nairo Quintana

    Favourites by time :
    -1:04 Mikel Landa
    -2:27 Enric Mas
    -2:31 Joao Almeida
    -2:51 Aleksandr Vlasov
    -4:05 Sepp Kuss
    -4:05 Jan Hirt
    -5:34 Damiano Caruso
    -5:39 Jack Haig
    -6:00 Geraint Thomas
    -6:00 Cian Uijtdebroeks
    -14:47 Simon Yates
    -14:47 Nairo Quintana
    -18:15 Sergio Higuita
    -18:15 Louis Meintjes

    Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
    1 Tadej Pogacar 25:06:16 (unchanged)
    2 Mikel Landa 3:31 (was 2nd at 2:27)
    3 Egan Bernal 4:53 (was 9th at 3:50)
    4 Aleksandr Vlasov 5:46 (was 3rd at 2:55)
    5 Enric Mas 5:51 (was 6th at 3:24)
    6 Chris Harper 5:51 (was 5th at 3:22)
    7 Lenny Martinez 5:52 (was 4th at 3:21)
    8 Antonio Tiberi 6:23 (was 11th at 3:54)
    9 Joao Almeida 6:23 (was 10th at 3:52)
    10 Lorenzo Fortunato 7:17 (was 15th at 4:30)
    .....
    12 Sepp Kuss 7:36 (was 7th at 3:31)
    .....
    17 Cian Uijtdebroeks 10:33 (was 16th at 4:33)
    .....
    21 Damiano Caruso 13:12 (was 22nd at 7:38)
    22 Jan Hirt 13:23 (was 32nd at 9:18)
    .....
    25 Geraint Thomas 14:24 (was 25th at 8:24)
    .....
    32 Nairo Quintana 21:04 (was 20th at 6:17)
    .....
    37 Sergio Higuita 27:32 (was 31st at 9:17)
    .....
    47 Louis Meintjes 35:20 (was 44th at 17:05)
    .....
    53 Jack Haig 38:11 (was 66th at 32:32)
    .....
    60 Simon Yates 44:19 (was 58th at 29:32)

    Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
    1 Tadej Pogacar 41 (was 1st with 28 points)
    2 Mikel Landa 18 (was 3rd with 12 points)
    3 Nick Schultz 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
    4 Axel Laurance 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
    5 Egan Bernal 10 (was 18th with 3 points)
    6 Aleksandr Vlasov 7 (unchanged)
    7 Antonio Tiberi 7 (unchanged)
    8 Hugh Carthy 6 (was 20th with 3 points)
    9 Thomas De Gendt 6 (was 8th with 6 points)
    10 Xabier Isasa 6 (was 9th with 6 points)

    Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
    1 Tadej Pogacar 95 (was 1st with 55 points)
    2 Mikel Landa 70 (was 2nd with 40 points)
    3 Harold Tejada 37 (unchanged)
    4 Marc Soler 31 (was 21st with 5 points)
    5 Aleksandr Vlasov 27 (was 4th with 26 points)
    6 Egan Bernal 24 (was 0 points)
    7 Joao Almeida 24 (was 5th with 24 points)
    8 Attila Valter 21 (was 6th with 21 points)
    9 Steven Kruijswijk 20 (was 7th with 20 points)
    10 Antonio Tiberi 19 (was 9th with 16 points)

    Teams table with previous in parens:
    1 Bahrain - Victorious 75:46:04 (was 2nd at 1:14)
    2 INEOS Grenadiers 1:17 (was 3rd at 2:24)
    3 Movistar Team 2:08 (was 1st at 62:57:47)
    4 Soudal Quick-Step 6:51 (was 6th at 9:25)
    5 EF Education - EasyPost 15:16 (was 7th at 11:18)
    6 UAE Team Emirates 15:44 (was 8th at 13:59)
    7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 16:34 (was 5th at 7:28)
    8 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 20:59 (was 11th at 15:50)
    9 BORA - hansgrohe 28:19 (was 9th at 14:15)
    10 Israel - Premier Tech 29:26 (was 4th at 7:26)
    11 Lidl - Trek 37:12 (was 10th at 14:40)
    12 Euskaltel - Euskadi 45:34 (was 14th at 26:11)
    13 Equipo Kern Pharma 50:08 (was 12th at 24:58)
    14 Uno-X Mobility 52:46 (was 17th at 39:51)
    15 Team Jayco AlUla 56:01 (was 16th at 37:15)
    16 Arkea - B&B Hotels 57:03 (was 13th at 25:27)
    17 Burgos - BH 1:09:18 (was 15th at 32:19)
    18 Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:14:00 (was 19th at 45:08)
    19 Groupama - FDJ 1:14:08 (was 18th at 44:24)
    20 Cofidis 1:38:00 (was 21th at 1:01:29)
    21 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:39:16 (was 22th at 1:05:51)
    22 Intermarche - Wanty 1:44:29 (was 20th at 51:55)
    23 Lotto Dstny 2:02:06 (was 23th at 1:33:53)
    24 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 2:35:42 (was 24th at 1:39:28)
    25 Alpecin - Deceuninck 2:48:48 (was 25th at 1:55:28)

    Retirements to date : Stage
    Andrey Amador (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 6 <<<
    Eddy Le Huitouze (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 6 <<<
    Felix Engelhardt (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 6 <<<
    Ide Schelling (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 6 <<<
    Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 6 <<<
    Javier Romo (Movistar Team (WT)) 6 <<<
    Kevin Colleoni (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 6 <<<
    Kevin Ledanois (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 6 <<<
    Marijn Van Den Berg (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 6 <<<
    Martijn Tusveld (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 6 <<<
    Matthew Riccitello (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 6 <<<
    Cesare Benedetti (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 5
    Dylan Teuns (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 5
    Lawson Craddock (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 5
    Mikel Bizkarra (Euskaltel - Euskadi (PRT)) 5
    Jose Manuel Diaz (Burgos - BH (PRT)) 4
    Raul Garcia Pierna (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 4
    Loe Van Belle (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 3
    Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 3
    Pavel Bittner (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 3
    Samuel Gaze (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 3
    Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 2
    Lars Boven (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 2
    Bart Lemmen (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 1
    Laurens Huys (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 1
    Patrick Bevin (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 1
    Total retirements : 26


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  • From Bob Martin@bob.martin@excite.com to rec.bicycles.racing on Sat Mar 29 19:14:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.racing


    Stage 6 : Berga > Queralt (159 km)

    1 Quinn Simmons (USA) 0:25:04
    2 Pavel Bittner (Cze) 0:00
    3 Anders Foldager (Den) 0:00
    4 Lennert Van Eetvelt (Bel) 0:00
    5 Ethan Vernon (GBr) 0:00
    6 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) 0:00
    7 Dorian Godon (Fra) 0:00
    8 Axel Laurance (Fra) 0:00
    9 Pau Miquel (Spa) 0:00


    Changes in GC, stage 6 compared to stage 5 :

    Biggest gainers by position :
    +6 Daniel Babor
    +5 Tom Paquot
    +5 Timo Roosen
    +5 Patrick Eddy
    +5 Nicolo Buratti
    +5 Nicolas Alustiza
    +5 Mats Wenzel
    +5 Matevz Govekar
    +5 Jonathan Lastra
    +5 Jarrad Drizners

    Biggest losers by position :
    -4 Sebastian Berwick
    -3 Alexy Faure Prost
    -3 Ivan Ramiro Sosa
    -2 Antonio Pedrero
    -2 Ethan Hayter
    -1 Georg Steinhauser
    -1 Johannes Staune-Mittet
    -1 Louis Meintjes
    -1 Wout Poels

    Biggest gainers by time :

    Biggest losers by time :
    -2:02 Ethan Hayter
    -2:02 Jimmy Janssens
    -2:02 Sebastian Berwick
    -2:02 Tom Paquot
    -1:58 Alexy Faure Prost
    -1:58 Calum Johnston
    -1:58 Christopher Juul-Jensen
    -1:58 Henok Mulubrhan
    -1:58 Ivan Ramiro Sosa
    -1:58 Jan Castellon
    -1:58 Jesus Herrada

    Favourites by position :
    +1 Lennard Kamna
    +1 Geraint Thomas
    +1 Adam Yates
    -1 Louis Meintjes

    Favourites by time :
    -1:58 Louis Meintjes

    Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
    1 Juan Ayuso 22:48:07 (unchanged)
    2 Primoz Roglic 0:01 (unchanged)
    3 Enric Mas 0:21 (unchanged)
    4 Mikel Landa 0:22 (unchanged)
    5 Lenny Martinez 0:28 (unchanged)
    6 Laurens De Plus 0:59 (unchanged)
    7 Egan Bernal 0:59 (unchanged)
    8 Lennert Van Eetvelt 1:10 (unchanged)
    9 Simon Yates 1:14 (unchanged)
    10 Richard Carapaz 1:27 (unchanged)
    .....
    12 Nairo Quintana 1:29 (unchanged)
    13 Ben O'Connor 1:33 (unchanged)
    .....
    24 Sepp Kuss 3:53 (unchanged)
    .....
    28 Adam Yates 5:56 (was 29th at 5:56)
    .....
    41 Louis Meintjes 14:18 (was 40th at 12:20)
    .....
    45 Geraint Thomas 16:41 (was 46th at 16:41)
    .....
    62 Lennard Kamna 27:59 (was 63rd at 27:59)

    Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
    1 Juan Ayuso 21 (was 2nd with 21 points)
    2 Primoz Roglic 20 (was 3rd with 20 points)
    3 Quinn Simmons 10 (was 0 points)
    4 Ethan Vernon 10 (unchanged)
    5 Tibor Del Grosso 10 (unchanged)
    6 Pavel Bittner 10 (was 14th with 4 points)
    7 Diego Uriarte 8 (was 6th with 8 points)
    8 Enric Mas 7 (was 7th with 7 points)
    9 Mats Wenzel 6 (was 8th with 6 points)
    10 Jan Castellon 6 (was 9th with 6 points)

    Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
    1 Bruno Armirail 33 (unchanged)
    2 Mats Wenzel 31 (unchanged)
    3 Juan Ayuso 18 (unchanged)
    4 Primoz Roglic 18 (unchanged)
    5 Alex Molenaar 18 (unchanged)
    6 Danny Van Der Tuuk 16 (unchanged)
    7 Lorenzo Germani 16 (unchanged)
    8 Pablo Torres 12 (unchanged)
    9 Mario Aparicio 10 (unchanged)
    10 Pavel Sivakov 10 (unchanged)

    Teams table with previous in parens:
    1 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 68:29:28 (was 1st at 67:14:16)
    2 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 0:13 (unchanged)
    3 XDS Astana Team 1:15 (unchanged)
    4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:44 (unchanged)
    5 INEOS Grenadiers 4:19 (unchanged)
    6 Burgos Burpellet BH 7:12 (was 6th at 5:17)
    7 Soudal Quick-Step 8:14 (unchanged)
    8 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 10:08 (unchanged)
    9 EF Education - EasyPost 16:26 (unchanged)
    10 Lidl - Trek 16:35 (unchanged)
    11 Movistar Team 19:19 (unchanged)
    12 Arkea - B&B Hotels 20:00 (unchanged)
    13 Israel - Premier Tech 22:53 (unchanged)
    14 Lotto 23:36 (unchanged)
    15 Groupama - FDJ 29:53 (unchanged)
    16 Equipo Kern Pharma 44:24 (unchanged)
    17 Bahrain - Victorious 54:28 (unchanged)
    18 Intermarche - Wanty 1:03:22 (was 18th at 1:01:24)
    19 Team Jayco AlUla 1:03:25 (unchanged)
    20 Cofidis 1:03:45 (unchanged)
    21 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:05:15 (unchanged)
    22 Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:35:01 (was 22th at 1:32:59)
    23 Euskaltel - Euskadi 1:53:59 (unchanged)
    24 Team Picnic PostNL 2:09:11 (unchanged)

    Retirements to date : Stage
    Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (WT)) 6 <<<
    Jon Aberasturi (Euskaltel - Euskadi (PRT)) 6 <<<
    Marijn Van Den Berg (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 6 <<<
    Matthew Brennan (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 6 <<<
    Nils Eekhoff (Team Picnic PostNL (WT)) 6 <<<
    Bart Lemmen (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 4
    Dries De Pooter (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 4
    Finlay Pickering (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 4
    Gal Glivar (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4
    Hugh Carthy (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 4
    Kaden Groves (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4
    Quinten Hermans (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4
    Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Cofidis (WT)) 4
    Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 4
    Welay Hagos Berhe (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 4
    Elie Gesbert (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 3
    Haoyu Su (XDS Astana Team (WT)) 3
    Henri Vandenabeele (Lotto (PRT)) 3
    Laurens Huys (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 3
    Rainer Kepplinger (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 3
    Stan Van Tricht (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 3
    Nolann Mahoudo (Cofidis (WT)) 2
    Simon Clarke (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 2
    Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 2
    Jon Agirre (Euskaltel - Euskadi (PRT)) 1
    Jose Luis Faura (Burgos Burpellet BH (PRT)) 1
    Kamiel Bonneu (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 1
    Total retirements : 27


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