• Volta ao Algarve stage 5 summary

    From Bob Martin@bob.martin@excite.com to rec.bicycles.racing on Sun Feb 18 20:25:34 2024
    From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.racing


    Stage 5 : Faro > Alto do Malhao (165.8 km)

    1 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) 3:55:35
    2 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) 0:00
    3 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) 0:03
    4 Christian Scaroni (Ita) 0:07
    5 Jan Tratnik (Slo) 0:07
    6 Sepp Kuss (USA) 0:07
    7 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) 0:16
    8 Ben Healy (Irl) 0:16
    9 Thymen Arensman (Ned) 0:16
    10 Antonio Morgado (Por) 0:24


    Changes in GC, stage 5 compared to stage 4 :

    Biggest gainers by position :
    +30 Lars Boven
    +26 Fabio Costa
    +23 Santiago Mesa
    +23 Pedro Silva
    +22 Cesar Martingil
    +21 Goncalo Carvalho
    +21 Diogo Barbosa
    +20 Per Strand Hagenes
    +19 Xandro Meurisse
    +19 Tobias Bayer

    Biggest losers by position :
    -28 Luc Wirtgen
    -28 Thibault Guernalec
    -24 Samuele Battistella
    -20 Marc Hirschi
    -19 Carlos Miguel Salgueiro
    -18 Martijn Tusveld
    -18 Mattia Cattaneo
    -16 Daan Hoole
    -16 Geraint Thomas
    -13 Clement Russo
    -13 Niklas Markl

    Biggest gainers by time :
    +0:04 Daniel Felipe Martinez

    Biggest losers by time :
    -30:02 Daniel Babor
    -29:40 Tomas Barta
    -29:08 German Nicolas Tivani
    -28:54 Andre Ribeiro
    -28:42 Noah Campos
    -28:03 Jose Bicho
    -27:47 Carlos Miguel Salgueiro
    -27:47 Euclides Chingui
    -24:17 Gabriel Baptista
    -24:17 Joao Martins
    -24:07 Joao Matias

    Favourites by position :
    +5 Sergio Higuita
    +5 Mikel Landa
    +4 Thomas Pidcock
    +4 Tao Geoghegan Hart
    +3 Sepp Kuss
    +2 Thymen Arensman
    +2 James Knox
    -4 Stefan Kung
    -4 Filippo Ganna
    -5 Andreas Leknessund
    -16 Geraint Thomas
    -28 Thibault Guernalec

    Favourites by time :
    +0:04 Daniel Felipe Martinez
    -0:05 Thomas Pidcock
    -0:13 Sepp Kuss
    -0:22 Thymen Arensman
    -0:22 Tao Geoghegan Hart
    -0:30 Sergio Higuita
    -0:48 Stefan Kung
    -1:25 Bob Jungels
    -1:36 Mikel Landa
    -7:18 James Knox
    -8:06 Filippo Ganna
    -8:06 Andreas Leknessund
    -15:14 Thibault Guernalec
    -15:14 Geraint Thomas

    Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
    1 Remco Evenepoel 18:45:53 (unchanged)
    2 Daniel Felipe Martinez 0:43 (was 2nd at 0:47)
    3 Jan Tratnik 1:21 (was 3rd at 1:12)
    4 Ben Healy 1:42 (was 6th at 1:20)
    5 Thymen Arensman 1:45 (was 7th at 1:23)
    6 Thomas Pidcock 1:49 (was 10th at 1:44)
    7 Wout Van Aert 1:57 (was 4th at 1:18)
    8 Sepp Kuss 1:59 (was 11th at 1:46)
    9 Stefan Kung 2:06 (was 5th at 1:18)
    10 Antonio Morgado 2:09 (was 9th at 1:39)
    .....
    12 Tao Geoghegan Hart 2:27 (was 16th at 2:05)
    .....
    14 Sergio Higuita 2:57 (was 19th at 2:27)
    15 Bob Jungels 3:24 (was 15th at 1:59)
    16 Mikel Landa 4:11 (was 21st at 2:35)
    .....
    42 James Knox 13:54 (was 44th at 6:36)
    .....
    45 Andreas Leknessund 14:18 (was 40th at 6:12)
    46 Filippo Ganna 14:21 (was 42nd at 6:15)
    .....
    64 Thibault Guernalec 21:03 (was 36th at 5:49)
    65 Geraint Thomas 22:35 (was 49th at 7:21)

    Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
    1 Gerben Thijssen 44 (was 1st with 38 points)
    2 Daniel Felipe Martinez 30 (was 6th with 15 points)
    3 Wout Van Aert 29 (was 2nd with 29 points)
    4 Rui Oliveira 28 (was 3rd with 28 points)
    5 Remco Evenepoel 24 (was 8th with 12 points)
    6 Jan Tratnik 16 (was 18th with 6 points)
    7 Marius Mayrhofer 16 (was 4th with 16 points)
    8 Jordi Meeus 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
    9 Thomas Pidcock 15 (was 19th with 5 points)
    10 Sepp Kuss 15 (was 10th with 10 points)

    Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
    1 Daniel Felipe Martinez 16 (was 1st with 10 points)
    2 Remco Evenepoel 14 (was 3rd with 8 points)
    3 Andreas Leknessund 13 (was 5th with 6 points)
    4 Sepp Kuss 9 (was 6th with 6 points)
    5 German Nicolas Tivani 8 (was 2nd with 8 points)
    6 Wout Van Aert 8 (was 0 points)
    7 Tomas Contte 7 (was 4th with 7 points)
    8 Ben Healy 6 (was 0 points)
    9 Martin Urianstad Bugge 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
    10 Max Walker 6 (was 10th with 4 points)

    Teams table with previous in parens:
    1 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 56:22:59 (was 2nd at 0:17)
    2 BORA - hansgrohe 1:28 (was 3rd at 0:49)
    3 INEOS Grenadiers 3:16 (was 1st at 44:35:10)
    4 Soudal - Quick Step 9:23 (was 5th at 1:45)
    5 UAE Team Emirates 9:29 (was 4th at 1:43)
    6 EF Education - EasyPost 9:53 (was 6th at 3:17)
    7 Lidl - Trek 14:26 (was 8th at 6:36)
    8 Astana Qazaqstan Team 15:14 (was 7th at 3:55)
    9 Uno-X Mobility 21:42 (was 9th at 8:46)
    10 Groupama - FDJ 22:22 (was 11th at 10:56)
    11 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 25:49 (was 10th at 10:11)
    12 Alpecin - Deceuninck 26:40 (was 12th at 16:08)
    13 Radio Popular - Paredes - Boavista 32:37 (was 14th at 19:42)
    14 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 39:09 (was 13th at 18:55)
    15 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 39:12 (was 17th at 23:01)
    16 Arkea - B&B Hotels 42:06 (was 15th at 20:34)
    17 Intermarche - Wanty 48:30 (was 16th at 21:48)
    18 Efapel Cycling 57:33 (was 18th at 27:11)
    19 Aviludo - Louletano - Loule Concelho 59:53 (was 20th at 35:45)
    20 Sabgal / Anicolor 1:14:36 (was 21th at 40:29)
    21 Kelly / Simoldes / UDO 1:17:48 (was 19th at 35:02)
    22 Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car 1:21:46 (was 22th at 42:55)
    23 ABTF Betao - Feirense 1:23:10 (was 24th at 49:22)
    24 APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense 1:33:00 (was 23th at 46:44)
    25 Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua 1:48:58 (was 25th at 1:04:14)

    Retirements to date : Stage
    Afonso Eulalio (ABTF Betao - Feirense (CT)) 5 <<<
    Andre Carvalho (Sabgal / Anicolor (CT)) 5 <<<
    Antonio Ferreira (Efapel Cycling (CT)) 5 <<<
    Arthur Kluckers (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 5 <<<
    Diogo Narciso (Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car (CT)) 5 <<<
    Donavan Grondin (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 5 <<<
    Francisco Morais (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua (CT)) 5 <<<
    Francois Vie (Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car (CT)) 5 <<<
    Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 5 <<<
    Joaquim Silva (Efapel Cycling (CT)) 5 <<<
    Leangel Ruben Linarez (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua (CT)) 5 <<<
    Luis Fernandes (Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car (CT)) 5 <<<
    Raul Rota (Radio Popular - Paredes - Boavista (CT)) 5 <<<
    Rodrigo Caixas (Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car (CT)) 5 <<<
    Aleksandr Grigorev (Efapel Cycling (CT)) 4
    Diogo Oliveira (ABTF Betao - Feirense (CT)) 4
    Duarte Mixao (Kelly / Simoldes / UDO (CT)) 4
    Fabio Oliveira (ABTF Betao - Feirense (CT)) 4
    Francisco Campos (APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense ( 4
    Ruben Simao (APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense (CT)) 4
    Stan Van Tricht (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4
    Tiago Ferreira (Kelly / Simoldes / UDO (CT)) 4
    Tiesj Benoot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 4
    Marijn Van Den Berg (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 3
    Rui Costa (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 3
    Sam Oomen (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 3
    Alexander Hajek (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
    Goncalo Amado (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua (CT)) 2
    Total retirements : 28


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