Vuelta a Espana stage 3 summary

Bob Martin

2022-08-21 17:19:15 UTC

Stage 3 - Breda-Breda 193.2 km

1 Sam Bennett (Irl) BORA - hansgrohe 4:05:53
2 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
3 Daniel Mclay (GBr) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
4 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
5 Fabian Lienhard (Swi) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
6 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck 0:00
7 Kaden Groves (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
8 Cedric Beullens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00
9 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) UAE Team Emirates 0:00
10 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 3 compared to stage 2 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+16 Sam Bennett
+11 Thibault Guernalec
+10 Thomas Champion
+10 Lukasz Owsian
+10 Lawson Craddock
+10 Jarrad Drizners
+10 Jan Bakelants
+10 Jaakko Hanninen
+10 Gerben Thijssen
+9 Victor Langellotti

Biggest losers by position :
-122 Kelland O'Brien
-72 Daryl Impey
-71 Rohan Dennis
-42 Daan Hoole
-37 Gotzon Martin
-25 Jesus Herrada
-23 Jose Herrada
-21 Mikel Iturria
-17 Dries Devenyns
-16 Mikel Bizkarra
-12 Jimmy Janssens

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Sam Bennett
+0:06 Mads Pedersen
+0:04 Daniel Mclay
+0:02 Pau Miquel
+0:01 Jan Bakelants

Biggest losers by time :
-7:28 Mikel Bizkarra
-4:12 Daryl Impey
-4:12 Floris De Tier
-4:12 Henri Vandenabeele
-4:12 Jose Herrada
-4:12 Mikel Iturria
-4:09 Thomas De Gendt
-2:55 Jimmy Janssens
-2:09 Rohan Dennis
-1:52 Gotzon Martin
-1:52 Jesus Herrada

Favourites by position :
+5 Hugh Carthy
+3 Joao Almeida
+3 Ben O'Connor
+2 Vincenzo Nibali
+2 Jai Hindley
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Sergio Higuita
+1 Primoz Roglic
+1 Mikel Landa
+1 Gino Mader
-1 Simon Yates
-1 Richard Carapaz

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Edoardo Affini 8:20:07 (was 2nd at 0:00)
2 Sam Oomen 0:00 (was 3rd at 0:00)
3 Primoz Roglic 0:00 (was 4th at 0:00)
4 Sepp Kuss 0:00 (was 5th at 0:00)
5 Mike Teunissen 0:00 (was 1st at 0:00)
6 Robert Gesink 0:00 (unchanged)
7 Ethan Hayter 0:13 (was 8th at 0:13)
8 Richard Carapaz 0:13 (was 7th at 0:13)
9 Carlos Rodriguez 0:13 (was 10th at 0:13)
10 Pavel Sivakov 0:13 (was 9th at 0:13)
.....
12 Tao Geoghegan Hart 0:13 (unchanged)
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20 Simon Yates 0:31 (was 19th at 0:31)
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27 Joao Almeida 0:33 (was 30th at 0:33)
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38 Jai Hindley 0:41 (was 40th at 0:41)
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40 Wilco Kelderman 0:41 (was 41st at 0:41)
41 Sergio Higuita 0:41 (was 42nd at 0:41)
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44 Gino Mader 0:42 (was 45th at 0:42)
45 Mikel Landa 0:42 (was 46th at 0:42)
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57 Enric Mas 0:43 (unchanged)
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61 Vincenzo Nibali 0:46 (was 63rd at 0:46)
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66 Alexey Lutsenko 0:46 (unchanged)
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75 Ben O'Connor 0:55 (was 78th at 0:55)
.....
99 Hugh Carthy 1:19 (was 104th at 1:19)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Sam Bennett 117 (was 1st with 67 points)
2 Mads Pedersen 80 (was 2nd with 50 points)
3 Pascal Ackermann 34 (was 5th with 16 points)
4 Tim Merlier 34 (was 3rd with 20 points)
5 Daniel Mclay 34 (was 7th with 14 points)
6 Thomas De Gendt 20 (was 0 points)
7 Kaden Groves 19 (was 13th with 7 points)
8 Mike Teunissen 18 (was 4th with 18 points)
9 Bryan Coquard 18 (was 0 points)
10 Ethan Hayter 17 (was 8th with 13 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech) 3 <<<
Steff Cras (Lotto Soudal) 2
Total retirements : 2

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