Best climbers in this year's Vuelta (timings)

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Taking the total time of the medium and main mountain stages (4, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17, excluding the last 2 as the GC was already decided by then and the only gap was Rodriguez because he was already out of contention), and ignoring time bonuses, these are the total times relative to Cobo.

Amongst others, I hadn't realised just how poorly Nibali had performed compared to expectations.

1 COBO, Juan José 0' 0''
2 FROOME, Christopher 1' 38''
3 MOLLEMA, Bauke 1' 50''
4 MENCHOV, Denis 2' 4''
5 WIGGINS, Bradley 2' 20''
6 POELS, Wouter 2' 28''
7 MARTIN, Daniel 3' 3''
8 VAN DEN BROECK, Jurgen 3' 16''
9 NIEVE, Mikel 3' 36''
10 MORENO, Daniel 4' 45''
11 MONFORT, Maxime 4' 54''
12 LAGUTIN, Sergey 4' 55''
13 RODRIGUEZ, Joaquin 5' 29''
14 NIBALI, Vincenzo 5' 40''
15 SÖRENSEN, Chris 6' 16''
16 FUGLSANG, Jakob 7' 14''
17 SEELDRAYERS, Kevin 9' 23''
18 BRUSEGHIN, Marzio 9' 28''
19 ROCHE, Nicolas 10' 34''
20 KISERLOVSKI, Robert 13' 42''

 

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Did you do this research? Nice work.