Valverde up to second on WorldTour standings

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Following his La Flèche Wallonne victory and second place at Amstel Gold Race, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has moved up to second place on WorldTour standings behind Team Sky's Richie Porte. Valverde's two recent WorldTour performances have also elevated Spain to within one point of Australia on the national standings while Etixx-Quick Step retains its lead of the team standings.

Porte, who has lead the standings since Paris-Nice, has amassed 303 points from the three WorldTour events he has raced in 2015 and currently leads the Giro del Trentino. The 80 points on offer for the winner of Flèche Wallonne elevated Valverde to one point ahead of Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) along with the 60 points he earned from Amstel Gold Race. Valverde will have the opportunity to further move up the standings on Sunday with 100 points for the winner of Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

With Kwiatkowski's Amstel Gold Race victory and Julian Alaphilippe's second place at La Flèche Wallonne, Etixx-Quick Step have accumulated 699 points with Team Sky the closest challengers on 643 points. Team Katusha (585) and Movistar (563) are the only other teams to have cracked the 500 points barrier with Cannondale-Garmin still bottom of the 17 teams with 17 points. IAM Cycling, LottoNL-Jumbo and FDJ are the three other teams who are yet to reach 100 points.

Australia continues its lead of the nation standings which it has enjoyed since the beginning of the season at the Tour Down Under with a tally of 638 points. Spain, one point behind, is the only other nation with more than 500 points with almost 200 points separating them from Colombia (442 points) in third place. The Netherlands are fourth on 435 points with Belgium, Italy and Great Britain following them on the standings.

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Individual
Header Cell - Column 0	Rider Name (Country) Team	Header Cell - Column 2	Header Cell - Column 3
1	Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky	303	pts
2	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Esp) Movistar Team	238	Row 1 - Cell 3
3	Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha	237	Row 2 - Cell 3
4	John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant - Alpecin	232	Row 3 - Cell 3
5	Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Etixx - Quick Step	195	Row 4 - Cell 3
6	Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky	184	Row 5 - Cell 3
7	Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team	178	Row 6 - Cell 3
8	Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team	168	Row 7 - Cell 3
9	Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Esp) Team Katusha	160	Row 8 - Cell 3
10	Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick Step	152	Row 9 - Cell 3
11	Niki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx - Quick Step	140	Row 10 - Cell 3
12	Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica GreenEdge	139	Row 11 - Cell 3
13	Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ag2r La Mondiale	136	Row 12 - Cell 3
14	Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff - Saxo	136	Row 13 - Cell 3
15	Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Lampre - Merida	134	Row 14 - Cell 3
16	Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick Step	133	Row 15 - Cell 3
17	Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team	114	Row 16 - Cell 3
18	Alberto Contador Velasco (Esp) Tinkoff - Saxo	114	Row 17 - Cell 3
19	Lars Boom (Ned) Astana Pro Team	101	Row 18 - Cell 3
20	Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky	100	Row 19 - Cell 3
21	Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing	88	Row 20 - Cell 3
22	Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal	82	Row 21 - Cell 3
23	Luca Paolini (Ita) Team Katusha	80	Row 22 - Cell 3
24	Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick Step	79	Row 23 - Cell 3
25	Simon Spilak (Slo) Team Katusha	78	Row 24 - Cell 3

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Teams
Header Cell - Column 0	Header Cell - Column 1	Header Cell - Column 2	Header Cell - Column 3
1	Etixx-Quick Step	699	pts
2	Team Sky	643	Row 1 - Cell 3
3	Team Katusha	585	Row 2 - Cell 3
4	Movistar Team	563	Row 3 - Cell 3
5	BMC Racing Team	410	Row 4 - Cell 3
7	Orica GreenEdge	326	Row 5 - Cell 3
6	Team Giant-Alpecin	302	Row 6 - Cell 3
8	Tinkoff-Saxo	278	Row 7 - Cell 3
9	Lampre-Merida	257	Row 8 - Cell 3
10	Lotto Soudal	236	Row 9 - Cell 3
11	Astana Pro Team	231	Row 10 - Cell 3
12	Ag2r La Mondiale	161	Row 11 - Cell 3
13	Trek Factory Racing	138	Row 12 - Cell 3
14	IAM Cycling	74	Row 13 - Cell 3
16	Team Lotto NL-Jumbo	70	Row 14 - Cell 3
15	FDJ	69	Row 15 - Cell 3
17	Team Cannondale - Garmin	17	Row 16 - Cell 3

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Nations
Header Cell - Column 0	Header Cell - Column 1	Header Cell - Column 2	Header Cell - Column 3
1	Australia	638	pts
2	Spain	637	Row 1 - Cell 3
3	Colombia	442	Row 2 - Cell 3
4	Netherlands	435	Row 3 - Cell 3
5	Belgium	376	Row 4 - Cell 3
6	Italy	359	Row 5 - Cell 3
7	Great Britain	266	Row 6 - Cell 3
8	France	252	Row 7 - Cell 3
9	Germany	241	Row 8 - Cell 3
10	Norway	237	Row 9 - Cell 3
11	Poland	198	Row 10 - Cell 3
12	Czech Republic	156	Row 11 - Cell 3
13	Switzerland	147	Row 12 - Cell 3
14	Slovakia	136	Row 13 - Cell 3
15	Portugal	134	Row 14 - Cell 3
16	Slovenia	78	Row 15 - Cell 3
17	Denmark	65	Row 16 - Cell 3
18	South Africa	39	Row 17 - Cell 3
19	Russia	23	Row 18 - Cell 3
20	New Zealand	14	Row 19 - Cell 3
21	United States	9	Row 20 - Cell 3
22	Ireland	7	Row 21 - Cell 3
23	Belarus	2	Row 22 - Cell 3
24	Estonia	1	Row 23 - Cell 3
25	Austria	1	Row 24 - Cell 3

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