Vuelta a Espana, stage 4 summary
 

Stage 4 : August 27, 2019 Cullera - El Puig 175.5 km

1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep 4.04.16
2 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe
3 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE Team Emirates
4 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
5 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
6 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
8 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
9 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Deceuninck-QuickStep


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+25 Ian Stannard
+25 Francisco Ventoso
+23 Yukiya Arashiro
+20 Enrico Battaglin
+19 Sebastian Henao Gomez
+19 Domingos Goncalves
+18 Silvan Dillier
+18 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
+17 John Degenkolb
+16 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Biggest losers by position :
-37 Harm Vanhoucke
-37 Jelle Wallays
-37 Jesus Herrada Lopez
-37 Patrick Bevin
-33 Darwin Atapuma
-33 Jose Herrada
-33 Stephane Rossetto
-32 Mikel Bizkarra Etxegibel
-31 Tim Declercq
-26 Damien Touze
-26 Lawson Craddock

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Fabio Jakobsen
+0:06 Sam Bennett
+0:04 Fernando Gaviria
+0:01 Pierre Latour

Biggest losers by time :
-16:52 Robert Power
-8:16 Jorge Cubero Galvez
-5:12 Angel Madrazo Ruiz
-5:12 Antonio Pedrero
-5:12 Darwin Atapuma
-5:12 Diego Rubio Hernandez
-5:12 Harm Vanhoucke
-5:12 Jesper Hansen
-5:12 Jetse Bol
-5:12 Jorge Arcas
-5:12 Jose Herrada

Favourites by position :
+15 Marc Soler
+3 Dylan Teuns
+2 Tejay van Garderen
+2 Ion Izagirre Insausti
+1 Jakob Fuglsang
-16 Wout Poels

Favourites by time :
-4:04 Wout Poels

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Nicolas Roche 13:55:30 (unchanged)
2 Nairo Quintana 0:02 (unchanged)
3 Rigoberto Uran 0:08 (unchanged)
4 Mikel Nieve Ituralde 0:22 (unchanged)
5 Miguel Angel Lopez 0:33 (unchanged)
6 Primoz Roglic 0:35 (unchanged)
.....
8 Wilco Kelderman 0:38 (unchanged)
9 Davide Formolo 0:46 (unchanged)
10 Rafal Majka 0:46 (unchanged)
.....
12 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:49 (unchanged)
.....
17 George Bennett 1:13 (unchanged)
.....
19 Ion Izagirre Insausti 1:39 (was 21st at 1:39)
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21 Jakob Fuglsang 1:39 (was 22nd at 1:39)
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26 Tejay van Garderen 1:46 (was 28th at 1:46)
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34 Dylan Teuns 2:05 (was 37th at 2:05)
.....
81 Marc Soler 10:03 (was 96th at 10:03)
.....
119 Wout Poels 14:16 (was 103rd at 10:12)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Sam Bennett 45 (was 2nd with 25 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 34 (was 14th with 9 points)
3 Nairo Quintana 25 (was 1st with 25 points)
4 Luka Mezgec 25 (was 11th with 11 points)
5 Edward Theuns 22 (was 4th with 20 points)
6 Jon Aberasturi Izaga 22 (was 7th with 14 points)
7 Nicolas Roche 20 (was 3rd with 20 points)
8 Primoz Roglic 18 (was 5th with 18 points)
9 Szymon Sajnok 17 (was 18th with 7 points)
10 Marc Sarreau 17 (was 22nd with 5 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Angel Madrazo Ruiz 15 (was 1st with 14 points)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 5 (unchanged)
3 Sander Armee 4 (unchanged)
4 Jelle Wallays 3 (was 0 points)
5 Pierre Latour 3 (was 4th with 3 points)
6 Jonathan Lastra Martinez 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
7 Ruben Guerreiro 2 (was 6th with 2 points)
8 Hector Saez Benito 2 (was 7th with 2 points)
9 Jorge Cubero Galvez 2 (was 0 points)
10 George Bennett 1 (was 8th with 1 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4
Total retirements : 2


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