Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : Mar 24, La Seu D'Urgell - El Vendrell, 195 km

1 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Team RadioShack 4.33.02
2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Leopard Trek
3 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team
4 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Caja Rural
5 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) HTC-Highroad
6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
7 William Clarke (Aus) Leopard Trek
8 Michel Kreder (Ned) Team Garmin-Cervelo
9 Michal Golas (Pol) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
10 Daniel Martin (Irl) Team Garmin-Cervelo


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Ruslan Pydgornyy
+5 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy
+5 Mickael Buffaz
+5 Marek Rutkiewicz
+5 Evgeny Petrov
+4 Michal Golas
+4 Diego Milan Jimenez
+3 Wouter Mol
+3 William Clarke
+3 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales

Biggest losers by position :
-24 Maxim Belkov
-3 Kristof Vandewalle
-3 Mauricio Ardila Cano
-2 Egor Silin
-2 Thomas Danielson
-1 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
-1 Janez Brajkovic
-1 Sylvester Szmyd
-1 Thomas Peterson

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-8:29 Maxim Belkov
-1:17 Arturo Mora Ortiz

Favourites by position :
+3 Carlos Sastre Candil
+2 Vladimir Karpets
+2 Frantisek Rabon
+2 Denis Menchov
+1 Linus Gerdemann
-1 Janez Brajkovic
-1 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 17:38:57 (unchanged)
2 Levi Leipheimer 0:23 (unchanged)
3 Michele Scarponi 0:23 (unchanged)
4 Daniel Martin 0:35 (unchanged)
5 Christopher Horner 0:35 (unchanged)
6 Rigoberto Uran Uran 0:38 (unchanged)
7 Ivan Basso 0:38 (unchanged)
8 Xavier Tondo Volpini 0:38 (unchanged)
9 Cadel Evans 0:50 (unchanged)
10 Bauke Mollema 1:12 (unchanged)
.....
16 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 1:12 (was 15th at 1:12)
17 Danilo Di Luca 1:20 (unchanged)
.....
19 Janez Brajkovic 1:20 (was 18th at 1:20)
.....
23 Christian Vande Velde 1:37 (unchanged)
.....
56 Linus Gerdemann 7:44 (was 57th at 7:44)
.....
69 Vladimir Karpets 9:01 (was 71st at 9:01)
.....
129 Denis Menchov 23:22 (was 131st at 23:22)
.....
141 Frantisek Rabon 29:44 (was 143rd at 29:44)
.....
174 Carlos Sastre Candil 36:17 (was 177th at 36:17)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Ruben Perez Moreno 12 (was 1st with 6 points)
2 Jose Vicente Toribio Alcolea 9 (was 2nd with 6 points)
3 Marek Rutkiewicz 6 (was 5th with 4 points)
4 Ben Gastauer 5 (was 3rd with 5 points)
5 Gatis Smukulis 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
6 Javier Ramirez Abeja 3 (unchanged)
7 Sebastien Minard 2 (was 8th with 2 points)
8 Johnny Hoogerland 2 (was 7th with 2 points)
9 Jose Alberto Benitez Roman 2 (unchanged)
10 Mathias Frank 1 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 42 (unchanged)
2 Nairo Quintana Rojas 42 (unchanged)
3 Steven Kruijswijk 40 (unchanged)
4 Julian Sanchez Pimienta 39 (unchanged)
5 Michele Scarponi 35 (unchanged)
6 Gatis Smukulis 28 (unchanged)
7 Christopher Horner 22 (unchanged)
8 Levi Leipheimer 21 (unchanged)
9 Jose Alberto Benitez Roman 20 (unchanged)
10 Ben Gastauer 20 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD 4
Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4
Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 4
Bart De Clercq (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 3
David De La Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Caja Rural 3
Davide Appollonio (Ita) Sky Procycling 3
Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 3
Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 3
Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1
Total retirements : 9


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Bob, thanks for posting these summaries.

in 652301 20110324 204306 Brad Anders wrote:
Bob, thanks for posting these summaries.

My pleasure! I'm glad they are appreciated.

On Mar 24, 10:43*am, Brad Anders wrote:
Bob, thanks for posting these summaries.

^^^^ I agree, Thanks!