Giro d'Italia, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : May 9, Verona (TTT), 32.2 km

1 Garmin-Barracuda 0.37.04
2 Katusha Team 0.05
3 Astana Pro Team 0.22
4 Team Saxo Bank
5 Omega Pharma-Quickstep 0.24
6 Orica-GreenEdge 0.25
7 Liquigas-Cannondale 0.26
8 RadioShack-Nissan 0.28
9 Sky Procycling 0.30
10 BMC Racing Team 0.31


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+82 Aliaksandr Kuchynski
+69 Pavel Brutt
+63 Oliver Zaugg
+63 Gatis Smukulis
+60 Mikhail Ignatyev
+58 Johann Tschopp
+58 Ivan Santaromita
+56 Pablo Lastras Garcia
+55 Volodymir Gustov
+53 Simone Ponzi

Biggest losers by position :
-158 Alex Rasmussen
-121 Tomas Vaitkus
-118 Svein Tuft
-110 Juan Jose Haedo
-87 Stefan Denifl
-76 Fabio Felline
-72 Amets Txurruka
-71 Gustav Erik Larsson
-70 Thor Hushovd
-69 Enrico Battaglin
-65 William Bonnet

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:18 Tyler Farrar
+0:18 Sebastien Rosseler
+0:18 Ryder Hesjedal
+0:18 Robert Hunter
+0:18 Ramunas Navardauskas
+0:18 Christian Vande Velde
+0:14 Peter Stetina
+0:13 Pavel Brutt
+0:13 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+0:13 Gatis Smukulis

Biggest losers by time :
-7:51 Theo Bos
-6:58 Tom Leezer
-6:34 Amets Txurruka
-6:34 Miguel Minguez Ayala
-6:30 Romain Feillu
-6:25 Andrea Guardini
-6:05 Gabriel Rasch
-6:05 William Bonnet
-5:36 Andrey Zeits
-5:22 Dennis van Winden
-5:11 Martijn Keizer

Favourites by position :
+41 Christian Vande Velde
+35 Michele Scarponi
+35 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+30 Frank Schleck
+29 Damiano Cunego
+19 Mathias Frank
+16 Ryder Hesjedal
+5 Roman Kreuziger
+4 Ivan Basso
+2 John Gadret
+1 Rigoberto Uran
-5 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga
-7 Jose Rujano Guillen
-12 Marco Pinotti
-26 Domenico Pozzovivo

Favourites by time :
+0:18 Ryder Hesjedal
+0:18 Christian Vande Velde
+0:13 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
-0:04 Roman Kreuziger
-0:08 Ivan Basso
-0:10 Frank Schleck
-0:12 Rigoberto Uran
-0:13 Mathias Frank
-0:13 Marco Pinotti
-0:14 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga
-0:16 Michele Scarponi
-0:16 Damiano Cunego
-0:54 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1:26 Jose Rujano Guillen
-1:27 John Gadret

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Ramunas Navardauskas 10:01:53 (was 5th at 0:18)
2 Tyler Farrar 0:10 (was 15th at 0:28)
3 Robert Hunter 0:10 (was 16th at 0:28)
4 Ryder Hesjedal 0:11 (was 20th at 0:29)
5 Taylor Phinney 0:13 (was 1st at 0:00)
6 Manuele Boaro 0:19 (was 4th at 0:15)
7 Geraint Thomas 0:21 (was 2nd at 0:09)
8 Sebastien Rosseler 0:25 (was 42nd at 0:43)
9 Christian Vande Velde 0:26 (was 50th at 0:44)
10 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 0:30 (was 45th at 0:43)
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21 Marco Pinotti 0:37 (was 9th at 0:24)
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26 Roman Kreuziger 0:40 (was 31st at 0:36)
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33 Ivan Basso 0:47 (was 37th at 0:39)
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46 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:56 (was 41st at 0:42)
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53 Rigoberto Uran 0:58 (was 54th at 0:46)
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68 Frank Schleck 1:09 (was 98th at 0:59)
69 Mathias Frank 1:09 (was 88th at 0:56)
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83 Damiano Cunego 1:19 (was 112nd at 1:03)
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85 Michele Scarponi 1:22 (was 120th at 1:06)
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110 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:49 (was 84th at 0:55)
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134 Jose Rujano Guillen 2:33 (was 127th at 1:07)
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142 John Gadret 2:43 (was 144th at 1:16)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Matthew Harley Goss 45 (unchanged)
2 Tyler Farrar 30 (unchanged)
3 Mark Cavendish 28 (unchanged)
4 Geraint Thomas 26 (unchanged)
5 Taylor Phinney 25 (unchanged)
6 Mark Renshaw 22 (unchanged)
7 Alex Rasmussen 21 (unchanged)
8 Geoffrey Soupe 20 (unchanged)
9 Juan Jose Haedo 20 (unchanged)
10 Thor Hushovd 19 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Alfredo Balloni 6 (unchanged)
2 Ramunas Navardauskas 2 (unchanged)
3 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez 2 (unchanged)
4 Olivier Kaisen 1 (unchanged)
5 Miguel Minguez Ayala 1 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0


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