Tour de Pologne, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : Jul 31, Tarnow - Katowice, 231.5 km

1 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 5.40.17
2 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) Garmin-Sharp
3 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale
4 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge
5 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Team Argos-Shimano
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) BMC Racing Team
7 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano
8 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice
9 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
10 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+5 Taylor Phinney
+5 David Tanner
+4 Vicente Reynes Mimo
+4 Thomas Dekker
+4 Petr Ignatenko
+4 Daniele Ratto
+4 Daniel Schorn
+4 Bruno Pires
+4 Andreas Schillinger
+3 Yaroslav Popovych

Biggest losers by position :
-15 Jelle Vanendert
-14 Dirk Bellemakers
-12 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
-11 Jacek Morajko
-11 Pawel Franczak
-6 Nathan Haas
-4 Cesare Benedetti
-3 Alexsandr Dyachenko
-3 Kamil Gradek
-3 Miguel Minguez Ayala
-2 Giovanni Visconti

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Taylor Phinney
+0:06 Steele Von Hoff
+0:04 Yauheni Hutarovich

Biggest losers by time :
-10:14 Nathan Haas
-7:12 Kamil Gradek
-6:24 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo
-6:24 Jelle Vanendert
-6:24 Miguel Minguez Ayala
-6:22 Cesare Benedetti
-6:22 Dirk Bellemakers
-6:22 Pawel Franczak
-5:46 Jacek Morajko
-4:41 Jens Mouris
-3:00 Stef Clement

Favourites by position :
+1 Rigoberto Uran Uran
-12 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo

Favourites by time :
-6:24 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Rafal Majka 21:55:02 (unchanged)
2 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:04 (unchanged)
3 Christophe Riblon 0:06 (unchanged)
4 Pieter Weening 0:07 (unchanged)
5 Jon Izaguirre Insausti 0:09 (unchanged)
6 Chris Anker Sorensen 0:09 (unchanged)
7 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:13 (unchanged)
8 Eros Capecchi 0:13 (unchanged)
9 Robert Kiserlovski 0:16 (unchanged)
10 Thomas Rohregger 0:18 (unchanged)
11 Ivan Basso 0:20 (unchanged)
.....
15 Tanel Kangert 1:34 (unchanged)
.....
47 Mathias Frank 22:50 (unchanged)
.....
49 Bradley Wiggins 23:43 (unchanged)
.....
52 Michele Scarponi 25:42 (unchanged)
.....
57 Simon Spilak 29:51 (unchanged)
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59 Vincenzo Nibali 31:26 (unchanged)
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66 Rigoberto Uran Uran 35:42 (was 67th at 35:42)
.....
84 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo 44:12 (was 72nd at 37:48)
.....
97 Przemyslaw Niemiec 54:31 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Steele Von Hoff 37 (was 18th with 18 points)
2 Thor Hushovd 35 (was 11th with 20 points)
3 Rafal Majka 34 (was 1st with 34 points)
4 Yauheni Hutarovich 31 (was 24th with 13 points)
5 Jon Izaguirre Insausti 30 (was 2nd with 30 points)
6 Taylor Phinney 28 (was 32nd with 8 points)
7 Eros Capecchi 28 (was 3rd with 28 points)
8 Domenico Pozzovivo 27 (was 4th with 27 points)
9 Christophe Riblon 26 (was 5th with 26 points)
10 Pieter Weening 26 (was 6th with 26 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Thomas Rohregger 27 (unchanged)
2 Christophe Riblon 20 (unchanged)
3 Bartosz Huzarski 15 (unchanged)
4 Chris Anker Sorensen 13 (unchanged)
5 Georg Preidler 12 (unchanged)
6 Serge Pauwels 10 (unchanged)
7 Eros Capecchi 7 (unchanged)
8 Vincenzo Nibali 7 (unchanged)
9 Marco Pinotti 6 (unchanged)
10 Pieter Weening 5 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Adam Stachowiak (Pol) Poland 2
Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 2
Manuel Belletti (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 2
Total retirements : 3


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"Bob Martin" wrote in message
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Stage 4 : Jul 31, Tarnow - Katowice, 231.5 km

1 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team
5.40.17
2 Steele Von Hoff (Aus) Garmin-Sharp
3 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) AG2R La Mondiale
4 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge
5 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA) Team Argos-Shimano
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) BMC Racing Team
7 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano
8 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) CCC Polsat Polkowice
9 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling
10 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura

trim

It's nice to see there's a race where the back-benchers can
be in the running.

LOL!

--
Sir Gregory