Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : Apr 16, Zamora (ITT), 11.2 km

1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank Sungard 0.13.42
2 Richie Porte (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 0.01
3 Xavier Tondo Volpini (Spa) Movistar Team 0.03
4 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0.15
5 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Sky Procycling 0.19
6 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.20
7 Juan Pablo Suarez Suarez (Col) EPM - UNE 0.26
8 Rafael Infantino Abreu (Col) EPM - UNE 0.31
9 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 0.32
10 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling 0.38


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+10 David De La Cruz Melgarejo
+9 Simone Stortoni
+9 Carlos Sastre Candil
+8 Juan Pablo Suarez Suarez
+8 Carlos Oyarzun
+7 Marcel Wyss
+7 Luis Mas Bonet
+7 Laurens ten Dam
+4 Sergio Ferreira Sousa
+4 Luke Roberts

Biggest losers by position :
-9 Jose Luis Roldan Carmona
-8 Darwin Atapuma
-7 Joaquin Sobrino Martinez
-6 Diego Gallego Arnaiz
-6 Robinson Chalapud
-6 Yannick Talabardon
-5 Antonio Cabello Baena
-5 Jaime Castaneda
-5 Sergio Pardilla Bellon
-4 Ruben Perez Moreno
-4 Santiago Perez Fernandez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:06 Alberto Contador Velasco
+0:05 Richie Porte
+0:03 Xavier Tondo Volpini

Biggest losers by time :
-2:24 Theo Bos
-2:23 Antonio Cabello Baena
-2:23 Jose Luis Roldan Carmona
-2:18 Carlos Baltazar
-2:16 Matteo Pelucchi
-2:14 Diego Gallego Arnaiz
-2:13 Jaime Castaneda
-2:10 Sergio Miguel Vieira Ribeiro
-2:04 Ruben Jimenez Ventosa
-2:03 Aitor Galdos Alonso
-2:03 Jon Aberasturi Izaga

Favourites by position :
+9 Carlos Sastre Candil
+4 Luke Roberts
+3 Jerome Coppel
+3 Alberto Contador Velasco
+2 Daniel Navarro Garcia
+1 Xavier Tondo Volpini
+1 Richie Porte
+1 Jonathan Hivert
-1 Bauke Mollema
-2 Pablo Lastras Garcia

Favourites by time :
+0:06 Alberto Contador Velasco
+0:05 Richie Porte
+0:03 Xavier Tondo Volpini
-0:09 Bauke Mollema
-0:26 Jerome Coppel
-0:34 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:40 Jonathan Hivert
-0:42 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-0:44 Luke Roberts
-0:52 Carlos Sastre Candil
-1:08 Pablo Lastras Garcia
-1:48 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Xavier Tondo Volpini 13:31:40 (was 2nd at 0:03)
2 Bauke Mollema 0:09 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Igor Anton Hernandez 0:17 (was 3rd at 0:03)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 0:40 (was 4th at 0:06)
5 Jerome Coppel 0:47 (was 8th at 0:21)
6 Juan Pablo Suarez Suarez 0:47 (was 14th at 0:27)
7 Dario David Cioni 0:54 (was 5th at 0:14)
8 Ricardo Garcia Ambroa 0:58 (was 9th at 0:21)
9 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa 0:59 (was 13th at 0:27)
10 Laurens ten Dam 1:16 (was 17th at 0:37)
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23 Alberto Contador Velasco 2:37 (was 26th at 2:43)
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34 Pablo Lastras Garcia 5:15 (was 32nd at 4:07)
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50 Carlos Sastre Candil 12:14 (was 59th at 11:22)
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59 Daniel Navarro Garcia 13:38 (was 61st at 12:56)
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61 Richie Porte 13:47 (was 62nd at 13:52)
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69 Rui Miguel Sousa Barbosa 17:33 (was 69th at 15:45)
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75 Jonathan Hivert 20:45 (was 76th at 20:05)
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83 Luke Roberts 24:58 (was 87th at 24:14)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi 50 (unchanged)
2 Bauke Mollema 34 (was 5th with 20 points)
3 Alberto Contador Velasco 28 (was 0 points)
4 Xavier Tondo Volpini 28 (was 13th with 12 points)
5 Russell Downing 28 (was 2nd with 28 points)
6 Manuel Belletti 26 (was 3rd with 26 points)
7 Filippo Savini 25 (was 4th with 25 points)
8 Igor Anton Hernandez 24 (was 11th with 14 points)
9 Domenico Pozzovivo 20 (was 8th with 16 points)
10 Sergio Miguel Vieira Ribeiro 20 (was 6th with 20 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Raul Alarcon Garcia 19 (unchanged)
2 Filippo Savini 10 (unchanged)
3 Bauke Mollema 8 (unchanged)
4 Domenico Pozzovivo 8 (unchanged)
5 Darwin Atapuma Hurtado 8 (unchanged)
6 Nairo Quintana Rojas 6 (unchanged)
7 Igor Anton Hernandez 5 (unchanged)
8 Giovanni Manuel Baez Alvarez 4 (unchanged)
9 Jaime Alberto Castaneda Ortega 4 (unchanged)
10 Noel Martin Infante 3 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Adrian Saez (Spa) Orbea Continental 4
Benat Urain Epelde (Spa) Orbea Continental 3
Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) EPM - UNE 3
Mauricio Ortega Ramirez (Col) EPM - UNE 3
Miguel Minguez Ayala (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3
Morris Possoni (Ita) Sky Procycling 3
Stef Clement (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 3
Cyril Bessy (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 2
David Belda Garcia (Spa) Burgos 2016 - Castilla Y Leon 2
Camilo AndrAƒA©s SuAƒA¡rez AlbarracAƒA*n (Col) Colombia es Pasion - Cafe de Col 1
David Tanner (Aus) Saxo Bank Sungard 1
Total retirements : 11


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