Tour de France, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : Jul 4, Abbeville - Rouen, 214.5 km

1 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol Team 5.18.32
2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre - ISD
3 Tom Veelers (Ned) Argos-Shimano
4 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale
6 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank
7 Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica GreenEdge Cycling Team
8 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling
10 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+32 Vladimir Gusev
+5 Simone Stortoni
+5 Patrick Gretsch
+5 Giampaolo Caruso
+5 Blel Kadri
+5 Anthony Roux
+4 Steven Cummings
+4 Simon Gerrans
+4 Sebastien Minard
+4 Roy Curvers

Biggest losers by position :
-41 Michael Albasini
-36 Samuel Dumoulin
-34 Cedric Pineau
-30 David Moncoutie
-30 Jeremy Roy
-28 Thomas Danielson
-6 Jean-Marc Marino
-5 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui
-2 Francis De Greef
-2 Sebastiaan Langeveld
-1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:17 Vladimir Gusev

Biggest losers by time :
-7:01 Sebastiaan Langeveld
-4:58 Brice Feillu
-4:58 Cedric Pineau
-4:58 Jeremy Roy
-4:58 Marcel Kittel
-4:19 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui
-4:13 Michael Albasini
-3:56 Jean-Marc Marino
-3:08 Samuel Dumoulin
-3:06 David Moncoutie
-3:03 Pablo Urtasun Perez

Favourites by position :
+4 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+1 Christopher Froome
-1 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
-1 Robert Gesink
-1 Michele Scarponi
-1 Levi Leipheimer
-1 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
-1 Ivan Basso
-1 Frank Schleck

Favourites by time :

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Fabian Cancellara 20:04:02 (unchanged)
2 Bradley Wiggins 0:07 (unchanged)
3 Sylvain Chavanel 0:07 (unchanged)
4 Tejay Van Garderen 0:10 (unchanged)
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen 0:11 (unchanged)
6 Denis Menchov 0:13 (unchanged)
7 Cadel Evans 0:17 (unchanged)
8 Vincenzo Nibali 0:18 (unchanged)
9 Ryder Hesjedal 0:18 (unchanged)
10 Andreas Kloden 0:19 (unchanged)
11 Bauke Mollema 0:21 (unchanged)
.....
23 Robert Gesink 0:26 (was 22nd at 0:26)
24 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 0:28 (was 23rd at 0:28)
.....
26 Ivan Basso 0:29 (was 25th at 0:29)
.....
30 Michele Scarponi 0:37 (was 29th at 0:37)
31 Frank Schleck 0:38 (was 30th at 0:38)
.....
33 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 0:40 (was 32nd at 0:40)
.....
38 Levi Leipheimer 0:45 (was 37th at 0:45)
.....
50 Christopher Froome 1:41 (was 51st at 1:41)
.....
148 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 11:43 (was 152nd at 11:43)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 147 (was 1st with 116 points)
2 Matthew Harley Goss 92 (was 5th with 55 points)
3 Andre Greipel 87 (was 6th with 42 points)
4 Mark Cavendish 86 (was 3rd with 73 points)
5 Edvald Boasson Hagen 81 (was 4th with 67 points)
6 Fabian Cancellara 74 (was 2nd with 74 points)
7 Alessandro Petacchi 71 (was 12th with 28 points)
8 Tom Veelers 56 (was 14th with 26 points)
9 Mark Renshaw 46 (was 8th with 36 points)
10 Michael Morkov 40 (was 7th with 40 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Michael Morkov 9 (unchanged)
2 Ivan Basso 2 (unchanged)
3 Peter Sagan 2 (unchanged)
4 David Moncoutie 2 (was 0 points)
5 Anthony Delaplace 2 (was 0 points)
6 Pablo Urtasun Perez 1 (was 4th with 1 points)
7 Tony Gallopin 1 (was 5th with 1 points)
8 Sebastien Minard 1 (was 6th with 1 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 4
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 3
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Sky Procycling 3
Total retirements : 3


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