Tour de Suisse stage 4 summary

Stage 4 - Sankt Urban-Gstaad 171 km

1 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Education - Nippo 3:46:21
2 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
3 Joey Rosskopf (USA) Rally Cycling 0:00
4 Joel Suter (Swi) Switzerland 0:23
5 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek - Segafredo 5:16
6 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 5:16
7 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 5:16
8 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 5:16
9 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain - Victorious 5:16
10 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 5:16


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+105 Rui Costa
+70 Stefan Bissegger
+52 Joel Suter
+37 Joey Rosskopf
+29 Benjamin Thomas
+18 James Piccoli
+16 Silvan Dillier
+14 Tobias Ludvigsson
+14 Otto Vergaerde
+14 Jonas Rutsch

Biggest losers by position :
-26 Claudio Imhof
-25 Jelle Wallays
-25 Simon Clarke
-18 John Degenkolb
-13 Jonas Gregaard
-13 Mauri Vansevenant
-11 Anthony Turgis
-10 Damien Touze
-9 Simon Pellaud
-7 Alex Kirsch
-7 Alvaro Jose Hodeg

Biggest gainers by time :
+21:06 Rui Costa
+5:27 Stefan Bissegger
+5:25 Benjamin Thomas
+5:23 Joey Rosskopf
+4:58 Joel Suter

Biggest losers by time :
-6:28 Alex Howes
-6:28 Alvaro Jose Hodeg
-6:28 Claudio Imhof
-6:28 Eros Capecchi
-6:28 Floris De Tier
-6:28 Jelle Wallays
-6:28 Maciej Bodnar
-6:28 Matteo Dal-Cin
-6:28 Oliviero Troia
-6:28 Rob Britton
-6:28 Sep Vanmarcke

Favourites by position :
+12 Tom Dumoulin
+2 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1 Wout Poels
-1 Tiesj Benoot
-1 Rigoberto Uran
-1 Matteo Fabbro
-1 Lucas Hamilton
-1 Jakob Fuglsang
-2 Rohan Dennis

Favourites by time :
-1:01 David De La Cruz
-1:09 Rohan Dennis

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 12:40:51 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:01 (unchanged)
3 Stefan Kung 0:04 (unchanged)
4 Maximilian Schachmann 0:06 (unchanged)
5 Mattia Cattaneo 0:13 (unchanged)
6 Ivan Garcia Cortina 0:16 (unchanged)
7 Richard Carapaz 0:17 (unchanged)
8 Neilson Powless 0:29 (unchanged)
9 Andreas Kron 0:37 (unchanged)
10 Stefan Bissegger 0:38 (was 80th at 6:05)
11 Rigoberto Uran 0:39 (was 10th at 0:39)
12 Jakob Fuglsang 0:39 (was 11th at 0:39)
.....
17 Wout Poels 0:56 (was 16th at 0:56)
18 Lucas Hamilton 0:59 (was 17th at 0:59)
19 Tiesj Benoot 0:59 (was 18th at 0:59)
.....
31 Esteban Chaves 1:40 (unchanged)
.....
43 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:38 (was 45th at 2:38)
.....
51 Matteo Fabbro 3:47 (was 50th at 3:47)
.....
76 Rohan Dennis 6:44 (was 74th at 5:35)
77 David De La Cruz 6:48 (was 77th at 5:47)
.....
97 Tom Dumoulin 10:21 (was 109th at 10:21)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 24 (unchanged)
2 Stefan Bissegger 21 (was 8th with 8 points)
3 Stefan Kung 12 (was 2nd with 12 points)
4 Claudio Imhof 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
5 Benjamin Thomas 11 (was 0 points)
6 Mattia Cattaneo 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
7 Joel Suter 10 (was 0 points)
8 Joey Rosskopf 10 (was 0 points)
9 Maximilian Schachmann 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
10 Julian Alaphilippe 8 (was 6th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Nickolas Zukowsky 10 (unchanged)
2 Tom Bohli 10 (unchanged)
3 Maximilian Schachmann 6 (unchanged)
4 Benjamin Thomas 6 (was 0 points)
5 Claudio Imhof 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
6 Matteo Dal-Cin 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
7 Ben King 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
8 Remy Rochas 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
9 Julian Alaphilippe 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Stefan Bissegger 4 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Ef|Education - Nippo 25:21:21 (was 6th at 1:35)
2 Groupama - FDJ 1:56 (was 15th at 3:31)
3 Rally Cycling 2:52 (was 17th at 4:27)
4 Switzerland 3:38 (was 21th at 4:50)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:41 (was 1st at 13:50:11)
6 Ineos|Grenadiers 4:26 (was 2nd at 0:45)
7 Astana - Premier Tech 4:37 (was 3rd at 0:56)
8 Team Jumbo-Visma 4:41 (was 4th at 1:00)
9 Team BikeExchange 5:22 (was 7th at 1:41)
10 Trek - Segafredo 5:29 (was 8th at 1:48)
11 Alpecin-Fenix 5:36 (was 9th at 1:55)
12 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5:37 (was 5th at 1:10)
13 Team Total Direct Energie 5:46 (was 10th at 2:05)
14 Movistar Team 6:06 (was 11th at 2:25)
15 - |hansgrohe 6:19 (was 12th at 2:38)
16 Team DSM 6:25 (was 13th at 2:44)
17 Bahrain - Victorious 6:39 (was 14th at 2:58)
18 Lotto Soudal 7:49 (was 16th at 4:08)
19 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 8:17 (was 18th at 4:36)
20 AG2R Citroen Team 8:19 (was 19th at 4:38)
21 UAE-Team Emirates 8:23 (was 20th at 4:42)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 9:08 (was 22th at 5:27)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexys Brunel (Groupama - FDJ) 4
Baptiste Planckaert (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Jan Hirt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Lorenzo Rota (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Maurits Lammertink (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 4
Simone Petilli (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Total Direct Energie) 1
Total retirements : 9


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