Itzulia Basque Country stage 4 summary

Stage 4 - Vitoria-Gasteiz-Hondarribia

1 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 4:17:07
2 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain - Victorious 0:00
3 Brandon Mcnulty (USA) UAE-Team Emirates 0:00
4 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00
5 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
6 Esteban Chaves (Col) Team BikeExchange 0:02
7 Patrick Bevin (Nzl) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:49
8 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:49
9 Quinten Hermans (Bel) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:49
10 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:49


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+56 Antwan Tolhoek
+49 Alejandro Osorio
+41 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+36 Pieter Serry
+30 Jose Felix Parra
+30 Alexey Lutsenko
+29 Gotzon Martin
+29 Carlos Verona
+26 Simon Geschke
+25 Tsgabu Grmay

Biggest losers by position :
-37 Txomin Juaristi
-35 Sylvain Moniquet
-32 Ander Okamika
-31 Omar Fraile
-28 Georg Zimmermann
-27 Bauke Mollema
-27 Ide Schelling
-27 Nicolas Edet
-25 Andreas Leknessund
-25 Carlos Canal
-25 Einer Augusto Rubio

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:36 Ion Izagirre
+0:32 Pello Bilbao
+0:30 Brandon Mcnulty
+0:26 Jonas Vingegaard
+0:26 Emanuel Buchmann
+0:24 Esteban Chaves

Biggest losers by time :
-20:20 Alex Howes
-20:20 Alexander Evans
-20:20 Ander Okamika
-20:20 Bert-Jan Lindeman
-20:20 Carlos Canal
-20:20 Filippo Conca
-20:20 Jon Aberasturi
-20:20 Juan Felipe Osorio
-20:20 Kilian Frankiny
-20:20 Mauro Schmid
-20:20 Mikel Aristi

Favourites by position :
+7 Emanuel Buchmann
-1 Primoz Roglic
-2 Sergio Higuita
-2 Maximilian Schachmann
-2 Jakob Fuglsang
-2 Adam Yates
-3 Tadej Pogacar
-3 Rafal Majka
-3 Alejandro Valverde
-8 Guillaume Martin
-9 Patrick Konrad
-27 Bauke Mollema

Favourites by time :
+0:26 Emanuel Buchmann
-0:23 Tadej Pogacar
-0:23 Sergio Higuita
-0:23 Richard Carapaz
-0:23 Primoz Roglic
-0:23 Maximilian Schachmann
-0:23 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:23 Enric Mas
-0:23 Alejandro Valverde
-0:23 Adam Yates
-7:54 Rafal Majka
-7:54 Patrick Konrad
-9:31 Guillaume Martin
-18:20 Bauke Mollema

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Brandon Mcnulty 12:25:21 (was 3rd at 0:30)
2 Primoz Roglic 0:23 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Jonas Vingegaard 0:28 (was 6th at 0:54)
4 Pello Bilbao 0:36 (was 8th at 1:08)
5 Tadej Pogacar 0:43 (was 2nd at 0:20)
6 Adam Yates 1:02 (was 4th at 0:39)
7 Emanuel Buchmann 1:07 (was 14th at 1:33)
8 Alejandro Valverde 1:13 (was 5th at 0:50)
9 Ion Izagirre 1:15 (was 18th at 1:51)
10 Mikel Landa 1:23 (was 7th at 1:00)
.....
12 Maximilian Schachmann 1:32 (was 10th at 1:09)
13 Sergio Higuita 1:42 (was 11th at 1:19)
14 Jakob Fuglsang 1:44 (was 12th at 1:21)
.....
22 Enric Mas 3:35 (was 22nd at 3:12)
.....
24 Richard Carapaz 4:10 (was 24th at 3:47)
.....
36 Patrick Konrad 11:45 (was 27th at 3:51)
.....
38 Rafal Majka 12:26 (was 35th at 4:32)
.....
44 Guillaume Martin 14:21 (was 36th at 4:50)
.....
76 Bauke Mollema 25:53 (was 49th at 7:33)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 57 (was 1st with 55 points)
2 Tadej Pogacar 57 (was 2nd with 53 points)
3 Brandon Mcnulty 42 (was 5th with 26 points)
4 Jonas Vingegaard 38 (was 6th with 24 points)
5 Alex Aranburu 37 (was 3rd with 32 points)
6 Ion Izagirre 30 (was 26th with 5 points)
7 Alejandro Valverde 28 (was 8th with 22 points)
8 Pello Bilbao 27 (was 23rd with 7 points)
9 Adam Yates 27 (was 4th with 27 points)
10 David Gaudu 24 (was 7th with 24 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tadej Pogacar 17 (was 1st with 13 points)
2 Quinten Hermans 14 (was 2nd with 12 points)
3 Primoz Roglic 14 (was 3rd with 12 points)
4 Brandon Mcnulty 12 (was 10th with 2 points)
5 Mikel Landa 10 (was 11th with 2 points)
6 Juan Pedro Lopez 8 (was 17th with 1 points)
7 Ben O'Connor 7 (was 0 points)
8 Alejandro Valverde 7 (was 7th with 6 points)
9 Maximilian Schachmann 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
10 Oier Lazkano 6 (was 5th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 37:20:47 (was 1st at 24:27:48)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 1:25 (was 4th at 1:25)
3 Astana - Premier Tech 2:16 (was 5th at 2:16)
4 UAE-Team Emirates 4:54 (was 2nd at 0:01)
5 BORA - hansgrohe 8:13 (was 3rd at 0:42)
6 INEOS Grenadiers 11:01 (was 6th at 5:19)
7 Deceuninck - Quick Step 11:24 (was 7th at 5:42)
8 Movistar Team 13:25 (was 8th at 7:43)
9 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 18:08 (was 10th at 8:08)
10 EF Education - Nippo 18:41 (was 11th at 8:41)
11 Team DSM 23:54 (was 12th at 9:01)
12 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 24:24 (was 13th at 9:31)
13 Team Total Direct Energie 26:44 (was 9th at 7:57)
14 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 28:16 (was 14th at 14:22)
15 Team BikeExchange 32:47 (was 18th at 20:21)
16 Israel Start-Up Nation 36:55 (was 17th at 19:24)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 43:01 (was 15th at 16:19)
18 Trek - Segafredo 49:29 (was 16th at 17:37)
19 Groupama - FDJ 50:32 (was 20th at 23:33)
20 Burgos-BH 52:26 (was 19th at 20:34)
21 Euskaltel - Euskadi 56:26 (was 21th at 24:34)
22 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 57:14 (was 22th at 29:17)
23 Equipo Kern Pharma 1:01:03 (was 24th at 32:31)
24 Lotto Soudal 1:12:30 (was 23th at 32:26)

Retirements to date : Stage
Clement Davy (Groupama - FDJ) 4
James Piccoli (Israel Start-Up Nation) 4
Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM) 4
Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) 4
Amund Grondahl Jansen (Team BikeExchange) 3
James Whelan (EF Education - Nippo) 3
Mikel Bizkarra (Euskaltel - Euskadi) 3
Wilco Kelderman (BORA - hansgrohe) 3
Aurelien Paret-Peintre (AG2R Citroen Team) 1
Christopher Juul-Jensen (Team BikeExchange) 1
Francisco Galvan (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Marti Marquez (Equipo Kern Pharma) 1
Total retirements : 12


(This report and archives etc can be seen at http://rvmartin.uk/cycling)