Giro d'Italia, stage 4 summary

Stage 4 : May 7, Policastro - Serra San Bruno, 246 km

1 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 6.14.19
2 Fabio Felline (Ita) Androni Giocattoli
3 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team
4 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling
5 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ
6 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
7 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team
8 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Sharp
9 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) RadioShack Leopard
10 Luca Paolini (Ita) Katusha


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+92 Paolo Tiralongo
+88 Jackson Rodriguez
+67 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+65 Kristijan Durasek
+59 Tobias Ludvigsson
+58 Cristiano Salerno
+51 Carlos Julian Quintero
+48 Stef Clement
+47 Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes Oliveira
+40 Dominique Rollin

Biggest losers by position :
-85 Valerio Agnoli
-67 Alessandro Proni
-60 Alex Dowsett
-60 Stefano Garzelli
-57 Ricardo Mestre
-55 Julien Berard
-54 Grega Bole
-49 Gianluca Brambilla
-44 Fabio Taborre
-42 Angel Vicioso Arcos
-35 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Enrico Battaglin
+0:12 Fabio Felline
+0:08 Giovanni Visconti

Biggest losers by time :
-28:20 Dario Cataldo
-25:49 Mattia Gavazzi
-25:44 Maxim Belkov
-25:44 Miguel Minguez Ayala
-25:44 Pablo Urtasun Perez
-25:38 Pim Ligthart
-23:05 Alessandro Proni
-23:05 Fabio Taborre
-22:55 Davide Appollonio
-22:55 Francesco Chicchi
-22:55 Ioannis Tamouridis

Favourites by position :
+67 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+5 Wilco Kelderman
+3 Robert Gesink
+2 Thomas Danielson
+2 Ryder Hesjedal
+2 Domenico Pozzovivo
+2 Cadel Evans
+1 Vincenzo Nibali
+1 Steven Kruijswijk
+1 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+1 Rigoberto Uran Uran
+1 Michele Scarponi
-4 Bradley Wiggins
-15 Christian Vande Velde

Favourites by time :
-0:17 Bradley Wiggins
-7:30 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-11:27 Christian Vande Velde

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Luca Paolini 15:18:51 (unchanged)
2 Rigoberto Uran Uran 0:17 (was 3rd at 0:17)
3 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 0:26 (was 4th at 0:26)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 0:31 (was 5th at 0:31)
5 Ryder Hesjedal 0:34 (was 7th at 0:34)
6 Bradley Wiggins 0:34 (was 2nd at 0:17)
7 Giampaolo Caruso 0:36 (was 8th at 0:36)
8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya 0:37 (was 10th at 0:37)
9 Mauro Santambrogio 0:39 (was 11th at 0:39)
10 Cadel Evans 0:42 (was 12th at 0:42)
11 Thomas Danielson 0:42 (was 13th at 0:42)
12 Robert Gesink 0:45 (was 15th at 0:45)
.....
19 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 1:18 (was 20th at 1:18)
20 Steven Kruijswijk 1:19 (was 21st at 1:19)
21 Michele Scarponi 1:23 (was 22nd at 1:23)
.....
28 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:41 (was 30th at 1:41)
.....
33 Wilco Kelderman 2:21 (was 38th at 2:21)
.....
99 Christian Vande Velde 20:20 (was 84th at 8:53)
.....
113 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 24:36 (was 180th at 17:06)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Luca Paolini 35 (was 0 points)
2 Cadel Evans 30 (was 0 points)
3 Mark Cavendish 28 (was 0 points)
4 Enrico Battaglin 25 (was 0 points)
5 Ryder Hesjedal 24 (was 0 points)
6 Fabio Felline 20 (was 0 points)
7 Elia Viviani 20 (was 0 points)
8 Rigoberto Uran Uran 16 (was 0 points)
9 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga 16 (was 0 points)
10 Giovanni Visconti 16 (was 2nd with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Giovanni Visconti 13 (was 0 points)
2 Willem Wauters 9 (was 5th with 4 points)
3 Robinson Eduardo Chalapud Gomez 9 (was 0 points)
4 Stefano Pirazzi 5 (was 0 points)
5 Danilo Di Luca 5 (was 0 points)
6 Manuele Boaro 5 (was 7th with 3 points)
7 Fabio Aru 3 (was 0 points)
8 Guillaume Bonnafond 3 (was 0 points)
9 Patrick Gretsch 3 (was 0 points)
10 Cameron Wurf 3 (was 1st with 8 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJ 4
Total retirements : 1


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