Stage 4 : June 09, 2016 Tain-l'Hermitage - Belley 176 km 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 4.39.26 2 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step 3 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4 Jens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Soudal 5 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge 8 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 9 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Argon 18 10 Luka Pibernik (Slo) Lampre - Merida Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 : Biggest gainers by position : +8 Tony Hurel +7 Frederik Backaert +6 Stijn Vandenbergh +6 Sondre Holst Enger +6 Marco Marcato +6 Edvald Boasson Hagen +5 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho +5 Sam Bennett +5 Jacopo Guarnieri +5 Fumiyuki Beppu Biggest losers by position : -19 Thomas De Gendt -14 Cesare Benedetti -14 Louis Vervaeke -14 Michal Kwiatkowski -10 Chad Haga -10 Jesper Hansen -9 Antonio Pedrero -9 Bryan Nauleau -9 Zico Waeytens -8 Federico Zurlo -8 Frederik Veuchelen Biggest gainers by time : +0:19 Edvald Boasson Hagen +0:15 Julian Alaphilippe +0:13 Nacer Bouhanni +0:09 Wout Poels +0:09 Tony Hurel +0:09 Sondre Holst Enger +0:09 Samuel Dumoulin +0:09 Sam Bennett +0:09 Romain Bardet +0:09 Niccolo Bonifazio Biggest losers by time : -4:46 Kris Boeckmans -4:33 Cesare Benedetti -4:30 Angel Vicioso Arcos -4:30 Antonio Pedrero -4:30 Louis Vervaeke -4:26 Carter Jones -4:26 Ilia Koshevoy -4:26 Jesper Hansen -4:26 Thomas De Gendt -3:50 Michal Kwiatkowski -3:24 Lars van der Haar Favourites by position : +3 Romain Bardet +3 Damiano Caruso +1 Christopher Froome -1 Richie Porte -1 Daniel Martin -3 Pierre Rolland -14 Michal Kwiatkowski Favourites by time : +0:09 Romain Bardet +0:09 Daniel Martin +0:09 Damiano Caruso +0:09 Christopher Froome -3:50 Michal Kwiatkowski Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Alberto Contador Velasco 17:52:45 (unchanged) 2 Christopher Froome 0:04 (was 3rd at 0:13) 3 Richie Porte 0:06 (was 2nd at 0:06) 4 Julian Alaphilippe 0:09 (was 5th at 0:24) 5 Daniel Martin 0:12 (was 4th at 0:21) 6 Jesus Herrada Lopez 0:27 (unchanged) 7 Adam Yates 0:31 (unchanged) 8 Diego Rosa 0:35 (was 8th at 0:37) 9 Daniel Navarro Garcia 0:43 (unchanged) 10 Bauke Mollema 0:48 (unchanged) 11 Ryder Hesjedal 0:49 (unchanged) 12 Thibaut Pinot 0:52 (unchanged) ..... 16 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 1:02 (unchanged) 17 Mikel Landa Meana 1:03 (unchanged) ..... 19 Romain Bardet 1:03 (was 22nd at 1:12) 20 Damiano Caruso 1:04 (was 23rd at 1:13) ..... 22 Pierre Rolland 1:06 (was 19th at 1:06) ..... 27 Fabio Aru 1:15 (unchanged) ..... 135 Michal Kwiatkowski 26:46 (was 121st at 22:56) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen 59 (was 2nd with 34 points) 2 Nacer Bouhanni 55 (was 1st with 35 points) 3 Julian Alaphilippe 46 (was 5th with 24 points) 4 Sam Bennett 42 (was 3rd with 34 points) 5 Jens Debusschere 40 (was 7th with 22 points) 6 Fabio Aru 25 (was 4th with 25 points) 7 Alexander Kristoff 22 (was 6th with 22 points) 8 Greg Van Avermaet 20 (was 28th with 4 points) 9 Daryl Impey 20 (was 8th with 20 points) 10 Niccolo Bonifazio 20 (was 9th with 20 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Alberto Contador 10 (unchanged) 2 Richie Porte 8 (unchanged) 3 Daniel Teklehaimanot 7 (unchanged) 4 Alexis Gougeard 6 (unchanged) 5 Christopher Froome 6 (unchanged) 6 Tony Martin 5 (unchanged) 7 Bartosz Huzarski 5 (unchanged) 8 Daniel Martin 4 (unchanged) 9 Lilian Calmejane 4 (unchanged) 10 Frederik Backaert 3 (unchanged) Retirements to date : Stage Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) IAM Cycling 4 <<< Borut Bozic (Slo) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4 <<< Damien Howson (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 4 <<< Kenneth Van Bilsen (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4 <<< Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 3 Mitchell Docker (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 3 Steven Lammertink (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 3 Yury Trofimov (Rus) Tinkoff Team 3 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) IAM Cycling 2 Total retirements : 9