Stage 4 : July 05, 2016 Saumer - Limoges 232 km
1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 5.28.30
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Direct Energie
3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team
4 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
5 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha
6 Sondre Holst Enger (Nor) IAM Cycling
7 Daniel Mclay (GBr) Fortuneo - Vital Concept
8 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
9 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange
Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+30 Tsgabu Grmay
+23 Martin Elmiger
+23 Diego Rosa
+22 Timo Roosen
+21 Dylan Groenewegen
+21 Davide Cimolai
+20 Andre Greipel
+18 Bartosz Huzarski
+17 Ruben Plaza Molina
+17 Jacopo Guarnieri
Biggest losers by position :
-64 Jesus Herrada Lopez
-63 Nelson Oliveira
-52 Pierre-Luc Perichon
-49 Matteo Bono
-45 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-41 Wout Poels
-40 Jakob Fuglsang
-38 Winner Anacona Gomez
-33 Maciej Bodnar
-32 Cyril Lemoine
-28 Alexis Gougeard
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:06 Marcel Kittel
+0:02 Bryan Coquard
Biggest losers by time :
-14:42 Michael Morkov
-9:03 Alexis Gougeard
-9:03 Natnael Berhane
-9:03 Sam Bennett
-8:07 Lars Ytting Bak
-6:32 Alex Howes
-6:32 Alexey Lutsenko
-6:32 Angel Vicioso Arcos
-6:32 Brent Bookwalter
-6:32 Daniel Navarro Garcia
-6:32 Imanol Erviti Ollo
Favourites by position :
+7 Domenico Pozzovivo
+6 Richie Porte
+4 Romain Bardet
+3 Alberto Contador Velasco
+2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
+1 Tejay van Garderen
+1 Fabio Aru
-1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
-1 Christopher Froome
-1 Bauke Mollema
-5 Rafal Majka
-8 Tom Dumoulin
Favourites by time :
-0:04 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:04 Tom Dumoulin
-0:04 Thibaut Pinot
-0:04 Tejay van Garderen
-0:04 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-0:04 Romain Bardet
-0:04 Richie Porte
-0:04 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
-0:04 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
-0:04 Fabio Aru
-0:04 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:04 Christopher Froome
-0:04 Bauke Mollema
-0:04 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:04 Alberto Contador Velasco
-6:32 Rafal Majka
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Peter Sagan 20:03:02 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:12 (was 2nd at 0:08)
3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:14 (was 3rd at 0:10)
4 Warren Barguil 0:18 (was 5th at 0:14)
5 Christopher Froome 0:18 (was 4th at 0:14)
6 Roman Kreuziger 0:18 (was 7th at 0:14)
7 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:18 (was 6th at 0:14)
8 Fabio Aru 0:18 (was 9th at 0:14)
9 Michael Matthews 0:18 (was 12th at 0:14)
10 Pierre Rolland 0:18 (was 11th at 0:14)
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15 Tejay van Garderen 0:18 (was 16th at 0:14)
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17 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 0:18 (was 19th at 0:14)
18 Romain Bardet 0:18 (was 22nd at 0:14)
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21 Tom Dumoulin 0:18 (was 13th at 0:14)
22 Bauke Mollema 0:18 (was 21st at 0:14)
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26 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 0:18 (was 26th at 0:14)
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28 Vincenzo Nibali 0:29 (was 28th at 0:25)
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31 Thibaut Pinot 0:29 (was 31st at 0:25)
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54 Alberto Contador Velasco 1:06 (was 57th at 1:02)
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71 Richie Porte 2:03 (was 77th at 1:59)
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73 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:03 (was 80th at 1:59)
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194 Rafal Majka 17:51 (was 189th at 11:19)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 147 (was 2nd with 116 points)
2 Mark Cavendish 142 (was 1st with 123 points)
3 Marcel Kittel 137 (was 4th with 77 points)
4 Andre Greipel 87 (was 3rd with 79 points)
5 Bryan Coquard 83 (was 5th with 52 points)
6 Alexander Kristoff 56 (was 6th with 40 points)
7 Edward Theuns 45 (was 9th with 32 points)
8 Michael Matthews 38 (was 8th with 33 points)
9 Julian Alaphilippe 37 (was 7th with 35 points)
10 Sondre Holst Enger 34 (was 15th with 20 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Jasper Stuyven 4 (unchanged)
2 Paul Voss 2 (unchanged)
3 Armindo Fonseca 1 (unchanged)
4 Markel Irizar 1 (was 0 points)
5 Vegard Breen 1 (was 4th with 1 points)
6 Roman Kreuziger 1 (was 5th with 1 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0