Stage 4 : May 17, 2017 Santa Barbara - Santa Clarita 159.5 km 1 Evan Huffman (USA) Rally Cycling 3.41.52 2 Rob Britton (Can) Rally Cycling 3 Lennard Hofstede (Ned) Team Sunweb 4 Mathias Leturnier (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5 Gavin Mannion (USA) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team 6 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0.13 7 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo 8 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 9 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin 10 Simone Consonni (Ita) UAE Team Emirates Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 : Biggest gainers by position : +40 Maciej Bodnar +37 Ruslan Tleubayev +33 Jacob Rathe +30 Jonas Van Genechten +30 Fabio Sabatini +26 Lennard Hofstede +25 Juraj Sagan +24 Mathias Le Turnier +24 Joonas Henttala +23 Yousif Mirza Biggest losers by position : -52 Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez -52 Miles Scotson -51 Daniel Eaton -50 Ruben Guerreiro -46 Colin Joyce -46 Floris Gerts -45 David Lozano Riba -40 Andrea Peron -39 Arman Kamyshev -33 Truls Engen Korsaeth -30 Artyom Zakharov Biggest gainers by time : +0:25 Evan Huffman +0:21 Rob Britton +0:21 Lennard Hofstede +0:17 Mathias Le Turnier +0:13 Gavin Mannion Biggest losers by time : -11:40 Andrea Guardini -11:40 Andrea Peron -11:40 Arman Kamyshev -11:40 Ben Wolfe -11:40 Christopher Williams -11:40 Colin Joyce -11:40 Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez -11:40 Daniel Eaton -11:40 Daniil Fominykh -11:40 Danny van Poppel -11:40 David Lozano Riba Favourites by position : Favourites by time : Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Rafal Majka 16:04:48 (unchanged) 2 George Bennett 0:02 (unchanged) 3 Ian Boswell 0:14 (unchanged) 4 Lachlan Morton 0:16 (unchanged) 5 Robert Gesink 0:45 (unchanged) 6 Brent Bookwalter 0:48 (unchanged) 7 Sam Oomen 0:48 (unchanged) 8 Andrew Talansky 0:48 (unchanged) 9 Vegard Stake Laengen 0:48 (unchanged) 10 Maximilian Schachmann 0:48 (unchanged) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Peter Sagan 32 (was 1st with 27 points) 2 Marcel Kittel 18 (was 3rd with 15 points) 3 Evan Huffman 17 (was 0 points) 4 Rafal Majka 16 (was 2nd with 16 points) 5 George Bennett 15 (was 4th with 15 points) 6 Rob Britton 14 (was 0 points) 7 Lennard Hofstede 13 (was 0 points) 8 Rick Zabel 12 (was 5th with 12 points) 9 Jean-Pierre Drucker 12 (was 6th with 12 points) 10 Mathias Leturnier 11 (was 0 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Daniel Jaramillo 24 (unchanged) 2 Scott Thwaites 16 (unchanged) 3 Gavin Mannion 14 (was 0 points) 4 Evan Huffman 13 (was 0 points) 5 Rafal Majka 12 (was 3rd with 12 points) 6 George Bennett 9 (was 4th with 9 points) 7 Ian Boswell 9 (was 5th with 9 points) 8 Lachlan Morton 9 (was 6th with 9 points) 9 Lennard Hofstede 6 (was 0 points) 10 Nathan Brown 5 (was 7th with 5 points) Retirements to date : Stage Chris Hamilton (Aus) Team Sunweb 3 Eric Young (USA) Rally Cycling 2 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 2 Taylor Sheldon (USA) Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis 2 Toms Skujins (Lat) Cannondale-Drapac 2 Daniel Alexander Jaramillo Diez (Col) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Tea 1 Marco Coledan (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1 Total retirements : 7