Stage 4 - La Seu d'Urgell-Boi Taull 161.1 km
1 Joao Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates 4:20:27
2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
3 Sergio Higuita (Col) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
4 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain - Victorious 0:07
5 Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor) Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 0:13
6 Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 0:13
7 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers 0:13
8 Jai Hindley (Aus) BORA - hansgrohe 0:13
9 Carlos Rodriguez (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers 0:13
10 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:13
Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+37 Jan Hirt
+28 Matteo Badilatti
+25 Jose Felix Parra
+25 Joan Bou
+24 Hector Carretero
+23 Jonathan Castroviejo
+23 Diego Andres Camargo
+23 Clement Berthet
+21 Fernando Barcelo
+20 Luis Angel Mate
Biggest losers by position :
-35 Marc Soler
-29 Henri Vandenabeele
-24 Anthon Charmig
-24 Michael Woods
-24 Mikael Cherel
-22 Giulio Ciccone
-21 Dries Devenyns
-18 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg
-18 Simon Clarke
-16 Alejandro Valverde
-16 Attila Valter
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:16 Joao Almeida
+0:12 Nairo Quintana
+0:10 Sergio Higuita
Biggest losers by time :
-23:40 David Dekker
-23:40 Martin Laas
-23:21 Kaden Groves
-23:02 Alex Molenaar
-23:02 Alexandr Riabushenko
-23:02 Alexandre Delettre
-23:02 Antonio Jesus Soto
-23:02 Francisco Galvan
-23:02 Idar Andersen
-23:02 Ivo Oliveira
-23:02 Jaakko Hanninen
Favourites by position :
+11 Jai Hindley
+7 Joao Almeida
+4 Richard Carapaz
+3 Rohan Dennis
+2 Wout Poels
+2 Nairo Quintana
-11 Steven Kruijswijk
-11 Hugh Carthy
-16 Alejandro Valverde
-24 Michael Woods
Favourites by time :
+0:16 Joao Almeida
+0:12 Nairo Quintana
-0:01 Wout Poels
-0:07 Richard Carapaz
-0:07 Jai Hindley
-0:07 Guillaume Martin
-1:32 Steven Kruijswijk
-5:35 Alejandro Valverde
-11:49 Hugh Carthy
-12:43 Rohan Dennis
-16:36 Michael Woods
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Nairo Quintana 17:04:53 (was 3rd at 0:12)
2 Joao Almeida 0:00 (was 9th at 0:16)
3 Sergio Higuita 0:06 (was 4th at 0:16)
4 Juan Ayuso 0:17 (was 2nd at 0:10)
5 Wout Poels 0:17 (was 7th at 0:16)
6 Ben O'Connor 0:17 (was 1st at 0:00)
7 Tobias Halland Johannessen 0:23 (was 6th at 0:16)
8 Guillaume Martin 0:23 (was 8th at 0:16)
9 Richard Carapaz 0:26 (was 13th at 0:19)
10 Torstein Traen 0:34 (was 15th at 0:19)
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12 Jai Hindley 0:59 (was 23rd at 0:52)
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21 Steven Kruijswijk 1:51 (was 10th at 0:19)
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32 Alejandro Valverde 5:54 (was 16th at 0:19)
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45 Hugh Carthy 13:01 (was 34th at 1:12)
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60 Michael Woods 17:58 (was 36th at 1:22)
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84 Rohan Dennis 28:26 (was 87th at 15:43)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg 11 (unchanged)
2 Joao Almeida 10 (was 0 points)
3 Ben O'Connor 10 (was 2nd with 10 points)
4 Kaden Groves 10 (was 3rd with 10 points)
5 Nairo Quintana 10 (was 8th with 4 points)
6 Juan Ayuso 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
7 Phil Bauhaus 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
8 Joan Bou 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
9 Ander Okamika 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
10 Sergio Higuita 4 (was 0 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Mikel Bizkarra 21 (was 2nd with 16 points)
2 Ander Okamika 20 (was 1st with 20 points)
3 Marc Soler 18 (was 0 points)
4 Bruno Armirail 16 (was 12th with 2 points)
5 Jesus Herrada 14 (was 0 points)
6 Nairo Quintana 14 (was 0 points)
7 Joao Almeida 12 (was 0 points)
8 Casper Pedersen 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
9 Ben O'Connor 10 (was 0 points)
10 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 51:16:08 (was 1st at 38:13:51)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 1:04 (was 2nd at 0:03)
3 INEOS Grenadiers 7:10 (was 7th at 3:31)
4 Groupama - FDJ 7:16 (was 5th at 1:59)
5 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 7:32 (was 8th at 3:50)
6 Movistar Team 7:52 (was 4th at 0:39)
7 BORA - hansgrohe 8:50 (was 10th at 4:56)
8 Trek - Segafredo 9:17 (was 3rd at 0:26)
9 EF Education-EasyPost 10:41 (was 6th at 2:26)
10 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 12:34 (was 12th at 6:35)
11 Cofidis 19:50 (was 9th at 4:23)
12 Equipo Kern Pharma 21:01 (was 15th at 9:57)
13 Astana Qazaqstan Team 21:30 (was 14th at 8:04)
14 Lotto Soudal 23:45 (was 11th at 5:41)
15 Jumbo-Visma 24:28 (was 16th at 12:11)
16 AG2R Citroen Team 29:46 (was 18th at 15:23)
17 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 30:59 (was 13th at 7:55)
18 Team Arkea Samsic 32:55 (was 17th at 12:19)
19 Euskaltel - Euskadi 35:43 (was 22th at 19:59)
20 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 40:03 (was 20th at 16:01)
21 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 52:23 (was 23th at 20:51)
22 Burgos-BH 54:56 (was 24th at 28:09)
23 Team DSM 55:34 (was 19th at 15:47)
24 Israel - Premier Tech 1:06:44 (was 21th at 17:34)
Retirements to date : Stage
Cesare Benedetti (BORA - hansgrohe) 4 <<<
Corbin Strong (Israel - Premier Tech) 4 <<<
Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) 4 <<<
Marco Brenner (Team DSM) 4 <<<
Mikel Nieve (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 4 <<<
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 4 <<<
Pieter Serry (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 4 <<<
Romain Combaud (Team DSM) 4 <<<
Simon Yates (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 4 <<<
Alvaro Cuadros (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA) 3
Fausto Masnada (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 3
Marius Mayrhofer (Team DSM) 3
Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 3
Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) 3
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 3
Tom Devriendt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 3
Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) 3
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Nans Peters (AG2R Citroen Team) 2
Richie Porte (INEOS Grenadiers) 2
Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Alessandro De Marchi (Israel - Premier Tech) 1
Total retirements : 22