Stage 4 : April 09, 2015 Zumarraga - Arrate (Eibar) 162.2 km
1 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 4.05.10
2 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek Factory Racing
3 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge
4 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Movistar Team
5 Sergio Luis Henao (Col) Team Sky
6 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team
7 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
8 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha
9 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida
10 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr
Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+48 Pieter Weening
+43 Simon Gerrans
+35 Louis Vervaeke
+34 Michael Albasini
+31 Michal Golas
+30 Jonathan Castroviejo
+28 Andrew Talansky
+22 Gorka Izagirre
+22 David De La Cruz
+21 Giovanni Visconti
Biggest losers by position :
-43 Rein Taaramae
-20 Julien Simon
-20 Lieuwe Westra
-16 Sander Armee
-16 Stephane Rossetto
-16 Valerio Agnoli
-15 George Bennett
-13 Amets Txurruka
-13 Lawson Craddock
-12 Kenny Elissonde
-11 Jonathan Fumeaux
Biggest gainers by time :
Biggest losers by time :
-21:56 Valerio Conti
-21:46 Amets Txurruka
-21:46 Anthony Turgis
-21:46 Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev
-21:46 Bertjan Lindeman
-21:46 Bruno Pires
-21:46 Caleb Fairly
-21:46 Carlos Verona Quintanilla
-21:46 Clement Chevrier
-21:46 Danny Pate
-21:46 Eduard Beltran
Favourites by position :
+48 Pieter Weening
+28 Andrew Talansky
+9 Thibaut Pinot
+9 Jean-Christophe Peraud
+7 Bauke Mollema
+3 Tejay Van Garderen
+3 Michele Scarponi
-9 Rafal Majka
-9 Michal Kwiatkowski
Favourites by time :
-0:23 Rafal Majka
-0:23 Michal Kwiatkowski
-0:23 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-4:19 Andrew Talansky
-6:17 Pieter Weening
-7:53 Thomas Danielson
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Sergio Luis Henao 17:13:51 (unchanged)
2 Joaquim Rodriguez 0:00 (unchanged)
3 Nairo Quintana 0:00 (unchanged)
4 Michele Scarponi 0:07 (was 7th at 0:07)
5 Bauke Mollema 0:10 (was 12th at 0:10)
6 Ilnur Zakarin 0:10 (was 11th at 0:10)
7 Tejay Van Garderen 0:10 (was 10th at 0:10)
8 Ion Izagirre 0:10 (was 13th at 0:10)
9 Simon Yates 0:10 (was 16th at 0:10)
10 Simon Spilak 0:10 (was 17th at 0:10)
11 Thibaut Pinot 0:18 (was 20th at 0:18)
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13 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:30 (was 4th at 0:07)
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15 Rafal Majka 0:30 (was 6th at 0:07)
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19 Jean-Christophe Peraud 1:21 (was 28th at 0:58)
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42 Thomas Danielson 12:30 (was 42nd at 4:37)
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53 Andrew Talansky 18:41 (was 81st at 14:22)
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78 Pieter Weening 32:49 (was 126th at 26:32)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Michal Kwiatkowski 51 (was 1st with 48 points)
2 Joaquim Rodriguez 50 (was 5th with 25 points)
3 Michael Matthews 45 (was 2nd with 45 points)
4 Fabio Felline 34 (was 3rd with 34 points)
5 Sergio Luis Henao 32 (was 8th with 20 points)
6 Ilnur Zakarin 29 (was 7th with 21 points)
7 Tony Gallopin 28 (was 4th with 28 points)
8 Nairo Quintana 25 (was 10th with 16 points)
9 Simon Yates 24 (was 19th with 8 points)
10 Bauke Mollema 21 (was 28th with 1 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Omar Fraile 47 (unchanged)
2 Lieuwe Westra 35 (unchanged)
3 Thomas Danielson 26 (was 0 points)
4 Amets Txurruka 25 (was 3rd with 25 points)
5 Tony Martin 23 (was 23rd with 1 points)
6 Sergio Luis Henao 22 (was 7th with 12 points)
7 Sebastien Reichenbach 17 (was 4th with 17 points)
8 Sander Armee 15 (was 5th with 15 points)
9 Hugh Carthy 15 (was 6th with 15 points)
10 Pello Bilbao 13 (was 0 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Angel Vicioso (Spa) Team Katusha 4 <<<
Carter Jones (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 4 <<<
Cheng Ji (Chn) Team Giant-Alpecin 4 <<<
David Tanner (Aus) IAM Cycling 4 <<<
Fredrik Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant-Alpecin 4 <<<
Jerome Coppel (Fra) IAM Cycling 4 <<<
Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 4 <<<
Martijn Keizer (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 4 <<<
Patrick Schelling (Swi) IAM Cycling 4 <<<
Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Tinkoff-Saxo 4 <<<
Thierry Hupond (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 4 <<<
Calvin Watson (Aus) Trek Factory Racing 3
Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) FDJ.fr 3
Adam Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge 2
Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ.fr 2
Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky 2
Brian Bulgac (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 2
Jarlinson Pantano (Col) IAM Cycling 2
Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 2
Peter Stetina (USA) BMC Racing Team 2
Sergio Pardilla (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 2
Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2
Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 1
Total retirements : 23