Stage 4 : Aug 31, Malaga - Valdepenas de Jaen, 183.8 km
1 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.00.29
2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0.01
3 Peter Velits (Svk) Team HTC-Columbia
4 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha
5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0.05
6 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) Team HTC-Columbia 0.08
7 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0.12
8 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Ag2R-La Mondiale
9 Ruben Plaza (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
10 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d’Epargne 0.19
Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+50 Rinaldo Nocentini
+46 Sebastien Hinault
+39 Oscar Freire
+39 Dmitry Fofonov
+32 Laurens Ten Dam
+30 Mikel Nieve
+27 Allan Davis
+25 Thomas Peterson
+25 Andrey Zeits
+24 Guillaume Bonnafond
Biggest losers by position :
-60 Xavier Florencio
-42 Grega Bole
-40 Filippo Pozzato
-37 Thomas Lofkvist
-34 Daniele Bennati
-31 Arthur Vichot
-30 Mark Cavendish
-30 Matthew Goss
-30 Philip Deignan
-29 Mickael Delage
-29 Tyler Farrar
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:25 Igor Anton
+0:16 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:12 Peter Velits
+0:04 Joaquin Rodriguez
Biggest losers by time :
-24:45 David Zabriskie
-24:45 Julian Dean
-24:42 Kjell Carlstrom
-19:41 Blel Kadri
-19:41 Christophe Riblon
-19:41 Giorgio Furlan
-19:41 Grega Bole
-19:41 Jorge Montenegro
-19:41 Juan-Jose Haedo
-19:41 Mark Cavendish
-19:41 Martin Pedersen
Favourites by position :
+27 Allan Davis
+19 Denis Menchov
+12 Ezequiel Mosquera
+11 Luis-Leon Sanchez
+9 Ruben Plaza
+4 David Arroyo
+1 Xavier Tondo
+1 Vincenzo Nibali
+1 Frank Schleck
-1 Joaquin Rodriguez
-7 Christian Vande Velde
-8 Carlos Sastre
-8 Andy Schleck
-20 David Zabriskie
-24 Roman Kreuziger
Favourites by time :
+0:16 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:04 Joaquin Rodriguez
-0:07 Ruben Plaza
-0:07 Ezequiel Mosquera
-0:14 Xavier Tondo
-0:14 Frank Schleck
-0:14 Denis Menchov
-0:14 David Arroyo
-0:31 Luis-Leon Sanchez
-1:29 Carlos Sastre
-2:43 Roman Kreuziger
-9:46 Allan Davis
-14:31 Christian Vande Velde
-14:31 Andy Schleck
-24:45 David Zabriskie
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Philippe Gilbert 13:56:30 (unchanged)
2 Igor Anton 0:10 (was 7th at 0:35)
3 Joaquin Rodriguez 0:10 (was 2nd at 0:14)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 0:12 (was 5th at 0:28)
5 Peter Velits 0:16 (was 6th at 0:28)
6 Tejay Van Garderen 0:29 (was 4th at 0:26)
7 Xavier Tondo 0:49 (was 8th at 0:35)
8 Frank Schleck 0:50 (was 9th at 0:36)
9 Ruben Plaza 0:54 (was 18th at 0:47)
10 Ezequiel Mosquera 0:55 (was 22nd at 0:48)
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12 David Arroyo 1:01 (was 16th at 0:47)
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14 Denis Menchov 1:11 (was 33rd at 0:57)
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17 Luis-Leon Sanchez 1:24 (was 28th at 0:53)
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22 Carlos Sastre 2:15 (was 14th at 0:46)
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37 Roman Kreuziger 3:26 (was 13th at 0:43)
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106 Andy Schleck 28:58 (was 98th at 14:27)
107 Christian Vande Velde 29:01 (was 100th at 14:30)
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133 Allan Davis 35:33 (was 160th at 25:47)
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189 David Zabriskie 50:55 (was 169th at 26:10)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Igor Anton 41 (was 5th with 16 points)
2 Philippe Gilbert 37 (was 1st with 25 points)
3 Joaquin Rodriguez 34 (was 3rd with 20 points)
4 Vincenzo Nibali 34 (was 7th with 14 points)
5 Yauheni Hutarovich 25 (was 2nd with 25 points)
6 Mark Cavendish 20 (was 4th with 20 points)
7 Nicolas Roche 18 (was 12th with 10 points)
8 Ezequiel Mosquera 17 (was 16th with 8 points)
9 Tyler Farrar 16 (was 6th with 16 points)
10 Peter Velits 16 (was 0 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Serafin Martinez 13 (unchanged)
2 Dario Cataldo 8 (was 0 points)
3 David Moncoutie 6 (was 2nd with 6 points)
4 Oscar Pujol 5 (was 0 points)
5 Niki Terpstra 5 (was 3rd with 5 points)
6 Egoi Martinez 5 (was 4th with 5 points)
7 Sergio Carrasco 5 (was 0 points)
8 Mickael Delage 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
9 Luis-Leon Sanchez 3 (was 0 points)
10 Mikael Cherel 2 (was 6th with 2 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC-Columbia 4 <<<
Benjamin Swift (GBR) Team Sky 3
John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Sky 3
Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Footon-Servetto 2
Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 2
Total retirements : 5