Stage 4 : August 25, 2015 Estepona - Vejer de la Frontera 209.6 km
1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 5.07.30
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo
3 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Team Katusha
4 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sky
5 Jose Goncalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
6 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha
7 Julien Simon (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
8 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo
9 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
10 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica GreenEdge
Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+29 Pello Bilbao
+23 Amets Txurruka
+22 Eduard Vorganov
+21 Martin Velits
+20 Romain Hardy
+20 Pieter Serry
+20 Diego Rosa
+19 Ruben Plaza Molina
+19 Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet
+17 Alex Howes
Biggest losers by position :
-44 Andrey Zeits
-27 Ian Boswell
-26 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
-22 Maciej Bodnar
-20 Carlos Quintero
-19 Alessandro De Marchi
-16 Amael Moinard
-16 Daryl Impey
-15 Tom Van Asbroeck
-14 Jussi Veikkanen
-14 Pawel Poljanski
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+0:06 Peter Sagan
+0:04 Daniel Moreno Fernandez
Biggest losers by time :
-12:45 Andrey Zeits
-8:37 Kris Boeckmans
-8:22 Alessandro Vanotti
-8:20 Nelson Oliveira
-8:18 Vladimir Isaychev
-8:16 Daniele Bennati
-8:16 Maciej Bodnar
-8:12 Damien Howson
-8:12 Ian Boswell
-8:08 Alessandro De Marchi
-8:08 Arnaud Courteille
Favourites by position :
+6 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez
+4 Rafal Majka
+2 Tejay van Garderen
+2 Pierre Rolland
+2 Domenico Pozzovivo
+2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-1 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
-1 Christopher Froome
-2 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
-4 Geraint Thomas
-10 Andrew Talansky
Favourites by time :
+0:10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-1:39 Pierre Rolland
-4:40 Andrew Talansky
-5:12 Geraint Thomas
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 13:11:31 (unchanged)
2 Tom Dumoulin 0:05 (unchanged)
3 Nicolas Roche 0:15 (unchanged)
4 Daniel Martin 0:24 (unchanged)
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 0:28 (was 7th at 0:38)
6 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 0:35 (was 5th at 0:35)
7 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 0:36 (was 9th at 0:40)
8 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 0:36 (was 6th at 0:36)
9 Christopher Froome 0:40 (was 8th at 0:40)
10 Fabio Aru 0:47 (unchanged)
11 Mikel Landa Meana 0:51 (unchanged)
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13 Tejay van Garderen 0:55 (was 15th at 0:55)
14 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:04 (was 16th at 1:04)
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17 Rafal Majka 1:14 (was 21st at 1:14)
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26 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 2:08 (was 32nd at 2:08)
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47 Pierre Rolland 5:13 (was 49th at 3:34)
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57 Andrew Talansky 8:01 (was 47th at 3:21)
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71 Geraint Thomas 10:58 (was 67th at 5:46)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 45 (was 2nd with 25 points)
2 Alejandro Valverde 35 (was 12th with 10 points)
3 Esteban Chaves 31 (was 1st with 25 points)
4 Nicolas Roche 30 (was 5th with 16 points)
5 Tom Dumoulin 23 (was 3rd with 20 points)
6 Joaquim Rodriguez 23 (was 9th with 13 points)
7 Daniel Moreno Fernandez 23 (was 17th with 7 points)
8 Nacer Bouhanni 20 (was 4th with 20 points)
9 Nairo Quintana 17 (was 11th with 10 points)
10 Jose Goncalves 16 (was 23rd with 4 points)
Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Omar Fraile 13 (unchanged)
2 Walter Pedraza 7 (unchanged)
3 Natnael Berhane 7 (unchanged)
4 Sylvain Chavanel 4 (unchanged)
5 Esteban Chaves 3 (unchanged)
6 Tom Dumoulin 2 (unchanged)
7 Davide Villella 2 (unchanged)
8 Nicolas Roche 1 (unchanged)
9 Bertjan Lindeman 1 (unchanged)
10 Alexis Gougeard 1 (unchanged)
Retirements to date : Stage
Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 3
Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 3
Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Astana Pro Team 3
David Tanner (Aus) IAM Cycling 2
Ilia Koshevoy (Blr) Lampre-Merida 2
Matteo Pelucchi (Ita) IAM Cycling 2
Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2
Total retirements : 7