Stage 4 (ITT) - Montbrison-La Batie d'Urfe 31.9 km

1 Filippo Ganna (Ita) INEOS Grenadiers 0:35:32
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 0:02
3 Ethan Hayter (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:17
4 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:39
5 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 0:42
6 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:53
7 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 1:12
8 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain - Victorious 1:25
9 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 1:31
10 Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Team Emirates 1:34

Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+38 Ethan Hayter
+24 Bruno Armirail
+23 Filippo Ganna
+22 Jonas Vingegaard
+20 Remi Cavagna
+18 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+17 Michal Kwiatkowski
+13 Mattia Cattaneo
+13 Jonas Gregaard
+13 Geoffrey Bouchard

Biggest losers by position :
-43 Victor Lafay
-22 Carlos Verona
-22 Laurens Huys
-21 Steff Cras
-20 Eliot Lietaer
-17 Esteban Chaves
-17 Jan Hirt
-16 Alexis Vuillermoz
-16 Mikkel Frolich Honore
-16 Ruben Guerreiro
-15 Simon Guglielmi

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:02 Filippo Ganna

Biggest losers by time :
-7:30 Leon Heinschke
-6:52 Guy Niv
-6:47 Dylan Groenewegen
-6:23 Anthon Charmig
-6:17 Sandy Dujardin
-6:16 Carlos Barbero
-6:01 Olivier Le Gac
-5:56 Luca Mozzato
-5:55 James Piccoli
-5:50 Antwan Tolhoek
-5:38 Fabien Grellier

Favourites by position :
+22 Jonas Vingegaard
+18 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+12 Wilco Kelderman
+12 Damiano Caruso
+6 Enric Mas
+5 Primoz Roglic
+1 Matteo Fabbro
-2 Tiesj Benoot
-9 Brandon Mcnulty
-10 Patrick Konrad
-10 David Gaudu
-17 Esteban Chaves

Favourites by time :
-0:40 Primoz Roglic
-1:10 Jonas Vingegaard
-1:23 Damiano Caruso
-1:29 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-1:44 Ben O'Connor
-1:46 Wilco Kelderman
-1:51 Enric Mas
-1:56 Patrick Konrad
-1:57 David Gaudu
-2:03 Jack Haig
-2:19 Brandon Mcnulty
-2:26 Esteban Chaves
-3:47 Matteo Fabbro
-3:52 Tiesj Benoot

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Wout Van Aert 13:26:06 (unchanged)
2 Mattia Cattaneo 0:53 (was 15th at 0:16)
3 Primoz Roglic 0:56 (was 8th at 0:16)
4 Jonas Vingegaard 1:26 (was 26th at 0:16)
5 Ethan Hayter 1:26 (was 43rd at 1:11)
6 Damiano Caruso 1:39 (was 18th at 0:16)
7 Tao Geoghegan Hart 1:45 (was 25th at 0:16)
8 Juan Ayuso 1:48 (was 13th at 0:16)
9 Matteo Jorgenson 1:50 (was 5th at 0:16)
10 Ben O'Connor 2:00 (was 10th at 0:16)
11 Wilco Kelderman 2:02 (was 23rd at 0:16)
12 David Gaudu 2:03 (was 2nd at 0:06)
13 Enric Mas 2:07 (was 19th at 0:16)
14 Patrick Konrad 2:12 (was 4th at 0:16)
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16 Jack Haig 2:19 (was 16th at 0:16)
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20 Brandon Mcnulty 2:35 (was 11th at 0:16)
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24 Esteban Chaves 2:42 (was 7th at 0:16)
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52 Matteo Fabbro 5:04 (was 53rd at 1:17)
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89 Tiesj Benoot 9:23 (was 87th at 5:31)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 63 (was 1st with 61 points)
2 Ethan Hayter 44 (was 2nd with 34 points)
3 Kevin Vermaerke 28 (unchanged)
4 Hugo Page 28 (unchanged)
5 Anders Skaarseth 26 (unchanged)
6 Olivier Le Gac 26 (unchanged)
7 Alexis Vuillermoz 25 (was 8th with 25 points)
8 Sean Quinn 20 (was 11th with 20 points)
9 Clement Venturini 20 (was 10th with 20 points)
10 Anthony Delaplace 16 (was 14th with 16 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pierre Rolland 12 (unchanged)
2 Alexis Vuillermoz 7 (unchanged)
3 David Gaudu 5 (unchanged)
4 Xandres Vervloesem 4 (unchanged)
5 Maxime Bouet 4 (unchanged)
6 Laurens Huys 4 (unchanged)
7 Wout Van Aert 3 (unchanged)
8 Anders Skaarseth 3 (unchanged)
9 Olivier Le Gac 3 (unchanged)
10 Sebastian Schonberger 2 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Jumbo-Visma 40:20:56 (was 2nd at 0:00)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:23 (was 5th at 0:31)
3 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 2:40 (was 4th at 0:25)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 3:28 (was 1st at 38:32:24)
5 Movistar Team 4:25 (was 7th at 0:42)
6 Groupama - FDJ 4:53 (was 6th at 0:37)
7 BORA - hansgrohe 5:10 (was 9th at 1:01)
8 UAE Team Emirates 5:22 (was 3rd at 0:25)
9 Trek - Segafredo 6:24 (was 8th at 0:53)
10 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 6:40 (was 10th at 1:07)
11 Team Arkea Samsic 7:52 (was 13th at 2:39)
12 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:25 (was 11th at 2:15)
13 EF Education-EasyPost 9:49 (was 15th at 3:30)
14 Cofidis 10:02 (was 12th at 2:22)
15 AG2R Citroen Team 11:03 (was 19th at 5:42)
16 Lotto Soudal 11:29 (was 16th at 3:38)
17 Israel - Premier Tech 12:14 (was 14th at 3:12)
18 Team DSM 12:17 (was 18th at 5:07)
19 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 12:42 (was 20th at 7:09)
20 B&B Hotels - KTM 12:57 (was 17th at 5:06)
21 TotalEnergies 20:35 (was 21th at 11:20)
22 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 27:38 (was 22th at 22:47)

Retirements to date : Stage
Henri Vandenabeele (Team DSM) 2
Josef Cerny (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 2
Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain - Victorious) 2
Imanol Erviti (Movistar Team) 1
Niklas Eg (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 1
Niklas Markl (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 6

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