Stage 4 - Grenchen-Brunnen 190.8 km

1 Daryl Impey (RSA) Israel - Premier Tech 4:14:09
2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
3 Soren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team DSM 0:00
4 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education-EasyPost 0:00
5 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00
6 Alex Aranburu (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00
7 Felix Grosschartner (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
8 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
9 Mathieu Burgaudeau (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:00
10 Stefan Kung (Swi) Groupama - FDJ 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+26 Sander Armee
+25 Ion Izagirre
+18 Marc Soler
+17 Jack Bauer
+16 Sebastian Berwick
+16 Kristian Aasvold
+15 Rui Costa
+15 Gavin Mannion
+14 Michael Matthews
+14 Matteo Trentin

Biggest losers by position :
-32 Michael Gogl
-19 Andrea Pasqualon
-15 Philippe Gilbert
-14 Lewis Askey
-13 Gianni Moscon
-13 Nicolas Prodhomme
-13 Silvan Dillier
-13 Simon Pellaud
-13 Tom Bohli
-12 Anthony Turgis
-11 Daniel Oss

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Daryl Impey
+0:06 Michael Matthews
+0:04 Soren Kragh Andersen

Biggest losers by time :
-13:20 Cees Bol
-13:20 Johan Price-Pejtersen
-13:20 Kyle Murphy
-13:20 Lewis Askey
-13:20 Tom Bohli
-13:20 Tom Scully
-10:09 Adrien Petit
-10:09 Albert Torres
-10:09 Alexander Kamp
-10:09 Alexander Kristoff
-10:09 Cameron Meyer

Favourites by position :
+25 Ion Izagirre
+5 Alexey Lutsenko
+3 Fausto Masnada
+2 Hugh Carthy
+2 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+1 Thibaut Pinot
+1 Sergio Higuita
+1 Jakob Fuglsang
+1 Geraint Thomas
-1 Remco Evenepoel
-1 Aleksandr Vlasov

Favourites by time :
-0:39 Thibaut Pinot
-2:11 Ion Izagirre

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Stephen Williams 17:46:28 (unchanged)
2 Andreas Kron 0:06 (unchanged)
3 Geraint Thomas 0:07 (was 4th at 0:07)
4 Andreas Leknessund 0:07 (was 3rd at 0:07)
5 Stefan Kung 0:10 (unchanged)
6 Marc Hirschi 0:10 (was 7th at 0:10)
7 Sepp Kuss 0:10 (was 6th at 0:10)
8 Jakob Fuglsang 0:10 (was 9th at 0:10)
9 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:10 (was 8th at 0:10)
10 Adam Yates 0:10 (unchanged)
11 Sergio Higuita 0:10 (was 12th at 0:10)
12 Remco Evenepoel 0:10 (was 11th at 0:10)
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17 Maximilian Schachmann 0:55 (unchanged)
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23 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:01 (was 25th at 1:01)
24 Gino Mader 1:01 (unchanged)
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26 Rigoberto Uran 1:01 (unchanged)
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37 Hugh Carthy 2:02 (was 39th at 2:02)
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40 Fausto Masnada 2:22 (was 43rd at 2:22)
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46 Thibaut Pinot 4:37 (was 47th at 3:58)
47 Alexey Lutsenko 4:43 (was 52nd at 4:43)
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111 Ion Izagirre 30:03 (was 136th at 27:52)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Andreas Leknessund 20 (unchanged)
2 Quinn Simmons 14 (unchanged)
3 Michael Matthews 14 (was 9th with 6 points)
4 Stephen Williams 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
5 Daryl Impey 12 (was 0 points)
6 Peter Sagan 12 (was 4th with 12 points)
7 Alberto Bettiol 12 (was 6th with 8 points)
8 Matthew Holmes 11 (was 17th with 3 points)
9 Maximilian Schachmann 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
10 Bryan Coquard 8 (was 7th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Quinn Simmons 34 (unchanged)
2 Philippe Gilbert 12 (unchanged)
3 Andreas Leknessund 10 (unchanged)
4 Simon Vitzthum 10 (unchanged)
5 Matthew Holmes 9 (was 9th with 6 points)
6 Jonas Rutsch 8 (was 5th with 8 points)
7 Manuele Boaro 8 (unchanged)
8 Mathias Reutimann 8 (was 6th with 8 points)
9 Sebastien Reichenbach 6 (was 0 points)
10 Joel Suter 6 (was 8th with 6 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 BORA - hansgrohe 53:19:54 (was 1st at 40:37:27)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:51 (unchanged)
3 Groupama - FDJ 1:15 (unchanged)
4 Jumbo-Visma 1:42 (unchanged)
5 Bahrain - Victorious 2:21 (unchanged)
6 AG2R Citroen Team 2:34 (unchanged)
7 EF Education-EasyPost 3:07 (unchanged)
8 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 3:42 (was 9th at 3:42)
9 Team DSM 3:57 (was 10th at 3:57)
10 Movistar Team 4:02 (was 11th at 4:02)
11 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 6:22 (was 8th at 3:31)
12 UAE Team Emirates 6:43 (was 13th at 6:43)
13 Israel - Premier Tech 7:41 (was 15th at 7:41)
14 Cofidis 11:40 (was 17th at 9:29)
15 Lotto Soudal 13:36 (was 12th at 4:38)
16 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 15:23 (was 19th at 15:23)
17 Alpecin-Fenix 17:03 (was 14th at 6:48)
18 Switzerland 18:33 (was 18th at 14:36)
19 TotalEnergies 20:04 (was 16th at 8:49)
20 Trek - Segafredo 36:57 (was 20th at 19:24)
21 Astana Qazaqstan Team 37:07 (was 21th at 22:19)
22 Human Powered Health 44:30 (was 22th at 33:15)

Retirements to date : Stage
Frederik Wandahl (BORA - hansgrohe) 4 <<<
Jan Maas (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 4 <<<
Jay Vine (Alpecin-Fenix) 4 <<<
Kasper Asgreen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 4 <<<
Thymen Arensman (Team DSM) 4 <<<
Davide Villella (Cofidis) 3
Kamil Malecki (Lotto Soudal) 3
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Leonardo Basso (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 2
Ben King (Human Powered Health) 1
Total retirements : 10

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