Stage 4 - Llivia-Sabadell 188.2 km

1 Kaden Groves (Aus) Alpecin-Deceuninck 4:19:37
2 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
3 Corbin Strong (Nzl) Israel - Premier Tech 0:00
4 Ide Schelling (Ned) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
5 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
6 Frederik Wandahl (Den) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
7 Jon Aberasturi (Spa) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
8 Milan Menten (Bel) Lotto Dstny 0:00
9 Arne Marit (Bel) Intermarche - Circus - Wanty 0:00
10 Simone Velasco (Ita) Astana Qazaqstan Team 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+5 Vadim Pronskiy
+5 Rune Herregodts
+5 Robert Gesink
+5 Marco Brenner
+5 Lorenzo Milesi
+5 Guillaume Boivin
+5 Fabio Felline
+5 Arne Marit
+4 Xabier Mikel Azparren
+4 Will Barta

Biggest losers by position :
-39 Quinn Simmons
-20 Jimmy Janssens
-9 Nans Peters
-8 Egan Bernal
-5 David De La Cruz
-3 Xandro Meurisse
-2 Roger Adria
-1 Alessandro De Marchi
-1 Jai Hindley
-1 Stephen Williams
-1 Tobias Halland Johannessen

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Kaden Groves
+0:06 Bryan Coquard
+0:04 Corbin Strong
+0:03 Torstein Traen

Biggest losers by time :
-18:31 Rudiger Selig
-11:36 Quinn Simmons
-8:13 Jimmy Janssens
-3:47 Alessandro De Marchi
-3:47 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-2:43 Tobias Halland Johannessen
-2:34 Anders Halland Johannessen
-2:34 Egan Bernal
-2:34 Oscar Riesebeek
-2:34 Stephen Williams
-2:10 Pieter Serry

Favourites by position :
+2 Gino Mader
+2 Geraint Thomas
+1 Richard Carapaz
+1 Guillaume Martin
+1 Adam Yates
-1 Jai Hindley
-8 Egan Bernal

Favourites by time :
-2:34 Egan Bernal

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Primoz Roglic 17:01:54 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:00 (unchanged)
3 Giulio Ciccone 0:19 (unchanged)
4 Mikel Landa 0:44 (unchanged)
5 Joao Almeida 0:44 (unchanged)
6 Michael Woods 0:48 (was 7th at 0:48)
7 Jai Hindley 0:48 (was 6th at 0:48)
8 Esteban Chaves 0:48 (unchanged)
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks 0:58 (unchanged)
10 Marc Soler 1:12 (unchanged)
11 Ben O'Connor 1:41 (unchanged)
12 Rigoberto Uran 1:50 (unchanged)
13 Romain Bardet 2:05 (unchanged)
.....
18 Jack Haig 3:26 (unchanged)
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25 Guillaume Martin 5:25 (was 26th at 5:25)
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33 Adam Yates 12:00 (was 34th at 12:00)
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39 Richard Carapaz 12:28 (was 40th at 12:28)
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51 Geraint Thomas 15:50 (was 53rd at 15:50)
52 Egan Bernal 16:13 (was 44th at 13:39)
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65 Gino Mader 22:37 (was 67th at 22:37)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Primoz Roglic 22 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 20 (unchanged)
3 Giulio Ciccone 14 (unchanged)
4 Kaden Groves 10 (was 0 points)
5 Simone Petilli 8 (was 4th with 8 points)
6 Bryan Coquard 6 (was 0 points)
7 Roger Adria 4 (was 0 points)
8 Rune Herregodts 4 (was 5th with 4 points)
9 Guillaume Martin 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
10 Corbin Strong 4 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 51:09:13 (was 1st at 38:10:22)
2 EF Education-EasyPost 4:13 (unchanged)
3 Movistar Team 5:39 (unchanged)
4 BORA - hansgrohe 5:54 (unchanged)
5 Bahrain - Victorious 8:47 (unchanged)
6 AG2R Citroen Team 11:59 (unchanged)
7 Soudal - Quick Step 16:19 (unchanged)
8 Jumbo-Visma 16:54 (unchanged)
9 Cofidis 18:53 (unchanged)
10 Intermarche - Circus - Wanty 23:06 (unchanged)
11 Israel - Premier Tech 28:24 (unchanged)
12 INEOS Grenadiers 28:38 (unchanged)
13 Trek - Segafredo 33:38 (unchanged)
14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 35:42 (unchanged)
15 Team DSM 36:39 (unchanged)
16 Lotto Dstny 42:21 (unchanged)
17 Burgos-BH 49:43 (unchanged)
18 Groupama - FDJ 54:21 (unchanged)
19 Equipo Kern Pharma 56:56 (unchanged)
20 Team Jayco AlUla 59:29 (unchanged)
21 Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 1:03:29 (unchanged)
22 Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:12:29 (unchanged)
23 Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:14:05 (unchanged)
24 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 1:26:39 (unchanged)
25 Team Arkea Samsic 1:30:43 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) 4 <<<
Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty) 4 <<<
Michael Storer (Groupama - FDJ) 4 <<<
Alexandre Balmer (Team Jayco AlUla) 3
Clement Davy (Groupama - FDJ) 3
Anthony Delaplace (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Chris Hamilton (Team DSM) 2
Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto Dstny) 2
Hugo Hofstetter (Team Arkea Samsic) 2
Kenny Elissonde (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 2
Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos-BH) 2
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 1
Luke Plapp (INEOS Grenadiers) 1
Maxime Bouet (Team Arkea Samsic) 1
Total retirements : 15

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