Stage 4 - Redon - Fougeres 150.4 km

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:20:17
2 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Team Arkea Samsic 0:00
3 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
4 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:00
5 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
6 Cees Bol (Ned) Team DSM 0:00
7 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00
8 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
9 Boy Van Poppel (Ned) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
10 Andre Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Nils Politt
+6 Maxime Chevalier
+6 Jorge Arcas
+6 Harry Sweeny
+6 Cees Bol
+6 Andre Greipel
+5 Michael Morkov
+5 Christophe Laporte
+5 Brent Van Moer
+5 Brandon Mcnulty

Biggest losers by position :
-13 Roger Kluge
-11 Simon Yates
-9 Stefan Bissegger
-8 Michael Gogl
-7 Michal Kwiatkowski
-7 Rafal Majka
-6 Carlos Verona
-6 Dylan Van Baarle
-6 Jonathan Castroviejo
-6 Omar Fraile
-6 Tao Geoghegan Hart

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Mark Cavendish
+0:06 Nacer Bouhanni
+0:04 Jasper Philipsen

Biggest losers by time :
-7:16 Roger Kluge
-1:57 Pierre-Luc Perichon
-1:47 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-1:47 Mikkel Bjerg
-1:38 Xandro Meurisse
-1:33 Casper Pedersen
-1:33 Jeremy Cabot
-1:33 Petr Vakoc
-1:33 Simon Clarke
-1:33 Simon Yates
-1:33 Tao Geoghegan Hart

Favourites by position :
+1 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Alejandro Valverde
-6 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-11 Simon Yates

Favourites by time :
-1:33 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-1:33 Simon Yates

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 16:19:10 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:08 (unchanged)
3 Richard Carapaz 0:31 (unchanged)
4 Wout Van Aert 0:31 (unchanged)
5 Wilco Kelderman 0:38 (unchanged)
6 Tadej Pogacar 0:39 (unchanged)
7 Enric Mas 0:40 (unchanged)
8 Nairo Quintana 0:40 (unchanged)
9 Pierre Latour 0:45 (unchanged)
10 David Gaudu 0:52 (was 12th at 0:52)
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14 Rigoberto Uran 0:52 (was 15th at 0:52)
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18 Geraint Thomas 1:07 (unchanged)
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20 Primoz Roglic 1:35 (unchanged)
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37 Tiesj Benoot 3:23 (unchanged)
38 Steven Kruijswijk 3:28 (unchanged)
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41 Richie Porte 3:34 (unchanged)
42 Miguel Angel Lopez 3:43 (unchanged)
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59 Alejandro Valverde 7:12 (was 60th at 7:12)
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73 Simon Yates 8:55 (was 62nd at 7:22)
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105 Tao Geoghegan Hart 13:50 (was 99th at 12:17)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 89 (was 14th with 24 points)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 82 (was 1st with 80 points)
3 Michael Matthews 78 (was 4th with 50 points)
4 Nacer Bouhanni 74 (was 10th with 33 points)
5 Mathieu Van Der Poel 67 (was 2nd with 62 points)
6 Jasper Philipsen 61 (was 6th with 41 points)
7 Tim Merlier 50 (was 3rd with 50 points)
8 Peter Sagan 48 (was 13th with 24 points)
9 Sonny Colbrelli 45 (was 11th with 32 points)
10 Tadej Pogacar 44 (was 5th with 44 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Ide Schelling 5 (unchanged)
2 Mathieu Van Der Poel 4 (unchanged)
3 Anthony Perez 3 (unchanged)
4 Julian Alaphilippe 2 (unchanged)
5 Edward Theuns 2 (unchanged)
6 Tadej Pogacar 2 (unchanged)
7 Jelle Wallays 1 (was 9th with 1 points)
8 Victor Campenaerts 1 (was 7th with 1 points)
9 Danny Van Poppel 1 (was 8th with 1 points)
10 Michael Matthews 1 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 49:00:00 (was 1st at 38:59:09)
2 Team Jumbo-Visma 1:33 (unchanged)
3 Trek - Segafredo 1:43 (unchanged)
4 Astana - Premier Tech 1:59 (unchanged)
5 EF Education - Nippo 2:02 (unchanged)
6 Team BikeExchange 2:20 (unchanged)
7 INEOS Grenadiers 2:42 (unchanged)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:56 (unchanged)
9 Movistar Team 4:26 (unchanged)
10 BORA - hansgrohe 6:46 (unchanged)
11 Team DSM 7:24 (unchanged)
12 Alpecin-Fenix 7:27 (unchanged)
13 Team Arkea Samsic 8:04 (unchanged)
14 AG2R Citroen Team 8:07 (unchanged)
15 B&B Hotels p/b KTM 8:54 (unchanged)
16 Team TotalEnergies 9:01 (unchanged)
17 Groupama - FDJ 10:08 (unchanged)
18 UAE-Team Emirates 10:30 (unchanged)
19 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 13:57 (unchanged)
20 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 14:51 (unchanged)
21 Team Qhubeka NextHash 16:31 (unchanged)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 21:30 (unchanged)
23 Lotto Soudal 31:12 (unchanged)

Retirements to date : Stage
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 4 <<<
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 3
Robert Gesink (Team Jumbo-Visma) 3
Marc Soler (Movistar Team) 2
Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels p/b KTM) 1
Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama - FDJ) 1
Jasha Sutterlin (Team DSM) 1
Total retirements : 7

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