Stage 4 - Catania > Villafranco Tirrena

1 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 3:22:13
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
3 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:00
4 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00
5 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00
6 Stefano Oldani (Ita) Lotto Soudal 0:00
7 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00
8 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:00
9 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 0:00
10 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bahrain - McLaren 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+20 Edoardo Affini
+19 Michael Hepburn
+19 Albert Torres
+15 Davide Cimolai
+14 Jos van Emden
+14 Jacopo Guarnieri
+11 Filippo Fiorelli
+11 Elia Viviani
+11 Arnaud Demare
+10 Rick Zabel

Biggest losers by position :
-41 Ben Swift
-25 Adam Hansen
-22 Filippo Zana
-21 Nicolas Edet
-17 Alessandro Bisolti
-17 Mathias Le Turnier
-17 Valerio Conti
-16 Fabio Mazzucco
-16 Luca Wackermann
-15 Matteo Spreafico
-14 Jack Haig

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:08 Arnaud Demare
+0:04 Peter Sagan
+0:03 Davide Ballerini

Biggest losers by time :
-11:34 Benjamin Thomas
-11:27 Ben Swift
-11:27 Guy Sagiv
-11:27 Jonathan Dibben
-11:27 Nicolas Edet
-11:27 Rudy Barbier
-8:25 Mathias Le Turnier
-8:20 Adam Hansen
-7:31 Matteo Spreafico
-7:13 Brent Bookwalter
-7:00 Fabio Mazzucco

Favourites by position :
+2 Carl Fredrik Hagen
+1 Simon Yates
-5 Rohan Dennis
-14 Jack Haig

Favourites by time :
-0:02 Wilco Kelderman
-0:02 Vincenzo Nibali
-0:02 Steven Kruijswijk
-0:02 Simon Yates
-0:02 Rafal Majka
-0:02 Patrick Konrad
-0:02 Jakob Fuglsang
-0:02 Fausto Masnada
-0:02 Domenico Pozzovivo
-0:02 Carl Fredrik Hagen
-2:39 Rohan Dennis
-3:52 Jack Haig

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joao Almeida 11:06:36 (unchanged)
2 Jonathan Klever Caicedo 0:02 (was 2nd at 0:00)
3 Pello Bilbao 0:39 (was 3rd at 0:37)
4 Wilco Kelderman 0:44 (was 4th at 0:42)
5 Harm Vanhoucke 0:55 (was 5th at 0:53)
6 Vincenzo Nibali 0:57 (was 6th at 0:55)
7 Domenico Pozzovivo 1:01 (was 7th at 0:59)
8 Brandon McNulty 1:13 (was 8th at 1:11)
9 Jakob Fuglsang 1:15 (was 9th at 1:13)
10 Steven Kruijswijk 1:17 (was 10th at 1:15)
11 Rafal Majka 1:28 (was 11th at 1:26)
12 Patrick Konrad 1:28 (was 12th at 1:26)
.....
14 Fausto Masnada 1:34 (was 14th at 1:32)
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24 Simon Yates 3:48 (was 25th at 3:46)
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43 Carl Fredrik Hagen 8:23 (was 45th at 8:21)
44 Jack Haig 8:31 (was 30th at 4:39)
.....
123 Rohan Dennis 28:44 (was 118th at 26:05)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 57 (was 3rd with 19 points)
2 Arnaud Demare 52 (was 36th with 2 points)
3 Diego Ulissi 27 (was 1st with 25 points)
4 Davide Ballerini 25 (was 0 points)
5 Jonathan Klever Caicedo 23 (was 2nd with 23 points)
6 Michael Matthews 20 (was 13th with 8 points)
7 Andrea Vendrame 18 (was 0 points)
8 Joao Almeida 17 (was 4th with 17 points)
9 Giovanni Visconti 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
10 Filippo Ganna 15 (was 6th with 15 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Jonathan Klever Caicedo 40 (unchanged)
2 Giovanni Visconti 18 (unchanged)
3 Harm Vanhoucke 12 (unchanged)
4 Simon Pellaud 9 (was 0 points)
5 Wilco Kelderman 9 (was 4th with 9 points)
6 Jakob Fuglsang 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
7 Rafal Majka 4 (was 6th with 4 points)
8 Peter Sagan 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
9 Marco Frapporti 4 (was 0 points)
10 Diego Ulissi 3 (was 8th with 3 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Deceuninck - Quick Step 33:22:19 (was 1st at 23:15:40)
2 Team Sunweb 3:02 (was 2nd at 3:02)
3 Trek - Segafredo 5:08 (was 3rd at 4:38)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 5:34 (was 4th at 5:34)
5 Team Jumbo-Visma 5:48 (was 5th at 5:48)
6 NTT Pro Cycling 7:05 (was 6th at 7:05)
7 Mitchelton-Scott 7:43 (was 7th at 7:43)
8 AG2R La Mondiale 9:16 (was 8th at 9:16)
9 BORA - hansgrohe 9:17 (was 9th at 9:17)
10 EF Pro Cycling 9:30 (was 10th at 9:30)
11 Bahrain - McLaren 11:29 (was 11th at 11:29)
12 Movistar Team 12:42 (was 12th at 12:42)
13 UAE-Team Emirates 13:47 (was 13th at 13:47)
14 Lotto Soudal 15:00 (was 14th at 15:00)
15 CCC Team 15:33 (was 15th at 15:33)
16 Astana Pro Team 23:14 (was 16th at 22:44)
17 Vini Zabu - KTM 36:04 (was 17th at 33:18)
18 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 37:23 (was 18th at 37:23)
19 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 43:28 (was 19th at 43:28)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 45:29 (was 20th at 44:59)
21 Israel Start-Up Nation 55:26 (was 21th at 55:26)
22 Groupama - FDJ 1:07:35 (was 22th at 1:07:35)

Retirements to date : Stage
Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) 4 <<<
Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana Pro Team) 2
Luca Covili (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane) 1
Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Pro Team) 1
Total retirements : 4


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Stage 4 - Piacenza-Sestola 187 km

1 Joe Dombrowski (USA) UAE-Team Emirates 4:58:38
2 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:13
3 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 0:27
4 Louis Vervaeke (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:29
5 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Bahrain - Victorious 0:29
6 Attila Valter (Hun) Groupama - FDJ 0:44
7 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:49
8 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 0:57
9 Rein Taaramae (Est) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 1:33
10 Team BikeExchange JUUL-JENSEN Christopher (Den) 1:36


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+88 Marton Dina
+88 Joe Dombrowski
+85 Filippo Fiorelli
+76 Nicolas Edet
+61 Team BikeExchange JUUL-JENSEN Christopher
+61 Luis Leon Sanchez
+59 Attila Valter
+58 Louis Vervaeke
+56 Lorenzo Fortunato
+56 Jan Tratnik

Biggest losers by position :
-91 Fabio Felline
-90 Filippo Ganna
-84 Valerio Conti
-83 Elia Viviani
-82 Matteo Jorgenson
-82 Peter Sagan
-72 Fernando Gaviria
-66 Cameron Meyer
-66 Nikias Arndt
-64 Remi Cavagna
-62 Clement Champoussin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:50 Joe Dombrowski
+0:33 Alessandro De Marchi
+0:17 Filippo Fiorelli
+0:11 Louis Vervaeke
+0:11 Jan Tratnik

Biggest losers by time :
-30:16 Attilio Viviani
-30:16 Elia Viviani
-30:16 Simone Consonni
-30:08 Caleb Ewan
-30:08 Roger Kluge
-28:20 Matteo Moschetti
-28:20 Thomas De Gendt
-27:30 Dries De Bondt
-27:13 Maximiliano Richeze
-26:13 Manuel Belletti
-26:13 Riccardo Minali

Favourites by position :
+52 Dan Martin
+42 Emanuel Buchmann
+38 Mikel Landa
+22 Jai Hindley
+19 Egan Bernal
+15 Hugh Carthy
+11 Vincenzo Nibali
+11 Simon Yates
+2 Pello Bilbao
-1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-3 Fausto Masnada
-33 Bauke Mollema
-38 Joao Almeida
-61 Tejay Van Garderen

Favourites by time :
-0:57 Mikel Landa
-0:57 Hugh Carthy
-0:57 Egan Bernal
-0:57 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1:08 Simon Yates
-1:08 Dan Martin
-1:31 Vincenzo Nibali
-1:31 Pello Bilbao
-1:31 Jai Hindley
-1:31 Emanuel Buchmann
-1:31 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-2:11 Fausto Masnada
-5:18 Joao Almeida
-13:15 Bauke Mollema
-19:56 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alessandro De Marchi 13:50:44 (was 12th at 0:33)
2 Joe Dombrowski 0:22 (was 90th at 1:12)
3 Louis Vervaeke 0:42 (was 61st at 0:53)
4 Nelson Oliveira 0:48 (was 11th at 0:32)
5 Attila Valter 1:00 (was 64th at 0:56)
6 Nicolas Edet 1:15 (was 82nd at 1:06)
7 Aleksandr Vlasov 1:24 (was 7th at 0:27)
8 Remco Evenepoel 1:28 (was 3rd at 0:20)
9 Alberto Bettiol 1:37 (was 8th at 0:29)
10 Hugh Carthy 1:38 (was 25th at 0:41)
11 Egan Bernal 1:39 (was 30th at 0:42)
.....
15 Mikel Landa 1:49 (was 53rd at 0:52)
16 Simon Yates 1:49 (was 27th at 0:41)
.....
21 Dan Martin 2:08 (was 73rd at 1:00)
.....
23 Daniel Felipe Martinez 2:10 (was 22nd at 0:39)
24 Pello Bilbao 2:12 (was 26th at 0:41)
25 Vincenzo Nibali 2:15 (was 36th at 0:44)
.....
27 Jai Hindley 2:20 (was 49th at 0:49)
.....
29 Emanuel Buchmann 2:29 (was 71st at 0:58)
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32 Fausto Masnada 2:52 (was 29th at 0:41)
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42 Joao Almeida 5:38 (was 4th at 0:20)
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72 Bauke Mollema 13:59 (was 39th at 0:44)
.....
92 Tejay Van Garderen 20:38 (was 31st at 0:42)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Tim Merlier 50 (unchanged)
2 Elia Viviani 38 (unchanged)
3 Giacomo Nizzolo 35 (unchanged)
4 Peter Sagan 29 (unchanged)
5 Taco Van Der Hoorn 28 (unchanged)
6 Filippo Fiorelli 28 (was 14th with 10 points)
7 Joe Dombrowski 25 (was 0 points)
8 Davide Cimolai 25 (was 6th with 25 points)
9 Filippo Tagliani 24 (was 10th with 12 points)
10 Alessandro De Marchi 23 (was 0 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Joe Dombrowski 18 (was 0 points)
2 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (was 1st with 16 points)
3 Rein Taaramae 13 (was 0 points)
4 Alessandro De Marchi 10 (was 0 points)
5 Francesco Gavazzi 9 (was 0 points)
6 Simon Pellaud 6 (was 2nd with 6 points)
7 Team BikeExchange JUUL-JENSEN Christopher 6 (was 0 points)
8 Lars Van Den Berg 6 (was 3rd with 6 points)
9 Filippo Fiorelli 6 (was 0 points)
10 Louis Vervaeke 5 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 41:35:57 (was 8th at 1:01)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 1:07 (was 2nd at 0:09)
3 UAE-Team Emirates 1:16 (was 7th at 0:52)
4 Team BikeExchange 1:53 (was 12th at 1:13)
5 EF Education - Nippo 2:38 (was 9th at 1:02)
6 Trek - Segafredo 3:21 (was 15th at 1:37)
7 Israel Start-Up Nation 4:43 (was 4th at 0:38)
8 Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:55 (was 3rd at 0:13)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 6:19 (was 1st at 26:35:08)
10 Team DSM 6:28 (was 14th at 1:26)
11 Astana - Premier Tech 7:19 (was 6th at 0:47)
12 Movistar Team 11:41 (was 10th at 1:06)
13 EOLO-Kometa 13:49 (was 19th at 2:27)
14 BORA - hansgrohe 15:06 (was 11th at 1:07)
15 Groupama - FDJ 17:05 (was 13th at 1:23)
16 AG2R Citroen Team 17:20 (was 16th at 1:38)
17 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 17:56 (was 17th at 2:03)
18 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 25:47 (was 5th at 0:41)
19 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 27:03 (was 18th at 2:09)
20 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 31:28 (was 21th at 2:58)
21 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 37:54 (was 20th at 2:37)
22 Alpecin-Fenix 43:41 (was 23th at 11:06)
23 Lotto Soudal 1:12:49 (was 22th at 10:56)

Retirements to date : Stage
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Christopher Juul-jensen (Team BikeExchange) 1
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 3


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Stage 4 - Avola-Etna 172 km

1 Lennard Kamna (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 4:32:11
2 Juan Pedro Lopez (Spa) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
3 Rein Taaramae (Est) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:34
4 Sylvain Moniquet (Bel) Lotto Soudal 2:12
5 Mauri Vansevenant (Bel) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 2:12
6 Gijs Leemreize (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 2:31
7 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers 2:37
8 Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM 2:37
9 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain - Victorious 2:37
10 Joao Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates 2:37


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+98 Sylvain Moniquet
+72 Pascal Eenkhoorn
+72 Antonio Pedrero
+70 Jonathan Castroviejo
+67 Domen Novak
+67 Alessandro De Marchi
+66 Lennard Kamna
+64 Gijs Leemreize
+58 Merhawi Kudus
+57 Rein Taaramae

Biggest losers by position :
-90 Mathieu Van Der Poel
-83 Simone Consonni
-82 Magnus Cort
-79 Biniam Girmay
-78 Jasha Sutterlin
-76 Fabio Felline
-74 Fernando Gaviria
-69 Caleb Ewan
-67 Arnaud Demare
-66 Matteo Sobrero
-61 Andrea Vendrame

Biggest gainers by time :
+1:16 Lennard Kamna
+1:12 Juan Pedro Lopez
+0:37 Rein Taaramae

Biggest losers by time :
-34:45 Bert Van Lerberghe
-34:45 Mark Cavendish
-34:45 Michael Morkov
-34:45 Pieter Serry
-30:51 Caleb Ewan
-30:47 Michael Schwarzmann
-30:47 Rudiger Selig
-28:49 Alberto Dainese
-28:49 Andrii Ponomar
-28:49 Arnaud Demare
-28:49 Clement Davy

Favourites by position :
+15 Hugh Carthy
+15 Alejandro Valverde
+13 Guillaume Martin
+9 Mikel Landa
+9 Jai Hindley
+4 Richie Porte
+4 Richard Carapaz
+3 Joao Almeida
+2 Pello Bilbao
-1 Wilco Kelderman
-2 Simon Yates
-20 Vincenzo Nibali
-31 Wout Poels
-35 David De La Cruz

Favourites by time :
-1:31 Wilco Kelderman
-1:31 Simon Yates
-1:31 Richie Porte
-1:31 Richard Carapaz
-1:31 Pello Bilbao
-1:31 Mikel Landa
-1:31 Joao Almeida
-1:31 Jai Hindley
-1:31 Hugh Carthy
-1:31 Alejandro Valverde
-3:02 Guillaume Martin
-3:46 Vincenzo Nibali
-15:02 Wout Poels
-21:48 David De La Cruz

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Juan Pedro Lopez 14:17:07 (was 47th at 1:12)
2 Lennard Kamna 0:39 (was 68th at 1:55)
3 Rein Taaramae 0:58 (was 60th at 1:35)
4 Simon Yates 1:42 (was 2nd at 0:11)
5 Mauri Vansevenant 1:47 (was 20th at 0:43)
6 Wilco Kelderman 1:55 (was 5th at 0:24)
7 Pello Bilbao 2:00 (was 9th at 0:29)
8 Joao Almeida 2:00 (was 11th at 0:29)
9 Richie Porte 2:04 (was 13th at 0:33)
10 Romain Bardet 2:06 (was 14th at 0:35)
11 Richard Carapaz 2:06 (was 15th at 0:35)
12 Mikel Landa 2:15 (was 21st at 0:44)
.....
14 Jai Hindley 2:16 (was 23rd at 0:45)
.....
16 Hugh Carthy 2:20 (was 31st at 0:49)
17 Alejandro Valverde 2:23 (was 32nd at 0:52)
.....
29 Guillaume Martin 4:06 (was 42nd at 1:04)
.....
32 Vincenzo Nibali 4:16 (was 12th at 0:30)
.....
72 Wout Poels 16:05 (was 41st at 1:03)
.....
102 David De La Cruz 23:38 (was 67th at 1:50)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 62 (unchanged)
2 Biniam Girmay 55 (unchanged)
3 Mark Cavendish 53 (unchanged)
4 Arnaud Demare 44 (unchanged)
5 Fernando Gaviria 32 (unchanged)
6 Pello Bilbao 27 (was 6th with 25 points)
7 Filippo Tagliani 24 (unchanged)
8 Lennard Kamna 22 (was 34th with 3 points)
9 Wilco Kelderman 18 (was 8th with 18 points)
10 Magnus Cort 18 (was 9th with 18 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Lennard Kamna 40 (was 0 points)
2 Juan Pedro Lopez 18 (was 0 points)
3 Rein Taaramae 12 (was 0 points)
4 Sylvain Moniquet 9 (was 0 points)
5 Mauri Vansevenant 6 (was 0 points)
6 Pascal Eenkhoorn 5 (was 2nd with 5 points)
7 Rick Zabel 5 (was 1st with 5 points)
8 Gijs Leemreize 4 (was 0 points)
9 Mathieu Van Der Poel 3 (was 3rd with 3 points)
10 Richard Carapaz 2 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 BORA - hansgrohe 42:54:54 (was 4th at 0:22)
2 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 2:17 (was 11th at 1:25)
3 Trek - Segafredo 2:47 (was 7th at 0:45)
4 Bahrain - Victorious 3:03 (was 8th at 0:48)
5 INEOS Grenadiers 3:21 (was 2nd at 0:11)
6 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 3:26 (was 3rd at 0:16)
7 Movistar Team 6:03 (was 12th at 1:26)
8 Jumbo-Visma 6:39 (was 1st at 29:12:45)
9 Team DSM 8:06 (was 16th at 2:32)
10 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:43 (was 5th at 0:43)
11 EF Education-EasyPost 10:31 (was 10th at 1:24)
12 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 11:25 (was 9th at 1:01)
13 Cofidis 11:45 (was 14th at 1:45)
14 UAE Team Emirates 14:05 (was 6th at 0:45)
15 EOLO-Kometa 23:30 (was 18th at 2:54)
16 AG2R Citroen Team 28:34 (was 13th at 1:43)
17 Lotto Soudal 40:12 (was 21th at 5:40)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 45:53 (was 17th at 2:43)
19 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 48:12 (was 20th at 4:52)
20 Drone Hopper - Androni Giocattoli 48:36 (was 22th at 8:11)
21 Israel - Premier Tech 54:50 (was 19th at 4:03)
22 Groupama - FDJ 55:58 (was 15th at 2:15)

Retirements to date : Stage
Jakub Mareczko (Alpecin-Fenix) 4 <<<
Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 4 <<<
Jan Tratnik (Bahrain - Victorious) 3
Total retirements : 3


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