Stage 4 - Sankt Urban-Gstaad 171 km

1 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Education - Nippo 3:46:21
2 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Groupama - FDJ 0:00
3 Joey Rosskopf (USA) Rally Cycling 0:00
4 Joel Suter (Swi) Switzerland 0:23
5 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek - Segafredo 5:16
6 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 5:16
7 Omar Fraile (Spa) Astana - Premier Tech 5:16
8 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 5:16
9 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain - Victorious 5:16
10 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 5:16


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+105 Rui Costa
+70 Stefan Bissegger
+52 Joel Suter
+37 Joey Rosskopf
+29 Benjamin Thomas
+18 James Piccoli
+16 Silvan Dillier
+14 Tobias Ludvigsson
+14 Otto Vergaerde
+14 Jonas Rutsch

Biggest losers by position :
-26 Claudio Imhof
-25 Jelle Wallays
-25 Simon Clarke
-18 John Degenkolb
-13 Jonas Gregaard
-13 Mauri Vansevenant
-11 Anthony Turgis
-10 Damien Touze
-9 Simon Pellaud
-7 Alex Kirsch
-7 Alvaro Jose Hodeg

Biggest gainers by time :
+21:06 Rui Costa
+5:27 Stefan Bissegger
+5:25 Benjamin Thomas
+5:23 Joey Rosskopf
+4:58 Joel Suter

Biggest losers by time :
-6:28 Alex Howes
-6:28 Alvaro Jose Hodeg
-6:28 Claudio Imhof
-6:28 Eros Capecchi
-6:28 Floris De Tier
-6:28 Jelle Wallays
-6:28 Maciej Bodnar
-6:28 Matteo Dal-Cin
-6:28 Oliviero Troia
-6:28 Rob Britton
-6:28 Sep Vanmarcke

Favourites by position :
+12 Tom Dumoulin
+2 Domenico Pozzovivo
-1 Wout Poels
-1 Tiesj Benoot
-1 Rigoberto Uran
-1 Matteo Fabbro
-1 Lucas Hamilton
-1 Jakob Fuglsang
-2 Rohan Dennis

Favourites by time :
-1:01 David De La Cruz
-1:09 Rohan Dennis

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 12:40:51 (unchanged)
2 Julian Alaphilippe 0:01 (unchanged)
3 Stefan Kung 0:04 (unchanged)
4 Maximilian Schachmann 0:06 (unchanged)
5 Mattia Cattaneo 0:13 (unchanged)
6 Ivan Garcia Cortina 0:16 (unchanged)
7 Richard Carapaz 0:17 (unchanged)
8 Neilson Powless 0:29 (unchanged)
9 Andreas Kron 0:37 (unchanged)
10 Stefan Bissegger 0:38 (was 80th at 6:05)
11 Rigoberto Uran 0:39 (was 10th at 0:39)
12 Jakob Fuglsang 0:39 (was 11th at 0:39)
.....
17 Wout Poels 0:56 (was 16th at 0:56)
18 Lucas Hamilton 0:59 (was 17th at 0:59)
19 Tiesj Benoot 0:59 (was 18th at 0:59)
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31 Esteban Chaves 1:40 (unchanged)
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43 Domenico Pozzovivo 2:38 (was 45th at 2:38)
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51 Matteo Fabbro 3:47 (was 50th at 3:47)
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76 Rohan Dennis 6:44 (was 74th at 5:35)
77 David De La Cruz 6:48 (was 77th at 5:47)
.....
97 Tom Dumoulin 10:21 (was 109th at 10:21)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 24 (unchanged)
2 Stefan Bissegger 21 (was 8th with 8 points)
3 Stefan Kung 12 (was 2nd with 12 points)
4 Claudio Imhof 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
5 Benjamin Thomas 11 (was 0 points)
6 Mattia Cattaneo 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
7 Joel Suter 10 (was 0 points)
8 Joey Rosskopf 10 (was 0 points)
9 Maximilian Schachmann 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
10 Julian Alaphilippe 8 (was 6th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Nickolas Zukowsky 10 (unchanged)
2 Tom Bohli 10 (unchanged)
3 Maximilian Schachmann 6 (unchanged)
4 Benjamin Thomas 6 (was 0 points)
5 Claudio Imhof 6 (was 4th with 6 points)
6 Matteo Dal-Cin 6 (was 5th with 6 points)
7 Ben King 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
8 Remy Rochas 4 (was 7th with 4 points)
9 Julian Alaphilippe 4 (was 8th with 4 points)
10 Stefan Bissegger 4 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Ef|Education - Nippo 25:21:21 (was 6th at 1:35)
2 Groupama - FDJ 1:56 (was 15th at 3:31)
3 Rally Cycling 2:52 (was 17th at 4:27)
4 Switzerland 3:38 (was 21th at 4:50)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 3:41 (was 1st at 13:50:11)
6 Ineos|Grenadiers 4:26 (was 2nd at 0:45)
7 Astana - Premier Tech 4:37 (was 3rd at 0:56)
8 Team Jumbo-Visma 4:41 (was 4th at 1:00)
9 Team BikeExchange 5:22 (was 7th at 1:41)
10 Trek - Segafredo 5:29 (was 8th at 1:48)
11 Alpecin-Fenix 5:36 (was 9th at 1:55)
12 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 5:37 (was 5th at 1:10)
13 Team Total Direct Energie 5:46 (was 10th at 2:05)
14 Movistar Team 6:06 (was 11th at 2:25)
15 - |hansgrohe 6:19 (was 12th at 2:38)
16 Team DSM 6:25 (was 13th at 2:44)
17 Bahrain - Victorious 6:39 (was 14th at 2:58)
18 Lotto Soudal 7:49 (was 16th at 4:08)
19 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 8:17 (was 18th at 4:36)
20 AG2R Citroen Team 8:19 (was 19th at 4:38)
21 UAE-Team Emirates 8:23 (was 20th at 4:42)
22 Israel Start-Up Nation 9:08 (was 22th at 5:27)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexys Brunel (Groupama - FDJ) 4 <<<
Baptiste Planckaert (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Jan Hirt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Lorenzo Rota (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Maurits Lammertink (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 4 <<<
Simone Petilli (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4 <<<
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Total Direct Energie) 1
Total retirements : 9


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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)
.....
17 Maximilian Schachmann 0:55 (unchanged)
.....
23 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:01 (was 25th at 1:01)
24 Gino Mader 1:01 (unchanged)
.....
26 Rigoberto Uran 1:01 (unchanged)
.....
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)
.....
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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Stage 4 : Ruschlikon > Gotthard Pass (171 km)

1 Torstein Traen (Nor) 4:10:21
2 Adam Yates (GBr) 0:23
3 Mattias Skjelmose (Den) 0:48
4 Joao Almeida (Por) 0:48
5 Egan Bernal (Col) 1:00
6 Oscar Onley (GBr) 1:27
7 Enric Mas (Spa) 1:27
8 Felix Gall (Aut) 1:27
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks (Bel) 1:27
10 Matthew Riccitello (USA) 1:27


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+73 Torstein Traen
+58 Roland Thalmann
+51 James Shaw
+48 Harrison Wood
+40 Simon Guglielmi
+38 Silvan Dillier
+33 Robert Gesink
+31 Reuben Thompson
+31 Isaac Del Toro
+31 Felix Gall

Biggest losers by position :
-55 Samuel Watson
-49 Yves Lampaert
-41 Finn Fisher-Black
-39 Axel Laurance
-38 Bryan Coquard
-38 Francesco Busatto
-35 Soren Kragh Andersen
-35 Stefan Kung
-34 Marc Hirschi
-32 Ben Tulett
-32 Xabier Mikel Azparren

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:43 Torstein Traen
+0:10 Adam Yates

Biggest losers by time :
-23:12 Alexis Renard
-23:12 Arnaud Demare
-23:12 Christoph Janssen
-23:12 Daniel Mclay
-23:12 Elia Blum
-23:12 Jacopo Guarnieri
-23:12 Johan Price-Pejtersen
-23:12 Jordi Warlop
-23:12 Luca Jenni
-23:12 Marco Murgano
-23:12 Matteo Amella

Favourites by position :
+31 Felix Gall
+18 Cian Uijtdebroeks
+13 Sergio Higuita
+11 Enric Mas
+7 Adam Yates
+5 Richard Carapaz
+4 Mattias Skjelmose
+3 Thomas Pidcock
+3 Joao Almeida
-2 Wilco Kelderman
-9 Damiano Caruso
-17 Ion Izagirre
-35 Stefan Kung

Favourites by time :
+0:10 Adam Yates
-0:17 Mattias Skjelmose
-0:17 Joao Almeida
-0:56 Cian Uijtdebroeks
-1:00 Felix Gall
-1:00 Enric Mas
-1:09 Wilco Kelderman
-1:23 Sergio Higuita
-1:27 Thomas Pidcock
-1:41 Richard Carapaz
-13:52 Ion Izagirre
-16:34 Damiano Caruso
-17:46 Stefan Kung

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Adam Yates 11:50:08 (was 8th at 0:10)
2 Joao Almeida 0:26 (was 5th at 0:09)
3 Mattias Skjelmose 0:26 (was 7th at 0:09)
4 Egan Bernal 0:49 (was 17th at 0:16)
5 Wilco Kelderman 1:15 (was 3rd at 0:06)
6 Oscar Onley 1:17 (was 21st at 0:21)
7 Enric Mas 1:17 (was 18th at 0:17)
8 Cian Uijtdebroeks 1:21 (was 26th at 0:25)
9 Matthew Riccitello 1:25 (was 29th at 0:29)
10 Felix Gall 1:42 (was 41st at 0:42)
11 Thomas Pidcock 1:42 (was 14th at 0:15)
12 Sergio Higuita 1:48 (was 25th at 0:25)
.....
17 Richard Carapaz 2:02 (was 22nd at 0:21)
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68 Ion Izagirre 14:48 (was 51st at 0:56)
.....
81 Stefan Kung 18:35 (was 46th at 0:49)
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111 Damiano Caruso 25:15 (was 102nd at 8:41)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Bryan Coquard 18 (was 2nd with 12 points)
2 Michael Matthews 18 (was 7th with 8 points)
3 Torstein Traen 12 (was 0 points)
4 Yves Lampaert 12 (was 1st with 12 points)
5 Thibau Nys 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
6 Luca Jenni 10 (was 4th with 10 points)
7 Roberto Carlos Gonzalez 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
8 Adam Yates 8 (was 0 points)
9 Joao Almeida 8 (was 14th with 4 points)
10 Stephen Williams 8 (was 6th with 8 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Torstein Traen 18 (was 0 points)
2 Adam Yates 11 (was 5th with 3 points)
3 Gerben Kuypers 10 (was 2nd with 10 points)
4 Luca Jenni 10 (was 1st with 10 points)
5 Roberto Carlos Gonzalez 7 (was 3rd with 7 points)
6 Antoine Debons 7 (was 4th with 7 points)
7 Mattias Skjelmose 6 (was 0 points)
8 Joao Almeida 4 (was 0 points)
9 Roland Thalmann 4 (was 0 points)
10 Louis Vervaeke 3 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 35:32:08 (was 1st at 22:58:18)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 2:56 (was 2nd at 0:16)
3 Movistar Team 3:40 (was 10th at 1:02)
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 4:13 (was 4th at 0:19)
5 Israel - Premier Tech 4:18 (was 6th at 0:44)
6 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 5:55 (was 8th at 0:57)
7 Lidl - Trek 6:44 (was 3rd at 0:16)
8 EF Education - EasyPost 6:56 (was 5th at 0:41)
9 BORA - hansgrohe 7:27 (was 9th at 0:58)
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 7:31 (was 14th at 2:02)
11 Bahrain - Victorious 9:41 (was 22th at 8:23)
12 Groupama - FDJ 12:34 (was 11th at 1:20)
13 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 15:02 (was 17th at 3:55)
14 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 15:11 (was 15th at 2:08)
15 Arkea - B&B Hotels 15:38 (was 20th at 5:04)
16 Team Jayco AlUla 21:04 (was 13th at 2:02)
17 Soudal Quick-Step 22:16 (was 7th at 0:55)
18 Lotto Dstny 24:44 (was 16th at 3:40)
19 Alpecin - Deceuninck 25:56 (was 12th at 1:59)
20 Cofidis 27:16 (was 19th at 4:06)
21 Intermarche - Wanty 36:01 (was 21th at 8:03)
22 Astana Qazaqstan Team 37:38 (was 18th at 4:01)
23 Team Corratec - Vini Fantini 1:08:09 (was 23th at 27:12)
24 Swiss Cycling 1:19:59 (was 24th at 29:21)

Retirements to date : Stage
Antoine Aebi (Swiss Cycling (NAT)) 4 <<<
Bauke Mollema (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 4 <<<
Timo Kielich (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4 <<<
Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team (WT)) 3
Emanuel Buchmann (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
Fausto Masnada (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 2
Kevin Colleoni (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 2
Total retirements : 7


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