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Stage 4 : Albufeira > Albufeira (22 km)

1 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) 0:27:09
2 Magnus Sheffield (USA) 0:16
3 Stefan Kung (Swi) 0:29
4 Isaac Del Toro (Mex) 0:37
5 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) 0:46
6 Filippo Ganna (Ita) 0:47
7 Ben Healy (Irl) 0:48
8 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) 0:51
9 Rune Herregodts (Bel) 0:58
10 Jan Tratnik (Slo) 0:58


Changes in GC, stage 4 compared to stage 3 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+25 Julien Vermote
+24 Clement Russo
+18 Mattia Cattaneo
+17 John Degenkolb
+16 Isaac Del Toro
+16 Daniel Babor
+14 Stefan Kung
+14 Magnus Sheffield
+14 Casper Van Uden
+13 Thibault Guernalec

Biggest losers by position :
-21 Francisco Joel Penuela
-18 Francisco Guerreiro
-18 Michal Schlegel
-15 Adrien Petit
-15 Daniel Viegas
-15 Sergio Higuita
-14 James Knox
-13 Afonso Silva
-13 Robin Froidevaux
-12 David Dominguez
-11 Abner Gonzalez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:04 Remco Evenepoel

Biggest losers by time :
-6:41 Goncalo Carvalho
-6:39 Francois Vie
-6:33 Antonio Ferreira
-6:32 Jose Bicho
-6:28 Afonso Eulalio
-6:14 Andre Ribeiro
-5:58 Tomas Martins
-5:57 German Nicolas Tivani
-5:54 Luis Fernandes
-5:37 Diogo Barbosa
-5:30 Santiago Mesa

Favourites by position :
+14 Stefan Kung
+13 Thibault Guernalec
+10 Filippo Ganna
+7 Andreas Leknessund
+6 Geraint Thomas
+2 Thymen Arensman
+2 Bob Jungels
+1 Remco Evenepoel
-1 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-4 Thomas Pidcock
-8 Sepp Kuss
-9 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-11 Mikel Landa
-14 James Knox
-15 Sergio Higuita

Favourites by time :
+0:04 Remco Evenepoel
-0:25 Stefan Kung
-0:43 Filippo Ganna
-0:47 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-1:00 Thymen Arensman
-1:22 Thibault Guernalec
-1:23 Bob Jungels
-1:26 Thomas Pidcock
-1:34 Sepp Kuss
-1:47 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-1:47 Andreas Leknessund
-1:49 Geraint Thomas
-2:11 Sergio Higuita
-2:12 Mikel Landa
-4:11 James Knox

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Remco Evenepoel 14:50:24 (was 2nd at 0:04)
2 Daniel Felipe Martinez 0:47 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Jan Tratnik 1:12 (was 5th at 0:18)
4 Wout Van Aert 1:18 (was 8th at 0:22)
5 Stefan Kung 1:18 (was 19th at 0:53)
6 Ben Healy 1:20 (was 16th at 0:36)
7 Thymen Arensman 1:23 (was 9th at 0:23)
8 Magnus Sheffield 1:34 (was 22nd at 1:22)
9 Antonio Morgado 1:39 (was 12th at 0:30)
10 Thomas Pidcock 1:44 (was 6th at 0:18)
11 Sepp Kuss 1:46 (was 3rd at 0:12)
.....
15 Bob Jungels 1:59 (was 17th at 0:36)
16 Tao Geoghegan Hart 2:05 (was 7th at 0:18)
.....
19 Sergio Higuita 2:27 (was 4th at 0:16)
.....
21 Mikel Landa 2:35 (was 10th at 0:23)
.....
36 Thibault Guernalec 5:49 (was 49th at 4:27)
.....
40 Andreas Leknessund 6:12 (was 47th at 4:25)
.....
42 Filippo Ganna 6:15 (was 52nd at 5:32)
.....
44 James Knox 6:36 (was 30th at 2:25)
.....
49 Geraint Thomas 7:21 (was 55th at 5:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Gerben Thijssen 38 (unchanged)
2 Wout Van Aert 29 (unchanged)
3 Rui Oliveira 28 (unchanged)
4 Marius Mayrhofer 16 (unchanged)
5 Jordi Meeus 16 (unchanged)
6 Daniel Felipe Martinez 15 (unchanged)
7 Lars Boven 13 (unchanged)
8 Remco Evenepoel 12 (unchanged)
9 Jasper Stuyven 12 (unchanged)
10 Sepp Kuss 10 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Daniel Felipe Martinez 10 (unchanged)
2 German Nicolas Tivani 8 (unchanged)
3 Remco Evenepoel 8 (unchanged)
4 Tomas Contte 7 (was 5th with 7 points)
5 Andreas Leknessund 6 (was 6th with 6 points)
6 Sepp Kuss 6 (was 7th with 6 points)
7 Martin Urianstad Bugge 6 (was 8th with 6 points)
8 Carlos Miguel Salgueiro 5 (was 9th with 5 points)
9 Sergio Higuita 4 (was 10th with 4 points)
10 Max Walker 4 (was 11th with 4 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 44:35:10 (was 3rd at 1:01)
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:17 (was 2nd at 0:08)
3 BORA - hansgrohe 0:49 (was 1st at 43:10:35)
4 UAE Team Emirates 1:43 (was 4th at 1:40)
5 Soudal - Quick Step 1:45 (was 5th at 1:51)
6 EF Education - EasyPost 3:17 (was 7th at 2:47)
7 Astana Qazaqstan Team 3:55 (was 6th at 2:43)
8 Lidl - Trek 6:36 (was 8th at 5:52)
9 Uno-X Mobility 8:46 (was 9th at 6:15)
10 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 10:11 (was 10th at 9:21)
11 Groupama - FDJ 10:56 (was 11th at 9:44)
12 Alpecin - Deceuninck 16:08 (was 14th at 12:41)
13 Caja Rural - Seguros RGA 18:55 (was 13th at 12:15)
14 Radio Popular - Paredes - Boavista 19:42 (was 12th at 11:25)
15 Arkea - B&B Hotels 20:34 (was 15th at 17:24)
16 Intermarche - Wanty 21:48 (was 16th at 18:31)
17 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 23:01 (was 17th at 19:54)
18 Efapel Cycling 27:11 (was 18th at 20:25)
19 Kelly / Simoldes / UDO 35:02 (was 19th at 25:10)
20 Aviludo - Louletano - Loule Concelho 35:45 (was 20th at 27:04)
21 Sabgal / Anicolor 40:29 (was 21th at 33:42)
22 Credibom / LA Aluminios / Marcos Car 42:55 (was 22th at 34:07)
23 APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense 46:44 (was 23th at 37:59)
24 ABTF Betao - Feirense 49:22 (was 24th at 38:21)
25 Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua 1:04:14 (was 25th at 53:09)

Retirements to date : Stage
Aleksandr Grigorev (Efapel Cycling (CT)) 4 <<<
Diogo Oliveira (ABTF Betao - Feirense (CT)) 4 <<<
Duarte Mixao (Kelly / Simoldes / UDO (CT)) 4 <<<
Fabio Oliveira (ABTF Betao - Feirense (CT)) 4 <<<
Francisco Campos (APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense ( 4 <<<
Ruben Simao (APHotels & Resorts / Tavira / SC Farense (CT)) 4 <<<
Stan Van Tricht (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4 <<<
Tiago Ferreira (Kelly / Simoldes / UDO (CT)) 4 <<<
Tiesj Benoot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 4 <<<
Marijn Van Den Berg (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 3
Rui Costa (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 3
Sam Oomen (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 3
Alexander Hajek (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
Goncalo Amado (Tavfer-Ovos Matinados-Mortagua (CT)) 2
Total retirements : 14


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