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Wednesday, June 11: Stage 4, Montélimar - Gap, 167.5 km

Stage 4 photos | Stage 4 profile |

Rated ascents:

• Km 80.5: Côte de Rosans, 1.5 km @ 3.6% average gradient, Category 4
• Km 155: Col de Manse, 9.6 km @ 5.2%, Category 2

The Race: The organizers called this a day for "butterflies in the stomach" because of the highly technical descent of the Col de Manse shortly before the finish in Gap. Overall they considered it a day made for adventurous breakaways with both the curvy roads between Nyons and Veynes (roughly the stage's middle third) and the hair-raising ride down the Manse.

Early on, a thirteen-man group escaped and was allowed to gain a five-minute gap. By the Col de Manse the break was partly reeled in, having a couple of minutes in hand. Sky did the hard work of controlling the peloton while the break fragmented on the climb. Katusha's Yury Trofimov (a good descender) attacked the break and went over the top of the Manse about two and a half minutes ahead of the yellow jersey group with lots of riders scattered in between.

Trofimov's race down the difficult mountain road was completely insane. He held his lead on the short flat section leading into Gap and took a wonderful, well-earned solo win.

Chris Froome maintained his 12-second lead in the GC over Alberto Contador.

Complete Results:

Winner's average speed: 41.99 km/hr

1	Yury Trofimov	TEAM KATUSHA	3hr 59min 22sec
2	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING	@ 23 seconds
3	Pim Ligthart	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:00:25
4	Lars-Peter Nordhaug	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:00:28
5	Peter Velits	BMC RACING TEAM
6	Maxime Bouet	AG2R LA MONDIALE
7	Jan Bakelants	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
8	Damiano Caruso	CANNONDALE
9	Andriy Grivko	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:01:31
10	Ryder Hesjedal	GARMIN - SHARP
11	Christian Meier	ORICA GREENEDGE
12	Romain Sicard	TEAM EUROPCAR
13	Imanol Erviti Ollo	MOVISTAR TEAM
14	Romain Bardet	AG2R LA MONDIALE
15	Tejay Van Garderen	BMC RACING TEAM
16	Jens Keukeleire	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:02:10
17	Cyril Gautier	TEAM EUROPCAR
18	Chad Haga	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
19	Sylvain Chavanel	IAM CYCLING
20	Valerio Conti	LAMPRE - MERIDA
21	Christopher Froome	TEAM SKY
22	Alex Howes	GARMIN - SHARP
23	Alberto Contador	TINKOFF-SAXO
24	Jesus Hernandez Blazquez	TINKOFF-SAXO
25	Greg Van Avermaet	BMC RACING TEAM
26	John Darwin Atapuma	BMC RACING TEAM
27	Lieuwe Westra	ASTANA PRO TEAM
28	Adam Yates	ORICA GREENEDGE
29	Carlos Verona	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
30	Wilco Kelderman	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
31	Andrew Talansky	GARMIN - SHARP
32	Dominik Nerz	BMC RACING TEAM
33	Luis Angel Mate Mardones	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
34	Mikel Nieve Iturralde	TEAM SKY
35	Alexander Rybakov	TEAM KATUSHA
36	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.FR
37	Bram Tankink	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
38	Jurgen Van Den Broeck	LOTTO-BELISOL
39	Kristijan Koren	CANNONDALE
40	George Bennett	CANNONDALE
41	Jakob Fuglsang	ASTANA PRO TEAM
42	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM
43	Leopold Konig	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
44	Richie Porte	TEAM SKY
45	Kristijan Durasek	LAMPRE - MERIDA
46	Igor Anton	MOVISTAR TEAM
47	Tanel Kangert	ASTANA PRO TEAM
48	Geraint Thomas	TEAM SKY
49	Michal Kwiatkowski	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP
50	Haimar Zubeldia	TREK FACTORY RACING
51	Ivan Santaromita	ORICA GREENEDGE
52	Daniel Moreno Fernandez	TEAM KATUSHA
53	Bart De Clercq	LOTTO-BELISOL
54	Sébastien Reichenbach	IAM CYCLING
55	Amaël Moinard	BMC RACING TEAM
56	John Gadret	MOVISTAR TEAM
57	Daniel Navarro	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
58	Egor Silin	TEAM KATUSHA
59	Vincenzo Nibali	ASTANA PRO TEAM
60	Tony Gallopin	LOTTO-BELISOL
61	Mikael Cherel	AG2R LA MONDIALE
62	Jean-Christophe Peraud	AG2R LA MONDIALE
63	Bob Jungels	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:02:20
64	Bartosz Huzarski	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:02:29
65	Ben Gastauer	AG2R LA MONDIALE
66	Nicolas Edet	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
67	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:02:38
68	Edwald Suarez Beltran	TINKOFF-SAXO
69	Yoann Bagot	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:03:32
70	Kevin De Weert	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:05:44
71	Markel Irizar	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:05:44
72	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:05:44
73	Pierrick Fedrigo	FDJ.FR
74	Jean Marc Marino	CANNONDALE
75	Bruno Pires	TINKOFF-SAXO
76	Thomas Damuseau	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
77	David Lopez Garcia	TEAM SKY
78	Jan Barta	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:07:01
79	Lars Boom	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
80	Thomas Voeckler	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:07:03
81	Dmitry Kozontchuk	TEAM KATUSHA
82	Giovanni Visconti	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:08:24
83	Jérôme Pineau	IAM CYCLING	0:08:26
84	Jurgen Roelandts	LOTTO-BELISOL
85	Zdenek Stybar	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:08:41
86	Michal Golas	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:08:41
87	Yannick Martinez	TEAM EUROPCAR
88	Winner Anacona Gomez	LAMPRE - MERIDA
89	Marco Marcato	CANNONDALE	0:09:29
90	José Ivan Gutierrez	MOVISTAR TEAM
91	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA PRO TEAM
92	Alessandro Vanotti	ASTANA PRO TEAM
93	Kévin Reza	TEAM EUROPCAR
94	Arthur Vichot	FDJ.FR
95	Simon Gerrans	ORICA GREENEDGE
96	Stephan Denifl	IAM CYCLING
97	Yaroslav Popovych	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:12:38
98	Hayden Roulston	TREK FACTORY RACING
99	Andrey Zeits	ASTANA PRO TEAM
100	Johannes Fröhlinger	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
101	Nicky Van Der Lijke	BELKIN PRO CYCLING
102	Thierry Hupond	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
103	Nikias Arndt	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO
104	Sébastien Hinault	IAM CYCLING
105	Blel Kadri	AG2R LA MONDIALE
106	Enrique Sanz Unzue	MOVISTAR TEAM
107	Cayetano Sarmiento Tunarrosa	CANNONDALE
108	Frantisek Padour	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA
109	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE
110	Damiano Cunego	LAMPRE - MERIDA
111	Frederik Willems	LOTTO-BELISOL
112	Jack Bobridge	BELKIN PRO CYCLING

GC after Stage 4:

1	Christopher Froome	TEAM SKY	14hr 09min 19sec
2	Alberto Contador	TINKOFF-SAXO	@ 12 seconds
3	Wilco Kelderman	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:00:21
4	Andrew Talansky	GARMIN - SHARP	0:00:33
5	Jurgen Van Den Broeck	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:00:35
6	Vincenzo Nibali	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:00:50
7	Maxime Bouet	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:01:01
8	Haimar Zubeldia	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:01:22
9	Jakob Fuglsang	ASTANA PRO TEAM
10	Adam Yates	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:01:31
11	Tanel Kangert	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:01:35
12	Romain Bardet	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:01:40
13	Sébastien Reichenbach	IAM CYCLING
14	Gustav Larsson	IAM CYCLING	0:01:42
15	Daniel Navarro	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:01:43
16	Leopold Konig	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:01:44
17	Tony Gallopin	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:01:56
18	Kenny Elissonde	FDJ.FR	0:02:01
19	Tejay Van Garderen	BMC RACING TEAM	0:02:22
20	Mikel Nieve Iturralde	TEAM SKY	0:02:24
21	Kristijan Durasek	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:02:32
22	Igor Anton	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:02:34
23	Michal Kwiatkowski	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:02:37
24	George Bennett	CANNONDALE
25	Daniel Moreno Fernandez	TEAM KATUSHA	0:02:42
26	Bart De Clercq	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:02:47
27	Jesus Hernandez Blazquez	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:03:06
28	Valerio Conti	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:03:24
29	Ivan Santaromita	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:03:28
30	John Darwin Atapuma	BMC RACING TEAM	0:03:31
31	Yury Trofimov	TEAM KATUSHA	0:03:42
32	Nicolas Edet	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:03:43
33	Ryder Hesjedal	GARMIN - SHARP	0:03:50
34	Alex Howes	GARMIN - SHARP	0:03:54
35	Bartosz Huzarski	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:03:56
36	Peter Stetina	BMC RACING TEAM	0:04:01
37	John Gadret	MOVISTAR TEAM
38	Romain Sicard	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:04:36
39	Yoann Bagot	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:05:07
40	Alexander Rybakov	TEAM KATUSHA	0:05:19
41	Chad Haga	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:05:28
42	Egor Silin	TEAM KATUSHA	0:05:31
43	Sylvain Chavanel	IAM CYCLING	0:05:46
44	Andriy Grivko	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:05:49
45	Jan Bakelants	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:05:51
46	Kristijan Koren	CANNONDALE	0:05:52
47	Lieuwe Westra	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:05:52
48	Damiano Caruso	CANNONDALE	0:06:03
49	Cyril Gautier	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:06:37
50	Thomas Voeckler	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:07:42
51	Peter Velits	BMC RACING TEAM	0:07:42
52	Jean-Christophe Peraud	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:07:43
53	Luis Angel Mate Mardones	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:07:51
54	Carlos Verona	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:08:12
55	Amaël Moinard	BMC RACING TEAM	0:09:01
56	Mikael Cherel	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:09:10
57	Christophe Le Mevel	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:09:42
58	Lars-Peter Nordhaug	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:10:05
59	Edwald Suarez Beltran	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:10:22
60	Geraint Thomas	TEAM SKY	0:10:51
61	Richie Porte	TEAM SKY	0:10:56
62	Imanol Erviti Ollo	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:11:17
63	Winner Anacona Gomez	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:12:02
64	Greg Van Avermaet	BMC RACING TEAM	0:12:05
65	Jens Keukeleire	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:12:06
66	Bob Jungels	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:12:10
67	Giovanni Visconti	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:12:26
68	Ben Gastauer	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:12:37
69	Pim Ligthart	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:13:08
70	Bram Tankink	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:13:23
71	Dominik Nerz	BMC RACING TEAM	0:13:29
72	Julien Simon	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	0:13:40
73	Dmitry Kozontchuk	TEAM KATUSHA	0:14:30
74	David Lopez Garcia	TEAM SKY	0:14:41
75	Markel Irizar	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:14:59
76	Christian Meier	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:15:09
77	Thomas Damuseau	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:15:21
78	Julian Alaphilippe	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:15:42
79	Jan Barta	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:16:28
80	Sergio Paulinho	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:17:16
81	Lars Boom	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:17:24
82	Kevin De Weert	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:17:50
83	Stephan Denifl	IAM CYCLING	0:18:20
84	Yannick Martinez	TEAM EUROPCAR
85	Jérôme Pineau	IAM CYCLING	0:18:25
86	Kévin Reza	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:19:08
87	Michal Golas	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:20:01
88	Jurgen Roelandts	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:20:04
89	David Millar	GARMIN - SHARP	0:20:09
90	Arthur Vichot	FDJ.FR	0:20:33
91	José Ivan Gutierrez	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:20:43
92	Zdenek Stybar	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	0:21:32
93	Pierrick Fedrigo	FDJ.FR	0:21:46
94	Simon Gerrans	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:21:50
95	Damien Howson	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:22:30
96	Fumiyuki Beppu	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:22:35
97	Frantisek Padour	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:22:45
98	Aleksejs Saramotins	IAM CYCLING	0:23:10
99	Simon Spilak	TEAM KATUSHA	0:23:18
100	Guillaume Bonnafond	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:23:19
101	Rory Sutherland	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:23:28
102	Jean Marc Marino	CANNONDALE	0:23:33
103	Bruno Pires	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:23:40
104	Nicki Sorensen	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:23:47
105	Martijn Keizer	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:23:53
106	Yoann Offredo	FDJ.FR	0:23:58
107	Stig Broeckx	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:24:10
108	Cayetano Sarmiento Tunarrosa	CANNONDALE	0:24:30
109	Jens Voigt	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:25:02
110	Matthias Brandle	IAM CYCLING	0:25:57
111	Alexis Gougeard	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:26:43
112	Dmitriy Gruzdev	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:26:45
113	Blel Kadri	AG2R LA MONDIALE	0:26:56
114	Marco Marcato	CANNONDALE	0:27:01
115	Alessandro Vanotti	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:28:51
116	Ramunas Navardauskas	GARMIN - SHARP	0:28:53
117	Maciej Bodnar	CANNONDALE	0:29:32
118	Daryl Impey	ORICA GREENEDGE	0:29:36
119	William Bonnet	FDJ.FR	0:29:51
120	Nikias Arndt	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:30:07
121	Andrey Zeits	ASTANA PRO TEAM	0:30:08
122	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:30:11
123	Jack Bobridge	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:30:31
124	Johannes Fröhlinger	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:30:36
125	Yaroslav Popovych	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:30:38
126	Anton Vorobyev	TEAM KATUSHA	0:30:40
127	Sébastien Hinault	IAM CYCLING	0:30:41
128	Hayden Roulston	TREK FACTORY RACING	0:30:42
129	Nicky Van Der Lijke	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:30:50
130	Damiano Cunego	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:30:54
131	Thierry Hupond	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:30:56
132	Alexei Tcatevich	TEAM KATUSHA	0:31:44
133	Arnaud Demare	FDJ.FR	0:31:47
134	Kris Boeckmans	LOTTO-BELISOL
135	Natnael Berhane	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:31:53
136	Michael Valgren Andersen	TINKOFF-SAXO	0:31:57
137	Vincent Jerome	TEAM EUROPCAR	0:31:59
138	Mickaël Delage	FDJ.FR	0:32:24
139	Frederik Willems	LOTTO-BELISOL	0:32:28
140	Cesare Benedetti	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:32:30
141	Filippo Pozzato	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:32:41
142	Elia Favilli	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:33:24
143	Rein Taaramae	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS
144	Davide Cimolai	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:34:41
145	Sebastian Langeveld	GARMIN - SHARP	0:34:54
146	Scott Thwaites	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:35:25
147	Enrique Sanz Unzue	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:35:27
148	Alessandro De Marchi	CANNONDALE	0:35:35
149	Luca Wackermann	LAMPRE - MERIDA	0:36:14
150	Dries Devenyns	TEAM GIANT-SHIMANO	0:36:51
151	Ralf Matzka	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:37:02
152	Daniel Schorn	TEAM NETAPP-ENDURA	0:38:22
153	Jack Bauer	GARMIN - SHARP	0:40:23
154	Vasil Kiryienka	TEAM SKY	0:40:32
155	Danny Pate	TEAM SKY	0:41:02
156	Jonathan Hivert	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	0:41:10
157	Sylvester Szmyd	MOVISTAR TEAM	0:47:19
158	Xabier Zandio	TEAM SKY	0:52:27
159	Leigh Howard	ORICA GREENEDGE	1:07:29

Stage 4 photos:

Yury Trofimov descends the Col de Manse

The pack descends the Col de Manse.

Bob Jungels leads a chase.

Ryder Hesjedal

Maxime Bouet

Pim Ligthart

As far as I could see, super descender Vincenzo Nibali was quiet on the Col de Manse.

Alberto Contador

Race leader Christopher Froome

Stage winner Yury Trofimov

Race leader Christopher Froome's Sky team was looking a bit tired today. But Froome appears bullet-proof.

Stage 4 profile:

Stage 4 profile

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