2008 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 4
The fourth stage of the Tour de France 2008 on July 8 was a 29.5 km long individual time trial. It was the first time trial of the 2008 Tour and went around Cholet.
There were 18 two intermediate time checks at kilometer 11 and kilometer.
The short compared to the previous time trial was without much difficulty. The time trial began with Wim Vansevenant, the 178 and Letztplatziertem, which started at 11.02 clock. The yellow jersey, Romain Feillu started at 16:56 clock. The best time of the American Danny Pate was over 2 hours before it was washed successively by Sylvain Chavanel, Jens Voigt, Denis Menshov, Fabian Cancellara and finally undercut by the German Stefan Schumacher. Schumacher's time was no longer offered to the end. Cadel Evans failed at this time as well as Kim Kirchen, who finished second could be. In addition to the stage Schumacher won hence the yellow jersey and is now the third carrier in this year's Tour. The white jersey Thomas Lövkvist was able to secure, the total Eleventh. Also, Alejandro Valverde, the yellow jersey on the 2nd and 3rd stage, lost ground against Schumacher and a half minutes and is located in the standings only 17th place The goal was on a 780 meter long and 6.50 meter wide stretch achieved.
Intermediate times
- Second intermediate timing point in La Romagne ( 18 km ) (96 m above sea level. NN )
Sprint
- Target in Cholet ( 29.5 km ) (97 m above sea level. NN )
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Driver's field
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