There's a new yellow jersey holder at the Tour de France after the Orica Greenedge team won today's 4th stage.

The Australian based outfit claimed a narrow victory in the team time trial after posting a time of 25 minutes and 56 seconds over the 25 kilometre course around Nice.

Yesterday's stage winner, Simon Gerrans now wears the yellow jersey as the highest-ranked Greenedge rider.

Ireland's Nicolas Roche is now up to 9th place overall while Dan Martin is 17 seconds off the lead in 19th place.