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The Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) has won the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandiedisputed over 151.7 mountainous kilometers between Saillon and Leysin, while the Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) gave his compatriot Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers) the lead of the general classification.

The first escape was attempted after 20 km of the day, with a group of three cyclists formed by the Spanish Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), the Portuguese Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team) and the Dutch Bart Lemmen (Team Visma-Lease a Bike). They took a 20-second lead over the peloton after completing the Aproz sprint and, later, the German Juri Hollman (Alpecin-Deceuninck), the Czech Joseph Cerny (Soudal Quick-Step) and French Dorian Godon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale). The Swiss was also encouraged Alexandre Balmer (Jayco AlUla), trapped by the platoon along with the other escapees, who had enjoyed three and a half minutes of distance. He brought Lemmen to the fore for another run, which actually boosted the Frenchman’s chances. Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) to attack 52 kilometers from the finish.

Berthet starred in the great escape and was left alone for what seemed to be his triumph. However, INEOS Grenadiers pulled hard to neutralize the head of the race and they reached it when there were only 5.5 kilometers left to go.

At 3.3 kilometers from the end, the German Florian Lipowitz (BORA-hansgrohe) attacked and made a stretched out alongside Richard Carapaz and Carlos Rodríguez. Juan Ayuso suffered thenwho immediately ‘came down’; With 2.1 kilometers to go, Carapaz took a lunge and headed towards the last slope.

Lipowitz overtook Rodríguez in the last 500 meters and sought to hunt down the Ecuadorian, who despite everything endured in agony to cross the finish line in a definitive time of four hours, six minutes and three seconds. Lipowitz was second, one second behind the Ecuadorian. Thanks to his third position, 10 seconds behind the winner of the day and with a bonus included, Rodríguez took the lead from Ayuso.

Therefore now Carlos Rodríguez tops the general classification with seven seconds ahead of Aleksander Vlasov (BORA-hansgrohe) which is second. Lipowitz is third, 9 seconds behind the leader and Ilan van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) fourth to 21. Ayuso fell to fifth place and is 27 seconds behind Rodríguez.

4th stage classification:

1 – CARAPAZ Richard (EF E) 4:06:03

2 – LIPOWITZ Florian (BORA) mt

3 – RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (INEOS) +0:10

4 – MAS Enric (Movistar) +0:14

5 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) mt

6 – BERNAL Egan (INEOS) +0:27

7 – VAN WILDER Ilan (Soudal) +0:31

8 – GEOGHEGAN HART Tao (Lidl) +0:40

9 – GAUDU David (Groupama) +0:41

10 – RODRÍGUEZ Cristián (Arkéa) +0:44

General ranking:

1 – RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (INEOS Grenadiers) 12:22:46

2 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) +0:07

3 – LIPOWITZ Florian (BORA) +0:09

4 – VAN WILDER Ilan (Soudal) +0:21

5 – AYUSO Juan (UAE) +0:27

6 – MAS Enric (Movistar) +0:38

7 – CARAPAZ Richard (EF E) +0:49

8 – MARTINEZ Lenny (Groupama) +0:52

9 – GEOGHEGAN HART Tao (Lidl) +1:02

10 – BERNAL Egan (INEOS) +1:23

Source: Eitb

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