Results 4th stage 2023 Itzulia Basque Country
1. Jonas Vingegaard (den)
2. Mikel Landa (spa) s.t.
3. Mauro Schmid (den) + 0.02
4. Matteo Sobrero (ita) s.t.
5. Brandon McNulty (usa) s.t.
6. Rigoberto Uran (col) s.t.
7. David Gaudu (fra) s.t.
8. Felix Gall (aut) s.t.
9. Clément Champoussin (fra) s.t.
10. Mattias Skjelmose (den) s.t.
GC after stage 4
1. Jonas Vingegaard (den)
2. Mikel Landa (spa) + 0.12
3. David Gaudu (fra) + 0.31
4. Matteo Sobrero (ita) + 0.33
5. Ion Izagirre (spa) s.t.
6. Enric Mas (spa) + 0.36
7. Mattias Skjelmose (den) + 0.37
8. Brandon McNulty (usa) + 0.38
9. Simon Yates (gbr) + 0.39
10. James Knox (gbr) + 0.46
Race report
Harm Vanhoucke, Natnael Tesfatsion, Jon Barrenetxea, Alan Jousseaume and Jonathan Caicedo jump off the front in the first climb of the day. The five open up a lead of almost 7 minutes.
In the run-up to the last climb the leaders are caught. Leader Vingegaard gains a time bonus of 3 seconds in the intermediate sprint of the day.
Carapaz speeds up in the Asturiana climb before Vingegaard counter-attacks. Landa tracks him down and the two reach the summit 30 seconds ahead of the chase group.
The chaser comes closer in the last kilometres and Vingegaard keeps on pushing with Landa sitting in his wheel. The Dane opens the sprint and he is so powerful that Landa can’t match him. So the Tour de France winner takes his second stage win in two days. Landa sits in second and Gaudu in third.
Another interesting read: route 4th stage 2023 Tour of the Basque Country.
Tour of the Basque Country 2023 stage 4: route, profile, more
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