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February 21, 2024
Tour du Rwanda 2024 🇷🇼 – Stage 4 – Karongi – Rubavu : 93 km
The Tour du Rwanda is one of Africa’s most celebrated cycling events.
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February 21, 2024
Tour du Rwanda 2024 🇷🇼 – Stage 4 – Karongi – Rubavu : 93 km
The Tour du Rwanda is one of Africa’s most celebrated cycling events. Its route is across the length and breadth of the visually stunning country of 1000 hills. If visiting Rwanda has been on your bucket list, the Tour du Rwanda offers the perfect chance to fulfil your dreams. This race offers you a chance to see with your own eyes every corner of the country as it takes you on an exhilarating journey through the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western provinces and ultimately finishing in the heart of the capital, Kigali.
William Junior Lecerf (Soudal-QuickStep) won the fourth stage at the Tour du Rwanda, winning the reduced group sprint into Rubavu. Lecerf crossed the line first ahead of previous day’s stage winner Jhonatan Restrepo (Team Polti Kometa) and Julien Simon (TotalEnergies).
Pepijn Reinderink (Soudal-QuickStep) maintained his overall lead and will wear the leader’s jersey into stage 5 but is tied on time with both Lecerf and Restrepo.
The fourth stage was 93km between Karongi and Rubavu, and included five categorised climbs, with the toughest, a 12km, category 1 climb over Kinhria located roughly 30km to go.
Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) emerged as an early breakaway rider, and while he gained 1:30, the gap was cut drastically in the last half of the stage. Attacks from the field came from Didier Munyaneza (Team Rwanda), followed by Brieuc Rolland (Equipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ).
Rolland caught and passed Latour, who was swallowed up by the field, and the Frenchman carried on alone with a slim lead inside 15km to go.
The field came back together in the closing kilometres for a reduced sprint won by Lecerf.
Results :
 won the fourth stage at the Tour du Rwanda, winning the reduced group sprint into Rubavu. Lecerf crossed the line first ahead of previous day's stage winner Jhonatan Restrepo (Team Polti Kometa) and Julien Simon (TotalEnergies).
Pepijn Reinderink (Soudal-QuickStep) maintained his overall lead and will wear the leader's jersey into stage 5 but is tied on time with both Lecerf and Restrepo.
The fourth stage was 93km between Karongi and Rubavu, and included five categorised climbs, with the toughest, a 12km, category 1 climb over Kinhria located roughly 30km to go.
Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) emerged as an early breakaway rider, and while he gained 1:30, the gap was cut drastically in the last half of the stage. Attacks from the field came from Didier Munyaneza (Team Rwanda), followed by Brieuc Rolland (Equipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ).
Rolland caught and passed Latour, who was swallowed up by the field, and the Frenchman carried on alone with a slim lead inside 15km to go.
The field came back together in the closing kilometres for a reduced sprint won by Lecerf.
<strong>Results : </strong>
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