Tour of Guangxi 2019 – Stage 4 [FULL STAGE]

October 20, 2019

Tour of Guangxi 2019 – Stage 4 – Nanning – Nongla Scenic Area : 161,4 km

The 2019 Gree-Tour of Guangxi is a road cycling stage race that is scheduled to take place between 15 and 20 October 2019 in the Chinese province of Guangxi. It will be the 3rd edition of the Tour of Guangxi and the thirty-eighth event of the 2019 UCI World Tour.

Enric Mas (Deceuninck-QuickStep) won stage 4 of the Tour of Guangxi, triumphing on the steep slopes to the Nogla Scenic Area hilltop finish. The Spaniard, who beat Dani Martínez (EF Education First) and Diego Rosa (Team Ineos) into second and third places, takes over the race lead with two stages remaining.

The win, Mas’ first this season, was the result of some stellar teamwork by the Belgian squad, with teammate Rémi Cavagna going on the attack earlier on the climb. The Spaniard then struck out later on, going clear on the new, steep section after the old finish to record his first win of 2019.

Mas now leads Martínez by five seconds on the general classification in his final race for QuickStep. Rosa lies in third, 14 seconds back.

How it unfolded

Soon after the start of the race in Nanning, four riders got away from the peloton, with home rider Wang Meiyin (Bahrain-Merida) joined out front by Hamish Scheurs (Israel Cycling Academy), Jay Thomson (Dimension Data) and Ryan Mullen (Trek-Segafredo).

On the queen stage of the race, the quartet were never likely to get much leeway from the peloton, and so it proved as the break’s advantage reached a maximum of five minutes before Deceuninck-QuickStep got to work in the peloton after two hours of racing.

After the second intermediate sprint of the day, 105km into the race, Mullen pushed on alone to leave his breakaway companions behind and go for glory.

Five minutes back, Astana, QuickStep and EF Education First were among the teams working at the front of the peloton, with Mullen’s advantage slowly whittled away as he rode past the strangely shaped hills of the Guangxi countryside.

With 20km to race, the Irishman’s advantage had been cut to under a minute, a sign that the it was almost time for the climbers to get to work. He nabbed the ‘most active rider’ award but was caught before the 10km to go mark.

Riders were quickly strewn down the road as the peloton hit the lower slopes of the climb, up to the old finish, with only around 30 men remaining as Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-QuickStep) struck out 3km from the line.

The Frenchman was caught on the flat section of the old finish though, setting up a grand finale on the steep slopes of the final 1.5km. Antwan Tolhoek (Jumbo-Visma) was first to attack the rapidly diminishing group, but soon has Mas and Martínez on his wheel.

On the latter section of the climb, which several riders have claimed to have had little information on beforehand, it was those who bided their time who reaped the rewards, with Mas and Martínez going clear on the run to the line. It was then up to Mas to seal victory, his first of 2019 at his final race of the season.

Results :
1 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 3:52:53
2 Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) Ef Education First 0:00:01
3 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Ineos 0:00:08
4 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:00:12
5 Felix Grossschartner (Aut) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:00:19
6 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
7 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
8 David De la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Team Ineos
9 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:28
10 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana pro Team
11 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:00:31
12 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie
13 Jonas Koch (Ger) Ccc Team
14 Steff Cras (Bel) Team Katusha Alpecin
15 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
16 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek – Segafredo 0:00:36
17 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:00:43
18 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana pro Team
19 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Team Dimension Data
20 Andrea Garosio (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:00:50
21 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 0:00:57
22 Matteo Badilatti (Swi) Israel Cycling Academy 0:01:00
23 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton – Scott 0:01:02
24 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:08
25 Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) Uae Team Emirates 0:01:11
26 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott
27 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Total Direct Energie
28 Gino Mäder (Swi) Team Dimension Data 0:01:21
29 Simone Petilli (Ita) Uae Team Emirates 0:01:24
30 Jacques Willem Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Team Dimension Data
31 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana pro Team 0:01:30
32 Romain Sicard (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:01:37
33 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek – Segafredo 0:01:48
34 Daniel Turek (Cze) Israel Cycling Academy 0:01:51
35 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:01:55
36 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Ccc Team 0:02:06
37 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:02:08
38 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie 0:02:11
39 Jhonatan Manuel Narvaez Prado (Ecu) Team Ineos 0:02:13
40 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:02:19
41 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:02:30
42 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:02:56
43 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Team Katusha Alpecin
44 Paul Ourselin (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:03:05
45 Petr Vakoč (Cze) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:03:28
46 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana pro Team 0:03:31
47 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:03:41
48 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:03:43
49 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Ccc Team 0:04:30
50 Timothy Dupont (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
51 Itamar Einhorn (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
52 Bryan Nauleau (Fra) Total Direct Energie
53 Roy Goldstein (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy
54 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Ef Education First
55 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha Alpecin
56 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Ccc Team
57 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain – Merida
58 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) Ef Education First 0:04:34
59 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:04:36
60 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:05:21
61 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:05:38
62 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb
63 Adam James Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
64 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:06:32
65 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Ef Education First
66 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain – Merida
67 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma
68 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma
69 Enrico Gasparotto (Swi) Team Dimension Data
70 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data
71 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
72 Simon Špilak (Slo) Team Katusha Alpecin
73 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Ineos
74 Taco Van der Hoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma
75 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Bahrain – Merida
76 Rodrigo Contreras Pinzon (Col) Astana pro Team
77 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Ineos
78 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Ineos
79 Hugh John Carthy (GBr) Ef Education First
80 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
81 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb
82 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain – Merida
83 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Ccc Team
84 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:06:54
85 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) Uae Team Emirates 0:07:41
86 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy
87 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Ccc Team 0:07:42
88 Josef Černý (Cze) Ccc Team
89 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb
90 Jan Hirt (Cze) Astana pro Team
91 Daniel Mclay (GBr) Ef Education First
92 Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy
93 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:08:03
94 Brian Van Goethem (Ned) Lotto Soudal
95 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:08:05
96 Julius Van den Berg (Ned) Ef Education First 0:08:22
97 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana pro Team 0:08:25
98 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Trek – Segafredo 0:08:31
99 Kaden Groves (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:08:57
100 Tom Devriendt (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:10:00
101 Oliviero Troia (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
102 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
103 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
104 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek – Segafredo
105 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek – Segafredo
106 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
107 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe
108 Ivo Oliveira (Por) Uae Team Emirates
109 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) Uae Team Emirates
110 Matteo Moschetti (Ita) Trek – Segafredo
111 Hamish Schreurs (NZl) Israel Cycling Academy
112 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe
113 Christopher Lawless (GBr) Team Ineos
114 Edoardo Affini (Ita) Mitchelton – Scott 0:10:17
115 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
116 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:10:18
117 Callum Scotson (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:10:20
118 Rasmus Byriel Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:10:40
119 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:12:16
120 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:12:54
121 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek – Segafredo

General Classification after Stage 4 :
1 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 13:50:50
2 Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) Ef Education First 0:00:05
3 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Ineos 0:00:14
4 Antwan Tolhoek (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:00:22
5 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
6 Felix Grossschartner (Aut) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:00:29
7 Odd Christian Eiking (Nor) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
8 David De la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) Team Ineos
9 Davide Villella (Ita) Astana pro Team 0:00:37
10 Martijn Tusveld (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:38
11 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:00:41
12 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
13 Jonas Koch (Ger) Ccc Team
14 Steff Cras (Bel) Team Katusha Alpecin
15 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe
16 Peter Stetina (USA) Trek – Segafredo 0:00:46
17 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana pro Team 0:00:53
18 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
19 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton – Scott 0:00:57
20 Tomasz Marczynski (Pol) Lotto Soudal 0:01:07
21 Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr) Uae Team Emirates 0:01:15
22 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:01:18
23 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:01:19
24 Nicholas Schultz (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:01:21
25 Gino Mäder (Swi) Team Dimension Data 0:01:31
26 Jacques Willem Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:01:34
27 Simone Petilli (Ita) Uae Team Emirates
28 Andrea Garosio (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:01:35
29 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana pro Team 0:01:40
30 Jacopo Mosca (Ita) Trek – Segafredo 0:01:55
31 Daniel Turek (Cze) Israel Cycling Academy 0:02:01
32 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:02:05
33 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:02:07
34 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Ccc Team 0:02:16
35 Matteo Badilatti (Swi) Israel Cycling Academy
36 Jhonatan Manuel Narvaez Prado (Ecu) Team Ineos 0:02:23
37 Romain Sicard (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:02:50
38 Petr Vakoč (Cze) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:03:38
39 Jenthe Biermans (Bel) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:03:51
40 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:04:13
41 Laurens De Vreese (Bel) Astana pro Team 0:04:24
42 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Ef Education First 0:04:37
43 Itamar Einhorn (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 0:04:40
44 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:05:31
45 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Ccc Team 0:05:37
46 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie 0:05:38
47 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Den) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:05:44
48 Timothy Dupont (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:05:46
49 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:06:26
50 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:06:37
51 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:06:42
52 Moreno Hofland (Ned) Ef Education First
53 Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain – Merida
54 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick – Step
55 Antonio Nibali (Ita) Bahrain – Merida 0:07:14
56 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:07:21
57 Paul Ourselin (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:07:23
58 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:07:52
59 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:08:11
60 Nicholas Dlamini (RSA) Team Dimension Data 0:08:13
61 Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott
62 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) Ef Education First 0:08:15
63 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:08:17
64 Floris De Tier (Bel) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:08:26
65 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Bahrain – Merida 0:08:48
66 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Ccc Team
67 Bryan Nauleau (Fra) Total Direct Energie
68 Riccardo Minali (Ita) Israel Cycling Academy 0:09:19
69 Adam James Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
70 Josef Černý (Cze) Ccc Team 0:09:21
71 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:09:47
72 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:09:58
73 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:10:10
74 John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek – Segafredo
75 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Ccc Team 0:10:13
76 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) Team Dimension Data
77 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma
78 Kristoffer Halvorsen (Nor) Team Ineos
79 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Bahrain – Merida
80 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:10:17
81 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek – Segafredo 0:10:39
82 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Bahrain – Merida 0:10:47
83 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Ineos 0:10:50
84 Rodrigo Contreras Pinzon (Col) Astana pro Team
85 Simon Špilak (Slo) Team Katusha Alpecin
86 Enrico Gasparotto (Swi) Team Dimension Data
87 Hugh John Carthy (GBr) Ef Education First
88 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team
89 Daniel Mclay (GBr) Ef Education First 0:11:11
90 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) Uae Team Emirates 0:11:12
91 Kamil Gradek (Pol) Ccc Team 0:11:15
92 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:11:34
93 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Trek – Segafredo 0:12:12
94 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana pro Team 0:12:43
95 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek – Segafredo 0:13:04
96 Julius Van den Berg (Ned) Ef Education First 0:13:05
97 Taco Van der Hoorn (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:13:13
98 Leonardo Basso (Ita) Team Ineos 0:13:16
99 Hamish Schreurs (NZl) Israel Cycling Academy 0:13:26
100 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:13:41
101 Christopher Lawless (GBr) Team Ineos
102 Matteo Moschetti (Ita) Trek – Segafredo
103 Roy Goldstein (Isr) Israel Cycling Academy 0:13:58
104 Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides (Col) Uae Team Emirates 0:14:18
105 Brian Van Goethem (Ned) Lotto Soudal 0:14:19
106 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Deceuninck – Quick – Step 0:14:23
107 Jan Hirt (Cze) Astana pro Team 0:14:26
108 Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus) Team Katusha Alpecin 0:14:27
109 Rasmus Byriel Iversen (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:14:58
110 Edoardo Affini (Ita) Mitchelton – Scott 0:15:42
111 Kaden Groves (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:16:05
112 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:16:35
113 Benjamin Perry (Can) Israel Cycling Academy 0:17:44
114 Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Uae Team Emirates 0:17:47
115 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:18:13
116 Callum Scotson (Aus) Mitchelton – Scott 0:18:37
117 Oliviero Troia (Ita) Uae Team Emirates 0:19:09
118 Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:19:12
119 Ivo Oliveira (Por) Uae Team Emirates 0:19:21
120 Tom Devriendt (Bel) Wanty – Gobert Cycling Team 0:19:45
121 Shane Archbold (NZl) Bora – Hansgrohe 0:26:20