UAE Tour 2020 – Stage 4 [FULL STAGE]

February 26, 2020

UAE Tour 2020 – Stage 4 – Zabeel Park – Dubai City Walk : 173 km

The second edition of the UAE Tour (February 23-29) kicks-off with a world-class field set to compete over the seven-stage race. Top of the bill is Chris Froome (Team Ineos), with the four-time Tour de France winner returning to racing for the first time since his career-threatening crash at last year’s Critérium du Dauphiné.

Dylan Gronewegen (Jumbo-Visma) claimed victory on stage 4 of the UAE Tour, triumphing in a hectic bunch sprint in Dubai.

The Dutchman, whose Jumbo-Visma teammates had made a surge with 3km to go, latched onto the wheel of Sam Bennett and his Deceuninck-QuickStep lead-out as Mitchelton-Scott led through a tight left-hand bend into the home straight.

Bennett was the first to launch his sprint but Groenewegen soon hit out and moved clear. Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), who was tucked in behind Groenewegen, ran him close but was unable to move past, while the final spot on the podium went to Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe).

Adam Yates finished safely in the peloton to retain the overall lead of the race.

“This one is really nice, all the sprinters are here, including myself,” Groenewegen said.

“The first day I was not in the best position to make the sprint, but we saw that the speed was really good. So today was a little bit different. In the last corner, I was in really good position and we took the win so that’s really nice.”

“The team did a very good job in the last 3k. We made a move there. They did a really strong lead-out to bring me to the last corner. Then I was on the wheel of Bennett and, yeah, it was a good position.”

The flat 173km stage was in danger of not coming down to a bunch sprint at all, as Trek-Segafredo’s Will Clarke, who’d been in a day-long break with Veljko Stojnic (Vini Zabu-KTM), put the pressure on the sprinters’ teams in the final 30km.

The pair had built a lead of a few minutes but were on the brink of capture at the second of two intermediate sprints, with 42km to go, as the peloton were wary of crosswinds. However, while Stojnic, who had successfully extended his lead in the intermediate sprints classification, dropped back, Clarke pressed on and managed to open up a lead of more than two minutes.

WIth 20km to go, Lotto Soudal’s Remy Mertz peeled off the front of the bunch, leaving Alejandro Valverde and his Movistar men on the front. Naturally, they weren’t interested in chasing for a sprint, and it took a few moments of inaction before Deceuninck-QuickStep posted two representatives to the front.

Riding into a headwind, the odds were stacked against Clarke, and he was caught 7.5km from the line, with QuickStep climber Knox staying on the front of the bunch all the way to 4km to go. It wasn’t long, then, before Jumbo-Visma attacked en masse to seize control of the lead-out. However, they appeared to fall away just before the flamme rouge, as Mitchelton-Scott came through to take pole position into the all-important left-hander that led into the home straight.

Luka Mezgec was leading out Kaden Groves for the Australian team but QuickStep had themselves organised just behind and it proved to be the perfect position. Groenewegen, however, was poised to take advantage of Bennett’s lead-out and was simply too fast for the Irishman.

Gaviria was tucked in behind and only looked to move out with 50 metres to go, by which point it was too late. Ackermann passed Bennett for the final podium spot, while Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal), who’d crashed earlier on, started too far back and found himself crowded out.

The race returns to Jebel Hafeet on stage 5, where Adam Yates won on Tuesday, for the second of the two summit finishes that will define the overall classification.

Results :
1 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 4:16:13
2 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates
3 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
4 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep
5 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal
6 Kaden Groves (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
7 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) CCC Team
8 Attilio Viviani (Ita) Cofidis
9 Rudy Barbier (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation
10 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) NTT Pro Cycling
11 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
12 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
13 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
14 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
15 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb
16 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep
17 Umberto Marengo (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
18 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
19 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Groupama-FDJ
20 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ
21 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Bahrain McLaren
22 Shane Archbold (NZl) Deceuninck-Quickstep
23 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb
24 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
25 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) NTT Pro Cycling
26 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Ineos
27 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
28 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
29 Michael Carbel Svendgaard (Den) NTT Pro Cycling
30 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
31 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
32 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
33 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
34 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
35 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R la Mondiale
36 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
37 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
38 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
39 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
40 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos
41 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team
42 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
43 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana Pro Team
44 Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) Team Ineos
45 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
46 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
47 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) UAE Team Emirates
48 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
49 Iñigo Elosegui Momeñe (Spa) Movistar Team
50 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team
51 Victor De la Parte (Spa) CCC Team
52 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana Pro Team
53 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain McLaren
54 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
55 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R la Mondiale
56 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
57 Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay (Eth) Mitchelton-Scott
58 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
59 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos
60 Andrey Amador (CRc) Team Ineos
61 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb
62 Charles Quarterman (GBr) Trek-Segafredo
63 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) CCC Team
64 Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
65 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
66 Vladislav Kulikov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
67 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
68 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
69 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
70 Danilo Wyss (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling
71 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
72 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren
73 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
74 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team
75 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
76 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis
77 Jaakko Hanninen (Fin) AG2R la Mondiale
78 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
79 Hernando Bohorquez Sanchez (Col) Astana Pro Team
80 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
81 James Mitri (NZl) Vini Zabu’ KTM
82 Andrea Garosio (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
83 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
84 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
85 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Ineos
86 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
87 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
88 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team
89 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
90 Leonardo Tortomasi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
91 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Astana Pro Team
92 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM
93 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb
94 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
95 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis
96 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Israel Start-Up Nation
97 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
98 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation
99 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
100 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott
101 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team
102 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb
103 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation
104 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
105 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis
106 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
107 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
108 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
109 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:20
110 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain McLaren
111 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb
112 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:22
113 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis
114 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal
115 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
116 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep
117 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) CCC Team 0:00:26
118 Veljko Stojnic (Srb) Vini Zabu’ KTM
119 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation
120 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Israel Start-Up Nation
121 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Movistar Team
122 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Team
123 Stijn Steels (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:00:31
124 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team 0:00:36
125 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:00:40
126 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:00:53
127 Dmitrii Strakhov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:01:00
128 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:02
129 Callum Scotson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:10
130 Cristian Scaroni (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:01:22
131 Imerio Cima (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo
132 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:31
133 William Clarke (Aus) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:04
134 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep
DNS Stefan De Bod (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
DNS Jay Thomson (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
DNS Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
DNF Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto Soudal

General Classification after Stage 4 :
1 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 16:46:15
2 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:07
3 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:01:35
4 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:40
5 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
6 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis 0:02:05
7 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:02:06
8 Diego Ulissi (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Edward Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos
11 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:12
12 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
13 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team 0:02:23
14 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
15 Victor De la Parte (Spa) CCC Team
16 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:48
17 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
18 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Israel Start-Up Nation
19 Merhawi Kudus (Eri) Astana Pro Team 0:02:59
20 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:03:06
21 Geoffrey Bouchard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:03:33
22 Koen Bouwman (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:03:39
23 Jaakko Hanninen (Fin) AG2R la Mondiale
24 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren 0:04:04
25 Quentin Jauregui (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
26 Sergei Chernetskii (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo
27 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
28 Oscar Rodriguez Garaicoechea (Spa) Astana Pro Team
29 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:04:23
30 Hernando Bohorquez Sanchez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:04:26
31 Hector Carretero (Spa) Movistar Team 0:04:34
32 Pavel Kochetkov (Rus) CCC Team
33 François Bidard (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:04:38
34 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis 0:04:44
35 Clément Chevrier (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:04:53
36 Pieter Serry (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:04:57
37 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:05:04
38 Nikolai Cherkasov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:05:06
39 Jai Hindley (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:05:07
40 Rob Power (Aus) Team Sunweb 0:05:09
41 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Bahrain McLaren 0:05:33
42 Florian Stork (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:05:39
43 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) AG2R la Mondiale 0:06:01
44 Jose Herrada (Spa) Cofidis 0:06:04
45 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Bahrain McLaren 0:06:28
46 Lorenzo Fortunato (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:07:05
47 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team 0:07:30
48 Andrea Garosio (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:07:31
49 Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay (Eth) Mitchelton-Scott 0:07:52
50 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott 0:08:25
51 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bahrain McLaren 0:08:36
52 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott 0:09:08
53 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) AG2R la Mondiale 0:09:14
54 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) NTT Pro Cycling 0:09:21
55 Stéphane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis 0:09:28
56 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:09:31
57 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal
58 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:09:36
59 Sven Erik Bystrøm (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:00
60 Arnaud Demare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:10:55
61 Jesper Hansen (Den) Cofidis 0:11:25
62 Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spa) Movistar Team 0:12:07
63 Vladislav Kulikov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:12:08
64 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:12:38
65 Timo Roosen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
66 Nicola Conci (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:12:50
67 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Groupama-FDJ 0:12:52
68 James Mitri (NZl) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:12:54
69 Andrey Amador (CRc) Team Ineos 0:13:01
70 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:13:06
71 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:13:24
72 James Knox (GBr) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:13:36
73 Alexander Cataford (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:13:42
74 Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Team Ineos 0:13:49
75 Danilo Wyss (Swi) NTT Pro Cycling 0:13:51
76 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:13:55
77 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:13:59
78 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:14:04
79 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:14:08
80 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:14:16
81 Max Kanter (Ger) Team Sunweb 0:14:35
82 Chris Froome (GBr) Team Ineos 0:14:41
83 Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) Team Ineos 0:14:43
84 Dmitrii Strakhov (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:14:55
85 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Team
86 Michal Golas (Pol) Team Ineos 0:15:34
87 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team 0:15:52
88 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo 0:15:56
89 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Ineos 0:16:00
90 Kamil Gradek (Pol) CCC Team 0:16:13
91 William Clarke (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
92 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:16:36
93 Christoph Pfingsten (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:16:42
94 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain McLaren 0:17:00
95 Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:17:14
96 Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:17:33
97 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:18:20
98 Francisco Jose Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) CCC Team 0:18:28
99 Remy Mertz (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:18:51
100 Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:19:18
101 Iñigo Elosegui Momeñe (Spa) Movistar Team 0:19:29
102 Umberto Marengo (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:19:30
103 Stijn Steels (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:19:47
104 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:20:22
105 Shane Archbold (NZl) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:20:38
106 Igor Boev (Rus) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:20:39
107 Michael Carbel Svendgaard (Den) NTT Pro Cycling 0:20:47
108 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
109 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:20:53
110 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ 0:20:57
111 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Bahrain McLaren 0:21:05
112 Kaden Groves (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:21:55
113 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Groupama-FDJ 0:22:54
114 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) UAE Team Emirates 0:23:19
115 Attilio Viviani (Ita) Cofidis 0:23:45
116 Nathan Haas (Aus) Cofidis 0:24:41
117 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) NTT Pro Cycling 0:25:22
118 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) CCC Team 0:25:31
119 Matthias Brändle (Aut) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:25:35
120 Callum Scotson (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:26:02
121 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Bahrain McLaren 0:26:08
122 Leonardo Tortomasi (Ita) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:26:14
123 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:26:43
124 Veljko Stojnic (Srb) Vini Zabu’ KTM 0:26:53
125 Imerio Cima (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:27:44
126 Asbjørn Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:27:45
127 Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team Sunweb 0:28:00
128 Michael Schwarzmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:28:01
129 Oliviero Troia (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:28:23
130 Charles Quarterman (GBr) Trek-Segafredo 0:28:36
131 Cristian Scaroni (Ita) Gazprom-Rusvelo 0:29:36
132 Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:31:38
133 Rudy Barbier (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:31:58
134 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe