Criterium du Dauphine 2021 - Alexey Lutsenko wins time trial but Lukas Postlberger retains one second overall lead

Updated 02/06/2021 at 16:15 GMT

The Kazakh rider (Astana-Premier Tech) finished eight seconds ahead of Spanish team-mate Ion Izagirre and nine in front of Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep). But in the general classification, Postlberger’s advantage has been cut to just one second ahead of Lutsenko at the half-way point of the race. You can watch the Criterium du Dauphine on Eurosport, Eurosport player and Eurosport.co.uk.

'Pulled it out of the fire' - Lutsenko wins Criterium du Dauphine time trial

Alexey Lutsenko won the stage 4 time trial of the Criterium du Dauphine to cut Lukas Postlberger’s overall lead to one second at the half-way point.

The Kazakh rider was quickest with a time of 0:21:36 over the 16.4km course, eight seconds ahead of his Astana-Premier Tech team-mate Ion Izagirre and nine in front of Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep).

As it turned out, Postlberger’s ninth placed finish was just enough to hold on to the yellow jersey, but only by one second over the stage 4 winner. The Austrian is coming under increased pressure from not just Lutsenko, but Asgreen and Izagirre, who are nine seconds further back.

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The Ineos Grenadiers riders of Richie Porte (14 seconds) and Britain’s Geraint Thomas (24 seconds) are still well in contention, too, with four stages remaining following a fourth day which shook up the standings.

The event is typically seen as a warm-up for the Tour de France, which begins on June 26, and continues tomorrow (Thursday) with a flat 175.4km stage running from Saint-Chamond to Saint-Vallier.