Cycling news - Dylan Groenewegen holds off Fernando Gaviria to seal Stage 4 win
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ByEurosport
Updated 26/02/2020 at 13:50 GMT
Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo–Visma) held off a late surge from Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates) to win Stage 4 of the UAE Tour.
Dylan Groenewegen of The Netherlands and Team Jumbo - Visma / Celebration / Fernando Gaviria Rendon of Colombia and UAE Team Emirates / during the 6th UAE Tour 2020, Stage 4 a 173km stage from Zabeel Park to Dubai City Walk 419m
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The win represents the Dutchman’s third win of the season after the 26-year-old sprint specialist picked up two wins on his way to points classification success at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.
“This one is really nice because all the sprinters are here,” said Groenewegen.
“The team did a very good job for the last 3km, and then we made a move – I had a really strong lead out and then I was in position to get past [Sam] Bennett.”
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‘It is Groenewegen all the way!’ – Groenewegen powers to Stage 4 triumph
Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe) made up the podium with Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep) fourth and Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal), winner of Stage 2, in fifth.
Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) retains the overall lead having finished safely in the peloton.
For much of the 173km stage it looked as though there wasn't going to be a bunched finish as Trek-Segafredo's Will Clarke and Veljko Stonjic built a lead of a few minutes heading into the final 30km.
But as Stonjic dropped off after successfully extending his lead in the intermediate sprints classification, Clarke pushed on but was eventually caught 7.5km from the line, as Quickstep climber James Knox led with 4km to go.
Mitchelton-Scott took pole position as it headed into the home straight, though an organised QuickStep looked as though they had done enough, but Groenewegen proved too fast for Bennett after the Irishman's lead out as the Dutchman took the top spot.
Gaviria's attempt to challenge Groenewegen 50 metres to go was not enough and finished in second, while Ackermann passed Bennett for the final spot on the podium.
STAGE FOUR RESULTS
| RIDER | TEAM | TIME |
| GROENEWEGEN Dylan | Team Jumbo-Visma | 04:16:13 |
| GAVIRIA Fernando | UAE-Team Emirates | " |
| ACKERMANN Pascal | BORA - hansgrohe | " |
| BENNETT Sam | Deceuninck - Quick Step | " |
| EWAN Caleb | Lotto Soudal | " |
| GROVES Kaden | Mitchelton-Scott | " |
| MARECZKO Jakub | CCC Team | " |
| VIVIANI Attilio | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | " |
| BARBIER Rudy | Israel Start-Up Nation | " |
| WALSCHEID Max | NTT Pro Cycling | " |
GC STANDINGS
| RIDER | TEAM | TIME |
| YATES Adam | Mitchelton-Scott | 16:46:15 |
| POGAČAR Tadej | UAE-Team Emirates | 01:07 |
| LUTSENKO Alexey | Astana Pro Team | 01:35 |
| GAUDU David | Groupama - FDJ | 01:40 |
| MAJKA Rafał | BORA - hansgrohe | " |
| HERRADA Jesús | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | 02:05 |
| KELDERMAN Wilco | Team Sunweb | 02:06 |
| ULISSI Diego | UAE-Team Emirates | " |
| KONRAD Patrick | BORA - hansgrohe | " |
| DUNBAR Eddie | Team INEOS | " |
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