Stage 4
Jakobsen by a nose
- Tuesday 27 August 2019
- 177 km
- 1,230 m climbed
- Won by Fabio Jakobsen
The road
At the start
Roche in red, the sprinters' last day
Sam Bennett won the bunch sprint on the Alicante seafront, and Nicolas Roche keeps red, two seconds up on Quintana and eight on Urán. Steven Kruijswijk is riding on a knee hurt in the team time trial crash. Today belongs to the fast men: 176 kilometres inland around Valencia and back to the coast at El Puig, one lazy climb at the Oronet, then twenty flat kilometres.
How it was won
- 127 km to go
Kruijswijk abandons
Fifty kilometres in, Tour de France podium finisher Steven Kruijswijk climbs off with escalating knee pain from the stage-1 team time trial crash — a GC card lost for Jumbo-Visma.
- At the line
Jakobsen by a nose
After Cavagna is finally caught inside the last 1.5km, QuickStep deliver another textbook lead-out and Fabio Jakobsen pips the field to win in El Puig.
The result
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabio Jakobsen | Deceuninck - Quick Step | 4:04:16 |
| 2 | Sam Bennett | BORA - hansgrohe | +0:00 |
| 3 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | +0:00 |
The route on real terrain, every moment pinned to the kilometre it happened on — and the GPX to ride it yourself.