Remco keeps red at the UAE Tour

Remco keeps red at the UAE Tour

Remco Evenepoel enjoyed his first day in the overall lead of the Middle East’s only World Tour race, arriving home in the same time as the winner after 174 kilometers and almost four hours in the saddle.

Stage 4 was a rather quiet one, with a three-man breakaway in the spotlight with five kilometers to go, when the peloton made the catch. The wide roads in Dubai, where the race concluded, made for quite a chaotic finale, as every team tried to take the front of the bunch and bring its sprinter in the perfect position. Guided by Bert Van Lerberghe, Belgian Champion Tim Merlier was also there and kicked out 200 meters from the line, but he was boxed in for a split second and lost the momentum. In the end, the stage 1 winner finished in ninth place, as Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) took the victory.

Evenepoel was again in the spotlight after the stage, taking to the podium to receive the red jersey and the white one, as the 23-year-old World Champion also leads the youth classification, ahead of Friday’s journey to Umm al Quwain.

 

Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images

Race details

1 Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides
UAE Team Emirates
3:50:01
2 Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
0:00
3 Sam Welsford
Team DSM
0:00
4 Arvid de Kleijn
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:00
5 Dylan Groenewegen
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
6 Danny van Poppel
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
7 Marijn van den Berg
EF Education-EasyPost
0:00
8 Sam Bennett
BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
9 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
10 Jon Aberasturi Izaga
Trek - Segafredo
0:00
31 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
33 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
103 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
107 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
108 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
112 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
12:17:23
2 Luke Plapp
INEOS Grenadiers
0:07
3 Pello Bilbao López de Armentia
Bahrain - Victorious
0:11
4 Stefan de Bod
EF Education-EasyPost
1:01
5 Wout Poels
Bahrain - Victorious
1:04
6 Harm Vanhoucke
Team DSM
1:10
7 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:10
8 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
1:11
9 Georg Steinhauser
EF Education-EasyPost
1:11
10 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
1:12
31 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
2:00
68 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
13:13
73 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
13:58
77 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
17:56
85 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
18:43
118 Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal - Quick Step
24:27
1 Olav Kooij
Jumbo-Visma
25 pt
2 Luke Plapp
INEOS Grenadiers
24 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
24 pt
4 Tim Merlier
Soudal - Quick Step
22 pt
5 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
20 pt
6 Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
7 Edward Planckaert
Alpecin-Deceuninck
18 pt
8 Samuele Zoccarato
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
16 pt
9 Nikias Arndt
Bahrain - Victorious
16 pt
10 Caleb Ewan
Lotto Dstny
16 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
12:17:23
2 Luke Plapp
INEOS Grenadiers
0:07
3 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
1:10
4 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
1:11
5 Georg Steinhauser
EF Education-EasyPost
1:11
6 Brandon McNulty
UAE Team Emirates
1:16
7 Antonio Tiberi
Trek - Segafredo
1:19
8 Thomas Gloag
Jumbo-Visma
1:21
9 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
1:32
10 Valentin Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
1:43
12 Mauro Schmid
Soudal - Quick Step
2:00
1 EF Education-EasyPost 36:18:36
2 Astana Qazaqstan Team 0:18
3 UAE Team Emirates 0:37
4 AG2R Citroën Team 0:42
5 Trek - Segafredo 1:28
6 Soudal - Quick Step 1:49
7 Intermarché - Circus - Wanty 2:30
8 Jumbo-Visma 2:41
9 Israel - Premier Tech 2:49
10 Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè 6:06

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