For Turner it is the second victory of the season. He won a stage earlier this year in the Tour of Poland. Turner was ahead of Philipsen and Edward Planckaert, both from Alpecin-DECEUNINCK. The Vuelta continues on Wednesday after a relocation with a team time trial in Figueres, Spain.
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The fourth ride started in Susa, Italy, and went to France and was the longest in this Tour of Spain. In the first part of the stage, the cyclists had to go over the Col de Montgenèvre and Col du Lautaret, two climbs of the second category. The Frenchman Valentin Paret-Pintre, in the Tour de France still winner of the stage with finish on Mont Ventoux, got off sick.
A leading group of five riders left early and took a maximum lead of more than 3 minutes. The five was caught 90 kilometers from the finish in the descent of the Lautaret. The Spaniard Sinuhé Fernández and the Frenchman Bruno Armirail tried it on their own. Armirail was grabbed at 16 kilometers by the peloton that was preparing for a mass sprint.
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The run-up to the sprint was messy, but Alpecin-DECEUNINCK, who won the first stage with Philipsen, was in the front on time. Planckaert put on the sprint for Philipsen, but it became enclosed and could only use his sprint late. Turner, removed from the Renewi Tour to replace his sick teammate Lucas Hamilton at Ineos, could no longer be overtaken.
“To be honest, I am not sure what to say. It was a disturbed week,” Turner said afterwards. “The team told me that they needed me for the Vuelta and of course I immediately said yes. As a rider you do everything to be at the start at this kind of races. In the opening ride my chain fell off and I couldn’t sprint. That was a huge disappointment. Today it happily turned out completely differently.”