Greipel Wins The Tour Of Belgium Stage Four

Last updated : 31 May 2014 By Covsupport News Service

Andrei Greipel of Lotto has won the fourth stage of Baloise Tour Of Belgium.

A rather lumpy 184km stage which started and finished in Lacs de l'Eau d'Heure saw Evan Huffman of Astana, Serge Dewortelaer of Veranclassic and Seb Delfosse of Wallonnie Brussels in a break which had got three minutes and three seconds clear after forty two kilometres.

With sixty kilometres remaining, Dillier, Janssens and Bulgac started to chase the trio down and caught them as the peloton closed to within a minute.

Dillier decided for the last ten kilometres to go off on his own but this proved futile and he was caught with five kilometres to go by the peloton which had race leader Tony Martin of Omega Pharma Quick Step on the front.

Lotto took control of the race and set up Andrei Greipel for his second victory of this Tour Of Belgium ahead of Roman Makin, Philippe Gilbert, Mathieu Van Der Poel and Francesco Gavazzi.

Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quickstep), finished in the peloton and keeps his sixteen second lead over Giant-Shimano's Tom Dumoulin, with IAM Cycling' Sylvain Chavanel third a further ten seconds down.