Omar Fraile of Caja Rural has won the fourth stage of the Four Days Of Dunkirk race in France.
Europcar's Bryan Coquard was still in the leader's pink jersey for this 178.7km stage from Base de loisirs Eolys (Flande Lys) to Cassel.
Quentin Jauregui of AG2R, Jeremy Leveau of Roubaix Lille, Benoit Jarrier of Bretagne Seche Enviroment, Tim De Troyer of Wanty Group, Alex Blain of Team Marseille and Duval and Pacher of the French Army team, formed the first break of the day and were soon 4.55 ahead on a day of climbs and nine laps of a finishing circuits around the Roman town of Cassel.
Jauregui and Pacher of the French Army team were 23 seconds ahead of Jarrier and Blain with 46 kilometres and 55 seconds ahead of the peloton with 47.9kms to go.
Twenty kilometres later and the gap was just nine seconds to Coquard and the peloton who swiftly caught them thanks to an attack from a Team Marseille rider.
Six riders including Fares, Levarlet, Cesare Benedetti of Boro Argon, Mads Pedersen and Omar Fraile of Caja Rural formed a new break and they were twelve seconds with just over nineen kilometres to go.
Alo Jakin of Auber 93 took over on the front after this group were caught and the race split into a number of groups.
Jakin stayed clear until Mauruts Lammertink joined and passed him. Lammertink went under the flam rouge ahead but Omar Fraile of Caja Rural caught him with three hundred metres to go and won the stage in a time of 4.44.26, three seconds ahead of Lammertink and seven seconds ahead of Jakin, Rudy Molard and Fred Backaert.
Ignatas Konovalovas of Team Marseille finished sixth and with the race leader coming in forty five seconds down, Konvalovas is the new race leader going into the fifth and final stage with a twenty second lead over Bryan Coquard.