Eric Young of Optum has won the fourth stage of the Larry H Miller Tour Of Utah.
Stage four was a stage of 127 miles/204kms to and from Soldier Hollow, south of Salt Lake City, and saw nine riders and then four riders tried to get away a peloton which included race leader Kiel Reijnen of Unitedhealthcare.
A new group formed just before the twenty kilometre mark and this included Ben King, Robin Carpenter, Tim Roe, Songezo Jim, Dan Eaton, Nicolae Tanovitchii, & Luis Lemus.
Robin Carpenter took the first KOM climb and with 120kms left, the escapers had a lead of three minutes.
Carpenter took the sprint in Hanna ahead of Lemus as the lead of the seven riders dropped to 2.20.before Putt and Medina from Mexico abandon.
Onto Wolf Creek pass which had a 9.9 mile climb with average gradients of 10%, and the gap was holding at 3.20.
The peloton brought that back to a minute and when it came down to thirty seconds, Greg Daniel who was third on the KOM came up and passed everyone to pick up eight points.
Robin Carpenter, who was sixth on GC at the start of the stage, launched a new raid that saw him fifteen seconds ahead of a group of six who were 15 seconds ahead of the peloton.
Carpenter was reeled in by the front group of Roe, Eaton, King, Lamus, Daniel and Tanovitchii, who were now a minute ahead
Carpenter took the bonus sprint seconds to put him second on the General Classification as the gap went out to two minutes before Daniel took the second KOM at Jordanelle ahead of Carpenter, the most aggressive rider of the dat to go back in to the KOM jersey.
With thirteen kilometres left, the gap was down to fifty seconds and going into Midway, UnitedHealthcare were drilling it on the front of the peloton to try and keep Reijnen in the leader’s jersey.
Into Solider Hallow, which was used during the 2002 Winter Olympics, and with three kilometres left, it was all back together.
BMC came up on the right and took the right hand turn with Taylor Phinney working for Brent Bookwalter on the front going under the flam rouge.
Schar took a turn on the front. Before the riders got to the finishing straight. Eric Young of Optum started first on the uphill finish and he held everyone off to win in 4.47.37, ahead of Dion Smith, Jure Kocjan, John Murphy and Brent Bookwalter.