UAE Tour: Stage win for Molano - Evenepoel remains overall leader

Evenepoel crosses the finish line in the peloton

On the 174-kilometre fourth stage, the Belgian reached the finish line from Soudal - Quick Step finished with the peloton at the Tour of the United Arab Emirates. The Colombian Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) took the day's victory in a bunch sprint in Dubai harbour by a wafer-thin margin ahead of Dutchman Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma) and the Australian Sam Welsford (Team DSM).

The best German in the overall standings remains Georg Steinhauser (EF Education EasyPost) in ninth place. On Wednesday, the young Belgian star Evenepoel had finished the third and longest stage of the Tour took the lead in the overall standings. The 23-year-old is seven seconds ahead of Australian Luke Plapp.

UAE Tour 2023: Result of the 4th stage

1st Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) 3:50:01

2nd Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma) +0:00

3rd Sam Welsford (Team DSM) +0:00

4th Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) +0:00

5th Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco-AlUla) +0:00

6th Danny van Poppel (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:00

7th Marijn van den Berg (EF Education EasyPost) +0:00

8th Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:00

9th Tim Merlier (Soudal - Quick Step) +0:00

10th Jon Aberasturi (Trek-Segafredo) +0:00

The current standings in the overall standings

1st Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) 12:17:23

2nd Luke Plapp (Ineos Grenadiers) +0:07

3rd Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious) +0:11

4th Stefan de Bod (EF Education EasyPost) +1:01

5th Wouter Poels (Bahrain-Victorious) +1:04

6th Harm Vanhoucke (Team DSM) +1:10

7th Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM) +1:10

8th One Rubio (Movistar) +1:11

9th Georg Steinhauser (EF Education EasyPost) +1:11

10th Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) +1:12

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