2024 Tour Down Under stage 4 Results from BikeRaceInfo

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The race: Here's the race organizer's telling of stage four.

Sam Welsford celebrated his 28th birthday in absolute style when he claimed a third Santos Tour Down Under victory – this time at Port Elliot on Friday.

The Bora-hansgrohe sprint gun smashed his rivals to pieces to claim the major prize for the Hahn Stage 4 from Murray Bridge to Port Elliot.

Welsford’s hat-trick of stage wins was a first for the Santos Tour Down Under since Caleb Ewan (Jayco AlUla) claimed four stages during the 2017 event.

“It’s pretty special to get a win on my birthday,” Welsford said. “For a minute I almost forgot it was my birthday because I was so into the race. The boys did an amazing job looking after me.”

Welsford finished ahead of Eritrean star Binian Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty).

He will keep the Sprint Jersey while Mexican sensation Isaac Del Toro is still race leader and 40 seconds clear of Welsford. The 20-year-old is one second ahead of Girmay and two seconds ahead of New Zealand’s Corbin Strong (Israel Premier Tech) before the back-to-back queen stages take the race by storm over the weekend.

Del Toro played down his chances of claiming Stage 5 from Christies Beach to Willunga on Saturday before the 2024 edition of the race ends at Mount Lofty summit on Sunday. “I feel good – a little bit nervous but good (about the weekend),’’ Del Toro said.

ARA Australia’s Luke Burns will keep the King of the Mountain Jersey for Saturday after another hard day of work.

His teammate Jackson Medway, the youngest rider in this year’s Santos Tour Down Under at 19 years of age, claimed the Most Competitive Jersey after being at the front for most of the race alongside Brazilian Movistar rider Vinicius Rangel before they were caught by the main peloton at Goolwa.

Bora-hansgrohe controlled the main bunch in an obvious bid to protect Welsford.

Australia’s reigning three-time road champion Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla) was a non-starter after being injured in a nasty crash along Gorge Road during Stage 3 on Thursday.

There was also crash on Friday in the peloton, this time about 100km before the finish. GC contender and climbing specialist Axel Mariault from team Cofidis was involved, along with team-mate Piet Allegaert and Arkea – B&B Hotels riders Louis Barre and Laurens Huys.

KEY POINTS
66.7km: Sprint 1 - Bridge Road at Langhorne Creek General Store, Langhorne Creek
ARA Australian Cycling Team’s Jackson Medway claimed Stage 4’s Sprint #1. Medway crossed the line ahead of Movistar’s Vinicius Rangel after the pair broke away early in the stage. Kelland O’Brien from Team Jayco AlUla took the bonus second ahead of Jhonatan Narvaez from Ineos Grenadiers.

82.2km: Sprint 2 - Commercial Road near Colman Terrace, Strathalbyn
Alex Mariault made it two sprints from two and claimed very handy bonus seconds, pipping EF Education-Easy Post’s Stefan De Bod on the line. The Cofidis rider claimed the points in a photo finish while ARA Australian Cycling Team’s Tristan Saunders finished behind the pair.

88.3km: King of the Mountain 1 - Gemmell Hill (Category 3)
Movistar’s Vinicius Rangel took out the King of the Mountain ahead of Jackson Medway from ARA Australian Cycling Team. Medway’s team-mate, King of the Mountain leader Luke Burns, crossed the line in third to add two points to his tally.

Complete results:

Stage 4 photos

136.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.44 km/hr

1	Samuel Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	2hr 59min 50sec
2	Biniam Girmay	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
3	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
4	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	s.t.
5	Laurence Pithie	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
6	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar Team	s.t.
7	Max Kanter	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
8	Antoine Huby	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
9	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
10	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
11	Pavel Bittner	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
12	Mathias Vacek	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Jhonatan Narvaez	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
15	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
16	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
17	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
18	Caleb Ewan	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
19	Elia Viviani	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
20	Ivan Garcia Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
21	Declan Trezise	Australian National Team	s.t.
22	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
23	Kelland O’Brien	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
24	Owain Doull	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
25	Mick Van Dijke	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
26	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
27	Archie Ryan	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
28	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
29	Milan Vader	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
30	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
31	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
32	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
33	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
34	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
35	Lilian Calmejane	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
36	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
37	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
38	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
39	Eddy Fine	Cofidis	s.t.
40	Clement Berthet	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
41	Franck Bonnamour	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
42	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
43	Quinn Simmons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
44	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
45	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
46	Axel Mariault	Cofidis	s.t.
47	Derek Gee	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
48	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
49	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
50	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
51	Stefan De Bod	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
52	Jon Barrenetxea	Movistar Team	s.t.
53	Antonio Morgado Tomas	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
54	Finn Lachlan Fox Fisher	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
55	Valentin Paret Peintre	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
56	Gianmarco Garofoli	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
57	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	s.t.
58	Reuben Thompson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
59	Damien Howson	Australian National Team	s.t.
60	Roger Adria	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
61	Loe Van Belle	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
62	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
63	Madis Mihkels	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
64	Koen Bouwman	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
65	Tristan Saunders	Australian National Team	s.t.
66	Jonas Rutsch	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
67	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
68	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
69	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
70	Johan Niklas Jacobs	Movistar Team	s.t.
71	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
72	Jack Rootkin-Gray	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
73	Simon Yates	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
74	Christopher Hamilton	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
75	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
76	Isaac Del Toro Romero	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
77	Michael Vink	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
78	Michael Storer	Australian National Team	s.t.
79	Patrick Bevin	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
80	Harrison Sweeny	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
81	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
82	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
83	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
84	Robert Gesink	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
85	Chris Harper	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
86	Louis Barre	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
87	Vinicius Rangel Costa	Movistar Team	s.t.
88	Juan Pedro Lopez Perez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
89	Campbell Stewart	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
90	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
91	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
92	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	s.t.
93	Jaakko Hänninen	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
94	Laurens Huys	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
95	Nicholas Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
96	Juri Hollmann	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
97	Kevin Ledanois	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
98	Ben Swift	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
99	Laurens De Plus	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
100	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
101	Paul Lapeira	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
102	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
103	Nans Peters	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
104	Luke Burns	Australian National Team	s.t.
105	Jackson Medway	Australian National Team	s.t.
106	Patrick Eddy	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
107	Fran Miholjevic	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
108	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
109	Liam Walsh	Australian National Team	s.t.
110	Clement Davy	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
111	Stan Van Tricht	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
112	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
113	Joshua Tarling	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
114	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
115	Johan Price Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
116	Christian Scaroni	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
117	Piet Allegaert	Cofidis	s.t.
118	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
119	Johannes Staune-Mittet	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
120	Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
121	Nicolo Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
122	Torstein Traeen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
123	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
124	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan Team	@ 28sec
125	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	+32''
126	Jardi Christiaan Van Der Lee	Ef Education-Easypost	+33''
127	Samuele Battistella	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+38''
128	Rudiger Selig	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
129	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	+49''
130	Daniel McLay	Arkea-B&B Hotels	+52''
131	Josef Cerny	Soudal Quick-Step	+59''
132	Leo Hayter	Ineos Grenadiers	+1'13''
133	Filippo Ganna	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
134	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	+1'23''
135	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco Alula	+1'49''
DNS	Lucas Plapp	Team Jayco Alula
DNS	Cameron Scott	Bahrain Victorious

GC after stage 4:

GC leader: Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates)
Mountains classification leader: Luke Burns (Australian National Team)
Points classification leader: Sam Welsford (Bora-hansgrohe)
Best young rider: Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates)
Teams classification leader: Intermarché-Wanty

467.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.75 km/hr

1	Isaac Del Toro Romero	UAE Team Emirates	13hr 15min 54sec
2	Biniam Girmay	Intermarché-Wanty	@ 1sec
3	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	+2''
4	Axel Mariault	Cofidis	+5''
5	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	+7''
6	Lars Boven	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
7	Stefan De Bod	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
8	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	+8''
9	Finn Lachlan Fox Fisher	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
10	Louis Barre	Arkea-B&B Hotels	+9''
11	Caleb Ewan	Team Jayco Alula	+10''
12	Jhonatan Narvaez	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Max Kanter	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+11''
14	Laurence Pithie	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
15	Danny Van Poppel	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
16	Antoine Huby	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
17	Milan Vader	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
18	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar Team	s.t.
19	Gonzalo Serrano	Movistar Team	s.t.
20	Ivan Garcia Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
21	Bastien Tronchon	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
22	Mathias Vacek	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
23	Franck Bonnamour	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
24	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
25	Clement Berthet	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
26	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
27	Archie Ryan	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
28	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
29	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
30	Valentin Paret Peintre	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
31	Lilian Calmejane	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
32	Ruben Fernandez	Cofidis	s.t.
33	Quinn Simmons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
34	Jon Barrenetxea	Movistar Team	s.t.
35	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
36	Antonio Morgado Tomas	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
37	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
38	Derek Gee	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
39	Bauke Mollema	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
40	Gianmarco Garofoli	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
41	George Bennett	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
42	Harrison Sweeny	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
43	Natnael Tesfazion	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
44	Reuben Thompson	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
45	Ben Zwiehoff	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
46	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
47	Eddy Fine	Cofidis	s.t.
48	Michael Vink	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
49	Koen Bouwman	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
50	Jonas Rutsch	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
51	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
52	Roger Adria	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
53	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
54	Piet Allegaert	Cofidis	s.t.
55	Damien Howson	Australian National Team	s.t.
56	Juan Pedro Lopez Perez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
57	Christopher Hamilton	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
58	Simon Yates	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
59	Chris Harper	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
60	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	s.t.
61	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
62	Laurens De Plus	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
63	Jaakko Hänninen	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
64	Jason Osborne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
65	Anthony Delaplace	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
66	Michel Ries	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
67	Nicholas Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
68	Stan Van Tricht	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
69	Michael Storer	Australian National Team	s.t.
70	Declan Trezise	Australian National Team	+36''
71	James Knox	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
72	Samuel Welsford	Bora-hansgrohe	+40''
73	Paul Lapeira	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	+51''
74	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	+1'04''
75	Joshua Tarling	Ineos Grenadiers	+1'09''
76	Milan Fretin	Cofidis	+1'10''
77	Madis Mihkels	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
78	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
79	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
80	Owain Doull	Ef Education-Easypost	s.t.
81	Mick Van Dijke	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	s.t.
82	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
83	Pavel Bittner	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
84	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
85	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
86	Kevin Ledanois	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
87	Juri Hollmann	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
88	Nans Peters	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
89	Jacopo Mosca	Lidl-Trek	+1'48''
90	Robert Gesink	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	+1'50''
91	Patrick Gamper	Bora-hansgrohe	+2'02''
92	Ryan Mullen	Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
93	Dario Cataldo	Lidl-Trek	+2'16''
94	Elia Viviani	Ineos Grenadiers	+2'34''
95	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	+2'35''
96	Kelland O’Brien	Team Jayco Alula	+2'48''
97	Loe Van Belle	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	+3'03''
98	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step
99	Jack Rootkin-Gray	Ef Education-Easypost	+3'43''
100	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	+3'54''
101	Filip Maciejuk	Bora-hansgrohe	+3'56''
102	Filippo Ganna	Ineos Grenadiers	+4'01''
103	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	+4'07''
104	Laurens Huys	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
105	Luke Burns	Australian National Team	+4'28''
106	Rudiger Selig	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+4'45''
107	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	+4'47''
108	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan Team	s.t.
109	Maurice Ballerstedt	Alpecin-Deceuninck	+5'01''
110	Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
111	Patrick Bevin	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	s.t.
112	Ben Swift	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
113	Tristan Saunders	Australian National Team	+5'35''
114	Daniel McLay	Arkea-B&B Hotels	+5'44''
115	Liam Walsh	Australian National Team	+5'50''
116	Johannes Staune-Mittet	Team Visma \| Lease A Bike	+5'58''
117	Fran Miholjevic	Bahrain Victorious	+6'00''
118	Campbell Stewart	Team Jayco Alula	+6'12''
119	Tom Paquot	Intermarché-Wanty	+6'30''
120	Christian Scaroni	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+6'37''
121	Jardi Christiaan Van Der Lee	Ef Education-Easypost	+6'55''
122	Josef Cerny	Soudal Quick-Step	+8'37''
123	Jackson Medway	Australian National Team	+8'48''
124	Vinicius Rangel Costa	Movistar Team	+10'26''
125	Michele Gazzoli	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+10'32''
126	Patrick Eddy	Team dsm-firmenich Postnl	+10'35''
127	Samuele Battistella	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+10'42''
128	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	+10'44''
129	Nicolo Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	+12'15''
130	Torstein Traeen	Bahrain Victorious	+12'40''
131	Johan Niklas Jacobs	Movistar Team	+12'41''
132	Leo Hayter	Ineos Grenadiers	+14'46''
133	Clement Davy	Groupama-FDJ	+14'55''
134	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco Alula	+15'42''
135	Johan Price Pejtersen	Bahrain Victorious	+29'06''