{"id":566768,"date":"2026-03-27T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:09","slug":"vernon-wins-sprint-finish-on-shortened-stage-four-of-volta-a-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566768\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon wins sprint finish on shortened stage four of Volta a Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Ethan Vernon won a sprint finish on a shortened stage four of the Volta a Catalunya. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old NSN Cycling Team rider surged to the front on the run-in to the line in Camprodon and comfortably held off France&#8217;s Dorian Godon, with fellow Briton Tom Pidcock in third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ineos Grenadiers&#8217; Godon retains the overall lead, 13 seconds clear of Pidcock who has moved into second place, with Remco Evenepoel a further second back and two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard 24 seconds adrift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a special race for me, I had my first pro win here and our sponsor is also based here,&#8221; said Vernon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The change [in the route] calmed everything down, we knew last night and made the plan to come out of the last roundabout in first place and then go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Had the first of three Pyrenees stages concluded at the Vallter ski station as planned, it would likely have favoured the likes of Vingegaard and former Vuelta a Espana champion Evenepoel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, organisers scrapped the scheduled summit finish because of high winds, putting a different complexion on the stage which ended 22 kilometres before the original finish line, which would have come at the end of a brutal climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Ethan Vernon won a sprint finish on a shortened stage four of the Volta a Catalunya. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-566768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}