Vuelta a España stage 4 LIVE – Five riders go clear as race heads to France

The few KMs are ticked off as the race is climbing in the Italian Alps as they head to the French border.

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One rider in the chase is young Briti, Lukas Nururkar (EF Education-EasyPost). He is about equidistant between the peloton and break at 8″ in both directions.

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The peloton don’t seem too happy to let the four man break go just yet with around 15 to 20 seconds between the them.

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Onto the first climb of the day, the 5.6km long category 3 Exilles climb which has an average gradient of 5.6%.

Jonas Gregaard (Lotto)
Kelland O’Brien (Jayco-AlUla)
Joel Nicolau (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
Simone Petilli (Intermarche-Wanty)

They have 10″ on the peloton at the moment.

The start is given and the racing begins on stage four of La Vuelta 2025!

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The riders begin the roll out of Susa and head for the Alps with a 6.1km long neutralized section.

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In the past, this would not have been a day for the sprinters but the sport has changed and now sprinters are much more versatile and capable of getting over some huge climbs in pursuit of victory.

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After the Lautaret, though, there is a very long descent that takes the riders from around 130km to go to around 50km to go and aside from one little lump, it is almost entirely flat after that to Voiron.

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After that there is a descent for the riders to recuperate and maybe relax before more false flat heading to the Col du Lautaret, the highest point of the day at just over 2000 metres. The category two climb is 13.8km long and has an average gradient of 4.3%.

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After the Exilles the road doesn’t really descent much as they tackle false flat to the next climb, the category two Montgenévre where the race enters France with the 8.3km climb having an average gradient of 6.1% and a peak altitude of over 1800 metres.

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The start of the first climb today comes after just 4km with the category three Exilles climb. 5.6km with an average gradient of 5.6%.

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Neutral start is due in just 10 minutes.

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The riders are signed on and ready to go on the fourth stage of the 2025 La Vuelta with the stage starting in Susa and heading over 206.7km to Voiron.

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The jerseys today:

Red, GC – Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Green, Points – Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)*
Polka dots, KoM – Alessandro Verre (Arkea-B&B Hotels)
White, U25 – Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

*Worn by – Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek)

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The race leaves Italian soil today just before the top of the second climb on the stage, the Montgenévre. Then the race has it’s one and only day in France before finally making it to Spain tomorrow.

However, more international visits await with Andorra and Portugal also on the menu in the next three weeks.

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Vingegaard took part in yesterday’s uphill sprint and took third but was also up there in the intermediate sprint as the Danish star looks for bonus seconds and his top shape…