{"id":94363,"date":"2025-08-26T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94363\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:51:07","slug":"turner-sprints-to-vuelta-stage-four-victory-while-gaudu-takes-lead-from-vingegaard-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94363\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner sprints to Vuelta stage four victory while Gaudu takes lead from Vingegaard | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s Ben Turner , of Ineos Grenadiers, outfoxed the Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in a sprint finish to win stage four of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> on Tuesday, with France\u2019s David Gaudu taking the leader\u2019s red jersey from Jonas Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

Philipsen looked well placed coming to the line at the end of the 206.7km ride from Susa in Italy to the French town of Voiron, tucked in behind his compatriot and teammate Edward Planckaert, but Turner timed his move to perfection to win his first Grand Tour stage.<\/p>\n

Planckaert finished third, while Gaudu, winner of stage three, is the overall leader, still level on time with the race favourite, Vingegaard, but moving ahead of the Dane on the countback.<\/p>\n

An exhausted and emotional Turner broke down in tears, as the Briton realised he had just pulled off the biggest win of his career, in a Grand Tour he was not expecting to race.<\/p>\n

The stage winner Ben Turner embraces teammate Bob Jungels after his victory. Photograph: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Turner was a late call-up by Ineos Grenadiers to the Vuelta, with the 26-year-old leaving the Renewi Tour on Thursday to replace the ill Lucas Hamilton, having impressed at the Tour de Pologne earlier in August, winning the points classification.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say to be honest, it was a crazy week, super crazy,\u201d Turner said.
\u201cI wanted to come to the Vuelta, and I still had some issues with my leg since the Giro, but the team believed in me and I went to Renewi and then they said they needed me, so of course you say \u2018yeah\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longest stage of this year\u2019s race featured two category two climbs, and an early breakaway group were caught with 90km remaining, the peloton using the long descents to reel them in.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) launched one final attack, going solo after the intermediate sprint with 32km left to race, but 15km from the end his solo move ended, teeing up the bunch sprint.<\/p>\n

David Gaudu is helped into the red jersey after stage four. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Philipsen had won the opening stage on Saturday and, led out by Planckaert, the Belgian appeared set for another triumph but seemed to get caught behind his teammate as Turner powered past at the uphill finish for a surprise victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a crazy feeling. I was devastated in the first sprint when my chain came off, but I really believed in myself today,\u201d Turner added.<\/p>\n

The race reaches Spain on Wednesday, with stage five\u2019s 24.1km team time trial in Figueres, and after the Vuelta\u2019s sole finish in France this year it will Gaudu, from France, who wears the red jersey.<\/p>\n

Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) needed to finish eight places ahead of Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) to steal the lead, and he came in 25th while the Dane was 42nd over the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Ben Turner , of Ineos Grenadiers, outfoxed the Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in a sprint finish to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-94363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}