Australia’s Kaden Groves takes La Vuelta stage four in sprint finish into Tarragona

Australian Kaden Groves of Alpecin-Deceuninck gained stage 4 of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday in a dash end after an early breakaway was reeled in earlier than the finale.

The fourth stage was a 184.6-kilometre experience from Andorra la Vella to Tarragona which included two class three climbs within the last 60 kilometres.

Coming into the ultimate kilometre Groves was in a superb place however had Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Crew Emirates) and Julius van den Berg (EF Training-Easypost) to deal with.

Van den Berg crashed into the boundaries and it regarded like Molano would take the stage when he went early. Coming off the ultimate bend Molano held the lead however Groves powered house to take the stage win.

“Sebas (Molano) went full from the underside with 350 metres to go and I used to be fortunately affected person sufficient and robust sufficient to shut the hole with round 100 metres to go,” Groves mentioned after the race.

“I used to be assured I might cross him as a result of he led out from very early. On a end like that, which is tremendous powerful and lengthy, I assumed he must be on a very good day to beat me,” the stage winner added.

Groves, who additionally gained a stage finally 12 months’s Vuelta, was adopted house by Molano in second and Edward Theuns (Lidl-Trek) in third place.

The stage had been billed as the primary possible dash end of this 12 months’s race, however a three-man group who broke away at first of the stage threatened to upset these predictions.

Eduardo Sepulveda (Lotto Dstny) was the primary to be caught with simply 22 kilometres left, however not after taking most factors from each climbs to take over as chief within the mountains classification.