BORA-hansgrohe Team (Norway) - Press Release: The fourth and last stage of the Tour of Norway was supposedly the flattest stage of the tour with about 1200 meters of elevation on 156 kilometers. Immediately after the start, a group of 7 riders was able to break away from the peloton and gain a maximum lead of over four minutes. The BORA-hansgrohe team also took part in the chasing work in the main field over long periods in order to catch the escapers again. Despite the largely flat route, the riders had three final laps with the short but up to 14 percent steep ascent to Grisabakken. Due to the technical route to the foot of the ascent, the pace in the main peloton was kept extremely high even before the first crossing and the distance to the breakaway decreased almost by itself. On the last ascent to Grisabakken, the peloton split up due to the high speed and only a smaller group, in which three BORA-hansgrohe riders were represented, were about to sprint for the victory. About two kilometers from the finish it was Nils Politt who opened the finale and prepared the sprint for Matthew Walls on his rear wheel. Thanks to an extremely strong leadout by Politt and a well-timed sprint by Walls, no other rider was able to pass and Matthews Walls secured his first professional victory. Ide Schelling crossed the finish line in 22nd place with the same group without any loss of time and was thus able to maintain his second place in the overall standings.

Results:

Stage 04:

1. Matthew Walls: 3:25:16
2. M. Pedersen: +0:00
3. D. Hoelgaard: +0:00

General Classification:

1. E. Hayter: 15:15:00
2. Ide Schelling: +0:15
3. M. Teunissen: +0:25