Tour of Guangxi: Moscon wins stage and takes race lead
19 October 2018 07:11
Team Sky's Gianni Moscon took a solo victory on stage 4 of the Tour of Guangxi on Friday, taking the overall lead in the final WorldTour race of the season with two stages left to race. The Italian attacked hard on the three-kilometre climb to Mashan Nongla, winning alone, five seconds ahead of Felix Großschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe), with Astana's Sergei Chernetckii a further three seconds back, as the six-day stage race in China took on a much tougher route than the previous three stages, which have all finished in bunch sprints. As expected, overnight leader Fabio Jakobsen (Quick Step Floors) dropped out of contention for the overall classification and, with time bonuses taken into account, Moscon now leads Großschartner by nine seconds, and Chernetckii by 14 seconds.ADVERTISEMENT The stage win is Moscon's fourth win of the season after recent victories at the Coppa Agostoni and the Giro della Toscana one-day races last month, and at the Italian time trial championships earlier this month. "We were all full gas and I saw the other riders were really tired and I thought ‘now is the moment’," Moscon said. "I didn’t think about it, it was just a feeling. I attacked and straight away had a small gap which I held to the end." Moscon and Team will now try to defend the race leader’s red jersey during the final two days of the Tour of Guangxi. Saturday’s 212km fifth stage five to Guilin includes consecutive 3.3km and 4.6km climbs just 35km from the finish. How it happened Results
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