Renshaw and Goss 1-2 stage 4 sprint

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Mark Renshaw (HTC-Columbia) won the bunch sprint at the end of the short and fast fourth stage of the Tour of Denmark. The Australian took victory ahead of teammate Matt Goss to give HTC their second stage win of the tour, after Goss was victorious on the opening day.  It was Renshaw's first victory of 2010.

The 105km stage was animated by a lengthy breakaway from local riders Niki Østergaard (Glud & Marstrand-LRØ Counseling), Christian Ranneries (Team Energy Fyn and Kasper Schjønnemann (Team Concordia) and Belgian Tomas De Gent (Topsport Vlaanderen). However, their advantage never stretched beyond three minutes as HTC, Cervelo and Saxo Bank kept a tight rein on proceedings and brought it all back together for the sprint.

In the finale, it was HTC who had the upper hand, and they placed their Australian duo in first and second place, ahead of Alex Rasmussen (Saxo Bank) and Theo Boss (Cervelo).

"It's always really good when one of the guys who does a lot of work for another rider gets a chance to shine in his own right like today, and taking first and second for the team is something special, too," said HTC-Columbia's director Brian Holm. "The whole team went to the front with three laps to go, and I think they won the stage quite easily. The key was that we moved to the head of the race at the right time, and set things up perfectly for Mark and Matt. Mark is in good shape at the moment, that's pretty clear, and we're sure he'll be getting back up there in the future as well."

Overall, Saxo Bank’s Matti Breschel remains 10 seconds clear of teammate Jakob Fuglsang and 29 seconds in front of Joost van Leijen (Vacansoleil) ahead of this afternoon’s time trial.

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