Tour de Suisse Men stage 4 LIVE: Tim Wellens takes over from teammate on top step
Individual time trial set to shake up the general classification on penultimate day of racing
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Tour de Suisse – Stage 4 TT start times
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Race Situation
1. Tim Wellens (UAD) 26'50"
2. Nils Politt (UAD) 31"
3. Alec Segaert (TBV) S.T.
4. Xabier Azparren (PQT) +39"
5. Michal Kwiatkowski (NCI) +50"
Your predictions
Swiss champion Schmid goes under the flamme rouge and is on track for a decent finishing time.
New fastest time at split
Mathieu van der Poel (APT) with a 12'16", that is 11" faster than Wellens. He is motoring out there.
Mathieu van der Poel (APT) passes Louis Vervaeke (SOQ) out on course.
Finn Fisher-Black (RBH) is about to set off on his ride. The New Zealand national champion is a name to watch for.
New best time at finish
Tim Wellens (UAD) 26'50", that is a brilliant ride by the former Belgian TT champion.
Schmid is now +3" down at the split in second place.
Segaert misses out on the best time by 0.07 of a second!
It is a very hot and sunny day for the riders today.
Some riders to watch who have just set off are Magnus Cort (UXM) and Mauro Schmid (JAY).
New best time at finish
Nils Politt (UAD) sets a time of 27'21" which is 8" faster than Azparren.
Herzog comes to the finish and takes 3rd but is immediately pushed down to 4th by Bax who slots into 2nd place in Aarburg at 10".
To see the current and most up to date top 5 in the race, make sure to regularly refresh the page and look under 'race situation' tab.
Chamberlain slots into 2nd place at the finish at +18" back from Kluckers.
Segaert has set off on his ride.
New best time at split
Sjoerd Bax (Pinarello-Q36.5) with a 12'52" and Emil Herzog (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) just behind him at +3".
Ørn-Kristoff finishes with a time of 30'07" with Haller finishing in 29'11", both well off Brenner.
Chamberlain goes second at the split by just 4" behind Kluckers.
Bax and Scotson have both set off on their rides.
Gradek, who is normally a very solid time trialer, must have had an issue as he is almost two minutes down at the first split.
New best split time
Artur Kluckers (Tudor) with a 12'52", that is 26" faster than his teammate, Brenner.
Sjoerd Bax (Pinarello-Q36.5) is setting off soon, he finished 4th on stage 10 in the Giro d'Italia in a superb ITT where he held the top spot for a very long time. Can he perform to a similar level today?
Ben Swift (Netcompany-Ineos) equals the time of Grignard at the split.
Sebastian Grignard (Lotto-Intermarche) is the closest to Brenner's split time of 13'19", he is just under 8" down.
No-one is close to Brenner's time at the split on Wolfwilerstrasse for the moment.
One of the riders I've mentioned, Chamberlain, has set off.
Ørn-Kristoff, Gradek and Haller all well down on Brenner at the split with the latter of the three being the closest.
Brenner goes through the time split in 13'19". The first benchmark of the day.
The first major ITT name on the list is Giro stage winner, Alec Segaert (Bahrain Victorious), who sets off in half an hour from now.
Early riders to possibly watch for a good time are Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek), Oscar Chamberlain (Decathlon-CMA CGM), Callum Scotson (Decathlon-CMA CGM), Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) among others.
Felix Ørn-Kristoff (Lotto-Intermarche) is the next man to set off on his ride followed by Kamil Gradek (Bahrain Victorious), Marco Haller (Tudor), Luke Lamperti (EF Education-EasyPost) and they are coming thick and fast with just one minute between start times.
There is an intermediate time check at roughly the halfway point of the day on the brilliantly named Wolfwilerstrasse. That will be the first showing of how riders are doing, but a negative split is definitely a possibility on this sort of course.
Here are the start times for the day...
>>> Tour de Suisse: Stage 4 women's and men's time trial start times
Pogačar refocussed after visiting partner Urška Žigart in hospital as he looks towards two key stages on Tour de Suisse finale...
Aside from Pogačar, riders expected to make good gains today are Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek), Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Felix Großschartner (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Tobias Foss (Netcompany-Ineos) and Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).
Today's 23.7km long course is the exact same route used by the women's race earlier in the day. If you don't want any spoilers then don't read on...
The stage was won by ITT world champion, Marlen Reusser (Movistar). And to add a bonus to the day, the defending champion at the race also took yellow from Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) after the Italian put in a valiant effort but still lost over a minute.
It all comes down to the massive mountain stage tomorrow.
Before looking ahead to today's stage, let's look back at yesterday's stage and yet more success for UAE Team Emirates-XRG, this time not from Tadej Pogačar but from Jhonatan Narváez...
Hello and welcome to live updates of stage 4 at the men's Tour de Suisse where the task of the day is a tricky but largely flat individual time trial.
