Tour de Beauce: Tyler Stites wins rain-soaked stage 4 in Quebec
Luke Valenti takes overall lead with one day to go
Tyler Stites (Project Echelon Racing) won the rain-soaked stage 4 at the Tour de Beauce. Stiles won the circuit race sprint from a breakaway ahead of Jerome Gauthier (Team Ecoflo Chronos) and Evan Russell (Cycling BC).
The fourth stage at the Tour de Beauce offered the field a 70km circuit race (35 laps), held on a two-kilometre loop, in Québec City with intermediates sprints on laps 10, 20 and 30.
An early breakaway slipped away from the peloton during the first laps that included William Hardin (ProjectEchelon), Jérôme Gauthier (Ecoflo Chronos), Alex Hoehn (Makadence Primeau Vélo) and JulienGagné (Skyline-TSL). They built a lead out to almost a minute, but the gap was reduced with around 12 laps to go.
Stites was part of a chase group that had formed during the late stages of the race along with Luke Valenti, Evan Russell (Cycling BC) and Carson Miles (Toronto Hustle), and the bridged to the breakaway in the closing laps.
Stites then won the eight-rider sprint for the stage win.
Luke Valenti (Team Ecoflo Chronos) moved up to the overall race lead ahead of the final stage 5, a 122km race in Saint-Georges on Sunday.
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