Tobias Lund Andresen powers to victory in thrillingly messy finale to stage 4 of 2024 Tour of Turkey

Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL's Tobias Lund Andresen has powered to victory in a thrillingly messy and unorganised finale to stage 4 of the 2024 Tour of Turkey.

After eight riders formed the day's breakaway, including the King of the Mountains jersey wearer, just six remained at the top of the second categorised climb, the Samet Bulut not among them, meaning a change in the climbers classification at the end of the day.

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With 10km to go though, the break, now down to just five riders still held hope of victory. The difference between leaders and peloton was being held at around 40 seconds and as the peloton continued to lack organisation in the chase, it was still 30 seconds with 4km to go.

In the final kilometre though, it was heartbreak for the attackers. As the sprint trains were launched, their day out front was finally brought to a close and in the end, it was Tobias Lund Andresen who powered to victory ahead of Danny van Poppel and Henri Uhlig.