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Tour de Suisse stage 4 - live: into the mountains again

By Alasdair Fotheringham
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Another GC battle beckons for Remco, Ayuso and race leader Skjelmose

Mattias Skjelmose, 2023 Tour de Suisse leader after stage 3

Mattias Skjelmose, 2023 Tour de Suisse leader after stage 3 (Image credit: Getty)

Race notes

  • Stage 4 of the 2023 Tour de Suisse runs from Monthey to Leukerbad and is 152.5km long.

  • The second, very mountainous half, should see the GC battle ignite again

  • Stage 3 winner Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) leads by 17 seconds on Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and 24 on Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates). Another three riders are less than a minute on GC.

Tour de Suisse 2023 stage 4 race profile

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144 kilometres to go

Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) and Maciej Bodnar (TotalEnergies ) are both former multiple national time trial champions and both chance their arm, with an equal lack of success. The bunch is still together. For now.

Today's menu

Km 95.4:  Climb: Crans-Montana (Cat.1, 14.6km, 6.7%)

Km 113.3: Sprint: Sierre

Km 118.1: Climb: Varenstrasse (Cat.3, 2.8km, 5.1%)

Km 128.5: Sprint: Turtmann

Km 129.5: Sprint: Turtmann

Km 148.8: Climb: Dorben (Cat. 1, 19km 4.5%)

Km 152.6: Finish: Leukerbad

Some attacks from the gun, but as yet, nothing is sticking.

And we're off. Stage 4 of the 2023 Tour de Suisse is officially underway. 

Here's a map of what's on today's program:

Map of stage 4 of the 2023 Tour de Suisse

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Riders are currently in the neutralised section of stage 4, a distance of 1.4 kilometres, prior to the depart réel at 1240 CET.

Meanwhile at the head of the race...

Leaders:

GC: Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) 

Best Young Rider: Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo)

Points: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)

Mountains: Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5)

Teams: Ineos Grenadiers

Reports of two DNS this morning, both from Astana Qazaqstan: Vadim Pronskiy and Alexey Lutsenko, both ill. For Lutsenko, set to be a leader again for Astana in the upcoming Tour de France - where he won a mountainous stage back in 2020 - this is a setback.

Racing is due to get underway in roughly 10 minutes time.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 4 of the 2023 Tour de Suisse

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