Tim Wellems (Lotto-Fix All) wins stage 4 Giro d Italian.

Tim Wellens (Lotto-Fix All) wins uphill sprint Giro d'Italia stage 4 in Calstagirone, Italy.

Tim digs deep to take the win, Tim who was one of five riders to ping off the front in that final kilometre. He then sat up, waited for the bunch to get up to him, saved some energy before going again. When he made his final move, there was nobody that could hang onto

How it Happen

As the riders gathered in central Catania after the transfer from Israel and the partial rest day in the area, there was a general feeling that the Giro d'Italia was about to get a lot more serious with three hard days of racing in Sicily.

Would the 202km stage split the peloton and see the overall contenders try to test each other? Would BMC chase the break to defend Rohan Dennis' pink jersey or let it go? Riders were worried about the prospect of a hard day across central Sicily.

Froome finished much further back, and with a gap in the line of riders timed at greater than a second, he was classified as finishing 21 seconds down on Wellens. He tried to dismiss the time loss as 'racing' but after also losing 37 seconds in the opening Jerusalem time trial, which Dumoulin won; he now sits 55 seconds behind maglia rosa Dennis in the overall classification and 54 seconds behind Dumoulin.

Stage 4 General Classification Results.

1, Rohan Dennis (Australia) BMC Racing Team 14:23:08,
2, Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:00:01,
3, Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:17,
4, Tim Wellens (Belgium) Lotto Fix All 0:00:19,
5, Pello Bilbao (Spain) Astana Pro Team 0:00:25,
6, Maximilian Schachmann (Germany) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:28,
7, Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:28,
8,Thibaut Pinot (France) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:34,
9, Patrick Konrad (Austra) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:35,
10, Carlos Betancur (Colombia) Movistar Team 0:00:35.