2012 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10#Stage 4
(40,4 km / h)
Yukiya Arashiro (EUC )
The fourth stage of the Tour de France 2012 took place on July 4, 2012. She was 214.5 km long, leading from Abbeville to Rouen. There were still 195 of 198 riders at the start.
Route
The route ran through the Somme and Seine- Maritime. From Abbeville from it first led to the shores of the English Channel and followed this in a westerly direction. In this section, there were three climbs of the fourth category. In Fécamp, which also housed the intermediate sprint, bent the route from the southeast. After another mountain stage of the fourth category, the step was taken in Rouen on largely flat terrain.
Race course
Already in the first meters of the stage ripped from the Japanese Yukiya Arashiro to him were joined shortly afterwards the two Frenchmen David Moncoutie and Anthony Delaware Place. The trio was able to quickly settle from the field and had after 16 kilometers, already a lead of 8:40 minutes. Only then is the field, the residue is to reduce a little began. All drivers drove However, viewed over the entire stage, in a rather low pace and reported at the end of a significant residue on the march table.
Moncoutié and Delaware Place won two mountain stages, while Arashiro decided the intermediate sprint in Fécamp for themselves; Fastest in the field was the Briton Mark Cavendish at this point. About 40 kilometers before the finish Arashiro tried to shake what he failed his companion: Meanwhile easily reduced to the continuous field, especially RadioShack -Nissan and FDJ did all the leadership. About seven kilometers to the outliers could be obtained.
Sylvain Chavanel, Samuel Dumoulin and Wout Poels started another serious breakaway, but was unsuccessful. 2.5 km from the finish, there was a massive crash in the more than a dozen drivers were involved, among them Mark Cavendish. The field was divided into several groups. In the sprint to the first group, André Greipel prevailed just before Alessandro Petacchi. Since the big crash had occurred less than three kilometers from the finish, there were according to regulations it will not affect the intervals in the day and overall.
Climbs
- Côte du Mont Huon, Category 4 ( 38 kilometers; 97 m, 2.1 km at 4.1 %)
- Côte de Dieppe, Category 4 ( 69 kilometers; 82 m, 1.8 km at 3.9 %)
- Côte de Pourville- sur -Mer, Category 4 ( 74 kilometers; 97 m, 1.9 km at 4.4 %)
- Côte de Toussaint, Category 4 ( km 143; 105 m; 1.9 km at 4.5 %)
Points ratings
- Intermediate sprint in Fécamp ( 140 km, 19 m)
- Target in Rouen ( 214.5 km; 11 m)