Timo de Jong (VolkerWessels) supplied a serious shock in stage 4 of the Tour of Holland because the rider from Continental workforce VolkerWessels clinched his first-ever professional victory on the hardest day of the 2025 race.
On a stage with a summit end and 13 ascents of the brief however powerful VAM-Berg climb, De Jong outsprinted his rivals in a three-man assault group containing Lukáš Kubiš (Unibet Tietama Rockets) and new race chief Christophe Laporte (Visma-Lease A Bike) to seize the win.
Victorious within the European Championships on the identical circuit two years in the past, an impressively robust Laporte launched an assault with 29 kilometres to go together with Kubiš following the Frenchman as the 2 bridged throughout to the early break of the day.
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De Jong was the one rider from that early break in a position to stick with Laporte and Kubiš, and regardless of being on the entrance for thus lengthy, he was capable of launch an assault within the remaining kilometre and keep away to the end. Kubiš claimed second, only a few metres additional again, and Laporte third, practically a minute forward of the closest chase group.
After in a single day chief Ethan Hayter (Soudal-QuickStep) deserted within the first a part of the race with sickness, Laporte now holds a 37 second benefit general on Kubiš and is the agency favorite to win general on Sunday.
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