The Belgian Victor Campanaertsof Lotto Dstny team, won this Saturday in the fourth and penultimate stage of Return to Luxembourga 23.9 kilometer individual time trial starting and ending in Pétange, after which the Swiss Marc Hirschi (UAE Emirates) wore the leader’s jersey.
Campanaerts, 31 years old and signing his eleventh professional victory in the second in 2023, won the ‘chrono’ with a time of 28:06 minutes and was just one second ahead of American Brandon McNulty, 20 seconds ahead Italian Diego Ulissi and 22 Austrian Felix Grosschartner, all three from the UAE Emirates.
Hirschi, seventh on the stage, 27 seconds behind Campanaerts, leads the individual overall standings and heads into the final day with an advantage of 2 seconds over McNulty and 3 seconds over first-placed Irishman Ben Healy, heading into Saturday .
The Spanish Alex Aranburu (Movisytar) dropped to twenty-fourth place, at 1.58, after ending the day in 44th place at 1:47. Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) was thirtieth on the stage in 1:26.
The Tour of Luxembourg, with four different leaders since it started on Wednesday, will end this Sunday with the fifth stage, between Mersch and the capital and a journey of 177.2 kilometers.
Source: La Verdad
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