Gaps between the general classification widened after stage three.

Kasper Asgreen – making his return to competition for the first time since time trialling to silver at the National Championships held at the end of June – animated the penultimate day of the Czech Tour, which travelled from Moravska Trebova to Dlouhe strane, where the hardest climb of this edition awaited.

Just like on Friday, the stage got off to a fast start, but a group rode away only after 40 kilometers. The strong 15-man move featured also Asgreen, who produced a strong effort and took some long pulls, despite the fact the peloton decided to keep the escapees on a tight leash. Riding the Czech Tour for the first time in his career, Kasper left everything out there, but eventually got caught in the last 30 kilometers, after the chasers upped the pace on the Mladenov ascent.

On the final climb, averaging 7.9% over 8.5 kilometers, a selection was made early, not only due to the big tempo pushed at the front, but also because of a pile-up that caught behind many riders, including Julian Alaphilippe. As a result, our team was left just with Mattia Cattaneo in the group and the Italian concluded the stage won by Thomas Gloag (Visma-Lease a Bike) as the best Soudal Quick-Step rider.

 

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Race details

1 Thomas Gloag
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:17:17
2 Marc Hirschi
UAE Team Emirates
0:08
3 Diego Ulissi
UAE Team Emirates
0:13
4 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:13
5 Sergio Higuita García
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:13
6 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:13
7 Andrew August
INEOS Grenadiers
0:13
8 Márton Dina
ATT Investments
0:19
9 Andreas Leknessund
Uno-X Mobility
0:19
10 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:25
26 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
2:28
43 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
5:49
49 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
7:23
103 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
17:35
104 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
17:35
110 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
18:53
121 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
19:00
1 Marc Hirschi
UAE Team Emirates
11:05:26
2 Diego Ulissi
UAE Team Emirates
0:18
3 Sergio Higuita García
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:25
4 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:28
5 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:28
6 Michael Storer
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
0:40
7 Andrew August
INEOS Grenadiers
0:44
8 Mark Donovan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:45
9 Kamiel Bonneu
Team Flanders - Baloise
0:45
10 Márton Dina
ATT Investments
0:46
31 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
6:24
42 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step
11:24
63 James Knox
Soudal Quick-Step
20:01
69 Antoine Huby
Soudal Quick-Step
23:10
120 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
41:27
121 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
41:49
130 Josef Černý
Soudal Quick-Step
44:36
1 Marc Hirschi
UAE Team Emirates
45 pt
2 Diego Ulissi
UAE Team Emirates
36 pt
3 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
29 pt
4 Sergio Higuita García
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
28 pt
5 Thomas Gloag
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
25 pt
6 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
25 pt
7 Maikel Zijlaard
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
24 pt
8 Pavel Bittner
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
24 pt
9 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
19 pt
10 Lukáš Kubiš
Elkov - Kasper
16 pt
28 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
1 Marc Hirschi
UAE Team Emirates
14 pt
2 Michal Schuran
ATT Investments
14 pt
3 Diego Ulissi
UAE Team Emirates
10 pt
4 Thomas Gloag
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
8 pt
5 Paul Double
Team Polti Kometa
8 pt
6 Lukáš Kubiš
Elkov - Kasper
6 pt
7 Tomáš Kalojíros
Pierre Baguette Cycling
6 pt
8 Kevin Vermaerke
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
6 pt
9 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
10 Sergio Higuita García
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4 pt
18 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Marco Brenner
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
11:05:54
2 Andrew August
INEOS Grenadiers
0:16
3 Johannes Staune-Mittet
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:35
4 Giacomo Villa
Bingoal WB
2:56
5 Mats Wenzel
Lidl - Trek Future Racing
3:59
6 Michael Leonard
INEOS Grenadiers
5:24
7 Simon Dalby Jensen
Uno-X Mobility
6:17
8 Alexander Hajek
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
7:08
9 Finlay Pickering
Bahrain - Victorious
7:29
10 Andrii Ponomar
Team Corratec - Vini Fantini
8:11
27 Luke Lamperti
Soudal Quick-Step
41:21
1 Team Polti Kometa 33:23:59
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:30
3 Uno-X Mobility 1:54
4 UAE Team Emirates 2:45
5 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:56
6 Team Corratec - Vini Fantini 3:58
7 Intermarché - Wanty 6:55
8 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 8:49
9 Team Flanders - Baloise 13:29
10 INEOS Grenadiers 18:17

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