Giro d’Italia, a tulip appears on the finish line of Lecce: Vince Van Uden. Pedersen still in pink

John

By John

Casper Van Uden is the winner of the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025, La Alberobello (Pietramadre)-Lecce di 189 kilometers, the first in Italy after the great departure in Albania. The Dutch sprinter of the Picnic Picnic postnl mocked the compatriots Olav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) and Maikel Zijlaard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team); The Danish Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) is fourth, which remains in the pink jersey. Usual fraction of transfer, Francisco Munoz of Polti-Visitmalta was on display from the first kilometers. A lone attack, with the group that left up to 5 minutes ahead of the fugitive of the day: the Alpecin-Deceuninck, with the passage of the kilometers, stitched the tear, 56 kilometers from the finish line the group returned again compact. Some problems in the final because of the many narrowing narrowings, the pink shirt Pedersen and Giulio Ciccone, also involved Andersen and Munoz himself. In the final sprint it was Van Uden who got the better; Tenth Matteo Moschetti, better than Italians. Nothing in the general classification changes, Pedersen remains the leader of the general with 9 »ahead of the Slovenian Primaz Roglic. Tomorrow the fifth stage, the Ceglie Messapica-Matera of 151 kilometers.