Oscar Gatto (Cannondale) po finiszu z peletonu wygrał czwarty odcinek wyścigu w Austrii. Prowadzenie w klasyfikacji generalnej zachował Brytyjczyk Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky).
Ucieczkę dnia na pierwszych kilometrach pagórkowatego odcinka uformowali Włoch Marco Canola (Bardiani-CSF), Polak Paweł Poljański (Tinkoff-Saxo) i Holender Marco Minaard (Wanty-Groupe Gobert).
Uciekinierzy poczynali sobie śmiało i na pagórkowatym odcinku uzyskali nawet 4:10 nad peletonem. Do pokonania były trzy górskie premie, więc przewaga utrzymywała się na w miarę stabilnym poziomie około 3 minut.
Minaard nie wytrzymał tempa na ostatnim podjeździe i na finałowe 50 kilometrów wpadli tylko Polak i Włoch. Przewaga topniała stopniowo, pozwalając myśleć o dojechaniu do mety – na 20 kilometrów przed metą uciekająca dwójka wciąż miała 2:20 zapasu. Sprinterzy nie zamierzali jednak odpuścić, a ich pomocnicy zwiększyli tempo, doganiając śmiałków na 5 kilometrów przed kreską.
W finale doszło do powtórki z etapu trzeciego – najszybszy okazał się Oscar Gatto, pokonując w bezpośredniej walce Juana Jose Lobato i Marco Hallera.
Wyniki 4. etapu Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt 2014 (2.HC), Kitzbühel – Matrei/Osttirol (171,9 km):
1 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Cannondale 4:14:08 2 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Esp) Movistar Team 3 Marco Haller (Aut) Team Katusha 4 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek Factory Racing 5 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 6 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 7 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team 8 Sebastian Lander (Den) BMC Racing Team 9 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Cannondale 10 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 11 Boris Vallee (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 12 Joshua Edmondson (GBr) Team Sky 13 Andi Bajc (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 14 Raymond Kreder (Ned) Garmin - Sharp 15 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team 16 Florian Bissinger (Ger) WSA-Greenlife 17 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 18 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 19 Javier Moreno Bazan (Esp) Movistar Team 20 Oliver Zaugg (Sui) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 21 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 22 Jay Mccarthy (Aus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 23 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 24 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 25 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 26 Vegard Breen (Nor) Lotto - Belisol 27 Peter Kusztor (Hun) Amplatz - BMC 28 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 29 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 30 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 31 Francis De Greef (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 32 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 33 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 34 Frederik Backaert (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 35 Larry Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 36 Jesper Hansen (Den) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 37 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Vorarlberg 38 Yohan Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 39 Gregor Muhlberger (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 40 Bob Jungels (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 41 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Esp) Team Katusha 42 Jure Golcer (Slo) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 43 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 44 Michel Kreder (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 45 Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 46 Dayer Uberney Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 47 Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col) Team Sky 48 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Movistar Team 49 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Team Sky 50 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 51 Patrick Bosman (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 52 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 53 David Wöhrer (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 00:17 54 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 55 Daniel Biedermann (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 56 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 00:19 57 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 58 Jesse Sergent (NZl) Trek Factory Racing 59 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 00:25 60 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Astana Pro Team 61 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Cannondale 00:28 62 Nicki S?rensen (Den) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 00:29 63 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 64 Fabio Silvestre (Por) Trek Factory Racing 00:32 65 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Trek Factory Racing 00:34 66 Donato De Ieso (Ita) Bardiani CSF 00:37 67 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team 00:57 68 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Trek Factory Racing 01:17 69 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Team Katusha 01:24 70 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Sharp 01:28 71 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team 01:37 72 Christoph Springer (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 01:40 73 Tomás Koudela (Cze) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 01:46 74 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 01:47 75 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha 01:57 76 Nathan Brown (USA) Garmin - Sharp 02:07 77 Michael Gogl (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 02:17 78 Paweł Poljański (Pol) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 02:43 79 Clément Venturini (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 03:06 80 Sebastian Schönberger (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 81 Matej Marin (Slo) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 82 Alexander Meier (Ger) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 83 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 84 Martin Weiss (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 85 Koldo Fernandez De Larrea (Esp) Garmin - Sharp 03:09 86 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 03:11 87 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani CSF 03:20 88 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Team Katusha 04:28 89 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Esp) Movistar Team 90 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Esp) Movistar Team 91 Martin Schöffmann (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 92 Jérémy Bescond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 93 Nathan Haas (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 94 Markus Goetz (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 95 Hans-Jörg Leopold (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 96 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 97 Stefan Rabitsch (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 98 Florian Schipflinger (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 99 Andreas Hofer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 100 Maximilian Kuen (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 101 Florian Gaugl (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 102 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Trek Factory Racing 103 Stefan Poll (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 104 Gert Joeaar (Est) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 105 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 106 Sergey Chernetsky (Rus) Team Katusha 107 Dmitriy Kozontchuk (Rus) Team Katusha 108 Angelo Pagani (Ita) Bardiani CSF 109 Andrea Piechele (Ita) Bardiani CSF 110 Matthias Krizek (Aut) Cannondale 111 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale 112 Nicolas Winter (Sui) Team Vorarlberg 113 Stefano Locatelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 114 Benjamin Edmüller (Ger) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 115 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 116 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 117 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 118 Jakub Kratochvila (Cze) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 05:35 119 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 120 Dejan Bajt (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 05:36 121 Marek Canecky (Svk) Amplatz - BMC 122 Andrea Manfredi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 123 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale 124 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Team Sky 05:39 125 George Bennett (NZl) Cannondale 05:36 126 Steele von hoff (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 127 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 128 Michael Taferner (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 129 Tim De Troyer (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 130 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 131 Ivan Basso (Ita) Cannondale 05:51 132 Dennis Vanendert (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 133 Paul Illenberger (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 134 Reinier Honig (Ned) Team Vorarlberg 06:36 135 Andreas Muller (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 08:55 136 Dennis Paulus (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 137 Bernhard Kroger (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 138 Grischa Janorschke (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 139 Fabian Schnaidt (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 140 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 09:47 141 Michael Gaubitzer (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 142 Nathan Earle (Aus) Team Sky 09:53 143 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky DNF Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Garmin - Sharp DNF Lachlan David Morton (Aus) Garmin - Sharp Kasyfikacja po 4. etapie 1 Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Team Sky 18:26:19 2 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Cannondale 00:29 3 Javier Moreno Bazan (Esp) Movistar Team 00:40 4 Oliver Zaugg (Sui) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 01:07 5 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 01:10 6 Jure Golcer (Slo) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 01:45 7 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Movistar Team 01:46 8 Jerome Coppel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 01:59 9 Jesper Hansen (Den) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 02:38 10 Dayer Uberney Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 02:39 11 Matija Kvasina (Cro) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 02:48 12 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 03:02 13 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 03:09 14 Riccardo Zoidl (Aut) Trek Factory Racing 03:14 15 Francis De Greef (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 16 Thomas Degand (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 03:25 17 Ben Hermans (Bel) BMC Racing Team 03:31 18 Bob Jungels (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 03:41 19 Yohan Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 03:48 20 Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin - Sharp 04:05 21 Sylwester Szmyd (Pol) Movistar Team 04:06 22 Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski (USA) Team Sky 04:23 23 Marco Minnaard (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 04:52 24 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 05:01 25 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 05:17 26 Nicola Ruffoni (Ita) Bardiani CSF 05:28 27 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 05:50 28 Paweł Poljański (Pol) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 05:58 29 Nicolas Baldo (Fra) Team Vorarlberg 06:06 30 Tomás Koudela (Cze) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 06:47 31 Frederik Backaert (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 07:15 32 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Cannondale 07:57 33 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 08:03 34 Nathan Brown (USA) Garmin - Sharp 08:05 35 Peter Kusztor (Hun) Amplatz - BMC 08:38 36 Jay Mccarthy (Aus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 10:05 37 Nicki S?rensen (Den) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 10:18 38 Alberto Losada Alguacil (Esp) Team Katusha 10:26 39 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Team Katusha 10:43 40 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Team Katusha 10:54 41 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Sky 11:03 42 Vegard Breen (Nor) Lotto - Belisol 11:49 43 Daniil Fominykh (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 12:18 44 Jérémy Bescond (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 12:40 45 David Wöhrer (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 12:42 46 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Team Tinkoff-Saxo 12:47 47 Davide Villella (Ita) Cannondale 12:55 48 Gregor Muhlberger (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 13:31 49 Larry Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 13:54 50 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 14:08 51 Clemens Fankhauser (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 14:28 52 Florian Bissinger (Ger) WSA-Greenlife 14:55 53 Joshua Edmondson (GBr) Team Sky 16:19 54 Martin Weiss (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 16:32 55 Sebastian Lander (Den) BMC Racing Team 17:24 56 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team 17:32 57 Jelle Vanendert (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 17:33 58 Kristof Vandewalle (Bel) Trek Factory Racing 18:16 59 Michael Gogl (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 18:38 60 Rick Zabel (Ger) BMC Racing Team 18:44 61 Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col) Team Sky 18:53 62 Patrick Bosman (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 18:56 63 Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha 19:01 64 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 19:30 65 Dmitriy Kozontchuk (Rus) Team Katusha 19:38 66 Andi Bajc (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 19:53 67 Maxim Belkov (Rus) Team Katusha 68 Raymond Kreder (Ned) Garmin - Sharp 19:57 69 Jan Tratnik (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 20:04 70 Koldo Fernandez De Larrea (Esp) Garmin - Sharp 20:13 71 Florian Gaugl (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 20:30 72 Ian Boswell (USA) Team Sky 20:41 73 Nathan Haas (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 20:51 74 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team 20:54 75 Maximilian Kuen (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 21:00 76 Reinier Honig (Ned) Team Vorarlberg 21:04 77 Nicolas Winter (Sui) Team Vorarlberg 21:32 78 Dennis Vanendert (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 21:39 79 Michel Kreder (Ned) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 21:58 80 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Astana Pro Team 22:09 81 Andreas Hofer (Aut) Team Vorarlberg 22:32 82 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 22:41 83 Clément Venturini (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 22:42 84 Sebastian Schönberger (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wel 22:57 85 Boris Vallee (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 23:04 86 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek Factory Racing 23:06 87 Jesse Sergent (NZl) Trek Factory Racing 23:07 88 Christoph Springer (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 23:12 89 Markus Goetz (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 23:21 90 Daniel Biedermann (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 23:29 91 Stefan Rabitsch (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 23:35 92 Hans-Jörg Leopold (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 23:37 93 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 23:40 94 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 23:43 95 Martin Schöffmann (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 23:59 96 Marek Canecky (Svk) Amplatz - BMC 97 Kevin Van Melsen (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 24:18 98 Matthias Krizek (Aut) Cannondale 24:24 99 Angelo Pagani (Ita) Bardiani CSF 24:41 100 Romain Lemarchand (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 24:50 101 Gert Joeaar (Est) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits 24:55 102 Danilo Hondo (Ger) Trek Factory Racing 25:04 103 George Bennett (NZl) Cannondale 26:51 104 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Esp) Movistar Team 27:09 105 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Trek Factory Racing 106 Florian Schipflinger (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 27:16 107 Marco Haller (Aut) Team Katusha 27:31 108 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Cannondale 28:32 109 Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Movistar Team 28:49 110 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Esp) Movistar Team 28:56 111 Alexander Meier (Ger) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 29:07 112 Stefan Poll (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 29:10 113 Kevin Seeldraeyers (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 29:14 114 Dominik Hrinkow (Aut) Tirol Cycling Team 29:20 115 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 29:22 116 Sergey Chernetsky (Rus) Team Katusha 29:29 117 Fabio Silvestre (Por) Trek Factory Racing 29:35 118 Sean De Bie (Bel) Lotto - Belisol 29:44 119 Matej Marin (Slo) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 30:28 120 Andrea Manfredi (Ita) Bardiani CSF 30:53 121 Tim De Troyer (Bel) Wanty – Groupe Gobert 31:00 122 Steele von hoff (Aus) Garmin - Sharp 31:53 123 Dejan Bajt (Slo) Amplatz - BMC 31:56 124 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Esp) Movistar Team 33:11 125 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani CSF 33:18 126 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) Cannondale 33:20 127 Stefano Locatelli (Ita) Bardiani CSF 33:31 128 Nicola Boem (Ita) Bardiani CSF 33:36 129 Michael Gaubitzer (Aut) Amplatz - BMC 33:52 130 Benjamin Edmüller (Ger) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 34:05 131 Paul Illenberger (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 34:27 132 Ivan Basso (Ita) Cannondale 34:43 133 Dennis Paulus (Aut) Team Gourmetfein Simplon Wels 36:31 134 Michael Taferner (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 36:49 135 Donato De Ieso (Ita) Bardiani CSF 37:30 136 Bernhard Kroger (Aut) WSA-Greenlife 37:46 137 Grischa Janorschke (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 39:01 138 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Team Sky 39:12 139 Andrea Piechele (Ita) Bardiani CSF 40:25 140 Fabian Schnaidt (Ger) Team Vorarlberg 42:46 141 Nathan Earle (Aus) Team Sky 43:24 142 Jakub Kratochvila (Cze) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 43:28 143 Andreas Muller (Aut) Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer 49:58