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Dubai Tour Stage 4

Kittel beats Cavendish and Viviani in the fourth stage of the Dubai Tour. As well as the stage he also got the GC victory.
Kittel gave Cavendish and Vivivani no option in this stage. He has definitely come back from his illness last year. Kittel has won 2 stages and the GC, Lobato 1 and the Italian Viviani 1.

Results - top 10

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep 02:50:47
2 Elia Viviani (Ita) Team Sky
3 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
4 Andrea Palini (Ita) Skydive Dubai
5 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida
6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
7 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Etixx-QuickStep
8 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
9 Erik Baska (Svk) Tinkoff
10 Yanto Barker (GBr) ONE Pro Cycling

Final General Classification

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep 14:46:54
2 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 00:00:04
3 Juan José Lobato (Spa) Movistar 00:00:06
4 Silvan Dillier (Swi) BMC 00:00:16
5 Gorka Izaguirre (Spa) Movistar 00:00:23
6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC 00:00:25
7 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek-Segafredo
8 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Tinkoff 00:00:28
9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) CCC Sprandi Polkowice
10 Soufiane Haddi (Mar) Skydive Dubai 00:00:29
 


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