Tour of Good Hope results & GC: Matteo Sobrero wins stage four

Team Dimension Data’s Matteo Sobrero won the 143km fourth stage of the Tour of Good Hope, which took place in and around Paarl today.

The Italian won the race in 3:38:42, beating ProTouch’s Reynard Butler and BCX’s Clint Hendricks into second and third respectively.

Just 25km in, heading up the Du Toitskloof Pass, nine riders – BCX’s David Maree and Chris Jooste, ProTouch’s Jayde Julius and HB Kruger, DiData’s Kent Main and Stefan de Bod and Rickardo Broxham – made a break.

The peloton all grouped back together again at the 46km mark. BCX’s Nolan Hoffman was first through the hot spot.

Main won the final King of the Mountains challenge, with De Bod and BCX’s Marc Pritzen having followed.

At the 105km mark, 13 riders made a break, before it was reduced to eight with just eight kilometres to go. Sobrero then managed to outlast the rest in the final stretch.

Yellow jersey Ariane Luthi won the women’s race in 4:40:57, beating Team dormakaba SA’s Carmen Buchacher and Catherine Colyn into second and third respectively.

The field began stringing out extensively near the top of the Du Toitskloof Pass, where Luthi suffered a mechanical.

She managed to pace her way back again, as the bunch got back together by Slanghoek Valley.

With just seven kilometres left, Luthi, Colyn, Buchacher and Lucy James put the hammer down. They managed to create a two-and-a-half minute lead from the bunch to ensure they would not be caught.

Luthi won in the final sprint between her, Buchacher and Colyn.

Both De Bod and Luthi retain their respective leader’s jerseys ahead of the fifth and final stage tomorrow.

Rickardo Broxham won the junior men’s race in 3:39:33.

View provisional results below.

Stage four
Men

1. Matteo Sobrero (DiData) 3:38:42
2. Reynard Butler (ProTouch) 3:38:43
3. Clint Hendricks (BCX) 3:38:43
4. Stefan de Bod (DiData) 3:38:44
5. Frans Claes (Alfa Bodyworks-Giant) 3:38:45
6. Gustav Basson (ProTouch)
7. Hendrik Kruger (ProTouch) 3:39:11
8. Jayde Julius (ProTouch) 3:39:34
9. Chris Jooste (BCX) 3:39:34
10. Bradley Potgieter (Cycle Power) 3:39:35

Women

1. Ariane Luthi (Team Spur) 4:40:57
2. Carmen Buchacher (Team dormakaba SA) 4:40:58
3. Catherine Colyn 4:40:58
4. Lucy James 4:41:00
5. Anneleen Bosma 4:48:01
6. Yzette Oelofse (Bestmed) 4:48:04
7. Vera Adrian (Team dormakaba SA) 4:48:06
8. Yolandi Toit 4:48:06
9. Carla Oberholzer (Demacon) 4:49:44
10. Dalene van der Leek 4:52:02

Veteran men (30-39)

1. Neil Timm 4:02:06
2. Jaco Cronje 4:02:29
3. Alex Pavlov 4:02:29

Veteran men (40-49)

1. Thys Oosthuizen 4:12:35
2. Jamie Anderson 4:12:35
3. Bryan Cusack 4:12:36

Veteran men (50-59)

1. Shane Daniel 4:32:28
2. Jose Antunes
3. Christiaan Engelbrecht

Junior men

1. Rickardo Broxham 3:39:33
2. Tiano da Silva 4:04:27
3. Tyrone Filander 4:15:12
4. Charl Swanepoel 4:18:31
5. Ethan Warrin 4:20:25

General classification

Men

1. Stefan de Bod (DiData) 11:08:47
2. Kent Main (DiData) 11:10:07
3. Gustav Basson (ProTouch) 11:10:17
4. Matteo Sobrero (DiData) 11:10:42
5. HB Kruger (ProTouch) 11:11:33
6. Redwan Ebrahim (WCC) 11:12:33
7. Frans Claes (Alfa Bodyworks-Giant) 11:13:45
8. Jayde Julius (ProTouch) 11:13:51
9. Bradley Potgieter (Cycle Power) 11:15:30
10. Louis Visser (DiData) 11:20:44

Women

1. Ariane Luthi (Spur) 13:43:57
2. Lucy James 13:47:17
3. Carmen Buchacher (dormakaba SA) 13:47:20
4. Catherine Colyn 13:48:47
5. Carla Oberholzer (Demacon) 13:54:21
6. Vera Adrian (dormakaba SA) 13:56:24
7. Yzette Oelofse (Bestmed) 13:57:49
8. Dalene van der Leek 14:01:47
9. Anneleen Bosma 14:02:19
10. Yolandi Toit 14:06:23

Veteran men (30-39)

1. Jaco Cronje 11:59:36
2. Alex Pavlov 12:03:32
3. Timm Neil 12:11:02

Veteran men (40-49)

1. Thys Oosthuizen 12:35:00
2. Julien van der Pluym 12:36:58
3. Johann Naude 12:37:49

Veteran men (50-59)

1. Jose Antunes 13:07:07
2. Irwin Zimmerman 13:17:27
3. Shane Daniel 13:17:32

Junior men

1. Rickardo Broxham 11:15:16
2. Tiano da Silva 11:45:10
3. Tyrone Filander 12:10:03
4. Ethan Warrin 12:28:33
5. Charl Swanepoel 12:42:51