Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) powered to victory on stage 4 of the CRO Race with a brutal 150-metre grinding effort on the uphill finish into Labin ahead of Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) in second and Orluis Aular (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) in third.
Ineos Grenadiers were on the front going into the final few hundred metres with Sheffield leading teammate Ethan Hayter, but once Mohorič came around the duo with his sprint, only the young American could respond, getting onto his back wheel but never coming close to rounding the Slovenian before the line.
Sheffield did, however, go into the race lead after finishing as runner-up but won’t be comfortable as he only holds a narrow 1-second lead over Aular going into the final weekend of racing with only two much easier days of racing to come.
Jayco AlUla and Uno-X invested the most throughout the stage, controlling on the front for much of the final 70km, but they could only manage finishing positions of 10th and 12 through Eddie Dunbar and Torstein Træen respectively.
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