Giro d’Italia: De Marchi in the pink as Dombrowski takes stage four

Simon Yates loses time to main contenders on final climb
De Marchi: ‘I knew this was a day when a good move could go’

Joe Dombrowski won stage four of the Giro d’Italia as Alessandro De Marchi took the pink jersey, but Simon Yates lost ground in the battle of the main favourites behind.

Dombrowski took his first Grand Tour stage win as the UAE Team Emirates rider attacked out of the breakaway at the end of a 187km stage from Piacenza to the ski station in Sestola, raced in wet, cold and windy conditions. But as the main peloton followed up the final climb, Yates was distanced by a small group including Egan Bernal, Hugh Carthy and Mikel Landa – conceding 11 seconds.