Tour de France Femmes 2023: Yara Kastelijn claims first WorldTour win with stage four victory

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Yara Kastelijn claimed her archetypal WorldTour triumph with triumph connected signifier 4 of the Tour de France Femmes.

Lotte Kopecky finished 14th to bent connected to the leader's yellowish jersey she earned connected the opening stage.

Dutchwoman Kastelijn was portion of a 14-rider breakaway and went solo wrong the last 20km, finishing 71 seconds up of the chasing pack.

"It's truly a dream, I can't judge it," the erstwhile European cyclo-cross champion, 25, said.

"I deliberation it's truly a squad triumph due to the fact that I had to bash thing each day.

"The different girls successful the beforehand radical were aggravated with maine but my manager told america we are not present to marque friends. A triumph is what we privation and what we person present and I'm ace proud."

Demi Vollering finished 2nd aft breaking distant from the peloton and shaving 16 seconds disconnected Kopecky's wide lead, to determination into 2nd spot successful the wide classification.

Fellow Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten, who won the Giro Donne earlier this month, was 2 seconds down Vollering, moving to associated 3rd successful the wide classification on with 3 different riders.

The 177km signifier from Cahors to Rodez was the longest successful this year's tour.

Stage 5 of the eight-stage contention takes spot connected Thursday, from Onet-Le-Chateau to Albi