Tour of Austria: Alexandre Geniez solos to victory in stage four
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Tour of Austria: Alexandre Geniez solos to victory in stage four

by VeloNation Press at 10:33 PM EST   comments
Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour of Austria
 
Young Frenchman survives feature break of the day

Alexandre GeniezFrenchman Alexandre Geniez (Skil-Shimano) put in a fine performance to win the Tour of Austria's fourth stage today, earning himself the title of "King of the Glockner" for his efforts.  The 23 year old held off the peloton for the final 30 kilometers of the stage, barely staying clear of his teammate Johannes Fröhlinger (Skil-Shimano), who crossed the line in second place, just 15 seconds behind.  Alexandre Pliuschin (Katusha) rounded out the podium in third, while Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) finshed the day in fourth to successfully defend his lead in the overall classification.

Today's 199.3 kilometer stage represented the longest of the 2011 Tour of Austria, with the peloton travelling from the start in Matrei north to Alpendorf.  A group of seven went clear just 15 kilometers into the stage as the race approached the category two climb of the Iselsberg.  The escape included David Wöhrer (Tyrol Team), Dominik Hrinkow (Team Vorarlberg), Manuele Boaro (Saxo Bank-Sungard), Martin Kohler (BMC Racing), Alexandre Geniez (Skil-Shimano), Jean-Eudes Demaret (Cofidis) and Andreas Dietziker (NetApp).

The Hors Categorie ascent up the Hochtor saw Geniez and Kohler distance themselves from the others, with the Frenchman taking the Glocknerkönig prize uncontested.  The break was back to four as they approached the final category one climb up Dientner Sattel; the launching pad for Geniez's solo ride to the finish.

Behind fifth place overall Thomas Rohregger () tried his luck at gaining back time in the overall, but the Astana team of the race leader proved to strong for the Leopard Trek rider.  Ahead the young Frenchman crossed the line alone to cap off a brilliant ride.

Tomorrow's fifth stage of Tour of Austria will take the peloton from Alpendorf 157.2 kilometers to Schladming.  It includes a category four and two climb in the first 50 kilometers, with a category three climb inside 30 kilometers from the finish.

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2011 Tour of Austria stage four results

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Country Result Name Team Time
fra FRA 1 Alexandre Geniez (Skil-Shimano) 05:30:09
ger GER 2 Johannes Frohlinger (Skil-Shimano) 00:00:15
mda MDA 3 Alexandr Pliuschin (Katusha) 00:00:36
swe SWE 4 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) 00:00:41
ita ITA 5 Mauro Santambrogio (BMC Racing) s.t.
rsa RSA 6 Daryl Impey (Team Netapp) 00:00:42
ita ITA 7 Morris Possoni (Team Sky) s.t.
cze CZE 8 Leopold Konig (Team Netapp) s.t.
fra FRA 9 Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) 00:00:43
ita ITA 10 Alessandro Bisolti (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.
ita ITA 11 Daniele Ratto (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
aut AUT 12 Martin Schoffmann (Wsa Viperbike) s.t.
sui SUI 13 Marcel Wyss (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
bel BEL 14 Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) s.t.
aut AUT 15 Thomas Rohregger (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
sui SUI 16 Oliver Zaugg (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
esp ESP 17 Carlos Sastre (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
rus RUS 18 Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
fra FRA 19 Geoffroy Lequatre (RadioShack) s.t.
sui SUI 20 Reto Hollenstein (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
esp ESP 21 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Cofidis) 00:00:48
aut AUT 22 Harald Totschnig (Tyrol Team ) s.t.
cze CZE 23 Jan Barta (Team Netapp) s.t.
ita ITA 24 Antonio Santoro (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
rus RUS 25 Petr Ignatenko (Katusha) 00:00:50
usa USA 26 Caleb Fairly (HTC-Highroad) 00:00:52
fra FRA 27 Thierry Hupond (Skil-Shimano) 00:00:55
aut AUT 28 Stefan Kirchmair (Tyrol Team ) s.t.
aut AUT 29 Georg Preidler (Tyrol Team ) 00:00:58
por POR 30 Tiago Machado (RadioShack) 00:00:59
usa USA 31 Matthew Busche (RadioShack) 00:01:02
nor NOR 32 Kurt-asle Arvesen (Team Sky) s.t.
kaz KAZ 33 Andrey Mizurov (Astana) 00:01:04
ven VEN 34 Jonathan Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli) 00:01:09
fra FRA 35 Brice Feillu (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
esp ESP 36 Josep Jufre Pou (Astana) s.t.
can CAN 37 Michael Barry (Team Sky) s.t.
usa USA 38 Chris Butler (BMC Racing) 00:01:35
por POR 39 Bruno Manuel Silva Pires (Leopard-Trek) 00:01:46
ita ITA 40 Riccardo Chiarini (Androni Giocattoli) 00:02:06
ita ITA 41 Luca Mazzanti (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.
rus RUS 42 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:02:18
den DEN 43 Mads Christensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:02:52
est EST 44 Tanel Kangert (Astana) 00:03:03
aus AUS 45 Simon Clarke (Astana) 00:03:43
cro CRO 46 Robert Kiserlovski (Astana) s.t.
ger GER 47 Kajetan Fricke (Team Vorarlberg) 00:08:49
aus AUS 48 Benjamin King (Team Type 1) s.t.
lat LAT 49 Gatis Smukulis (HTC-Highroad) 00:08:50
sui SUI 50 Gregory Rast (RadioShack) s.t.
sui SUI 51 Michael Albasini (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
kaz KAZ 52 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (Astana) s.t.
rus RUS 53 Arkimedes Arguelyes Rodriges (Katusha) s.t.
bel BEL 54 Stijn Vandenbergh (Katusha) s.t.
sui SUI 55 Andreas Dietziker (Team Netapp) s.t.
svk SVK 56 Martin Velits (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
fra FRA 57 Thomas Damuseau (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
pol POL 58 Bartosz Huzarski (Team Netapp) s.t.
bel BEL 59 Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) 00:11:50
rus RUS 60 Serguei Ivanov (Katusha) s.t.
ita ITA 61 Gianluca Mirenda (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:12:07
aut AUT 62 Stefan Denifl (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
sui SUI 63 Martin Kohler (BMC Racing) s.t.
gbr GBR 64 Ian Stannard (Team Sky) s.t.
fra FRA 65 Yoann Bagot (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 66 Alessandro Bertolini (Androni Giocattoli) 00:15:20
ger GER 67 Bert Grabsch (HTC-Highroad) 00:16:52
aut AUT 68 Stefan Rucker (Wsa Viperbike) s.t.
aut AUT 69 Dominik Brandle (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
fra FRA 70 Julien Fouchard (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 71 Ermano Capelli (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
pol POL 72 Michal Kwiatkowski (RadioShack) s.t.
ita ITA 73 Manuele Boaro (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
aut AUT 74 Andreas Hofer (Tyrol Team ) s.t.
nzl NZL 75 Jesse Sergent (RadioShack) s.t.
esp ESP 76 Rafael Valls Ferri (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
ned NED 77 Karsten Kroon (BMC Racing) s.t.
aut AUT 78 Patrick Konrad (Tyrol Team ) s.t.
aut AUT 79 David Wöhrer (Tyrol Team ) s.t.
esp ESP 80 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
aut AUT 81 Dominik Hrinkow (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
aus AUS 82 Thimothy Roe (BMC Racing) s.t.
ita ITA 83 Davide Vigano (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
rus RUS 84 Artem Ovechkin (Katusha) s.t.
fra FRA 85 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis) s.t.
ger GER 86 Patrick Gretsch (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
bel BEL 87 Jan Ghyselinck (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
aut AUT 88 Markus Gotz (Wsa Viperbike) 00:29:54
aut AUT 89 Stefan Stadler (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) s.t.
aut AUT 90 Adam Homolka (Wsa Viperbike) s.t.
rus RUS 91 Alexander Mironov (Katusha) s.t.
aut AUT 92 Wolfgang Geisler (Wsa Viperbike) s.t.
ger GER 93 Florian Bissinger (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) s.t.
ita ITA 94 Francesco Ginanni (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
aut AUT 95 Josef Benetseder (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
lat LAT 96 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis) s.t.
kaz KAZ 97 Roman Kireyev (Astana) s.t.
rus RUS 98 Nikolay Trusov (Katusha) s.t.
sui SUI 99 Silvan Dillier (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
ita ITA 100 Luca Barla (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
ger GER 101 Andreas Schillinger (Team Netapp) 00:29:57
usa USA 102 Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing) s.t.
bel BEL 103 Yannick Eijssen (BMC Racing) s.t.
irl IRL 104 Matthew Brammeier (HTC-Highroad) s.t.
fra FRA 105 Remi Cusin (Cofidis) s.t.
ita ITA 106 Omar Bertazzo (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
cze CZE 107 Jakub Kratochvila (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) s.t.
aut AUT 108 Christian Pavitschitz (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) s.t.
pol POL 109 Jaroslaw Marycz (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
aut AUT 110 Matthias Brandle (Geox-TMC Transformers) s.t.
den DEN 111 Andre Steensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
ger GER 112 René Weissinger (Team Vorarlberg) s.t.
den DEN 113 Jonas Aaen Jorgensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) s.t.
aus AUS 114 Christopher Sutton (Team Sky) 00:30:09
ita ITA 115 Daniele Bennati (Leopard-Trek) s.t.
gbr GBR 116 Jeremy Hunt (Team Sky) 00:30:10
aus AUS 117 Mitchell Docker (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
ger GER 118 Robert Wagner (Leopard-Trek) 00:32:09
ger GER 119 Roger Kluge (Skil-Shimano) s.t.
aut AUT 120 Thomas Hasibeder (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 00:36:37
cze CZE 121 Petr Lechner (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) s.t.
aut AUT 122 Michael Schwaiger (Wsa Viperbike) s.t.
aut AUT 123 Matthias Höfler (Wsa Viperbike) 00:37:19
aut AUT 124 Patrick Schörkmayer (Wsa Viperbike) 00:37:57
ita ITA 125 Emmanuele Vona (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:40:29
ita ITA 126 Diego Caccia (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.
ita ITA 127 Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.
bra BRA 128 Otavio Didier Bulgarelli (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.
aut AUT 129 Mario Schoibl (Tyrol Team ) 00:40:30
bel BEL 130 Dimitri Claeys (Team Netapp) s.t.
ita ITA 131 Pier Paolo De Negri (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) s.t.

General Classification following stage four

Country Result Name Team Time
swe SWE 1 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) 16:54:37
ita ITA 2 Mauro Santambrogio (BMC Racing) 00:01:18
cze CZE 3 Leopold Konig (Team Netapp) 00:01:26
esp ESP 4 Carlos Sastre (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:01:34
aut AUT 5 Thomas Rohregger (Leopard-Trek) 00:01:46
ita ITA 6 Morris Possoni (Team Sky) 00:02:12
rus RUS 7 Petr Ignatenko (Katusha) 00:02:46
ita ITA 8 Alessandro Bisolti (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:02:51
rus RUS 9 Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:03:11
usa USA 10 Chris Butler (BMC Racing) 00:03:17
sui SUI 11 Reto Hollenstein (Team Vorarlberg) 00:03:29
fra FRA 12 Alexandre Geniez (Skil-Shimano) 00:03:31
ger GER 13 Johannes Frohlinger (Skil-Shimano) 00:04:19
kaz KAZ 14 Andrey Mizurov (Astana) 00:04:24
fra FRA 15 Geoffroy Lequatre (RadioShack) 00:04:26
cze CZE 16 Jan Barta (Team Netapp) 00:04:31
sui SUI 17 Marcel Wyss (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:04:38
aut AUT 18 Harald Totschnig (Tyrol Team ) 00:04:39
aut AUT 19 Stefan Kirchmair (Tyrol Team ) 00:05:07
esp ESP 20 Josep Jufre Pou (Astana) 00:06:34
aut AUT 21 Martin Schoffmann (Wsa Viperbike) 00:06:39
sui SUI 22 Oliver Zaugg (Leopard-Trek) 00:06:51
rus RUS 23 Dmitry Kozontchuk (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:07:39
rsa RSA 24 Daryl Impey (Team Netapp) 00:08:24
can CAN 25 Michael Barry (Team Sky) 00:08:26
por POR 26 Tiago Machado (RadioShack) 00:08:31
mda MDA 27 Alexandr Pliuschin (Katusha) 00:09:00
esp ESP 28 Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Cofidis) 00:09:22
aut AUT 29 Georg Preidler (Tyrol Team ) 00:09:32
est EST 30 Tanel Kangert (Astana) 00:09:40
fra FRA 31 Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) 00:09:49
ita ITA 32 Luca Mazzanti (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:09:55
bel BEL 33 Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) 00:10:09
ita ITA 34 Antonio Santoro (Androni Giocattoli) 00:10:27
ven VEN 35 Jonathan Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli) 00:11:30
fra FRA 36 Brice Feillu (Leopard-Trek) 00:11:41
fra FRA 37 Thierry Hupond (Skil-Shimano) 00:11:57
cro CRO 38 Robert Kiserlovski (Astana) 00:12:54
den DEN 39 Mads Christensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:13:28
usa USA 40 Caleb Fairly (HTC-Highroad) 00:13:57
por POR 41 Bruno Manuel Silva Pires (Leopard-Trek) 00:14:12
nor NOR 42 Kurt-asle Arvesen (Team Sky) 00:14:39
ita ITA 43 Daniele Ratto (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:16:51
usa USA 44 Matthew Busche (RadioShack) 00:17:42
sui SUI 45 Gregory Rast (RadioShack) 00:18:22
lat LAT 46 Gatis Smukulis (HTC-Highroad) 00:18:33
sui SUI 47 Andreas Dietziker (Team Netapp) 00:19:07
aus AUS 48 Simon Clarke (Astana) 00:19:39
aus AUS 49 Benjamin King (Team Type 1) 00:19:56
sui SUI 50 Martin Kohler (BMC Racing) 00:21:43
ita ITA 51 Riccardo Chiarini (Androni Giocattoli) s.t.
bel BEL 52 Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) 00:22:11
ger GER 53 Kajetan Fricke (Team Vorarlberg) 00:22:12
pol POL 54 Bartosz Huzarski (Team Netapp) 00:22:58
gbr GBR 55 Ian Stannard (Team Sky) 00:23:51
fra FRA 56 Yoann Bagot (Cofidis) 00:24:29
bel BEL 57 Jan Ghyselinck (HTC-Highroad) 00:24:39
rus RUS 58 Serguei Ivanov (Katusha) 00:24:59
aut AUT 59 Stefan Denifl (Leopard-Trek) 00:25:55
rus RUS 60 Artem Ovechkin (Katusha) 00:26:17
esp ESP 61 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:27:32
sui SUI 62 Michael Albasini (HTC-Highroad) 00:27:53
kaz KAZ 63 Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy (Astana) 00:28:11
svk SVK 64 Martin Velits (HTC-Highroad) 00:28:12
bel BEL 65 Stijn Vandenbergh (Katusha) 00:29:20
aut AUT 66 Patrick Konrad (Tyrol Team ) 00:30:31
fra FRA 67 Jean-eudes Demaret (Cofidis) 00:30:51
esp ESP 68 Rafael Valls Ferri (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:30:54
aut AUT 69 David Wöhrer (Tyrol Team ) 00:31:05
ita ITA 70 Manuele Boaro (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:31:33
ita ITA 71 Gianluca Mirenda (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:31:43
fra FRA 72 Thomas Damuseau (Skil-Shimano) 00:32:00
aut AUT 73 Andreas Hofer (Tyrol Team ) 00:32:56
ita ITA 74 Ermano Capelli (Team Vorarlberg) 00:33:42
pol POL 75 Michal Kwiatkowski (RadioShack) 00:34:53
rus RUS 76 Arkimedes Arguelyes Rodriges (Katusha) 00:35:06
aut AUT 77 Stefan Rucker (Wsa Viperbike) 00:35:32
aut AUT 78 Dominik Hrinkow (Team Vorarlberg) 00:35:37
ger GER 79 Bert Grabsch (HTC-Highroad) 00:36:33
aus AUS 80 Thimothy Roe (BMC Racing) 00:37:31
ita ITA 81 Alessandro Bertolini (Androni Giocattoli) 00:38:09
nzl NZL 82 Jesse Sergent (RadioShack) 00:39:29
aut AUT 83 Josef Benetseder (Team Vorarlberg) 00:40:40
pol POL 84 Jaroslaw Marycz (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:41:00
aut AUT 85 Dominik Brandle (Team Vorarlberg) 00:41:01
ger GER 86 Florian Bissinger (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 00:41:08
ned NED 87 Karsten Kroon (BMC Racing) 00:41:29
fra FRA 88 Julien Fouchard (Cofidis) 00:41:47
den DEN 89 Jonas Aaen Jorgensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:42:02
lat LAT 90 Aleksejs Saramotins (Cofidis) 00:43:17
ger GER 91 Patrick Gretsch (HTC-Highroad) 00:43:47
cze CZE 92 Jakub Kratochvila (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 00:43:59
aut AUT 93 Adam Homolka (Wsa Viperbike) 00:44:35
aut AUT 94 Markus Gotz (Wsa Viperbike) 00:45:04
ita ITA 95 Davide Vigano (Leopard-Trek) 00:46:59
aut AUT 96 Matthias Brandle (Geox-TMC Transformers) 00:48:05
aut AUT 97 Stefan Stadler (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 00:48:49
fra FRA 98 Remi Cusin (Cofidis) 00:49:29
rus RUS 99 Nikolay Trusov (Katusha) 00:49:33
den DEN 100 Andre Steensen (Saxo Bank-Sungard) 00:50:03
aus AUS 101 Christopher Sutton (Team Sky) 00:50:10
usa USA 102 Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing) 00:51:34
sui SUI 103 Silvan Dillier (Team Vorarlberg) 00:52:46
ger GER 104 René Weissinger (Team Vorarlberg) 00:52:50
ger GER 105 Andreas Schillinger (Team Netapp) 00:54:16
ita ITA 106 Francesco Ginanni (Androni Giocattoli) 00:54:29
kaz KAZ 107 Roman Kireyev (Astana) 00:56:52
aut AUT 108 Matthias Höfler (Wsa Viperbike) 00:57:02
aus AUS 109 Mitchell Docker (Skil-Shimano) 00:58:04
ita ITA 110 Pier Paolo De Negri (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:58:41
ita ITA 111 Emmanuele Vona (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 00:59:52
ita ITA 112 Daniele Bennati (Leopard-Trek) 01:00:00
bel BEL 113 Dimitri Claeys (Team Netapp) 01:00:27
irl IRL 114 Matthew Brammeier (HTC-Highroad) 01:01:14
ger GER 115 Roger Kluge (Skil-Shimano) 01:03:42
rus RUS 116 Alexander Mironov (Katusha) 01:05:02
bel BEL 117 Yannick Eijssen (BMC Racing) 01:11:29
ita ITA 118 Luca Barla (Androni Giocattoli) 01:13:13
aut AUT 119 Wolfgang Geisler (Wsa Viperbike) 01:16:17
aut AUT 120 Christian Pavitschitz (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 01:17:18
ita ITA 121 Omar Bertazzo (Androni Giocattoli) 01:18:52
gbr GBR 122 Jeremy Hunt (Team Sky) 01:19:58
ger GER 123 Robert Wagner (Leopard-Trek) 01:20:37
cze CZE 124 Petr Lechner (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 01:22:16
aut AUT 125 Thomas Hasibeder (Arbö Gebrüder Weiss - Oberndorfer) 01:26:00
aut AUT 126 Mario Schoibl (Tyrol Team ) 01:26:57
bra BRA 127 Otavio Didier Bulgarelli (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 01:27:08
ita ITA 128 Diego Caccia (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 01:27:27
aut AUT 129 Patrick Schörkmayer (Wsa Viperbike) 01:27:30
aut AUT 130 Michael Schwaiger (Wsa Viperbike) 01:28:11
ita ITA 131 Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) 01:31:02

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