For Jasch, who is officially part of the Tudor development team and was a member of the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe junior team last year, this is his first victory in a professional race. He only switched from speed skating to cycling in 2024.

"I still can't believe it," said an overwhelmed Jasch at the finish in Trento. "There are so many emotions in me right now. I actually only came here to help Michael Storer defend his overall victory. It's an incredible day. On the bike it felt like the best of my career. I had fantastic legs. That's why I believed from the start that maybe something was possible. At some point I realised that I was the best in the group. And then I took heart and just set off."

So fast, in fact, that nobody was able to catch up with him. His first pursuers Matteo Sobrero (Lidl - Trek) and Federico Iacomoni (Team UKYO) crossed the finish line ten seconds behind. The favourites for overall victory reached the finish 20 seconds behind. The group was led by the second German Tudor rider Florian Stork, who finished fourth.

Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) thus defends the overall lead with a four-second advantage over Thymen Arensman and Egan Bernal (both INEOS Grenadiers). Pellizzari's team-mate Aleksandr Vlasov is fourth, six seconds behind. The race remains tight ahead of the final stage of the tour.

Tour of the Alps 2026 - Results of the 4th stage

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How the 4th stage of the Tour of the Alps 2026 went

More than 4000 metres of climbing, two 1st category climbs - and Jasch was active right from the start. He was part of an initial breakaway group of nine riders, including Ben Zwiehoff (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) and the Austrian Rainer Kepplinger (Bahrain - Victorious). The attempt was initially thwarted by the peloton. A few kilometres later, still on the Passo Bordala, Jasch tried again. Kepplinger was also there again, along with Sean Quinn (EF Education - EasyPost), Christopher Juul-Jensen (Team Jayco AlUla) and Simone Raccani (Team UKYO).

This time the group got away. Up to the Passo Redebus (1st category), the quintet built up a maximum lead of three and a half minutes. Quinn secured the mountain points on each of the two passes, thus removing Emanuel Zangerle (Team Vorarlberg) from the mountain jersey.

The battle for overall victory comes to a head with bonus seconds

With 50 kilometres to go, Jasch first tested the legs of his rivals and left them behind. With the exception of Quinn, however, the others initially came back. With 20 kilometres to go - the peloton had already reduced its gap to under a minute - Jasch attacked again. Kepplinger and Raccani lost ground on the uncategorised climb to Sant'Agnese, and even more on the descent. With 15 kilometres to go, Juul-Jensen rejoined the first chasers, while Juan Felipe Rodriguez (EF Education - EasyPost) had made the jump to the front from the peloton.

At the end of the last climb nine kilometres before the finish, where bonus seconds were also awarded, Jasch was now alone in front of the group of favourites, from which Pellizzari attacked. His attack was parried and the remaining bonus seconds went to Vlasov and Bernal instead. However, the disunity at the back should help Jasch at the front.

When parts of the group steered on a descent, which was followed by a sharp bend, there was no longer any danger from there. Only Sobrero and Iacomoni, who broke away in this phase, could have posed a threat to Jasch. But even there, there was some disagreement for a while as to why Jasch should ride his 25-kilometre solo to victory.