Tour of Guangxi 2025: Four out of four - Magnier continues to make his rounds
Sebastian Lindner
· 17.10.2025
This time it was Pavel Bittner (Team Picnic PostNL) and Jordi Meeus (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) in second and third place who came closest to matching the 21-year-old, but ultimately had no chance. While Max Kanter (XDS Astana Team) was unable to get involved in the decision this time, Kim Heiduk (INEOS Grenadiers) and Max Walscheid (Team Jayco AlUla) made it into the top 10 in eighth and ninth.
"We had to control a strong lead group, which wasn't easy as everyone was tired after four hard days of chasing the breakaway," explained Magnier. "But in the end, the GC teams also helped and we managed to bring the group back. Today I had to start far back, but in the end I made it under my own steam. It was a long and hard sprint and I'm glad I made it. It's a great feeling to achieve four victories in one race again after Slovakia and Croatia," said the sprint dominator of recent weeks.
Magnier now leads the overall standings by 26 seconds ahead of Meeus and 28 ahead of Bittner. However, this picture is likely to be just a snapshot in time for tomorrow's mountain finish.
Tour of Guangxi - Results stage 4
Stage 4: Bama - Jinchengjiang
Tour of Guangxi 2025: Stage 4, Bama - Jinchengjiang
| Rnk. | Riders | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soudal Quick-Step | 04:04:54 |
| 2 | Team Picnic PostNL | +00:00:00 |
| 3 | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | +00:00:00 |
| 4 | Groupama - FDJ | +00:00:00 |
| 5 | Movistar Team | +00:00:00 |
| 6 | Bahrain - Victorious | +00:00:00 |
How the 4th stage of the Tour of Guangxi 2025 went
Immediately after the start, Guglielmi once again set off to fight for the numerous mountain points of the day. He was initially joined by Logan Currie (Lotto), before Michael Leonard (INEOS Grenadiers) and Stan Dewulf (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team), who had also been in the breakaway the day before, joined him. Later, Michael Valgren (EF Education - EasyPost) and Juan Pedro López (Lidl - Trek) also joined them. However, the duo only reached the front after the first mountain classification (2nd category) after 14 kilometres.
The eight points went to Guglielmi, as did the second mountain classification (2nd category) around 30 kilometres later. On the third climb after a good 90 kilometres (3rd category), Dewulf was ahead. At this point, the breakaway's lead was just under four minutes. On the approach to the last mountain classification, which Dewulf then secured again, the gap was halved under the pace work of Soudal Quick-Step, UAE Team Emirates - XRG and Team Picnic PostNL as well as Cofidis. Lopez also dropped back from the front.
24 kilometres before the finish, Guglielmi was also dropped, he had been waiting for the peloton, Valgren and Leonard were also dropped. Immediately before the bonus sprint, Dewulf was the last escapee to be brought back, Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) secured the three seconds from the peloton. Niklas Behrens (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) took advantage of the increased pace to launch an attack. The breakaway of the 2024 U23 World Champion was stopped a good three kilometres before the finish.
Magnier, on the other hand, was once again unstoppable in the final, this time ahead of Bittner and Meeus.
