Reusser wins women’s Tour de France fourth stage, Vos retains lead

BAR-SUR-AUBE, France: Swiss rider Marlen Reusser won the women’s Tour de France fourth stage on Wednesday as Dutchwoman Marianne Vos retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey in fifth place.

Team SD Worx’s Reusser, 30, broke away with 15km left after four gravel sections in the Champagne wine region with Evita Muzic in second place and Belarusian Alena Amialiusik in third.

“I think here in this Tour every day is hard, at least for me,” former doctor Reusser told Eurosport.

“This stage suited the kind of rider I am with these gravel sections.