Orica-Scott's Caleb Ewan won Sunday's fourth and final stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour on the Yas Marina Formula One circuit. The Australian triumphed over Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) and André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) in a bunch sprint after 143 kilometres of racing.
The sprinter-friendly finale gave Ewan a chance to redeem himself after he fumbled away the victory on stage 2 when he celebrated too soon and allowed Marcel Kittel (Quick Step Floors) to pip him at the line. He made the most of the opportunity Sunday, taking the win ahead of the impressive field of speedsters on the start list. Cavendish tried to come from a long way back, but had no chance to catch the speedy youngster.
"I guess I started this race on a real low with that crash and then I finished on an absolute high," Ewan said. "After stage 2 I'm really happy to repay my team with a win. They did a great job, we started working early and we knew on this course which were the important corners. They controlled the race from 15 kilometres out and no one really came past us from that moment on. If you really want to be on top you need to beat Kittel, Cavendish and Greipel and for me beating them all here ... I'm over the moon with that."
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Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates), winner of Saturday's queen stage up the Jebel Hafeet climb, finished safely to wrap up the overall general classification win, with Katusha-Alpecin's Ilnur Zakarin claiming overall runner-up honors and Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin rounding out the GC podium in third.
The peloton faced an unexpected and unpleasant surprise on stage 4, as Abu Dhabi experienced one of its rare rainy days. It poured down most of the afternoon, but riders fortunately managed to avoid any serious incidents on the rain-slicked roads.
The stage consisted of multiple laps of the (empty) Yas Marina Formula One racetrack. Shortly after the start, Dylan Teuns (BMC), Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Kirill Sveshnikov (Gazprom-Rusvelo), Rafael Valls (Lotto Soudal) and Movistar's Alex Dowsett and Jorge Arcas jumped clear to form the day's main breakaway..
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