Alberto Contador wins Tour of Algarve stage four

Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) took his first victory of the season, winning stage four of the Tour of the Algarve on Saturday.

World champion Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) placed second at the mountain-top finish of Alto do Malhao, with race leader Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) in third.

With one stage remaining in the race, Kwiatkowski now looks set to take the overall victory as he leads Contador by 16 seconds, and Costa by 29 seconds.

Results
Tour of the Algarve 2014, stage four
1. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo in 4-02-08

2. Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida at 3 secs

3. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-QuickStep at 10 secs

4. Eduard Prades (Spa) OFM-Quinta Da Lixa at 13 secs

5. Tiago Machado (Por) Netapp-Endura at same time

Overall classification after stage four
1. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-QuickStep in 13-05-50

2. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo at 16 secs

3. Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida at 29 secs

4. Alexandre Geniez (Fra) Fdj at 1-10

5. Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Belkin at 1-29

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Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider Michal Kwiatkowski holds off the charging Alberto Contador and world champion Rui Costa after bold attack

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