Magnus Cort takes breakaway victory on Paris-Nice 2019 stage four

A tense stage saw the escapees hold off the closing peloton

Magnus Cort takes his first victory of the season on stage four of Paris-Nice (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

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Magnus Cort denied the peloton to take victory from a breakaway on stage four of Paris-Nice.

The early move was stacked with talent keen to make it to the line ahead of the bunch, but it was all in the balance as the race hit the final climb with 10km left to race.

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