Well wedged in the aspiration of the Frenchman Lorrenzo Manzin (TotalEnergies), who launched a little too early and finished fourth, he was ahead of the Pole Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Bingoal) and the Belgian Gerben Thijssen (Intermarché-Wanty).
Hunting for bonuses during the intermediate sprints, the Lithuanian Evaldas Siskevicius (Go Sport) dispossessed the Dutchman Arvid de Kleijn (Human Powered Health) of the pink jersey of leader of the general classification, where five riders stand in one second.
Without major difficulty, the stage was animated by a breakaway of four riders, made up of Belgians Ludovic Robeet (Bingoal) and Alex Colman (Sport Vlaanderen), as well as Frenchmen Jonathan Couanon (Nice Métropole) and Léo Danès (Team U Nantes). Atlantic).
If he got on well, the group was caught 8 km from the line by a peloton that never let the gap fly away.
Saturday, the 5th stage, which will take the peloton from Roubaix (North) to Cassel (North) and whose arrival will be judged at the top of a 3 km paved hill with an average of 4.3% to climb eight times, will be like every year the justice of the peace of the ordeal.