UAE Tour stage 4: Jonathan Milan catches break inside final 500m, shares podium with brother Matteo

UAE Tour stage 4: Jonathan Milan catches break inside final 500m, shares podium with brother Matteo

A five-man breakaway held 10 seconds with 1.5 km to go in Fujairah, but Lidl-Trek's sprint machine timed his surge perfectly. The result was a family affair, with younger brother Matteo taking third for his first WorldTour podium.

By Peter Stuart · · 3 min read

Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) won UAE Tour Stage 4 in a bunch sprint after the peloton caught a five-man breakaway inside the final 500m of the 182 km run from Dubai to Fujairah. The Italian launched off Ben Swift's wheel to win comfortably from Ethan Vernon (NSN Cycling Team), with younger brother Matteo Milan (Groupama-FDJ United) completing the podium for his first WorldTour top-three finish.

Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious) retained the red jersey with no changes at the top of GC. Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) sits 21s back, while Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) remains 11th at +1:44 after his Stage 3 losses on Jebel Mobrah.

Results

Fujairah • Feb 19 • 182km

Velora
PosRiderTeamTime
🥇
Jonathan Milan
LIDL-TREK 4:03:06
🥈
Ethan Kane Vernon
NSN CYCLING TEAM+0:00
🥉
Matteo Milan
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
4
Gerben Thijssen
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
5
Robin Froidevaux
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
6
Matteo Malucelli
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
7
Steffen de Schuyteneer
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
8
Riley Pickrell
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
9
Samuel Welsford
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
10
Emmanuel Houcou
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
11
Alberto Dainese
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+0:00
12
Ben Swift
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
13
Cees Bol
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+0:00
14
Pier-André Côté
NSN CYCLING TEAM+0:00
15
Juan Sebastian Molano Benavides
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
16
Nicolo' Parisini
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
17
Casper Cornelis van Uden
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+0:00
18
Sean Christian
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
19
Luka Mezgec
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
20
Gleb Syritsa
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
21
Erlend Blikra
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
22
Callum Thornley
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
23
Isaac del Toro Romero
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
24
Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
25
Simone Consonni
LIDL-TREK+0:00
26
Felix Ørn-Kristoff
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
27
Georg Steinhauser
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
28
Albert Torres Barcelo
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
29
Pavel Novák
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
30
Lorenzo Milesi
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
31
Madis Mihkels
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
32
Kevin Vermaerke
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
33
Embret Svestad-Bårdseng
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
34
Mathys Rondel
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
35
Nikias Arndt
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+0:00
36
Antonio Tiberi
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+0:00
37
Damiano Caruso
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+0:00
38
Peter Hansen
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
39
Stefan de Bod
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
40
Daniel Skerl
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+0:00
41
Remco Evenepoel
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
42
Dion Allan Smith
NSN CYCLING TEAM+0:00
43
Enzo Paleni
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
44
Christopher Harper
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
45
Pietro Mattio
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
46
Niklas Märkl
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+0:00
47
Axel Huens
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
48
Ben Tulett
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
49
Ryan William Mullen
NSN CYCLING TEAM+0:00
50
Rudy Porter
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
51
David Gaudu
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
52
Manlio Moro
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
53
Pablo Castrillo Zapater
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
54
Carl-Frederik Bévort
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
55
Matthew Dinham
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+0:00
56
Gregor Mühlberger
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+0:00
57
Felix Gall
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+0:00
58
Adam Richard Yates
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
59
Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
60
Patrick Gamper
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
61
Derek Gee
LIDL-TREK+0:00
62
Tobias Halland Johannessen
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
63
George Bennett
NSN CYCLING TEAM+0:00
64
Wilco Kelderman
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
65
Ilan van Wilder
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+0:00
66
Byron Munton
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
67
Jonas Rickaert
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
68
Tijmen Graat
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
69
Harm Vanhoucke
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
70
Lev Gonov
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
71
Nickolas Zukowsky
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
72
Afonso Eulálio
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+0:00
73
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
MOVISTAR TEAM+0:00
74
Roel van Sintmaartensdijk
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
75
Mattia Gaffuri
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+0:00
76
Ben O'Connor
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
77
Rémi Cavagna
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
78
Lucas Plapp
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
79
Silvan Dillier
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
80
Alessandro Romele
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
81
Simone Gualdi
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
82
Jørgen Nordhagen
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
83
Anders Halland Johannessen
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
84
Lennert van Eetvelt
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
85
Joshua Michael Tarling
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
86
Michael Storer
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
87
Luca Vergallito
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
88
Hannes Wilksch
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
89
Edward Dunbar
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
90
Steven Kruijswijk
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
91
Nils Politt
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
92
Jasper de Buyst
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
93
Harold Martin Lopez Granizo
XDS ASTANA TEAM+0:00
94
Gianni Moscon
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
95
Markel Beloki Fernandez
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
96
Florian Senechal
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
97
Daan Hoole
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+0:00
98
Mark Stewart
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
99
Junior Lecerf
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+0:00
100
Jonas Geens
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+0:00
101
Anders Skaarseth
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
102
Anthon Charmig
UNO-X MOBILITY+0:00
103
Cole Kessler
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
104
Johan Jacobs
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+0:00
105
Aivaras Mikutis
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
106
Jardi Christiaan van der Lee
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
107
Sean Quinn
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
108
Mattia Cattaneo
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
109
Luke Durbridge
TEAM JAYCO ALULA+0:00
110
Finn Lachlan Fox Fisher-Black
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
111
Ayco Bastiaens
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+0:00
112
Jarrad Eriks Drizners
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+0:00
113
Sebastian Kolze Changizi
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+0:00
114
Baptiste Veistroffer
LOTTO INTERMARCHÉ+0:00
115
Bert van Lerberghe
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+0:00
116
Matthias Schwarzbacher
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
117
Alastair Mackellar
EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST+0:00
118
Owain Doull
TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE+0:00
119
Ezra Caudell
MODERN ADVENTURE PRO CYCLING+0:00
120
Connor Swift
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:00
121
Maximilian Richard Walscheid
LIDL-TREK+0:00
122
Edward Theuns
LIDL-TREK+0:00
123
Tim Naberman
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+0:00
124
Florian Vermeersch
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+0:00
125
Artem Shmidt
INEOS GRENADIERS+0:53
126
Gianluca Pollefliet
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+1:00
127
Stefan Bissegger
DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM+1:00
128
Warre Vangheluwe
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+1:02
129
Simon Dehairs
ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH+1:32
130
Lewis Bower
GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED+2:03
131
Arthur Kluckers
TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM+2:08
132
Nadav Raisberg
NSN CYCLING TEAM+2:26
133
Rune Herregodts
UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG+2:57
134
Patrick Konrad
LIDL-TREK+2:57
135
Rainer Kepplinger
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+2:57
136
Mathijs Paasschens
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS+2:57
137
Emil Herzog
RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE+2:57
138
Jan Hirt
NSN CYCLING TEAM+3:00
139
Damien Howson
PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM+3:10
140
James Knox
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+4:01
141
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier
LIDL-TREK+4:18
142
Fabio Jakobsen
TEAM PICNIC POSTNL+6:11
143
Ethan Edward Hayter
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP+7:32

The breakaway

The day's breakaway formed after 20 km of aggressive racing: Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost), Stefan De Bod (Modern Adventure Pro Cycling), Lorenzo Milesi (Movistar), Patrick Gamper (Jayco AlUla) and James Knox (Picnic PostNL). Gamper swept both intermediate sprints, ensuring no bonus seconds were available for GC riders.

UAE Tour 2026 - 8th Edition - 4th stage Fujairah - Fujairah 182 km - 19/02/2026 - Patrick Gamper (AUT - Team Jayco AlUla) - photo Luca Bettini/SprintCyclingAgency©2026

The quintet held roughly two minutes for much of the afternoon. Knox dropped first, but the remaining four held on against a persistent headwind on the wide, straight run-in to Fujairah. With 10 km remaining, the gap was still 25s. At 1.5 km to go, the leaders clung to a 10s advantage. De Bod attempted a late solo acceleration inside the final kilometre, but the sprint trains swallowed the remnants just before the 500m mark.

A crash at -30 km disrupted the chase, bringing down Fabio Jakobsen (Picnic PostNL), Ethan Hayter (Soudal-QuickStep), Daan Hoole (Lidl-Trek) and Robbe Ghys (Decathlon CMA CGM). Most remounted; Ghys abandoned with a suspected collarbone injury.

"I still feel some pain in my hand but I’m fine after the crash on stage 1," Milan said after the race finish. "It feels great to win today and even more with my younger brother also in the top 3."

On sharing a WorldTour podium with Matteo, Milan added: "This is his first WorldTour race, let’s don’t put pressure on him please! I’m really proud of what he did today, he’ll have many years to have fun and to enjoy cycling."

Milan crashed on the opening day. Tim Merlier is not racing. Jebel Hafeet on Stage 6 is the last remaining GC battleground. Tiberi holds a 21s advantage over Del Toro ahead of the 10 km climb.

Photography credits: RCS/Luca Bettini/SprintCyclingAgency

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