Eddie Dunbar lights up big finale on Tour de Suisse queen stage | Video

Eddie Dunbar strings out the select group on the climb and the Irish rider still had the legs to attack close to the finish. He took 4th on the stage, moved up overall and has also won the young rider classification; all while riding for yellow jersey Richard Carapaz (Photo: Cor Vos)

Eddie Dunbar has closed out the most successful and impressive week of his time in the pro peloton with 4th on the final stage of the Tour de Suisse today.

The Irishman was strong enough to attack the tiny select
group on the run in to the finish. And though he was caught, the fact he could
make those moves after riding so hard for race leader and team mate Richard
Carapaz, underlined his status among the very best in the race.

His 4th place also moved him up five places in the
general classification and he ends the race in 12th position. That saw him
climb to the top of the standings in the young rider classification, which the
24-year-old Irishman has now won.

That’s Dunbar’s his first classification victory as a professional rider and it has come in a very demanding WorldTour race where he was primarily riding for Ineos Grenadiers leader Carapaz.

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Mader beats Woods for the stage win just ahead of the select yellow jersey group led by Ireland's Eddie Dunbar of Ineos Grenadiers

Today on the final climb Dunbar once again played
enforcer and bodyguard for Carapaz; marshalling the front as the attacks were
going.

He looked one of the very strongest in the race despite
the quality of the field. And the by the time the riders crested the final
climb of the Passo San Gottardo and dived down into the finish in Andermatt
only the very best were in the Dunbar-led yellow jersey group.

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Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) was one of the
attackers on the upper slopes of the climb – after 2nd overall Rigoberto Uran
(EF Education-Nippo) had also attacked.

Carapaz tops the general classification podium from Uran and Fuglsang at the end of a very demanding race where Ireland's Dunbar's star shone brightly

Woods broke clear and he was chased by Gino Mäder (Bahrain Victorious). Those two went on to fight for the win, with Mäder beating Woods. Dunbar attacked after them with 5km to go but was caught.

Nine seconds after the two leaders finished the stage, Mattia
Cattaneo (Deceuninck-QuickStep) came in for 3rd place after just getting ahead
of the yellow jersey group.

Dunbar led home that group for 4th place, followed by just
five other riders; yellow jersey Carapaz in 5th, Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates)
in 6th, Uran in 7th, Domenico Pozzovivo
(Qhubeka Assos) in 8th and Jakob
Fuglsang (Astana Premier Tech) in 9th.

Even GC contender Max Schachmann (Bora-hansgrohe) couldn’t
hold the Dunbar-led group, and he finished in 10th place on the stage, some 12
seconds on the Dunbar-Carapaz group.

Lots more to come.

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