Rouen, July 9 -- Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) brought up his century of professional wins in style by outsprinting yellow jersey Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in a nail-biting finale to Stage 4 of the Tour de France in Rouen.

After an expert lead-out by his Portuguese team-mate Joao Almeida on the final ramp to the line, Pogacar put on the burners on the home straight to surge past Dutchman Van der Poel and take a sumptuous seventeenth Tour stage win of his career.

By digging deep to finish second ahead of Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Van der Poel did enough to retain the yellow jersey by the narrowest of margins ahead of Wednesday's all-important individual time trial in Caen, for which Vingegaa...