This Sunday, March 12, the fourth edition of the Tour des 4B Sud Charente will take place, organized by the Association Cycliste des 4B. A race created by two students, which has undergone some modifications this year.
After Stefan Bennett in 2022, who will be the winner of the Tour des 4B Sud Charente? One week ahead of previous years due to the calendar, the fourth edition of the Charentaise race takes place this Sunday, March 12. Remodeled, the 151 km circuit has been redesigned by the Association Cycliste des 4B.
Classified in the national elite, the event is reserved for French UCI continental teams, foreign teams and first and second category riders from the French Cycling Federation. “This project was born in 2019 on the initiative of two students in their second year of marketing technique to carry out their action project, communicates the organizing association. The goal is to promote the local territory through a national cycling race. We also have a sporting ambition which is to offer a cycling race open to the highest amateur level”.
“A cycling race open to the highest amateur level”
This year, the creator of the event, Benjamin Didou, is trying something new. “The organization of this 4th edition will be a very interesting test for us, he confides in Free Charente. Unlike previous years, the event will be a real loop through 4B territory. The village of Brossac will experience both the start of the Tour, but also a little more than three hours later, after crossing 22 towns, the finish on the same line, but in the opposite direction”.
The profile of the race is made up of six intermediate sprints and six best climber classifications spread over the 151 km to be covered. The slopes of the Lavoir de Montchaude (0.8 km at 6.2%) and that of Brossac (1km at 5%), among others, promise to exhaust the peloton. “An arrival for punchers near Brossac is to be expected. More than twenty municipalities in the South Charente territory are crossed”, specifies the AC4B. Pierre Bonnet (2019) and Thomas Bonnet (2021) respectively won one edition each. What about the fourth?
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Discover in video the route of the Tour des 4B 2023. ????
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– Tour of 4B South Charente (@TourCycliste4B) February 7, 2023
