Greg Van Avermaet finished fourth for the BMC Racing Team Tuesday at Binche-Chimay-Binche as Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) slipped the peloton in the final kilometer to solo to the win.

The BMC Racing Team was active throughout the 194.5-kilometer race that started under cloudy skies, endured rain showers and finished in bright sunshine. Dylan Teuns was part of a 10-man breakaway, Loïc Vliegen helped bring back the escape group after it shattered inside the final 30 kilometers and Teuns was again driving the pace when the race came back together with six kilometers to go.

"With only six riders here, and three of them stagiaries, we had a really young team," BMC Racing Team Sport Director Rik Verbrugghe said. "But Loïc and Dylan – two riders from the BMC Development Team – rode very well. If we don't try to close the gap with those two guys, that front group was not coming back."

Van Avermaet said he could not follow the decisive move when Omega Pharma-Quick Step's Niki Terpstra attacked with Stybar on his wheel as the race hit the cobblestoned finish section.

"They surprised us a little bit coming from the back," Van Avermaet said to the BMC website. "(John) Degengkolb and I hesitated a bit. I tried to go on the cobbles, but the gap was made and it was hard to close it down."

Degenkolb (Team Giant-Shimano) finished second and Jens Debusschere (Lotto Belisol) was third. The result was Van Avermaet's 14th top-five finish of the season.