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110. Tour de France Etappe 17 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 17
SAINT-GERVAIS MONT-BLANC – COURCHEVEL

1981: ON THE FOOTSTEPS OF HINAULT
An advantage of 7’35” by Maillot Jaune after stage 17 hadn’t been recorded since 1981, when Bernard Hinault led Lucien Van Impe by 9’39” after the Alpe d’Huez stage.

22’03”: VINGEGAARD… AND GALL!
The longest climb of the Tour 2023, Col de la Loze (28.1km at 6%), was decisive in its final sections. With a time of 23’18’’, Tadej Pogacar held the Strava KOM on the last 7km of ascent (average gradient: 9.2%) since he finished 3rd of stage 17 of the Tour 2020… Two riders were faster than him on Wednesday: Jonas Vingegaard, who was the fastest with a time of 22’03’’ over that segment according to NTT Data; and Felix Gall, who did 23’07’’ to power to the stage win. Simon Yates was the 3rd fastest (23’29’’) and Pogacar lost minutes (26’37’’).

1959: THE HIGHEST SUMMIT IS FOR AUSTRIA
Felix Gall is the second Austrian in history who takes the highest peak at the Tour after Adolf Christian in 1959 at Col de l’Iseran (2770 m.). At the time, the Iseran wasn’t the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, attributed to the Galibier (2642 m.), who was won, on the same stage, by Charly Gaul.
Gall too won two KOMs in this Tour, both Hors Catégorie: (Soudet, Loze).

22.1: POGACAR’S EARLY CRASH
Tadej Pogacar’s bid to turn the tables in the mountains started off wrong with an early crash at the bottom of the Col des Saisies. According to NTT Data, the Slovenian was doing 22.1 km/h when he crashed on his left side (the same side he injured in Liège-Bastogne-Liège) and hit the deck at km 15.6. He stopped for only 15’’ and quickly returned to the front positions of the bunch, before he faltered on the ascent of Col de la Loze.

1931: GALL IS THE YOUNGEST
A junior world champion, Felix Gall was yet to take a pro win only a few weeks ago… He’s now a stage winner in the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de France.
At 25 years, 4 months and 22 days, he becomes the youngest Austrian ever to win at the Tour, beating the record of Max Bulla (25 years, 9 months, 5 days in Dinan, 1931).

3+3: TWO CENTURIES COMPARED
6th Austrian stage win at the Tour, the third in this century after Georg Totschnig in Ax-3-Domaines in 2005 and Patrick Konrad in Saint-Gaudens two years ago.
The other three were scored in 1931 by Max Bulla (Dinan, Marseille, Aix-les-Bains).

107.4: MEZGEC CATCHES UP ON THE DOWNHILL
Sprinters are not the fastest up the mountains, but Luka Mezgec showed how much they can make up for it on the downhills, hitting the highest speed recorded by NTT Data on stage 17: 107.4 km/h as he descended from Cormet de Roselend. Anthony Turgis is still the rider who went the fastest during the Tour 2023, with a speed of 107.7km/h on the downhill from Col du Tourmalet (stage 6).

23: MATCHING AN ITALIAN LEGEND
23rd Maillot Jaune for Jonas Vingegaard: he matches Gino Bartali at the 18th all-time spot.

110. Tour de France Etappe 17

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Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc – Courchevel – 166 Km

THEMENBILD, Felix Gall
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1 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 04:49:08
2 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:34
3 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:38
4 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 01:52
5 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 02:09
6 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 02:39
7 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 02:50
8 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:43
9 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:43
10 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 03:49
11 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 03:55
12 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 04:25
13 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:36
14 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 04:47
15 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:54
16 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 05:43
17 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 05:56
18 KWIATKOWSKI Michal POL INEOS GRENADIERS 06:54
19 BENOOT Tiesj BEL JUMBO-VISMA 07:17
20 BARGUIL Warren FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 07:33
21 SOLER Marc ESP UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:37
22 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:37

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 67:57:51
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:35
3 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 10:45
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 12:01
5 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 12:19
6 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 12:50
7 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 13:50
8 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 16:11
9 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 16:49
10 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 17:57
11 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 22:53
12 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 27:26
13 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 46:57
14 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 54:31
15 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 55:15
16 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 56:39
17 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:03:01
18 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 01:03:42
19 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 01:04:22
20 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 01:08:54

Tour de France Königsetappe sorgt für Umsturz in der Gesamtwertung

Mit dem Col de la Loze und insgesamt mehr als 5000 hm war die 17. Etappe der Tour de France auch die Königsetappe der diesjährigen Austragung. Das Rennen wurde von Beginn an offensiv gestaltet und nach etwas mehr als einer Rennstunde konnte sich eine etwa 35-Mann-Gruppe absetzen. Da auch einige Fahrer der Top Ten der Gesamtwertung in der Spitzengruppe waren, ließ das Feld die Gruppe nie wirklich weit wegfahren. Auch BORA – hansgrohe versuchte die Position von Jai Hindley zu verteidigen und zeigte sich vor dem Schlussanstieg an der Spitze des Feldes. Zu Beginn des Col de la Loze war der Abstand bei 2:45 und überraschenderweise fiel T. Pogacar schon mehr als 10 km vor dem Gipfel zurück. Jai Hindley kämpfte abermals hart, um den Kontakt zum Gelben Trikot zu halten, doch als J. Vingegaard attackierte, konnte niemand folgen. Jai fuhr nun zusammen mit C. Rodriguez und konnte sich heute besser als auf den letzten Bergetappen halten. Am Ende holte F. Gall den Etappensieg, während S. Yates und P. Bilbao einen Sprung in der Gesamtwertung machen konnten. T. Pocagar verlor mehr als 7 Minuten und Jai Hindley liegt nun auf Rang sieben der Gesamtwertung.

Von der Ziellinie
“Ich habe immer noch Schmerzen und muss wirklich hart kämpfen. Das größte Problem ist, dass ich nicht richtig beschleunigen kann. Es war trotzdem der erste Tag, an dem ich mich etwas besser gefühlt habe. Es ist zwar frustrierend zu wissen, dass ich meine Form nicht zeigen kann, aber ich habe dennoch alles versucht. Ich konnte auch einen ganz guten Rhythmus fahren, als ich abgehängt war. Wir müssen einfach weiter positiv bleiben. Es kommen jetzt zwei Tage, an denen ich mich weiter erholen kann und am Samstag werden wir sehen, was noch möglich ist.” – Jai Hindley

“Wir wollten natürlich mit Jai in der großen Gruppe sein, aber er sagt, er kann einfach keinen Attacken folgen. Im Sattel zu fahren geht schon um einiges besser, aber aus dem Sattel hat er immer noch große Schmerzen und sein Körper blockiert dann. Dennoch ist er heute ein gutes Rennen gefahren und auch Nils und Bob waren heute wieder stark. Für mich war das heute eine Trendwende. Gestern habe ich mir wirklich Sorgen gemacht, heute sah das schon viel besser aus. Wir haben auch heute wieder gesehen, dass jeden Tag alles passieren kann und daher müssen wir auch positiv bleiben und jede Chance ergreifen, die sich noch ergibt.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Felix Gall, the third winning debutant

After Jai Hindley and Carlos Rodriguez, Felix Gall became the third Tour de France debutant to win a stage – a big mountain stage also – in the 110th edition as the Austrian from AG2R-Citroën soloed up to col de la Loze to win at Courchevel before Simon Yates and Jonas Vingegaard who won another duel with Tadej Pogacar by a huge margin.

CICCONE FIRST AT LES SAISIES

155 riders took the start of stage 17 at 12.34. One non-starter: Alexis Renard (Cofidis). French champion Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) and Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost) were first on the attack but it didn’t work out. Tadej Pogacar crashed after 15km of racing. Rafal Majka (UAE Team Emirates), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Neilson Powless, Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious), Giulio Ciccone, Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroën), Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Victor Lafay (Cofidis), Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich), Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Simon Yates, Lawson Craddock, Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla), Clément Champoussin (Arkea-Samsic), Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X) rode away after 20km of racing, which was 8km before the col des Saisies. Despite a regrouping, Ciccone crested col des Saisies (cat. 1, km 28) in first position before his team-mate Skjelmose. The Italian rode away in the downhill along with Alaphilippe and Neilands.

CICCONE FIRST AT CORMET DE ROSELEND AND LONGEFOY

35 riders gathered at the front 13km before the summit of Cormet de Roselend: Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma) Rafal Majka, Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates), David Gaudu, Stefan Küng, Valentin Madouas, Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Magnus Cort, Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Julian Alaphilippe, Dries Devenyns (Soudal-Quick Step), Pello Bilbao, Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious), Giulio Ciccone, Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Ben O’Connor, Nans Peters, Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen), Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis), Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar), Matthew Dinham, Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich), Hugo Houle, Nick Schultz, Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Simon Yates, Lawson Craddock, Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla), Clément Champoussin, Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa-Samsic), Alexey Lutsenko, Gianni Moscon (Astana), Tobias Johannessen, Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X). Ciccone and Skjelmose were again first and second at Cormet de Roselend and côte de Longefoy. In the valley, Küng kept the breakaway alive while Van Aert was pulling the yellow jersey group strongly. The time difference was 3’ with 50km to go.

GALL AND THE AG2R-CITROËN TRADITION IN THE MOUNTAINS

15 riders did most of the ascent to col de la Loze together at the front while the group of the Maillot Jaune was in no hurry to catch them. However, Tadej Pogacar was distanced by Vingegaard and his team-mates 16km before the end. With 13km to go, Gall rode away solo after O’Connor sacrificed his chances for him. The Austrian crested col de la Loze in first position and won the Souvenir Henri-Desgrange 20’’ ahead of Simon Yates. He was on his way to a solo victory to maintain the tradition of AG2R-Citroën: the French team based the Savoy where stage 16 took place won a mountain stage of the Tour de France in 2020 with Nans Peters in the Pyrénées, in 2021 and 2022 with Ben O’Connor and Bob Jungels in the Alps. Vingegaard crossed the line in third position 5’45’’ before Pogacar. The advantage of the Dane over the Slovenian is 7’35’’ with four stages to go.

110. Tour de France Etappe 16 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 16
PASSY – COMBLOUX

1’38”: BIGGEST TT GAP SINCE 2014
It was a phenomenal performance for Jonas Vingegaard: he won with 1’38” over Tadej Pogacar (in 22,4 kms). It’s the biggest gap in a Time Trial since 2014, when Tony Martin distanced Tom Dumoulin by 1’39” in Perigueux (in 55 kms).

22-21: VINGEGAARD WINS THE TIE-BREAK
Jonas Vingegaard recorded his 22nd Maillot Jaune, leaving at 21 Tadej Pogacar.
This puts him level with Joop Zoetemelk, Laurent Fignon and Greg LeMond at the 19th all-time spot.
This is the 33rd time Tadej Pogacar occupies the second position of the overall standings, the same tally as Tour legend Bernard Hinault, who won the race five times.

22: IT’S 22 ALSO FOR POGACAR AND VAN AERT
If Vingegaard conquered 22 yellow jerseys, both Tadej Pogacar and Wout van Aert posted their 22nd stage podium today.
• Pogacar: 10 wins, 5 second places, 7 third places;
• Van Aert: 9 wins, 8 second places, 5 third place.

2019: VINGEGAARD LIKE ALAPHILIPPE
Jonas Vingegaard wins the Time Trial in the yellow jersey, the same feat of Julian Alaphilippe in Pau in 2019 and, before him, Chris Froome in Megeve in 2016.

8.8 – 81.9: VINGEGAARD HITS ALL SORTS OF SPEED
Jonas Vingegaard showed from the beginning he was ready to give everything with daring lines which saw him hit the fastest speed recorded by NTT Data: 81.9km/h on an early downhill section. As he faced the slopes up Côte de Domancy, gravity drastically slowed him down, with a slowest speed of 8.8km/h and an average of 24.8km/h on the ascent. Overall, he covered the stage at 41.2km/h.

2H12: A VERY HOT SEAT!
Remi Cavagna spent 2 hours and 12 minutes in the hotseat. At 16:55 the hope of having a reigning French TT champion win a Tour stage for the first time faded as Wout Van Aert set the provisional best time.
In this century, only 2 Frenchmen won a TT at the Tour:
• Christophe Moreau, Prologue, 2001
• Julian Alaphilippe, Pau, 2019.

6’31”: CICCONE TAKES THE POINTS BUT NOT THE KOM
Giulio Ciccone achieved his main goal of the day: be the fastest on the ascent of Côte de Domancy to take 5 points in the mountains’ classification. But the Italian didn’t manage to take the Strava KOM Sepp Kuss set on this segment (2.4km at 9%) when he attacked to win the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2020. The American did 6’24’’. According to NTT Data, Ciccone did 6’31’’. And Jonas Vingegaard did 6’37’’.

70: A ROUND NUMBER OF JERSEYS
70 white jerseys for Tadej Pogacar (out of 79 stages run, a ratio of 89%).
In today’s stage Pogacar almost caught the second in the Young riders’ standings, Carlos Rodriguez.

3: THE SAME THREE
For the third time Vingegaard, Pogacar and Van Aert shared a stage podium at the Tour after Hautacam 2022, when the finishing order was the same, and last year’s Rocamadour TT, when Van Aert won from Vingegaard and Pogacar.

71: JUMBO MOVES THE SCOREBOARD
71st win for team Jumbo at the Tour, the first in this edition and since Wout Van Aert last year won the 20th stage, the Rocamadour TT.

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Passy – Combloux – ITT – 22 Km

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 00:32:36
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 01:38
3 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 02:51
4 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 02:55
5 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 02:58
6 CAVAGNA Rémi FRA SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 03:06
7 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:12
8 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 03:21
9 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 03:31
10 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 03:31
11 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:36
12 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:36
13 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 03:40
14 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 03:40
15 ASGREEN Kasper DEN SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 03:41
16 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 03:55
17 LATOUR Pierre FRA TOTALENERGIES 03:57
18 KÜNG Stefan SUI GROUPAMA – FDJ 03:58
19 WRIGHT Fred GBR BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:59
20 COSTA Rui POR INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 04:02
21 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Ion ESP COFIDIS 04:12
22 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso COL ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 04:16
23 VAN BAARLE Dylan NED JUMBO-VISMA 04:23
24 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 04:37
25 ARNDT Nikias GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 04:43

Gesamt:
1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 63:06:53
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 01:48
3 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 08:52
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 08:57
5 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 11:15
6 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 12:56
7 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 13:06
8 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 13:46
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 17:38
10 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 18:19
11 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 19:56
12 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 22:32
13 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 25:21
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 28:18
15 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 37:24

Jai Hindley verliert weiter an Boden beim Zeitfahren der Tour de France

Nach dem zweiten Ruhetag stand heute ein 22 km langes Einzelzeitfahren auf dem Programm der Tour de France. Ein bergiger Parkour sorgte für überraschend große Zeitabstände am Ende. J. Vingegaard war eine Klasse für sich und gewann mit 1:38 Vorsprung auf T. Pogacar. Für Jai Hindley war es abermals ein schwieriger Tag. Sichtlich immer noch angeschlagen von seinem Sturz auf der 14. Etappe, erreichte Jai das Ziel heute auf Rang 24 mit mehr als viereinhalb Minuten Rückstand zu Vingegaard. In der Gesamtwertung liegt der Australier aber weiter auf Rang fünf.

Von der Ziellinie
“Na ja, das war sicher nicht mein bester Tag. Ich kämpfe immer noch mit den Sturzverletzungen und habe Probleme, die Kraft aufs Pedal zu bringen. Wir haben den Tag gestern für Therapie genutzt, daher war das Training weniger im Fokus und es war heute schwierig für mich, den Rhythmus zu finden. Wir können jetzt eigentlich nur von Tag zu Tagen schauen und Mal abwarten, wie ich mich morgen fühle. Das Positive ist, ich weiß, dass die Form da ist, wenn ich mich von den Verletzungen erholen kann.” – Jai Hindley

Vingegaard outclasses Pogacar against the clock

Jonas Vingegaard managed to beat Tadej Pogacar by an unexpected margin of 1’38’’ in the mountainous time trial to Combloux to become the first ever Danish to win a Tour de France ITT and impose himself against the clock like Julian Alaphilippe (2019) and Chris Froome (2016) before him. It’s Jumbo-Visma’s first stage win this year. The Dane leads the Tour by 1’48’’ and Adam Yates joins team-mate Pogacar in the top 3 overall.

RÉMI CAVAGNA FIRST OF THE ITT SPECIALISTS ON THE ROAD

Michael Morkov was the first rider to leave the starting ramp at 13.05. There was one non-starter among the 157 riders on the ITT entry list: Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar). Dries Devenyns (Soudal-Quick Step), the oldest participant of this Tour de France who will turn 40 on the eve of the grand finale in Paris, was invited to the hot seat as he set the best time of the first twenty riders in action. He was ousted by Nikias Arndt (Bahrain Victorious) before Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) took over. But it was ITT French champion Rémi Cavagna (Soudal-Quick Step) who scored a reference for the specialists in 35’42’’ at the average speed of 37.647km/h. The “TGV from Clermont-Ferrand” had chosen to not change bike for the Domancy climb.

BELGIAN ITT CHAMPION OUSTS FRENCH CHAMPION FROM THE HOT SEAT

Cavagna remained on the hot seat for two hours and twelve minutes. A bike change didn’t enable Stefan Küng to reverse the situation after he lost to the Frenchman at the bottom of the climb the best time he provisionally established at check point 1. But Belgian national champion for ITT Wout van Aert bettered him as he opted for the same tactic of covered all the 22.4 kilometres on his TT bike. He rode 35 seconds faster than Cavagna from the bottom of the Domancy climb till the finish line to clinch an average speed of 37.912km/h.

VINGEGAARD AHEAD FROM START TO FINISH

In the duel for the Maillot Jaune, Vingegaard indicated his superiority from the start as he rode the first 7km 16’’ faster than Pogacar. He looked like taking more risks in the curves going downhill. At the bottom of the hill, where Pogacar got a new bike, the Dane extended his advantage to 31’’. At the top of the hill, still on TT bike, he doubled it up to 1’05’’ and completed the course with the enormous advantage of 1’38’’. Pogacar posted the second best time of the day with Van Aert rounding out the stage podium and Pello Bilbao taking a worthy fourth place. Adam Yates managed to overtake Carlos Rodriguez in third place overall while Felix Gall made it back into the top 10 at the expense of Guillaume Martin.

110. Tour de France Etappe 15 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 15
LES GETS LES PORTES DU SOLEIL – SAINT-GERVAIS MONT-BLANC

35: NETHERLANDS ALL-TIME RECORD!
Just one day after Spain recorded their youngest winner ever, the Netherlands find their “less young”: Wout Poels, at his first Tour win, becomes the oldest Dutch stage winner at 35 years, 9 months and 15 days.
Poels eclipses the record of Gerrit Voorting (35 years 5 months 9 days: Dunkerque 1958).

10: MARCHING TOWARDS THE RECORD
The Netherlands is the 10th country winning at this Tour, third all-time value, just two shy of the record (12 in 2007 and 2020), and already one more than last year.
Netherlands came after Great Britain (Adam Yates), France (Victor Lafay), Belgium (Jasper Philipsen x3), Australia (Jai Hindley), Slovenia (Tadej Pogacar), Denmark (Mads Pedersen), Canada (Michael Woods), Spain (Pello Bilbao, Ion Izagirre, Carlos Rodriguez) and Poland (Michal Kwiatkowski).

21: POGACAR AND VINGEGAARD TIED
21st Maillot Jaune for Jonas Vingegaard, the same as Tadej Pogacar (and Luis Ocana), at the 22nd all-time spot.
Vingegaard needed just 5 stages more than Pogacar to reach this tally (57 to 52).

17’58”: VINGEGAARD, THE FASTEST UP LE BETTEX
Matching Tadej Pogacar’s accelerations after he started the climb a few metres behind, Jonas Vingegaard was the fastest on the final ascent of the day according to the speeds recorded by NTT Data, with a time of 17’58’’ over the last 7km (average gradient of 7.6%). He beats the record set by Emanuel Buchmann on the same Strava segment in 2018, when the German rider finished 4th of the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné after overcoming the ascents up Cormet de Roselend and Col de Saisies on that day.

2017: ITALY RAISES ITS HEAD
Giulio Ciccone is the first Italian to lead the Mountains classification since Fabio Aru, 7th stage of 2017. Ciccone is also the last Italian rider to have led standings in the Tour, as he wore the Maillot Jaune in stages 7 and 8 of the Tour 2019.
Italy, which is living its longest drought of stage wins (78), had never had a leader in any of the classifications in this decade so far.

21: WOUT, ALWAYS SO CLOSE
If his team-mate Jonas Vingegaard made it 21 Maillot Jaunes today, Wout van Aert recorded his 21st stage podium: 9 wins, 8 second places (2 this year), 4 third places.
Van Aert is way ahead than his team-mate, focused more on the GC: Vingegaard’s stage podium count is 11, the last one yesterday in Morzine (3rd).
Team Jumbo-Visma are still chasing their first win in this Tour, and this is their 5th podium placement (3 second places, 2 third places).

2016: NETHERLANDS AND THE MOUNTAINS
Wout Poels is the first Dutch who wins atop a major ascent of the Tour since Tom Dumoulin in Andorre Arcalis, back in 2016.
Since then, the Netherlands had won no less than 12 stages, on the valley or over lower uphills.

2010: POELS AND FRANCE
It’s the first win for Wout Poels after 511 days: his previous one had been the final classification of the Vuelta a Andalucia, the 20th of February 2022.
Poels had won in France for the last time at Les Sept Laux, 7th stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné 2019.
France is the country which gave him his first pro win: the 4th stage of the Tour de l’Ain, back in 2010.

2009: WOUT + WOUT
1st Wout Poels, 2nd Wout van Aert: the first two at the finish have the same first name for the first time since the final stage of 2009 in Paris, when Mark Cavendish won ahead of Mark Renshaw.
The first occurrence in history was the 8th stage of 90 years ago, Gap 1933: first Georges Speicher, 2nd Georges Lemaire.

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Les Gets les Portes du Soleil – Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc le Bettex – 180 Km


Photos HERBERT MOOS

1 POELS Wout NED BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 04:40:45
2 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 02:08
3 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 03:00
4 CRADDOCK G Lawson USA TEAM JAYCO ALULA 03:10
5 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:14
6 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 03:14
7 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 03:32
8 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 03:43
9 GUGLIELMI Simon FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 03:59
10 BARGUIL Warren FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 04:20
11 TEUNS Dylan BEL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 05:06
12 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 05:10
13 HOULE Hugo CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 05:31
14 CICCONE Giulio ITA LIDL – TREK 05:35
15 URAN Rigoberto COL EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 05:53
16 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 06:04
17 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 06:04
18 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 06:24
19 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 06:42
20 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 07:05
21 SOLER Marc ESP UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:05
22 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 07:15
23 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 07:24
24 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:52
25 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 07:58

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 62:34:17
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:10
3 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 05:21
4 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 05:40
5 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 06:38
6 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 09:16
7 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 10:11
8 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 10:48
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 14:07
10 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 14:18
11 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 14:39
12 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 16:53
13 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 20:12
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 22:48
15 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 29:50
16 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 34:21
17 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 47:31
18 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 48:14
19 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 55:43
20 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 01:01:09

Schwieriger Tag für Jai Hindley der auf Rang 5 der Gesamtwertung abrutscht vor dem zweiten Ruhetag der Tour de France

Die letzte Alpenetappe der Tour de France forderte den Fahrern heute noch einmal alles ab. Nach einem langen Kampf um die Gruppe des Tages setzten sich letztlich fast 40 Mann vom Feld ab und für BORA – hansgrohe waren mit Marco Haller und Nils Politt zwei Fahrer an der Spitze. Dennoch war klar, dass beide eigentlich keine Chance auf den Tagessieg hatten, sondern durch ihre Flucht vielmehr Jai Hindley im Finale der Etappe unterstützen sollten. Etwa 40 Kilometer vor dem Ziel war es dann auch so weit und beide fielen in das erste Feld zurück, in dem auch noch Bob Jungels, Patrick Konrad und Emanuel Buchmann an der Seite von Jai waren. Leider stürzte Emu in der Abfahrt vor dem letzten Anstieg des Tages und spielte am Ende heute keine Rolle. Doch auch für Jai war es nach seinem Sturz gestern ein harter Tag. Der Australier verlor bereits 7 km vor dem Ziel Anschluss zur Gruppe um das Gelbe Trikot und kämpfte von da an alleine um seine Position in der Gesamtwertung. Am Ende holte W. Poels den Tagessieg aus der Spitzengruppe, während Jai das Ziel auf Rang 25 erreichte, knapp zwei Minuten hinter dem Gelben Trikot. Damit liegt Jai nun auf dem 5. Gesamtrang, 1:17 hinter dem Podium vor dem zweiten Ruhetag der Tour.

Von der Ziellinie
“Das war heute wieder ein brutal schwieriger Tag und offensichtlich nicht mein bester. Es ist schwer zu sagen, inwieweit der Sturz von gestern eine Rolle gespielt hat, aber ich habe auch heute sehr gelitten. Natürlich kommt die Müdigkeit auch durch die drei harten Bergetappen, aber normal spielt mir das eher in die Karten. Heute leider nicht. Aber wir können ohnehin nichts tun. Ich habe mein Bestes gegeben und alles versucht. Jetzt geht es nur darum, sich am Ruhetag zu erholen. Das Podium ist eigentlich noch nicht weit weg, aber ohne meine Bestform spielt das keine Rolle. Es geht also nur darum, sich zu erholen.” – Jai Hindley

Poels, better late than never

Wout Poels claimed his first stage win at the Tour de France at the age of 35 after spending many years at the service of great leaders. The best personal result of the 2016 Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner in the Grande Boucle was third at Andorra in 2021 until he soloed to victory at St-Gervais Mont-Blanc. Wout van Aert and Mathieu Burgaudeau rounded out the podium while Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar arrived together once again.

ALPAHILIPPE AND LUTSENKO ON THE ATTACK

The start proper of stage 15 has been given to 157 riders at 13.26. One non-starter: Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers). Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was the first attacker of the day but the peloton reacted to all initial offensives. A split occurred in the bunch after 10km of racing with Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) and Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroën) caught behind but it was all together again at km 16. Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Alberto Bettiol, Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Ben O’Connor (Ag2r-Citröen), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Matthew Dinham (DSM-Firmenich), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) made an interesting move but were also reined in at km 26. Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) rode away solo at km 29. He was joined by riders like Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) in several moves. Alaphilipe and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) escaped from a 27-man leading group after 42km of racing.

MARTIN IN A 39-MAN LEADING GROUP

A group of 37 was formed behind the leading duo when a crash occurred in the peloton at km 52, putting an end to the chase. It was composed of Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates), Omar Fraile (Ineos Grenadiers), Olivier Le Gac, Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Andrey Amador, Magnus Cort, Powless, Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Mikel Landa, Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious), Marco Haller, Patrik Konrad, Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe), Giulio Ciccone, Mathias Skjelmose, Juan Pedro Lopez (Lidl-Trek), Nans Peters (Ag2r-Citröen), Van der Poel, Soren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Guillaume Martin, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Alex Aranburu (Movistar), Chris Hamilton (DSM-Firmenich), Michael Woods, Hugo Houle, Krists Neilands, Dylan Teuns (Israel-PremierTech), Lawson Craddock, Luka Mezgec, Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Warren Barguil, Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa-Samsic), Tobias Halland Johannessen, Torstein Traeen (Uno-X) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies). The peloton crossed the line of the intermediate sprint at Bluffy (km 72) eight minutes after Alaphilippe and Lutsenko. With 85km remaining, it became a lead group of 39 riders. Haller took off 10km further.

POELS ALONE AT CÔTE DES AMERANDS

Rui Costa overhauled Haller to become the lone leader in the ascent to col de la Croix Fry 60km before the end but he was brought back by 19 chasers 1.3km before the summit. Ciccone crested in first place. Soler attacked in the following climb. The Spaniard was later joined by Van Aert, Poels and Neilands who crashed in a downhill. Poels rode away solo up the côte des Amerands with 10.7km remaining. The yellow jersey group was reduced to the lone Adam Yates along with Vingegaard and Pogacar in the last ten kilometres of racing. Yates rode away from the duellists who were rejoined for a while by Carlos Rodriguez before Pogacar launched his first attack under the red flame of the last kilometre Vingegaard managed to stick to his wheel without any difficulty and retained the yellow jersey before the second rest day.

110. Tour de France Etappe 14 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 14
ANNEMASSE – MORZINE LES PORTES DU SOLEIL

22: SPANISH ALL-TIME RECORD!
The days of the 99 stages drought are long gone for Spain, and with a bang, since Carlos Rodriguez becomes the youngest Spanish winner of a Tour stage at 22 years, 5 months, 13 days. Beats the record of Jose Gonzalez: 24 years 2 months 8 days in Vorst 1970 (Time Trial, a half-stage).
Rodriguez is the youngest winner at the Tour since Tadej Pogacar took three stages in the 2020 edition, before turning 22 years old on the day after the final stage in Paris.

33-22: TWO RECORDS FOR INEOS IN BACK-TO-BACK STAGES!
Rodriguez is also the youngest winner for Ineos/Sky, beating Tom Pidcock last year in Alpe d’Huez was 22 years 11 months 14 days old.
…and yesterday Michal Kwiatkowski was the oldest stage winner for Ineos at 33 years 1 month and 12 days!

2018: BACK-TO-BACK INEOS
Two Ineos wins in two days: it’s a first since Geraint Thomas in La Rosière and L’Alpe d’Huez 2018. The previous time that Ineos (Sky) won in consecutive stages with two different riders was in 2012 with Bradley Wiggins in the Chartres ITT (st.19) and Mark Cavendish in Paris (st.20). Those were the last two in a streak of 3, as Cavendish had also won in Brive-la-Gaillarde (st.18).

58,6 KM/H”: RODRIGUEZ TAKES FLIGHT ON THE DOWNHILL
Trailing by 25’’ at Col de Joux Plane, Carlos Rodriguez sped up on the downhill to Morzine to get back to Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, before he dropped them and soloed to the win with an average of 58.6 km/h in the last 12 kilometres (2km/h faster than Vingegaard and Pogacar). His maximum on the downhill was 93.4km/h according to the speeds recorded by NTT Data.

21-11: POGACAR AND VINGEGAARD SHARED PODIUMS
• 21st stage podium for Tadej Pogacar (10 wins, 4 second places, 7 thirds)
• 11th stage podium for Jonas Vingegaard (2 wins, 6 second places, 3 thirds).
Out of these, they’ve been together in the top 3 on nine occasions, with one of them winning the stage almost every time. There are two exceptions:
• Wout van Aert, winner of the Rocamadour ITT last year (stage 20)
• Carlos Rodriguez, winner in Morzine today (stage 14).

2015: SPAIN MAKES IT THREE
Three Spanish wins in a single Tour – it hadn’t happened since 2015: Joaquim Rodriguez in Huy and Plateau de Beille and Ruben Plaza in Gap.
This year Spain has won with three different riders: Pello Bilbao, Ion Izagirre and Carlos Rodriguez. To find another edition with three Spaniards winning, we have to go back to 2009, with Luis Leon Sanchez, Alberto Contador (twice) and Juan Manuel Garate.

20: VINGEGAARD CATCHES VOECKLER, AND…
20th Maillot Jaune for Jonas Vingegaard, the same of Thomas Voeckler. His current rival, 2nd in the standings, Tadej Pogacar, counts only one more (21)…

2: RAMAZ IS FOR TWO COUNTRIES ONLY
The tradition is maintained: only Belgian or French riders conquered the top of the Col de la Ramaz:
Frenchmen Hubert Linard in 1981 and Richard Virenque in 2003; Belgians Mario Aerts in 2010, Thomas de Gendt in 2016, Wout van Aert in 2023.

3: HC DOESN’T BRING LUCK THIS TIME
Third Hors Catégorie KOM for Jonas Vingegaard. In the previous two instances he won the stage: Col du Granon and Hautacam 2022, but those were placed at the finish. This time he had to settle for third.

110. Tour de France Etappe 14

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Annemasse – Morzine les Portes du Soleil – 152 Km

1 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:58:45
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:05
3 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 00:05
4 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:10
5 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 00:57
6 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 01:46
7 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 01:46
8 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:19
9 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 03:21
10 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 05:57
11 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 05:57
12 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 08:40
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:14
14 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 09:43
15 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 09:43
16 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 13:02
17 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 13:02
18 GROSSSCHARTNER Felix AUT UAE TEAM EMIRATES 13:02
19 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 13:02
20 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 13:47

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 57:47:28
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:10
3 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:43
4 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 04:44
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 05:20
6 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 08:15
7 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 08:32
8 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 08:51
9 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 12:26
10 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 12:56
11 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 14:22
12 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 16:50
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 21:21
14 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 23:02
15 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 25:38
16 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 29:38
17 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 39:25
18 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 40:13
19 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 45:43
20 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 45:59

Jai Hindley rutscht trotz beherztem Kampf nach Sturz auf der 14. Etappe der Tour de France auf Rang vier der Gesamtwertung

Bereits nach 6 km ereignete sich auf der zweiten Alpenetappe der Tour heute ein schwerer Massensturz, in den auch Jai Hindley verwickelt war. Glücklicherweise konnte Jai das Rennen, das für 30 min unterbrochen wurde, wieder aufnehmen. Über den Rest der Etappe entbrannte ein weiteres Mal eine wahre Schlacht um den Etappensieg. Keine Gruppe wurde entscheidend weggelassen und am vorletzten Anstieg lag eine kleine Gruppe der Favoriten an der Spitze des Rennens. Jai Hindley war zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch vorne mit dabei, während Emanuel Buchmann bereits abreißen lassen musste. Am Col de Joux Plane wurde das Tempo weiter erhöht und als nur noch 6 Fahrer an der Spitze waren, musste Jai etwa sechs Kilometer vor der Bergwertung abreißen lassen. Trotz eines unglaublichen Kampfes verlor er am Ende 1:46 zum Etappensieger C. Rodriguez, der damit nun eine Sekunde vor Jai auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung liegt.

Von der Ziellinie
“Nach dem Sturz hatte ich Schmerzen. Ich denke nicht, dass es was Ernstes ist, eher muskulär. Aber es war schmerzhaft, besonders wenn ich aus dem Sattel ging, also alles andere als optimal. Aber was will man machen, das gehört halt dazu. Unter diesen Umständen bin ich mit dem Tag eigentlich ganz zufrieden und jetzt geht es zuallererst einmal darum, dass ich mich erhole.” – Jai Hindley

“Das Niveau ist so unglaublich hoch, dass jedes Detail den Unterschied macht. Wenn du nicht genug trinkst, wirst du abgehängt. Wenn du überhitzt, wirst du abgehängt. Wenn du am Anfang stürzt, ist das natürlich alles andere als ideal. Dennoch denke ich, dass Jai die Situation sehr gut gemeistert hat. Er hat um jede Sekunde gekämpft und ist einen guten Rhythmus gefahren. Wir sind jetzt mehr oder weniger zeitgleich mit Rodriguez. Heute war das Glück nicht auf unserer Seite, ich hoffe, morgen ist das wieder anders.” – Enrcio Gasparotto, Sportlicher Leiter

Carlos Rodriguez, the birth of a champion

Carlos Rodriguez took advantage of the rivalry between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar to catch them and ride away from them in the downhill of col de Joux-Plane to become the youngest ever Spanish stage winner at the Tour de France at the age of 22. Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey.

MEINTJES, CHAVES AND BARDET ABANDON
The start proper of stage 14 was given to 165 riders at 13.23. The race was put on halt for half an hour after 6.5km due to a massive crash that forced Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Antonio Pedrero (Movistar) to withdraw from the Tour de France. A second start was given at 14.01. Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost) pulled out in pain at km 15 while the first significant breakaway took shape with Lars van den Berg (Groupama-FDJ) being joined by Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech) and later by Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers) and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana). Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich) and James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost) crashed out in the downhill of col de Saxel at km 25.

2 CAT. 1 KOM FOR CICCONE
After tons of attempts, attacks, counter-attacks and riders being dropped, a lead group of 21 riders took shape. It included three men from the top 20 overall: Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious). Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X) and Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) were very active, both interested in the King of the Mountains competition. Ciccone outsprinted polka dot jersey wearer Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Alaphilippe and Pinot at cat. 1 col de Cou (km 35.3). The Italian also crested cat. 1 col du Feu (km 52) first and forged on by himself in the downhill until Pinot, Landa, Alex Aranburu (Movistar) Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) and Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) came across. Pinot, Landa, Poels, Martin, Martinez, Ciccone, Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Alex Aranburu and Gorka Izagirre, (Movistar), Hugo Houle and Woods (Israel-PremierTech) managed to stay away while Jumbo-Visma kept them on a leash. Ciccone passed the line of the intermediate sprint at col de Jambaz (km 65.5) in first position. Ciccone and Woods rode away at the beginning of the ascent to col de la Ramaz (km 101). Their former breakaway companions got reeled in 10km before the top while the yellow jersey group was down to about thirty riders including six from Jumbo-Visma and six from UAE Team Emirates. Ciccone surrendered two kilometres further. Van Aert crested col de la Ramaz in first position.

VINGEGAARD BEATS POGACAR ATOP JOUX-PLANE
16 riders were reunited at the front with 30km to go: Van Aert, Sepp Kuss, Wilco Kelderman, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), Felix Grossschartner, Rafal Majka, Adam Yates, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Simon Yates, Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) and Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen). The team of the yellow jersey led the charge up to col de Joux-Plane, the 250th hors-category climb of the Tour de France since the inception of the label in 1979. 5km before the top, Hindley couldn’t hold the pace set by Kuss, the American being followed by A. Yates, Pogacar, Vingegaard and Rodriguez. With 3.7km of climbing remaining, Pogacar attacked. The Slovenian remained 4’’ ahead of the Dane for two kilometres. Vingegaard made it across and sprinted to collect 8’’ time bonus and the lead in the KOM competition atop col de Joux-Plane. Rodriguez and Yates made the junction in the downhill. Rodriguez rode away solo with 8km to go and remained at the front till the end. He even moved one step up to take place in the top 3 instead of Hindley for one second.

110. Tour de France Etappe 13 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 13
CHÂTILLON-SUR-CHALARONNE – GRAND COLOMBIER

43’51”: POGACAR FLIES ON GRAND COLOMBIER

While Michal Kwiatkowski held off his chasers with an average speed of 22.1km/h up Grand Colombier, Tadej Pogacar was stronger than anyone… even stronger than himself in 2020. According to the speeds recorded by NTT Data, the Slovenian 2-time winner of the Tour covered the 17-km ascent in 43’51’’ (23.5km/h). That’s also 1’46’’ faster than the Strava KOM he set on the climb when he powered to victory in 2020. Pogacar had an impressive kick at 36.4km/h inside the last 500 metres to distance his rivals.

1030: 7TH WIN FOR POLAND
Michal Kwiatkowski wins his second Tour stage, 1030 days after his first one: La Roche-sur-Foron, 17th of September 2020.
It’s the 7th win for Poland at the Tour: 3 by Rafal Majka, 2 for Kwiatkowski, 1 for Zenon Jaskula and Maciej Bodnar.

9: IT’S A CLOSE AFFAIR
9” between Maillot Jaune and runner-up, the 6th smallest gap in history after stage 13:
• 1” Cadel Evans – Fränk Schleck, 2008
• 3” Raphael Geminiani – Vito Favero, 1958
• 6” Rinaldo Nocentini – Alberto Contador, 2009
• 6” Fabio Aru – Chris Froome, 2017
• 7” Laurent Fignon – Greg Lemond, 1989
• 9” Jonas Vingegaard – Tadej Pogacar, 2023

5: MOUNTAIN INEOS
The last 5 wins by team Ineos (formerly Sky) at the Tour all came in high mountain or uphill finishes:
• Geraint Thomas: La Rosière and L’Alpe d’Huez 2018;
• Michal Kwiatkowski: La Roche-sur-Foron 2020 and Grand Colombier 2023;
• Tom Pidcock: L’Alpe d’Huez 2020.
And in 2019, Egan Bernal was also first at Col d’Iseran, but there was no stage winner on that day as the race had to be interrupted for safety reasons.
The British team’s previous success came in Düsseldorf (Germany), when Thomas won the opening time-trial of the Tour 2017.

1: POLAND AND HORS CATEGORIE
Winning a Hors Catégorie climb is a first for Michal Kwiatkowski, but not for a Polish rider: Rafal Majka collected 5 (Pla d’Adet 2014, Tourmalet 2015, Grand Colombier and Bisanne 2016, Aubisque 2018).

20: POGACAR IN THE TOP-3
Tadej Pogacar finished 3rd, taking his top-3 placements in Tour stages to 20 (out of 76 stages, a ratio of 26%). The breakdown is: 10 wins, 3 second places, 7 third places.

19: VINGEGAARD ADDS ANOTHER ONE
19th Maillot Jaune for Jonas Vingegaard, joining at the 25th all-time spot Fausto Coppi, André Darrigade, Rudi Altig, Roger Pingeon, Felice Gimondi, Dietrich Thurau and Vincenzo Nibali.

77: DRAMA FOR ITALY
Italy’s win drought reaches 77 individual stages, equalling the worst streak by the country (Dijon 1979-Nantes 1983). The last winner for Italy was Vincenzo Nibali, in Val-Thorens, 2019.
Italy posted its maiden win at the Grande Boucle at the 92nd stage in history (Ernesto Azzini, Paris 1910).

10: THE WAY TO THE TOP
10th green jersey for Jasper Philipsen, the same as his compatriot Roger De Vlaeminck. The Belgian record is „just“ 60 stages ahead: Freddy Maertens collected 70 green jerseys, the third all-time value behind the 130 of Peter Sagan and 86 by Erik Zabel.

110. Tour de France Etappe 13

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Châtillon-Sur-Chalaronne – Grand Colombier – 138 Km

1 KWIATKOWSKI Michal POL INEOS GRENADIERS 03:17:33
2 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:47
3 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:50
4 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 00:54
5 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 01:03
6 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 01:05
7 SHAW James GBR EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 01:05
8 TEJADA CANACUE Harold Alfonso COL ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 01:05
9 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 01:14
10 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 01:18
11 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 01:20
12 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 01:20
13 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 01:34
14 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 01:41
15 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 01:45
16 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 01:45
17 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:45
18 MOHORIC Matej SLO BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 02:06
19 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 03:29
20 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 03:29
21 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 03:29
22 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:29
23 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 03:29
24 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 03:45

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 53:48:50
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:09
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:51
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:48
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 05:03
6 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 05:04
7 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 05:25
8 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:35
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:52
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 07:11
11 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 09:08
12 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 09:33
13 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 09:41
14 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 10:33
15 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 10:46
16 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 11:44
17 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 12:00

Jai Hindley gewinnt ein paar Sekunden im Kampf um das Podium auf der ersten Alpenetappe der Tour de France

Am französischen Nationalfeiertag stand heute die erste Alpenetappe auf dem Programm der Tour de France. Eine große Ausreißergruppe setzte sich in der ersten Hälfte der Etappe erfolgreich vom Feld ab, während dort der ganze Fokus auf die Bergankunft am Grand Colombier gerichtet war. M. Kwiatkowski attackierte aus der Spitzengruppe etwa 8 km vor dem Ziel und feierte am Ende einen ungefährdeten Etappensieg. BORA – hansgrohe lieferte Jai Hindley perfekt am Fuß des Schlussanstiegs ab, bevor Emanuel Buchmann Jai bis sechs Kilometer vor dem Ziel unterstützen konnte. Rund 2 km vor dem Ende begannen die Attacken aus der Gruppe der Favoriten und T. Pogacar konnte sich noch den 3. Etappenrang sichern. Jai Hindley zeigte erneute eine starke Leistung in den Bergen und erreichte letztlich Rang sechs, wobei er auf seine direkten Konkurrenten im Kampf um das Podium ein paar Sekunden gutmachen konnte.

Von der Ziellinie
“Die Jungs haben mich super in den letzten Berg gebracht. Es war wieder sehr heiß und am Beginn des Anstiegs haben Nils und Emu mich gut mit Getränken und Eis versorgt. Ich habe mich ziemlich gut gefühlt, bin aber defensiv gefahren, da klar war, dass Pogacar am Ende noch attackieren würde. Ich konnte seinem Antritt nicht folgen, war aber nah dran. Das ist sicherlich ein gutes Zeichen und von da her bin ich zufrieden, denn ich konnte ein paar Sekunden auf einige andere Jungs gutmachen. Heute war aber nur die erste von drei schweren Bergetappen und jeder Tag kann entscheidend sein. Wir müssen also weiter fokussiert bleiben und jeden Tag bereit sein.” – Jai Hindley

“Für uns war das heute definitiv ein guter Tag. Die Jungs haben Jai sehr gut vor dem letzten Anstieg platziert, da stimmt das Timing jetzt. Nils war wie gestern wieder sehr stark. Auch Emu hat einen guten Job gemacht, aber am Ende können wir natürlich nur hoffen, dass Jai gute Beine hat. Seine Leistung war ebenfalls sehr gut und er konnte am Ende sogar ein paar Sekunden gegenüber Rodriguez gutmachen. Wir sind also happy. Spannend wird, wer morgen das Rennen kontrollieren wird, denn da gibt es natürlich viele Möglichkeiten anzugreifen.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Kwiatkowski conquers Grand Colombier

The mountain top finish of Grand Colombier welcomed the second Tour de France stage victory of Michal Kwiatkowski after stage 17 in 2020, the seventh for Polish riders in the history, after Zenon Jaskula, Rafal Majka and Maciej Bodnar did so as well. The Ineos Grenadiers rider stayed away from the early escape to win solo before former breakaway companion Maxim Van Gils whereas Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead by nine seconds.

LOTS OF ATTACKS BEFORE 19 RIDERS GO CLEAR

The start proper of stage 13 was given at 13.55 to 167 riders. After many unfruitful skirmishes, 19 riders took the lead after 26km of racing: Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ) who initiated this move a few kilometres before, Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Alberto Bettiol, James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Matej Mohoric, Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Adrien Petit, Mike Teunissen, Georg Zimmerman (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Hugo Houle (Israel-PremierTech), Luca Mozzato (Arkea-Samsic), Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny), Cees Bol, Harold Tejada (Astana), Anthon Charmig (Uno-X), Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies). UAE Team Emirates was prompt to set the pace of the peloton. The time gap was 2’25’’ with 60km to go.

PACHER ALONE UP THE HILL, THEN KWIATKOWSKI

Teunissen won the intermediate sprint at Hauteville-Lompnès (km 87.3). Matteo Trentin, Mikkel Bjerg and Vegard Stake Laengen continued to do all the work at the head of the pack for UAE Team Emirates. Bol was the first rider dropped, followed by Petit who fought hard to try and come across. Latour who finished second at Puy de Dôme couldn’t hold the pace in a downhill with 35km remaining. The deficit of the peloton was 3’55’’ at the beginning of the 17.4km long ascent to Grand Colombier. Pacher rode away from the front group 16km before the summit. Tejada, Van Gils and Shaw brought him back with 12.8km to go. Kwiatkowski overhauled them and kept going solo one kilometre further.

POGACAR ATTACKS 400 METERS BEFORE THE END

Kwiatkowski had 3’15’’ lead over the peloton with 10km to go. It was reduced to 2’20’’ at the 5km to go mark. Adam Yates sped up with 3km remaining and split the 15-man yellow jersey group into pieces. Vingegaard remained vigilant and Kwiatkowski dealt with the strength he had kept to stay ahead and win 47’’ seconds before Van Gils, the only other breakaway rider who fended off Pogacar. The Slovenian attacked just b

110. Tour de France Etappe 12 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 12
ROANNE – BELLEVILLE-EN-BEAUJOLAIS

2X3: THE JOY AFTER THE LONG WAIT
Spain won 2 stages in 3 days after going 99 stages without a win. And it’s the first time they won twice in such a short timespan since Alberto Contador and Juan Manuel Garate in 2009 won on the 23rd and 25th of July.

12: ANOTHER LONG WAIT IS OVER
Ion Izagirre won his second stage 6 years 11 months and 20 days since his first one (Morzine 2016).
This is the 12th longest timespan between first and second win in history.
The record belongs to Cedric Vasseur: from La Châtre 1997 to Marseille 2007 (his only Tour wins) he had to wait 10 years and 8 days. Vasseur is Ion Izagirre’s manager at the head of Cofidis.

2: FROM NOTHING TO THE RECORD
Cofidis first won this year with Victor Lafay in San Sebastian after a wait of 15 years (since 2008) without a single win at the Tour.
In this edition they already posted 2 wins, equalling their best Tours (2004, 2008).

12: SWEET 12
This was the first time Mathieu van der Poel raced stage 12 of the Tour, after he had abandoned on stage 9 in 2021 and in stage 11 in 2022, and he went on to claim the most aggressive rider for the first time.

2015: INCREDIBLE TURNAROUND FOR SPAIN
For the first time since 2015, Spanish riders take two victories in a single edition of the Tour. And the two winners are at least 33 years old… which only happened in 2015 for Spain:
• Joaquim Rodriguez won at Huy and Plateau de Belle at 36 years old, Ruben Plaza won in Gap at 35 years old.
• Pello Bilbao won in Issoire at 33 years old and Ion Izagirre is 34 years old.
In 1964 Federico Bahamontes alone won 2 stages within 10 days of his 36th birthday.

3: UNLUCKY ASTANA
3 abandons for Astana, out of a total of 9 so far in this edition (33%).
Their three retirements came from three crashes: Luis Leon Sanchez, Mark Cavendish on day 8 and now David De la Cruz.

24/34: YOUNG OR OLD?
Both Mathieu Burgaudeau and Matteo Jorgenson scored their first Tour top-3 placement.
They are 10 years younger than today’s winner Ion Izagirre (24 to 34).

124: BECOMING A LUCKY NUMBER
Number 124 (Izagirre’s one) hadn’t scored a single win at the Tour from 1995 to 2020, then it was winner in two Tours out of three: Ben O’Connor in Tignes 2021 and Izagirre today.
Last year #124 went close to winning with Louis Meintjes: 2nd at Alpe d’Huez.