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.