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110. Tour de France Etappe 8 Daten

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2: THE SECOND FOR PEDERSEN
Second win at the Tour for Mads Pedersen after Saint-Etienne last year.
This is his 4th win of the season, the first after 58 days, the previous one being the Napoli stage at the Giro d’Italia.
…and it’s as well a win in his last 4 Grand Tours run after 3 stages in the Vuelta 2022, and the aforementioned wins at the Tour 2022 and Giro 2023, for a total of 6.
He needs to go to the Vuelta to match Alessandro Petacchi’s victories in five Grand Tours in a row from Vuelta 2002 until Giro 2004.

34: GOODBYE MARK!
Mark Cavendish leaves the Tour for the 7th time in 14 participations.
According to NTT Data, he crashed at 44.9 km/h with 63km to go. At 38 years old, the Manx missile announced he will retire at the end of the season. He will thus go down in history as the most successful sprinter in the Tour.
Since his first participation in 2007, Cavendish completed 206 Tour stages, won 34 of those (16.5%) and finished in the top-3 43 times (20.9%). He took his first stage win in Châteauroux (stage 5 of the Tour 2008) and the last one in Carcassonne (stage 13 of the Tour 2021).
This sadly happens on the eve of the anniversaries of his first (9th of July 2008) and last (9th of July 2021) wins at the Tour.

62+62: DENMARK GOES IN PAIRS
After today’s stage, Denmark counts 62 Grand Tour stage wins and 62 leaders’ jersey.
This is the breakdown of this curious pair:
• Stages: 26 at the Tour, 14 at the Giro, 22 at the Vuelta.
• Jerseys: 57 at the Tour, 5 at the Vuelta.

47: THE TOUR SPEEDS UP!
After passing the 45 km/h mark yesterday (45,013 km/h), the Tour today recorded 47,704 km/h.
Last year the Tour sped up in the 5th and 6th stages, with 48,661 km/h and 49,376 km/h, the latter being the highest value in road stages of the last edition.

15: AIMING AT THE TOP
15th stage podium at the Tour for Jasper Philipsen: 5 wins, 6 second places, 4 third places.
Since last year’s Gooikse Pijl, Philipsen has a remarkable record when finishing in the top-10: 11 wins, 6 second places and just one 4th place.

20: VAN AERT MAKES IT 20
20th stage podium for Wout van Aert at the Tour: 9 wins, 7 second places, 4 third places.
Going from 19 to 20 is no easy feat: among this Tour’s starters only two riders count more stage podiums: Peter Sagan (47) and retired Mark Cavendish (43).
No less than three riders are at 19: Alexander Kristoff, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Tadej Pogacar.

1266: TURGIS’ HIGHS AND LOWS
Before today, Anthony Turgis had conquered one KOM at the Tour de France: Col de Peyresourde (17th stage, 2021). He went on to tame three categorised climbs at much lower altitudes:

• Côte de Champs-Romain (303m)
• Côte de Masmont (353m)
• Côte de Condat-sur-Vienne (289m)

These three climbs together would amount to an altitude of 945m… That’s still 324m lower than Peyresourde.

6: (NOT) ALL IN
The Tour was heading for a low record of 4 abandons in the first 8 stages, until all-time joint record holder of stage wins, Mark Cavendish, crashed, becoming the 5th retirement this year, with Steff Cras being the 6th.
The all-time record low was set in 2016, when Michael Morkov was the first retirement, in stage 8.

110. Tour de France Etappe8

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Libourne – Limoges – 201 Km

1 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 04:12:26
2 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:00
3 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
4 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
5 EEKHOFF Nils NED TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
6 COQUARD Bryan FRA COFIDIS 00:00
7 DE BUYST Jasper BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:00
8 TILLER Rasmus NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
9 STRONG Corbin NZL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
10 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:00
11 LOUVEL Matis FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
12 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:00
13 WRIGHT Fred GBR BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
14 BOL Cees NED ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
15 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
16 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 34:09:38
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:25
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 01:34
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:30
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:40
6 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:01
7 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:03
8 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 04:43
9 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 04:43
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 05:28
11 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 06:10
12 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 06:10
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 06:32
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 06:36
15 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 06:52

Jai Hindley weiter auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung nach hektischem Finale auf der 8. Etappe der Tour de France

Am Papier war die 8. Etappe der Tour de France nicht die schwierigste, allerdings konnte auf einem sehr welligen Schlussteil ein hektisches Finale in Limoges erwartet werden. Drei Fahrer bildeten die Gruppe des Tages, doch auf den letzten 30 km drückte vor allem Jumbo-Visma im Feld auf das Tempo. Der letzte Ausreißer wurde etwa 8 km vor dem Ziel gestellt, während auch das Feld durch die zahlreichen Anstiege immer kleiner wurde. BORA – hansgrohe arbeitete hart, um Jai Hindley in guter Position und aus alles Schwierigkeiten herauszuhalten. Am Ende holte M. Pedersen den Tagessieg, während Jai Hindley das Ziel in der ersten Gruppe erreichte.

Von der Ziellinie
“Der Beginn der Etappe war extrem hart, denn viele Fahrer wollten in einer Fluchtgruppe ihre Chance suchen. Als die drei Fahrer dann weg waren, hat man schnell gemerkt, wer das Rennen kontrollieren will. Es war dann organisierter, aber im Finale dennoch sehr hart und hektisch. Die Jungs haben einen tollen Job gemacht, Jai immer vorne zu halten. Wir sind gut durchgekommen, das war heute unser Ziel. Wir können also zufrieden sein.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Pedersen powers to second Tour de France victory

On the sad farewell day of Mark Cavendish who crashed out, Mads Pedersen powered to his second Tour de France victory in Limoges one year after he opened his account in Saint-Etienne. Jasper Philipsen and Wout van Aert settled down for second and third. Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey.

DECLERCQ, DELAPLACE AND TURGIS AT THE FRONT

The start proper of stage 8 was given at 12.43 to 172 riders. Lots of skirmishes took place in the first 20km but they were unsuccessful until Tim Declercq (Soudal-Quick Step) managed to go clear. He was joined at km 22 by Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Anthony Delaplace (Arkea-Samsic). A maximum time difference of 5’15’’ was record before the intermediate sprint at Tocane-Saint-Apre (km 79). Delaplace outsprinted Turgis and Philipsen proved once again to be the fastest as he fulfilled his green jersey ambitions by winning the sprint of the peloton for fourth place. His team-mate Mathieu van der Poel tried to surprise the field as he attacked right after the intermediate sprint. Philipsen, Mark Cavendish, Bryan Coquard and Biniam Girmay were among the fifteen riders who accompanied him. It forced Jumbo-Visma to chase hard as Wout van Aert had made no secret on his stage win ambitions in Limoges. It was back together after a couple of kilometres.

CAVENDISH OUT OF HIS LAST TOUR DE FRANCE

Lidl-Trek started to make the race harder at the head of the peloton with one and half hour remaining. Cavendish crashed out with 64km to go. Cofidis came in help to pace the peloton that was timed 2’30’’ adrift before the last hour of racing. Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step) attacked from the pack with 36km remaining. He stayed in between for 14 kilometres. The deficit of the peloton was one minute at the 20-km to go mark. Turgis rode away solo in the côte de Masmont 16km before the end.

SKJELMOSE PUTS PEDERSEN INTO ORBIT

Declercq tried to make it back to the front but was swallowed by the pack 10km before the end. Turgis was reeled with 8km remaining. His team-mate Steff Cras crashed with 6km to go while Simon Yates and Mikel Landa also went down and reached the finish line with a 47’’ deficit. The Belgian, 13th overall, was forced to pull out. Mattias Skjelmose strongly seized the command of the peloton at the entrance of Limoges. The Danish champion put his team-mate and compatriot Mads Pedersen into orbit but the competition was fierce in the uphill stretch. The former world champion looked to have it when he passed Van Aert who was led out by Christophe Laporte but Van der Poel took Philipsen to the front and Pedersen had to jump to the finish line to fend off the green jersey holder. This is the 26th Danish stage win at the Tour de France, the second for Pedersen himself who already bagged a Giro d’Italia stage victory in Naples this year.

Sibiu Cycling Tour 3. und 4.Etappe:

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Max Schachmann gewinnt zweite Bergankunft bei der Sibiu Tour

Die zweite Bergankunft in Folge stand heute auf dem Programm bei der Sibiu Tour. Zuerst setzte sich ein 25-Mann große Gruppe vom Feld ab, in der auch Frederik Wandahl vertreten war. Als sich die Gruppe teilte, fiel Frederik allerdings zurück, doch auch der Rest der Ausreißer wurde im 15 km langen Schlussanstieg wieder gestellt. Max Schachmann und Florian Lipowitz zeigten sich beide aktiv und attackierten auf den letzten 10 km immer wieder. Etwa 7 km vor dem Ziel konnte sich Max entscheidend absetzten und feierte einen überragenden Etappensieg.

Ergebnisse
01 M. Schachmann 5:13:18
02 J. Otruba +0:18
03 F. Fortelli +0:28
05 F. Lipowitz +0:18

Von der Ziellinie
“Gestern war ich enttäuscht. Ich hatte am Ende einfach nicht die Beine, um vorne dranzubleiben und weiß eigentlich nicht, warum. Heute habe ich mich viel besser gefühlt und Florian und ich haben im Schlussanstieg einige Male attackiert. Ich konnte sehen, dass die anderen da schon gelitten haben und habe die entscheidende Attacke dann kurz vor einem flacheren Stück gesetzt. Als ich eine Lücke hatte, konnte ich meinen Rhythmus gut halten und bin dann durchgekommen. Ich freue mich wirklich sehr, denn nach so einer langen Zeit mit Problemen tut es unglaublich gut, wieder einmal ganz oben auf dem Podium zu stehen.” – Maximilan Schachmann

1. Maximilian Schachmann (GER, BORA – hansgrohe) 5:13:17
2. Jakub Otruba (CZE, ATT Investments) 0:18
3. Filippo Fiorelli (ITA, Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) 0:18
4. Mark Donovan (GBR, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) 0:18
5. Florian Lipowitz (GER, BORA – hansgrohe) 0:18
6. Márton Dina (HUN, ATT Investments) 0:18
7. Anders Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 0:18
8. Isaac Del Toro (MEX, Mexico) 0:18
9. Matteo Badilatti (SUI, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) 0:18
10. Johannes Kulset (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 0:35

Gesamt:
1. Matteo Badilatti (SUI, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) 13:15:36
2. Mark Donovan (GBR, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) 0:02
3. Jakub Otruba (CZE, ATT Investments) 0:05
4. Lennert Van Eetvelt (BEL, Lotto Dstny) 0:06
5. Anders Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 0:18
6. Florian Lipowitz (GER, BORA – hansgrohe) 0:26
7. Maximilian Schachmann (GER, BORA – hansgrohe) 0:29
8. Eduardo Sepúlveda (ARG, Lotto Dstny) 0:41
9. Johannes Kulset (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 0:43
10. Márton Dina (HUN, ATT Investments) 0:53

110. Tour de France Etappe 7 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 7
MONT-DE-MARSAN – BORDEAUX

3X7: A WINNER’S WEEK
Jasper Philipsen is the first Belgian who wins 3 stages in the first 7 days of a Tour since 1976: Freddy Maertens (prologue, Angers, Le Touquet); plus, Maertens made it four winning on the 8th day, in Mulhouse. Those were 2 time trials and 2 road stages.
The last Belgian with 3 road wins in the first 7 days was Eric Leman in 1971 (2 half-stages, stage 7).
Excluding half-stages and time trials, no Belgian had ever achieved Philipsen’s feat in the Tour de France.
Louis Mottiat won 4 of the first 7 stages in 1921 but across a timespan of 12 days.

74,7: CAV’ MEANS SPEED
Mark Cavendish hit the highest top speed in Bordeaux with a kick at 74.7km/h with 300 metres to go. The Manx missile was already the fastest in the finale of stage 3, when he did 73.3km/h in Bayonne (6th).

5&4: NAILING THE WINS
This was the 5th win at the Tour for Jasper Philipsen, but, considering only the Bunch sprints, it was his 4th in a row.

3: THE SPRINTER’S WEEK
Winning 3 Sprints in the first week is something that wasn’t recorded since 2017. These are the last riders who managed this feat before Jasper Philipsen:
• Alessandro Petacchi (2003)
• Robbie McEwen (2006)
• Peter Sagan (2012)
• Marcel Kittel (2014, 2017)
• Mark Cavendish (2016)
The last rider with four wins in the first week is Mario Cipollini in 1999.

3: A PODIUM FOR ERITREA
Biniam Girmay is the first athlete from Eritrea that scores a podium placement in a Tour stage. Up to now the best Eritrean result had been a 7th place by Daniel Teklehaimanot (Gap 2015, Chalet Reynard 2016).

43: CAVENDISH JOINS KELLY
43rd stage podium for Mark Cavendish: 34 wins, 4 second places, 5 third places. Matches Sean Kelly at the 7th all-time spot. The record belongs to Eddy Merckx: 63 stage podiums.
This is the first stage podium for Cavendish since his 3rd place in Paris, back in 2021.

13: TOP-50 FOR VINGEGAARD
13th stage in the lead at the Tour for Jonas Vingegaard, the same of Tour winners René Pottier, Gustave Garrigou and Goerges Speicher. Among these, only the last one wore the Maillot Jaune, the others were leaders, and winners, before the jersey was introduced (1906, 1911).
Vingegaard now enters the all-time top-50, placing at the 49th spot in this statistic. All-time leader is Eddy Merckx with 111 stages in the lead.

45,013: THE FASTEST ONE
At 45,013 kph this has been the fastest stage in this Tour, and the fastest, among road stages, since Cahors 2022, run at 48,684 kph.
And there’s more: after covering the first 20 kms at 33,1 kph, the riders made up for that riding the last 20 kms at the astonishing speed of 58,8 kph!

40: A NOBLE FEAT FOR GUGLIELMI
Simon Guglielmi covered 97km at 40.8 kph before he was joined by Nans Peters and Pierre Latour at the front of the race. He rapidly opened a maximum gap of 7’16“, at km 18, but the sprint teams reacted to control his 2nd breakaway attempt in the Tour 2023.

148: THE REST OF THE WARRIOR
After his two days on the move in the Pyrenees, Wout van Aert finished 148th in Bordeaux. He finished further behind in the standings on two occasions only in the Tour de France (82 stages completed): 164th of stage 12 in 2019 and 168th of stage 3 in 2020.

110. Tour de France Etappe7

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Mont-de-Marsan – Bordeaux – 170 Km

1 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 03:46:28
2 CAVENDISH Mark GBR ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
3 GIRMAY Biniam ERI INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
4 MOZZATO Luca ITA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
5 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
6 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
7 BAUHAUS Phil GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
8 COQUARD Bryan FRA COFIDIS 00:00
9 KRISTOFF Alexander NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
10 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 00:00
11 LOUVEL Matis FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
12 TEUNISSEN Mike NED INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
13 WELSFORD Sam AUS TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
14 ABRAHAMSEN Jonas NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
15 JAKOBSEN Fabio NED SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:00
16 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:00
17 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00
18 WÆRENSKJOLD Søren NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
19 DILLIER Silvan SUI ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:00
20 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 29:57:12
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:25
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 01:34
4 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 03:14
5 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:30
6 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:40
7 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:03
8 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 04:43
9 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 04:43
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 05:28
11 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 05:49
12 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 06:10
13 CRAS Steff BEL TOTALENERGIES 06:10
14 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 06:10
15 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 06:32

Erneut Top Ten für Jordi Meeus auf der 7. Etappe der Tour de France

Nach den beiden schweren Pyrenäen-Etappen hatten heute die Sprinter wieder eine Chance auf der 7. Etappe der Tour de France nach Bordeaux. Ein Solist prägte das Rennen über weite Strecken, bevor ein Duo nach dem Zwischensprint des Tages zur Spitze aufschließen konnte. Die beiden frischen Fahrer konnten den ursprünglichen Ausreißer dann auch schnell abhängen, aber auch sie hatten gegen ein heranstürmendes Feld am Ende keine Chance. Es kam zum erwarteten Massensprint und Danny Van Poppel setzten sich mit Jordi Meeus auf dem letzten Kilometer an die Spitze. Allerdings war Jordi am Ende beim dritten Etappensieg von J. Philipsen leider etwas eingebaut und erreicht am Ende Rang sechs.

Von der Ziellinie
„Unser Timing war heute nahezu perfekt. Danny hat mich perfekt auf dem letzten Kilometer nach vorne gebracht, aber als er sich zurückfallen ließ, habe ich von links eine Welle bekommen und musste bremsen. Bei so einem Sprint ist es fast unmöglich, dann wieder Tempo aufzunehmen und so hat es nur für Rang sechs gereicht. Ich bin etwas enttäuscht, denn heute war definitiv mehr drin.“ – Jordi Meeus

“Nach den harten Bergetappen wollte heute jeder erst einmal etwas kraft sparen. Die Jungs haben einen tollen Job für Jai gemacht und mit ihm sind wir heute sehr gut und ohne Probleme durchgekommen. Was den Sprint betrifft, da haben wir viel richtig gemacht, hatten aber etwas Pech. Danny war mit Jordi zum richtigen Zeitpunkt vorne, aber Jordi hat dann eine Welle bekommen und hat seinen ganzen Speed verloren. Da war das Rennen gelaufen. Philipsen wäre schwer zu schlagen gewesen, aber die Top drei wären heute möglich gewesen.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Unstoppable Philipsen

Jasper Philipsen won the third bunch sprint of the 110th Tour de France, making it three out of three as he deprived Mark Cavendish from the record-breaking 35th stage victory of his career. It’s his fifth win in two years. The Belgian is definitely the current dominating sprinter. He also extended his lead in the points classification whereas Jonas Vingegaard retained the overall lead.

GUGLIELMI, POOR LONESOME COWBOY

The start of stage 7 was given to 172 riders at 13.23. Simon Guglielmi (Arkea-Samsic) was first on the attack right after flag off. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) caught up with him but gave up one after each other, leaving the Frenchman alone in the lead at km 4. Guglielmi’s maximum advantage was 7’15’’ at km 18, after which Alpecin-Deceunink and Lotto-Dstny got organised at the helm of the peloton. Guglielmi won the intermediate sprint, followed in that order by Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Bryan Coquard (Cofidis).

LATOUR AND PETERS TAKE OVER

79km before the end, Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and Nans Peters (AG2R-Citroën) attacked from the bunch. Five kilometres further, they caught up with the lone leader. The time difference with the peloton was 50’’ with 50km to go. Guglielmi couldn’t hold the pace in the côte de Béguey (cat. 4) where Latour passed first with 39km remaining. Guglielmi was logically awarded the combativity prize. Latour and Peters forged on until they got reeled in the streets of Bordeaux, Peters with 6km to go and Latour 3.5km before the finish line.

PHILIPSEN PIPS CAVENDISH ON THE LINE

Alpecin-Deceuninck gave Philipsen a very good lead out in the last 2km. Mark Cavendish (Astana) tried his luck by launching from far out but the Belgian wasn’t impressed and had enough left in the tank for a last kick that makes him a triple stage winner this year. Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) rounded out the podium as he reached the top 3 for the first time at the Tour de France.