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110. Tour de France Etappe 18 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 18
MOÛTIERS – BOURG-EN-BRESSE

58.3: THE WOLF HOLDS OFF THE PACK
With a gap of 8’’ under the flamme rouge, the early attackers could feel the sprinters breathing down their necks… But Kasper Asgreen still had the ressources to cover the last kilometre at 58.3 km/h to hold off the pack and take victory. According to NTT Data, Jasper Philipsen averaged 65.3 km/h over the same section to dominate the peloton’s sprint and finish with the same time as Asgreen.

1: THE FIRST FOR KASPER
First win at the Tour for Kasper Asgreen after two second places: in Gap in 2019 and in the Saint-Emilion TT in 2021.
It’s the 12th pro win for Asgreen. Excluding the National TT championship of 2021 and this year (22nd of June), he hadn’t won among the pros since the 4th stage of the Volta ao Algarve back in 2021, 2 years 2 months and 12 days ago.
His last win on a road race was the Ronde van Vlaanderen 2021.

255: BOASSON HAGEN’S LANDMARK
Edvald Boasson Hagen today has raced his 255th Tour stage, equalling the record among active riders held by Imanol Erviti.
The road to the top is long for “EBH”, as the absolute record belongs to Joop Zoetemelk, the only one above the 400 mark, standing at 404.

100: NICE COLLECTION, TADEJ
At his 81st stage run at the Tour, Tadej Pogacar counts a leader’s jersey collection far higher than that: today he conquered his 100th leader’s jersey (21 yellow, 7 polka-dot, 71 white, the latter an all-time record).

51: SOUDAL-QUICK STEP STEPS IN
It’s the first win at this Tour for Soudal – Quick Step, and the first since Fabio Jakobsen last year in Nyborg.
It’s the 51st win for the Soudal team since they first won as Domo – Farm Frites in Mont Ventoux 21 years ago (Richard Virenque, 21st of July).
The Belgian team has won stages in 18 of their 22 Tour participations. Only twice did they wait that long to open their tally: in 2006, when Matteo Tosatto won stage 18; and 2008, when Gert Steegmans won the last stage on the Champs-Élysées.

15: TOWARDS THE BIG NAMES
15th green jersey for Jasper Philipsen: he is up at the 34th all-time spot with Joseph Thomin and Marcel Kittel.

16: DENMARK’S HIGH-QUALITY RIDERS
Kasper Asgreen is the 16th Danish winner at the Tour, elevating the total of the country at 28 victories, 10 shy of the 10th all-time place, occupied by Australia.
In this year’s peloton we have almost one third of the Danes who have won a stage in the Tour’s history, 5 out of 16 (Vingegaard, Cort, Kragh Andersen, Pedersen, Asgreen).

1: WAITING FOR THAT ELUSIVE WIN
Both Pascal Eenkhoorn (2nd) and Jonas Abrahamsen (3rd) are at their first Tour podium…and both haven’t won yet this year.
The last win for Eenkhoorn is last year’s Dutch Road Championship, while the last for Abrahamsen dates back 2020, the 2nd stage of the Tour of Malopolska.

110. Tour de France Etappe 18

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Moûtiers – Bourg-en-Bresse – 186 Km


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1 ASGREEN Kasper DEN SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 04:06:48
2 EENKHOORN Pascal NED LOTTO DSTNY 00:00
3 ABRAHAMSEN Jonas NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
4 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:00
5 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 00:00
6 BOL Cees NED ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
7 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
8 TRENTIN Matteo ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:00
9 LAPORTE Christophe FRA JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
10 MOZZATO Luca ITA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
11 KRISTOFF Alexander NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
12 DE BUYST Jasper BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:00
13 STRONG Corbin NZL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
14 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:00
15 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00
16 CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 72:04:39
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 57:48

Ausreißer schlagen den Sprintern ein Schnippchen auf der 18. Etappe der Tour de France

Nach den schweren Bergen der letzten Tage kam die Tour heute zurück auf flaches Terrain. Damit war die 18. Etappe auch eine Chance für die Sprinter und das Feld ließ eine frühe Fluchtgruppe von drei Fahrern nie weiter als 1:30 weg. Doch die Spitze war heute besonders entschlossen und als etwa 30 km vor dem Ziel ein Fahrer vom Feld zur Spitze aufschließen konnte, begann ein harter Kampf zwischen der Spitzengruppe und dem Peloton. Auch BORA – hansgrohe beteiligte sich an der Arbeit im Feld, doch am Ende konnte sich die Spitze gerade noch ins Ziel retten und K. Asgreen holte den Etappensieg. Jordi Meeus überquerte die Ziellinie heute auf Rang sieben.

Von der Ziellinie
“Eigentlich sah es nach einem einfachen Tag aus. Die Gruppe war klein und der Abstand immer unter Kontrolle. Aber im hügeligen Teil konnte ein Fahrer nach vorne springen und die Ausreißer haben sich die Kräfte auch gut eingeteilt. Am Ende hatten sie noch etwas im Tank und haben es gerade so geschafft. Unsere Jungs haben mich sehr gut unterstützt und Danny hat mich in guter Position abgeliefert. Aber um ehrlich zu sein, hatte ich heute nicht die Beine. Die Bergetappen waren sehr hart und ich habe da sehr gelitten. Ich habe mich heute einfach nicht frisch genug gefühlt und so war es sicher nicht unser bester Tag.” – Jordi Meeus

Kasper anticipates Jasper

Kasper Asgreen claimed a surprise win at Bourg-en-Bresse, his first at the Tour de France, as he held off the sprinting peloton along with his breakaway companions Pascal Eenkhorn and Jonas Abrahamsen who rounded out the podium of stage 18. Hot favourite Jasper Philipsen had to settle for fourth in the first position of the peloton. Asgreen delivered Soudal-Quick Step’s first stage victory this year and a third for Denmark after Mads Pedersen and Jonas Vingegaard. The latter retains the yellow jersey.

ASGREEN, CAMPENAERTS AND ABRAHAMSEN IN THE LEAD

152 riders took the start of stage 18 in Moûtiers at 13.40. Non-starters: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Anthony Perez (Cofidis). Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step) was the first attacker, quickly joined by Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X). They got a maximum advantage of 1’48’’ at km 7. Teams Jayco-AlUla, DSM-Firmenich and Alpecin-Deceuninck paced the pack after that. For half of the race, the gap was stable around one minute. Abrahamsen took the two KOM points up for grabs at Chambéry-le-Haut (km 62) and atop côte de Boissieu (km 105) where attacks finally took place at the head of the peloton, involving Pascal Eenkhorn (Lotto-Dstny), local rider Simon Guglielmi (Arkea-Samsic), Quinten Hermans (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies).

EENKHORN REINFORCES THE LEAD GROUP

Eenkhorn rode away from the pack with 65km remaining. Campenaerts waited for him. The two Lotto-Dstny riders caught up with Asgreen and Abrahamsen to make it a leading quartet 58km before the end. Abrahamsen also won the intermediate against a very motivated Eenkhorn while Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) showed no interest to challenge Philipsen for the green jersey. In the last hour of racing, Bora-Hansgrohe and Lidl-Trek took over from DSM-Firmenich, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Jayco-AlUla at the head of the peloton as the leading quartet was less than one minute up front.

THE PELOTON MISSES OUT ON CATCHING UP

Campenaerts was designated for the combativity award. He kept pulling the leading quartet until the very end, even when the chances to hold off the peloton were very slim with 40’’ lead at the 20-km to go mark, 20’’ with 10km to go and less than 10’’ within the last 3km. Campenaerts gave it all in the final straight with the idea to lead Eenkhorn out but it was Abrahamsen on his wheel and Asgreen who timed the sprint at perfection. The Dane came second in a stage to Gap in 2019 and second again in the St-Emilion ITT in 2021 before he took his maiden win today, keeping the momentum for Danish riders in a Tour dominated by his compatriot Jonas Vingegaard.