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110. Tour de France Etappe 11

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Clermont-Ferrand – Moulins – 180 Km

1 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 04:01:07
2 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
3 BAUHAUS Phil GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
4 COQUARD Bryan FRA COFIDIS 00:00
5 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 00:00
6 KRISTOFF Alexander NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
7 MOZZATO Luca ITA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
8 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00
9 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
10 WELSFORD Sam AUS TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
11 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
12 BOL Cees NED ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
13 GIRMAY Biniam ERI INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
14 STRONG Corbin NZL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
15 EWAN Caleb AUS LOTTO DSTNY 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 46:34:27
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:17
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:40
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:22
5 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 04:34
6 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:39
7 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:44
8 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:26
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:01
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
11 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
12 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 08:50
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:09
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 09:09
15 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 09:36

Philipsen holt vierten Etappensieg, während Jordi Meeus gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden kann im Sprint der 11. Etappe der Tour de France

Die 11. Etappe der Tour de France war eine der letzten Chancen für die Sprinter im Feld. Entsprechend wurde das Rennen auch kontrolliert, als sich ein Trio absetzen konnte. Der letzte der Ausreißer wurde 8 km vor dem Ziel gestellt und alles war für einen Sprint angerichtet. BORA – hansgrohe zeigte sich mit 20 km an der Spitze des Feldes, um Jai Hindley aus Schwierigkeiten zu halten, aber auch, um Jordi Meeus vor dem Finale zu platzieren. Regen erschwerte die letzte Phase des Rennens und am Ende sicherte sich J. Philipsen seinen bereits vierten Tagessieg. Jordi Meeus war an der 500 m Marke in guter Position, wurde dann aber in Richtung Absperrung gestoßen und konnte gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden, um letztlich Rang 11 zu belegen.

Von der Ziellinie
“Das Finale war heute besonders nervös, weil es am Ende auch noch geregnet hat. Ich war an den letzten Kreisverkehren sehr gut platziert und hatte eigentlich auch das richtige Hinterrad. Dann ging aber das Tempo runter und einige Fahrer kamen von hinten. Ich wurde Richtung Barriere gedrückt und habe einen Zuschauer berührt, ich konnte gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden. Ich habe noch einmal versucht, in Position zu kommen, aber dann hat sich Pedersen unter meinem Arm verhakt und ich habe wieder die Balance verloren. Da war der Sprint für mich zu Ende. Es ist frustrierend, denn bisher bin ich nie in eine Position gekommen, um einen freien Sprint zu fahren.” – Jordi Meeus

Jasper the master

Jasper Philipsen took place in the modern history of the Tour de France as he became the second active rider with at least four stage wins in a single Tour after Mark Cavendish as he outclassed Dylan Groenewegen and Phil Bauhaus in Moulins where Jonas Vingegaard collected the 17th Maillot Jaune of his career.

AMADOR, LOUVEL AND OSS AT THE FRONT

The start proper of stage 11 was given to 169 riders at 13.26. Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost) was first out of the peloton, although at a slow speed. Two riders joined him: Tony Gallopin (Lidl-Trek) and Matîs Louvel (Arkea-Samsic). Gallopin sat up but Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) substituted him as he made the jump. This leading trio easily took some advantage to reach a maximum of 3’20’’ at km 25 where Alpecin-Deceuninck decided to take the responsibilities to pace the peloton. The teams of the top sprinters left with no win in the first four bunch gallops, namely Jayco-AlUla, Lotto-Dstny and Soudal-Quick, respectively for Dylan Groenewegen, Caleb Ewan and Fabio Jakobsen.

OSS UNTIL 13.5KM TO GO

The peloton delayed the regrouping as long as possible but crosswinds led GC teams to speed up in their move to position their captains close to the helm. With 54km to go, Louvel sat up, so did Amador 5km further. Oss remained alone. He forged on even when the rain made its first appearance on the roads of the Tour de France this year. The Italian veteran was reeled in 13.5km before the end. Soudal-Quick positioned Fabio Jakobsen at the front with 10km remaining.

IT’S PHILIPSEN AGAIN

Jumbo-Visma took over from the sprinters’ teams, firstly to keep Jonas Vingegaard out of trouble until 3km to go, secondly to pave the way for Wout van Aert. Dylan Groenewegen got the best lead out and launched the sprint but Philipsen was smart to follow his slipstream in the absence of Mathieu van der Poel in the finale this time around. The Belgian passed him to score his fourth stage win this year.

110. Tour de France Etappe 10 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 10
VULCANIA – ISSOIRE
100: WELCOME BACK, SPAIN!
At the 100th stage since their last win, Spain wins again at the Tour with Pello Bilbao. Their previous one had been the 2018 Mende stage with Omar Fraile.
The Spanish drought was the longest since the 1978-1983 period, 118 stages long. At the time Angel Arroyo closed it winning at the Puy de Dôme, a stage which followed Issoire, the same finish of today.
Pello Bilbao before today had obtained only one top-3 finish at the Tour: 2nd in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 2019.

168X2: THE COMMITMENT FOR GINO
To honour Gino Mäder, Pello Bilbao announced he would make donations based on the number of riders he would beat in the Tour 2023, following the example set in previous years by his late teammate.
The Basque rider had already finished ahead of 1,204 riders in the first 9 days of the race, with his best result on stage 2 (5th). This time, he beat 168 riders to take the win – and he announced he would double the donation in the case of a stage win!
The money will go to a Basque association, Basoak SOS, which buys up deforested land to replant it with local species of plants.

33: THE NEW YOUNGSTERS
The winners of the last two stages are the “less young” of this year:
• Michael Woods: 36 years 8 months 27 days
• Pello Bilbao: 33 years 4 months 16 days (his first win as a 33 year-old).
The only other winner above 30 years is Adam Yates (Bilbao): 30 years 10 months 24 days.

3: SO CLOSE TO GLORY…
Krists Neilands went 3,1 kilometers from giving Latvia their 3rd win. The previous two came in 1994, by Piotr Ugrumov (Cluses, Avoriaz), the last one on the 22nd of July, 27 days before Neilands was born.

2: GERMANY IS ALMOST THERE
First Tour stage podium for Georg Zimmerman (2nd). Germany this year had already scored two top-3 placements, with Phil Bauhaus, 2nd in stage 3 and 3rd in stage 4.
The last win from Germany is now more than 2 years away (8th of July 2021: Nils Politt in Nimes).
Rather than Germany, Spain is the 8th nation to win a stage in this Tour, after Great Britain, France, Belgium, Australia, Slovenia, Denmark and Canada.
In third place, Australian Ben O’Connor had already seen a compatriot win this year: his friend Jai Hindley in Laruns.

10: ALAPHILIPPE FILLING THE VOID
There have been hard times for Julian Alaphilippe recently, but today’s stage gave signs of hope as he scored his first top-10 placement at the Tour (10th) since Nimes in 2021 (9th).
Soudal is trying to up its pace: it’s the 2nd top 10 for them this year, after Fabio Jakobsen finished 4th on day 3.
By stage 10, they had won at least once in each of the last 10 editions. The last time they failed to win a stage in the first 10 days of racing, was back in 2012, when they finished the Tour without a success.

15: ALL-TERRAIN BARGUIL
Warren Barguil was first at the Col de la Croix, his 15th KOM conquered at the Tour. He scored them in all the possible ways:
• Hors catégorie: 5
• Cat. 1: 3
• Cat. 2: 3
• Cat. 3: 2
• Cat. 4: 2
Among this year’s entrants, Barguil is in 4th place for career KOMs:
• Julian Alaphilippe 18
• Rafal Majka and Neilson Powless 16
• Warren Barguil 15

9: HOLDING ON TO THE POLKA-DOT
9th polka-dot jersey for Neilson Powless, the same, among this year’s entrants of Simon Geschke.
Only four riders in the peloton have more:
• Benoit Cosnefroy 16
• Rafal Majka 14
• Warren Barguil 13
• Julian Alaphilippe 12

16: ONE MORE
Jonas Vingegaard takes his 16th Maillot Jaune, joining Maurice De Waele (winner in 1929) at the 38th all-time spot for stages in the lead in the Tour’s history. Among the Dane’s direct rivals, Tadej Pogacar has 21 yellow jerseys.

110. Tour de France Etappe 10

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Vulcania – Issoire – 167 Km

1 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:52:34
2 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
3 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:00
4 NEILANDS Krists LAT ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
5 CHAVES Jhoan Esteban COL EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 00:00
6 PEDRERO Antonio ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:03
7 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 00:27
8 KWIATKOWSKI Michal POL INEOS GRENADIERS 00:27
9 BARGUIL Warren FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:30
10 ALAPHILIPPE Julian FRA SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:32
11 STUYVEN Jasper BEL LIDL – TREK 02:53
12 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 02:53
13 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 02:53
14 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 02:53
15 EENKHOORN Pascal NED LOTTO DSTNY 02:53
16 NIELSEN Magnus Cort DEN EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 02:53
17 ABRAHAMSEN Jonas NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 02:53
18 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 02:53
19 KÜNG Stefan SUI GROUPAMA – FDJ 02:53
20 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 02:53
21 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 02:53
22 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:53
23 PEREZ Anthony FRA COFIDIS 02:53
24 DE LA CRUZ David ESP ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 02:53

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 42:33:13
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:17
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:40
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:22
5 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 04:34
6 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:39
7 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:44
8 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:26
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:01
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
11 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
12 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 08:50
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:09
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 09:09
15 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 09:36
16 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:46

Ausreißer entscheiden verrückte 10. Etappe bei der Tour de France

Nach dem ersten Ruhetag entbrannte zum Beginn der 10. Etappe eine wahre Schlacht im Peloton. Nach 30 km war das Feld in mehrere Gruppen zersplittert und einige der GC-Favoriten befanden sich mehrere Minuten hinter der Spitze. Jai Hindley und Emanuel Buchmann konnten sich immer in der ersten Gruppe halten und als sich das Rennen etwas beruhigte, setzten sich 14 Fahrer vom Feld ab. Hinter der Spitze lief das Feld wieder zusammen, während vorne ein Kampf um den Tagessieg entbrannte. Am Ende sicherte sich P. Bilbao den Sieg aus einer 6-Mann-Gruppe und rückt in die Top Ten der Gesamtwertung auf. Jai Hindley beendete die Etappe sicher im Feld und liegt weiter auf dem dritten Gesamtrang.

Von der Ziellinie
“Das war ein richtig harter Tag. Nach dem Ruhetag weiß man nie so genau, wie es läuft und dann kam auch noch die Hitze dazu. Die ersten eineinhalb Stunden waren brutal, ich denke, jeder war da am Limit. Ich war echt froh, als die Gruppe weggefahren ist, auch wenn Bilbao dabei war. Er hat den Sieg definitiv verdient und auch von mir Gratulation dazu. Meine Beine wurden während der Etappe immer besser und die Jungs haben mich auch gut unterstützt. Am Anfang war Emu bei mir, als das Feld zusammenlief, haben vor allem Marco und Bob einen super Job gemacht. Wenn es so heiß ist, ist die Unterstützung besonders wichtig, denn man braucht genug Flaschen und Eis. Wir können mit dem Tag zufrieden sein, aber man sieht, dass bei der Tour jede Etappe entscheidend sein kann.” – Jai Hindley

Bilbao was on a mission since… Bilbao

A star of the Grand Départ in Bilbao on his home soil in the Basque Country, Pello Bilbao claimed his first ever Tour de France victory in Issoire at the end a very hard fought breakaway day. He put an end to a 99-stage drought of Spanish wins (since Omar Fraile in Mende in 2018) as he outsprinted Georg Zimmermann and Ben O’Connor. The 33 year old dedicated his victory to his team-late Gino Mäder who tragically passed away at the Tour de Suisse last month. He moved up to fifth overall while Jonas Vingegaard who went in a breakaway along with Tadej Pogacar in the early part of the race retained the yellow jersey.

VINGEGAARD AND POGACAR AND IN AN EARLY BREAKAWAY

The start proper of stage 10 has been given to 169 riders at 13.17. Following several skirmishes, a group of 22 riders was formed at the front after the col de la Moréno crested firstly by Anton Charmig (Uno-X). Interestingly, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) were part of it, along with Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) and Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich). The duellists sat up at some stage, 13 riders remained in the lead but the peloton reacted strongly and several top riders got dropped, including Bardet, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ). After the col de Guéry (cat. 3, km 27.3) where Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) passed first in front of Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) rode away in the downhill. They didn’t get the green light.

14 RIDERS IN THE LEAD, INCLUDING BILBAO AND ALAPHILIPPE

Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Nick Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech), Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) formed a new leading group at km 41. Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën), Harold Tejada (Astana), Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar), Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) launched a counter-attack. Once the main peloton slowed down, the Gaudu-Bardet-Van Aert group managed to get back on. Asgreen lost contact and was substituted in the 7-man escape by O’Connor who jumped by himself. The regrouping of the 14 men occurred with 86km to go, after which Chaves rode away solo up the hill of Saint-Victor-la-Rivière.

TWO STRONG ATTACKS BY KRISTS NEILANDS

Neilands rode away solo with 53km to go in order to keep the chances of the escape alive while Alpecin-Deceuninck and Jayco-AlUla were swapping turns at the head of the peloton as the deficit had gone down from 3 to 2 minutes. Van Aert and Van der Poel escaped from the peloton in a downhill with 46km to go. They were successively brought back by the pack led by Ineos Grenadiers while Neilands had gone away by himself once again with 33km remaining. The Latvian was brought back at the 3km to go mark. O’Connor tried to avoid a sprint finish with 1.8km to go but he was marked. Bilbao and Zimmermann took an advantage in the last straight line. They were also reeled in but Bilbao still had some speed in his legs to win. His best result at the Tour de France so far was second at Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 2019.

110. Tour de France Etappe 9 Daten

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8: PUY DE CANADA
Canada is the 8th nation to conquer Puy de Dôme. Spaniards remain the most dominant with 5 wins.
Then, Italians and Dutch riders took two wins each, and Puy de Dôme crowned riders from Belgium, Denmark, France, Switzerland and Canada once.

23.7 KM/H: POGACAR FLIES ON THE PUY DE DÔME
According to NTT Data, Tadej Pogacar was the strongest rider up the 13.3km of ascent up Puy de Dôme (average gradient: 7.7%) with a speed of 23.7km/h, much faster than Michael Woods’ winning average of 19.8km/h to cap off his efforts at the front of the race all day long.
The Slovenian 2-time winner of the Tour unleashed his power on the steeper sections of the ascent, with a speed of 18.2km/h in the last 5km (11% gradient on average). His closest rival, Jonas Vingegaard, did 17.8km/h on the same segment.

17: THEY ARE SO CLOSE!
17” seconds between Maillot Jaune Jonas Vingegaard and 2nd Tadej Pogacar: the smallest gap at the 9th stage since 2016, when Chris Froome led with 16” on Adam Yates (after the Andorre stage).
Last year, after the 9th stage (Châtel), Pogacar led with 39” over Vingegaard.
These 17” are the smallest gap ever between this Tour’s duellers when they have occupied the first and second spot in the GC.

50%: HALF OF THE YELLOWS
72 stages since the start of the 2020 edition, which marked the debut for Tadej Pogacar, with Jonas Vingegaard joining one year later.
Since then, half of the yellow jerseys went to these two, 36 out of 72: 21 for Tadej Pogacar, 15 for Jonas Vingegaard. Primoz Roglic wore the yellow jersey 11 times in 2020.

15: HEY GERAINT!
15th stage in the lead for Jonas Vingegaard: he joins at the 39th all-time spot Lucien Van Impe (winner in 1976), Pedro Delgado (1988) and Geraint Thomas (2018).
36: OLD? WHO?
Michael Woods is the first 36 year-old to conquer a summit finish at the Tour since 2015 (Joaquim Rodriguez at Plateau de Beille).

3: FEELING AT HOME IN FRANCE
Michael Woods obtained all his 3 wins this year in France: before this stage, the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie, last June.
Curiously also last year he had won the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie.

3: CANADIAN WINNERS
Michael Woods becomes the 3rd Canadian to win at the Tour after Steve Bauer (Machecoul 1988) and Hugo Houle (Foix 2022).

16,000: AMATEURS OVERCOME THE MOUNTAINS OF THE TOUR
A peloton of 16,000 riders, amateurs and cycling lovers, participated today in L’Étape du Tour de France. They had the privilege to ride on roads closed to the traffic, like the professional peloton, as they took on 157 kilometres from Annemasse to Morzine, with 4,100m of elevation. The riders of the Tour de France 2023 will face the same challenges on July 15th, as they take on stage 14. Head to the official website of the event for more info.

110. Tour de France Etappe9

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Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat – Puy de Dôme – 184 Km

1 WOODS Michael CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 04:19:41
2 LATOUR Pierre FRA TOTALENERGIES 00:28
3 MOHORIC Matej SLO BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:35
4 JORGENSON Matteo USA MOVISTAR TEAM 00:36
5 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:55
6 POWLESS Neilson USA EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 01:23
7 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 01:39
8 WILSLY Gregaard Jonas DEN UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 01:58
9 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 02:16
10 DE LA CRUZ David ESP ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 02:34
11 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 04:57
12 CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL LOTTO DSTNY 05:25
13 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 08:19
14 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 08:27
15 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 09:10
16 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 09:10
17 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 09:19
18 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 09:26
19 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 09:33
20 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 09:44
21 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:54

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 38:37:46
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:17
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:40
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:22
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:39
6 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:44
7 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:26
8 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:01
9 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
10 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
11 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 07:37
12 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 08:50
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:09
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 09:09
15 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 09:36
16 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:46
17 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 11:12
18 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 14:04
19 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 16:05
20 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 18:56

Spektakel am Puy de Dome: Jai Hindely verliert ein paar Sekunden, bleibt aber auf Rang 3 der Gesamtwertung der Tour de France

Mit dem Puy de Dome kehrte nach 35 Jahren heute einer der ikonischen Anstiege der Tour ins Programm zurück. Eine große Fluchtgruppe setzte sich früh vom Feld ab und hatte schnell einen Vorsprung von mehr als 10 Minuten. Damit war auch klar, dass der Etappensieg unter den Ausreißern zu finden sein würde. Am Ende holte sich M. Woods den Sieg, während dahinter eine weitere Schlacht der Favoriten um den Gesamtsieg entbrannte. Jai Hindley befand sich in einer kleinen Gruppe am Beginn des härtesten Teils des Schlussanstieges etwa 4 km vor dem Ziel. Einen Kilometer später kam er in Schwierigkeiten und musste von der 5-Mann-Gruppe der Favoriten abreißen lassen. Er fand aber einen guten Rhythmus und konnte seine direkten Konkurrenten immer im Blickfeld halten. T. Pogacar war heute der stärkste und distanzierte J. Vingegaard um 8 Sekunden. Jai verlor auf den Slowenen 1:14 und verteidigte damit seinen 3. Rang in der Gesamtwertung.

Von der Ziellinie
“Es war ein harter Tag und ein brutaler Schlussanstieg, steil und ohne Möglichkeit, sich zu verstecken. Die Temperaturen haben das Rennen noch schwieriger gemacht und ich habe am Puy de Dome gelitten. Heute war nicht mein bester Tag und ich habe gespürt, dass ich mein eigenes Rennen fahren muss. Ich habe nicht versucht, so lange wie möglich dranzubleiben, sondern habe die Gruppe ziehen lassen und bin meinen eigenen Rhythmus gefahren. Das hat gut funktioniert und ich bin mit dem Ergebnis eigentlich recht zufrieden.” – Jai Hindley

“Es ist immer schwierig, nach ein paar Flachetappen am Ende den Rhythmus für so einen harten Anstieg zu finden. Die Jungs haben aber wieder einen tollen Job gemacht, um Jai in den letzten Anstieg zu bringen. Dort ging es heute einfach nur um die Beine. Jai hatte nicht seinen besten Tag, aber er ist immer noch ein sehr gutes Rennen gefahren. Sein Rhythmus war gut und er konnte den Rückstand in Grenzen halten. Wir sind immer noch absolut im Soll und freuen uns jetzt auf den ersten Ruhetag.” – Christian Pömer, Sportlicher Leiter

Woods conquers the iconic volcano

Michael Woods won stage 9 to the Puy de Dôme from a breakaway that went from the gun. The duel between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard took place in the last 1.5km of racing. The Slovenian reclaimed 8 seconds but the Dane retained the yellow jersey.

14 RIDERS IN THE LEAD

169 riders took the start of stage 9 in Raymond Poulidor’s village Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat at 13.41. 14 riders took off quickly: Clément Berthet (AG2R-Citroën), Michael Woods and Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech), Matteo Jorgenson and Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Pierre Latour and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), David De La Cruz and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny), Jonas Abrahamsen and Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X). The peloton chased hard for a while but gave up at km 20 when they brought Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) back. The time difference was 6’ at the intermediate sprint of lake of Vassivière (km 30.4) where Abrahamsen anticipated his breakaway companions.

JORGENSON ON THE MOVE
A time gap of 10’50’’ was posted atop côte de Felletin (km 74.8) where Powless passed first. The American was back on his mission to win the polka dot jersey this year. It was 11’40’’ when Boivin was the first rider to escape from the front group. He was reeled in after four kilometres alone in the lead. His initiative was followed by several skirmishes. Jorgenson road away 47km before the end. Mohoric, Burgaudeau, Powless and De La Cruz chased him down. They were fifteen seconds behind when De La Cruz had to stop and get a new bike because of a mechanical.

POGACAR GAINS 8 SECONDS
With 3km to go, Jorgenson was 1’20’’ ahead as Mohoric distanced his two companions. Woods made it across by himself and overhauled the Slovenian before the American. He rode the last 450 metres by himself to become the first non-European winner at Puy de Dôme. Pogacar sped up with 1.5km to go. Vingegaard reacted but the white jersey managed to distance the yellow jersey 600 metres before the line. Pogacar reclaimed eight seconds but Vingegaard retained the overall lead by 17 seconds before the first rest day.

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.

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.

110. Tour de France Etappe 6 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 6
TARBES – CAUTERETS-CAMBASQUE 145km

10: AT THE AGE OF POGACAR
Tadej Pogacar is 24 years 9 months and 15 days old, and counts 10 stage wins, the fourth youngest with such a score. Bernard Hinault and Mark Cavendish had equally 10 wins at this age. Only one rider won more at this early age: François Faber (15 stage wins from 1908 to 1911).

45’11”: VINGEGAARD FLIES OVER THE TOURMALET
With Jumbo-Visma upping the ante on the Col du Tourmalet, Jonas Vingegaard flew towards an altitude of 2,115m. NTT Data recorded a time of ascent of 45’11’’ for the Danish winner of the Tour 2022. The Strava KOM had been set by David Gaudu in the Tour 2021: 47’35’’, more than 2 minutes away from Vingegaard’s performance.

11: THE HABIT OF WINNING
Tadej Pogacar wins after 11 days (Slovenian National Championship). Excluding the period that followed his injury in Liège-Bastogne-Liège (23rd of April), this year he has never gone more than 3 weeks/21 days (*) without winning.
Considering only the race days, the first 5 stages of this Tour have been the longest he has stayed off the top-step of the podium in 2023.
(*) From Paris-Nice GC to Ronde Van Vlaanderen (12th of March-2nd of April).

1-2: THE (PERFECT) COUPLE
Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard occupy the first 2 positions in the General Classification: it happened 19 times out of 48 since their first Tour together (2021). That’s nearly 40% (39,5%).
When they raced together in the professional field, they finished 13 times 1-2: 10 times on the road and 3 times in final general classifications.
At the moment, Pogacar leads this duel 10-3.
The last time Vingegaard won directly with Pogacar in 2nd was in the final general classification of the Tour last year.

60: FOREVER YOUNG
Tadej Pogacar improves on his all-time record, taking his 60th White Jersey, a classification that he has led for the last 57 stages.

2015: FROM PETER TO WOUT
Wout van Aert is the first rider to win the most aggressive rider award two days in a row since Peter Sagan in stages 15 & 16 of the Tour 2015.
That makes it 5 most aggressive rider awards in the Tour for Van Aert.

1: A FIRST FOR NORWAY!
86 climbs of the Tourmalet in history, and only one Norwegian first at the top: Tobias Johannesen. He is also the second Norwegian to conquer a Hors Catégorie climb since Dag-Otto Lauritzen in Luz Ardiden, 1987.

1-2-1: SHORT LEADS
Jay Hindley in the lead of a Grand Tour:
• 1 stage Giro 2020 (final time trial)
• 2 stages Giro 2022 (taken after the penultimate stage, final time trial)
• 1 stage Tour 2023

10: ANOTHER 10
If Tadej Pogacar scored his 10th stage win, Jonas Vingegaard posted his 10th stage podium: 2 wins, 6 second places, 2 third places.

11/12: WRITTEN IN THE NUMBERS
Jonas Vingegaard is back in yellow after 11 months and 12 days, and goes from 11 to 12 yellow jerseys…

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Tarbes – Cauterets-Cambasque 145km

1. Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 3:54:27
2. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 0:24
3. Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 1:22
4. Ruben Guerreiro (POR, Movistar Team) 2:06
5. James Shaw (GBR, EF Education-EasyPost) 2:15
6. Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA – hansgrohe) 2:39
7. Carlos Rodríguez (ESP, INEOS Grenadiers) 2:39
8. Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) 2:39
9. Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 3:11
10. Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm – firmenich) 3:12
11. Neilson Powless (USA, EF Education-EasyPost) 3:12
12. Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) 3:12
13. David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama – FDJ) 3:12
14. Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) 3:18
15. Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) 3:22
16. Louis Meintjes (RSA, Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) 3:25
17. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL, INEOS Grenadiers) 3:34
18. Ben O’Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroën Team) 3:41
19. Steff Cras (BEL, TotalEnergies) 3:41
20. Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama – FDJ) 3:41

Gesamt:

1. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 26:10:44
2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 0:25
3. Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA – hansgrohe) 1:34
4. Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) 3:14
5. Carlos Rodríguez (ESP, INEOS Grenadiers) 3:30
6. Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 3:40
7. David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama – FDJ) 4:03
8. Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm – firmenich) 4:43
9. Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) 4:43
10. Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) 5:28
11. Mikel Landa (ESP, Bahrain – Victorious) 5:49
12. Ben O’Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroën Team) 6:10
13. Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain – Victorious) 6:10
14. Steff Cras (BEL, TotalEnergies) 6:10
15. Emanuel Buchmann (GER, BORA – hansgrohe) 6:32
16. Louis Meintjes (RSA, Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) 6:52
17. Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) 7:08
18. Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama – FDJ) 7:16
19. Wilco Kelderman (NED, Jumbo-Visma) 7:58
20. Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) 8:19

Jai Hindley fällt zurück auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung auf der zweiten Pyrenäen-Etappe der Tour de France

Mit dem Tourmalet und einer Bergankunft in Cauterets-Cambasque war auch die zweite Pyrenäen-Etappe eine Herausforderung für die Favoriten in der Gesamtwertung. Nachdem Jai Hindley heute das Gelbe Trikot auf seinen Schultern tragen durfte, übernahm BORA – hansgrohe sofort Verantwortung im Feld, als sich abermals eine große Spitzengruppe bilden konnte. Auf dem Col d’Aspin schien die Situation unter Kontrolle zu sein, denn der Vorsprung zur Spitze lag konstant bei etwa vier Minuten. Doch am Col de Tourmalet blies Jumbo-Visma zum Angriff und fuhr das Feld völlig auseinander. Zuerst sah es zwar aus, als ob Jai mit Vingegaard und Pogacar mitfahren könnte, doch 4 Kilometer vor der Bergwertung musste er abreißen lassen und fiel in die erste Verfolgergruppe zurück. Vorne konnten Vingegaard und Pogacar zur verbliebenen Spitzengruppe aufschließen, während in der Verfolgergruppe nun Emanuel Buchmann das Tempo machte. Emu gelang es auch, den Vorsprung nach der Abfahrt bis 10 km vor dem Ziel bei 2:30 zu stabilisieren. Im Finale konnte Pogacar sich entscheidend absetzen und holte den Etappensieg, Jai erreichte mit Rodriguez und S. Yates das Ziel 2:39 hinter Pogacar und liegt damit nach den Pyrenäen auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung.

Von der Ziellinie
„Es war ein epischer Tag für mich. Das Trikot zu tragen hat irrsinnigen Spaß gemacht. Ich wollte heute mein eigenes Rennen fahren, also klar habe ich versucht, bei den beiden Großen dranzubleiben, aber als ich gesehen habe, dass das unmöglich ist, wollte ich auch nicht überziehen. Das Trikot war dann eigentlich am Tourmalet schon weg. Aber die Jungs haben in jedem Fall einen tollen Job gemacht, um das Trikot zu verteidigen und besonders Emu hat am Ende noch alles versucht. Es hat halt nicht gereicht, aber meine Beine waren auch heute wieder ganz gut, und ich war am Ende sozusagen „Best of the rest“. Von da her sind wir voll im Plan und diesen Tag in Gelb werde ich nie vergessen.“ – Jai Hindley

“Natürlich wollten wir das Trikot verteidigen, aber ich denke, wir haben vielleicht schon etwas zu früh Kräfte investiert. Ich weiß, mit dem Trikot auf den Schultern und wenn man Mal vorne fährt, dann ist man schnell im Tunnel. Aber wir hätten etwas länger zuwarten und Kräfte sparen können. In jedem Fall waren alle voll motiviert und jeder einzelne hat einen guten Job gemacht. Als Jumbo am Tourmalet All-in ging, war Jai zuerst dran, musste dann aber abreißen lassen. Danach war es gut, Emu bei ihm zu haben und er hat wirklich absolut alles gegeben. Wir haben das Trikot verloren, aber eigentlich wussten wir ja, dass wir hier nicht um den Toursieg fahren. Unser Ziel ist das Podium und ich denke, auch heute sind wir diesem Ziel wieder einen Schritt nähergekommen. Es ist noch weit bis Paris und wir müssen voll fokussiert bleiben, dürfen keine Fehler machen, aber im Augenblick sind wir in einer sehr guten Position.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Pogacar bounces back

The day after losing his first battle, Tadej Pogacar bounced back to claim a solo victory at Cauterets-Cambasque, his 15th of the 2023 season and his 10th stage at the Tour de France while defending champion Jonas Vingegaard took over from Jai Hindley in the overall ranking. The Dane exits the Pyrénées in the yellow jersey.

VAN AERT AND VAN DER POEL IN A 20-MAN LEADING GROUP

The start proper of stage 6 was given at 13.26 to 172 riders. Wout van Aert attacked from the gun, followed straight away by Julian Alaphilippe. A group of 20 leaders was formed at km 20 in three waves: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Neilson Powless, James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Kasper Asgreen, Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Nikias Arndt (Bahrain Victorious), Benoît Cosnefroy, Oliver Naesen (Ag2r-Citröen), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Bryan Coquard, Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Gorka Izagirre, Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar), Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Matîs Louvel (Arkéa-Samsic), Tobias Halland Johannessen and Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X). Coquard passed first at the intermediate sprint of Sarrancolin (km 49.2), before Van Aert, while the peloton led by Bora-Hansgrohe was timed 3’20’’ behind.

POWLESS FIRST AT ASPIN, JOHANNESSEN FIRST AT TOURMALET

Powless crested col d’Aspin in the lead, which put him back in the situation of claiming his polka dot jersey back as Felix Gall was nowhere near the front of the race. The group with Guerreiro in second position was reduced to 14 riders. More action took place in the ascent to the Tourmalet. Alaphilippe sped up 11.5km before the summit and Shaw followed him but Van Aert, pacing the group steadily, brought them back one kilometre further. The breakaway group split up and it was action-packed in the main peloton as well. Jumbo-Visma put the hammer down so Hindley wasn’t able to follow Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar at the exit of La Mongie with 6km of climbing remaining. Vingegaard and Pogacar were timed 1’15’’ behind the five leaders 1km before the top. Johannessen became the first Norwegian to pass the Tourmalet in first position with Guerreiro second again. Van Aert waited for his team’s leader and it made a front group of eight riders in the downhill: Kwiatkowski, Guerreiro, TH Johannessen, Van Aert, Vingegaard, Pogacar, Powless and Shaw. The yellow jersey group was two minutes adrift.

POGACAR SOLOES IN THE LAST 3KM

Powless was first to surrender in the final ascent to Cauterets-Cambasque. Van Aert stopped pulling and sat up 4.5km before the end, leaving a leading trio at the front but Kwiatkowski couldn’t take part in the finale as it went down to the expected duel between Vingegaard and Pogacar. The Slovenian attacked 2.7km before the finish. Caught by surprise, the Dane didn’t manage to make it across as the leader of UAE Team Emirates continued to increase his advantage to cross the line 24 seconds ahead of his rival. Tour de France neophyte Johannessen rounded out the stage podium. Hindley reached the finish in sixth position 2’39’’ after Pogacar. Vingegaard exited the Pyrenees with the yellow jersey and an advantage of 25’’ over Pogacar and 1’34’’ over Hindley.