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110. Tour de France Etappe 20

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Belfort – Le Markstein – 133 Km


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1 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:27:18 38,65
2 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:00
3 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
4 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:07
6 BARGUIL Warren FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:33
7 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 00:33
8 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:33
9 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:50
10 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:50
11 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 00:50
12 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 00:52
13 POELS Wout NED BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 02:42
14 SCHULTZ Nicholas AUS ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 02:52
15 TEUNS Dylan BEL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 02:52

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 79:16:38
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 07:29
3 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 10:56
4 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 12:23
5 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 12:57
6 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 13:27
7 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 14:44
8 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 16:09
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 23:08
10 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 26:30
11 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 28:03
12 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 37:32
13 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 47:52
14 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 56:09
15 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 56:37
16 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 57:29
17 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 01:04:59
18 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 01:06:46
19 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:12:41
20 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 01:14:10
21 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 01:15:44

Jai Hindley bleibt auf Rang sieben der Gesamtwertung vor dem Tour de France Finale in Paris

Eine letzte Bergetappe wartete heute auf das Feld der Tour de France, bevor es morgen in Richtung Paris geht. Nach einigen Attacken setzte sich an der ersten Bergwertung eine Gruppe vom Feld ab. Am vorletzten Anstieg erhöhte das Feld das Tempo und im Schlussanstieg attackierte T. Pogacar. Pogacar, Vingegaard und Gall setzten sich vom Rest der Favoriten ab und überholten schnell die letzten Ausreißer. Jai Hindley fuhr zu diesem Zeitpunkt mit C. Rodriguez in einer Verfolgergruppe und versuchte den Zeitabstand zur Spitze in Grenzen zu halten. Kurz vor dem Ziel konnten die beiden Yates Brüder noch zur Spitze aufschließen, aber am Ende holte T. Pogacar den Etappensieg. Jai erreichte das Ziel auf Rang 11 und bleibt damit auch siebenter der Gesamtwertung vor der morgigen letzten Etappe.

Von der Ziellinie
“Es waren drei Wochen voller Hochs und Tiefs, aber am Ende haben wir uns nichts vorzuwerfen. Ich habe eine Etappe gewonnen und einen Tag Gelb getragen, da kann man sich nicht beschweren. Die Gesamtwertung wollte ich einfach auf mich zukommen lassen, aber es lief gut und ich war ganz vorne dabei. Dann wurde ich krank und bin einmal gestürzt. Ich war ziemlich beeinträchtigt und konnte meine Leistung nicht mehr richtig abrufen. Aber ich habe dennoch jeden Tag bei meiner ersten Tour de France genossen und jetzt freue ich mich einfach auf Paris.” – Jai Hindley

Pogacar-Vingegaard till the end

The duel between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar lasted till the very end of the very last mountain stage of the 110th Tour de France as the Slovenian outsprinted the Dane at Le Markstein to claim his 11th stage win, the second one this year. Felix Gall placed himself between them and Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey on the eve of the grand finale in Paris, but the second last stage was truly the expected fireworks for Thibaut Pinot who rode alone in the lead in front of his fans before crossing the line in seventh position.

NO OPPOSITION TO CICCONE FOR THE POLKA DOT JERSEY

The start proper of stage 20 was given to 151 riders at 13.44. As usual, Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) was the first attacker, accompanied this time by his team-mate Jasper De Buyst. Up to Ballon d’Alsace, Campenaerts soloed until he was reeled in 4.4km before the summit. The peloton was compact at the top and the sprint for the KOM was won by Giulio Ciccone who appeared as the only rider interested to contest the polka dot jersey among the four who were still mathematically in the situation of winning it. Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers), 4th overall, crashed at km 33. Once he made it back to the pack, a group of 16 riders including Jonas Vingegaard but not Tadej Pogacar. The yellow jersey eventually sat up to give a chance to the breakaway to succeed.

PINOT’S LAST DANCE IN FRONT OF HIS FANS

Some of these attackers managed to stay away and formed a 6-man leading group with 80km to go: Ciccone and Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic), Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Maxime Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny). A counter-attack involved Thibaut Pinot, Valentin Madouas, Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Chris Harper (Jayco-AlUla), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) and Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich). Pinot made it across by himself on the way up to col de Grosse Pierre eventually crested in first position by Ciccone. It became a group of 10 with 63km to go with Madouas, Uran and Vermaerke reaching the lead after Harper. Ciccone mathematically won the KOM competition at col de la Schlucht 54km before the end.

A WINNING SPRINT FOR POGACAR AT THE END

UAE Team Emirates chased hard at the helm of the main peloton. Up to Petit Ballon, Madouas, Pinot, Ciccone, Pidcock and Barguil got a maximum advantage of 1’30’’ over the yellow jersey group. 5.5km before the summit, Pinot went solo. He crested Petit Ballon alone after being hugely celebrated by his fans for his last mountain stage in the Tour de France. In the yellow jersey group reduced to ten riders, Pogacar attacked for the first time 14km before the end. The trio Pogacar-Vingegaard-Gall passed Pinot, who had been rejoined by Barguil and Pidcock, 3km before the summit of Platzerwasel and went on to contest the stage victory. Simon and Adam Yates caught up with the leading trio with 5km to go. It helped Pogacar win the stage as he received the help of Adam Yates as a lead out man while Simon Yates overtook Rodriguez to reach the fourth place overall.

110. Tour de France Etappe 19 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 19
MOIRANS-EN-MONTAGNE – POLIGNY

0.004: THE TIGHEST WIN
172.8 kilometres of all-out battle… And a minimal gap on the line captured by Tissot’s photofinish. Only 6 centimetres separated Matej Mohoric from Kasper Asgreen in Poligny. At a speed of 58.6 km/h as they crossed the line, that represents only 0.004 seconds!

3: HAT-TRICK FOR MOHORIC
Third win at the Tour for Matej Mohoric after Le Creusot and Libourne 2021 (both from the break and the latter being stage 19 like today). The Slovenian has won also at the Vuelta (Cuenca 2017) and at the Giro (Gualdo Tadino 2018).
This year Mohoric had won only on his home land so far: the Novo Mesto stage of the Tour of Slovenia.

40: A ROUND NUMBER FOR SLOVENIA
This was the 40th Slovenian stage win in a Grand Tour: 16 at the Tour, 15 at the Vuelta, 9 at the Giro.
The country is independent since 1991, and opened its account in the Grand Tours with Borut Bozic, winning the Xativa stage at the 2009 Vuelta.

2: QUALITY WINNERS
Just like Kasper Asgreen yesterday, whose last two World Tour wins were a Monument and a Tour stage (Ronde Van Vlaanderen 2021, Bourg-en-Bresse at the Tour), the same applies to Matej Mohoric. His last two World Tour wins are the Milano-Sanremo of 2022 and today’s stage.

49.130: 5TH FASTEST STAGE IN HISTORY
The profile of the stage has inspired the attackers, with a great fight for the break, and this resulted in an impressing average speed over the 172.8 kms between Moirans-en-Montagne and Poligny. After two hours of battle, a group of eight had a slight margin despite a 48.1 kph effort. The intensity never dropped and a lead trio raced the last 30 kms in 52.0 kph, while the group took it easier at 41.3 kph. At the finish, the first recorded a speed of 49.130 kph, the 5th fastest stage in history, just behind the 49.376 kph of last year between Binche and Longwy.

16: NOT JUST PHILIPSEN
Despite Jasper Philipsen winning 4 stages this year, we had no less than 16 different stage winners so far, the highest value since 2019.

3: BAHRAIN CAN ONLY GET BETTER
Third win at this Tour for Bahrain Victorious after Pello Bilbao in Issoire and Wout Poels in Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc: they equalled their best edition (2021).

2X3: THAT SENSE OF DEJA-VU
Kasper Asgreen is at his 4th stage podium: his only win came yesterday, the others are all 2nd places (Gap 2019, Saint-Emilion TT 2021, Poligny 2023).
…a similar pattern for Ben O’Connor: winner in Tignes in 2021, and two more podiums, always in third: Issoire and Poligny this year.

25: A VIRTUAL TIE
25th Maillot Jaune for Jonas Vingegaard: he equals “virtually” François Faber, who was leader 25 times from 1909 to 1911, but without the jersey, which was introduced in 1919.

1985: TO PARTY OR NOT TO PARTY?
In recent times, the Belgian National Day doesn’t bring luck to Belgian riders. Their last win on this day came in 1985, Rudy Matthijs in Paris.
Since then, 38 stages have been run on this day, and none of them was won by a Belgian.
Today, the best Belgian at the finish was Jasper Philipsen, 4th.

110. Tour de France Etappe 19

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Moirans-en-Montagne – Poligny – 173 Km

1 MOHORIC Matej SLO BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:31:02
2 ASGREEN Kasper DEN SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:00
3 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:04
4 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:39
5 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 00:39
6 LAPORTE Christophe FRA JUMBO-VISMA 00:39
7 MEZGEC Luka SLO TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:39
8 BETTIOL Alberto ITA EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 00:39
9 TRENTIN Matteo ITA UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:39
10 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 00:39
11 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:39
12 VAN DER POEL Mathieu NED ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:43
13 HALLER Marco AUT BORA – HANSGROHE 01:41
14 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 01:43
15 WRIGHT Fred GBR BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:43
16 HOULE Hugo CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 01:43
17 NAESEN Oliver BEL AG2R CITROEN TEAM 01:43
18 VAN DEN BERG Lars NED GROUPAMA – FDJ 01:43
19 TURGIS Anthony FRA TOTALENERGIES 01:43
20 NEILANDS Krists LAT ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 01:43

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 75:49:24
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 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 44:44
14 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 46:57
15 HARPER Chris AUS TEAM JAYCO ALULA 54:31
16 MAJKA Rafal POL UAE TEAM EMIRATES 55:15
17 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 59:46
18 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 01:03:01
19 KELDERMAN Wilco NED JUMBO-VISMA 01:03:42
20 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 01:08:14

Zielfoto entscheidet bei nächstem Ausreißersieg bei der Tour de France

Mit über 49 km/h Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit war die 19. Etappe der Tour heute unglaublich schnell und entsprechend hart. Es dauerte lange, bevor sich eine erste erfolgversprechende Gruppe vom Feld rund um Nils Politt lösen konnte. Leider wurde Nils aber durch einen Defekt zurückgeworfen und in der Folge formierte sich eine Gruppe von mehr als 30 Fahrern, die sich entscheidend absetzen konnte. BORA – hansgrohe war in dieser Gruppe mit Marco Haller und Jordi Meeus vertreten, allerdings zerteilte sich die Gruppe am letzten Anstieg in mehrere Teile. Ein Trio lag nun an der Spitze, während Marco in einer zweiten Verfolgergruppe fuhr und Jordi abgehängt war. Am Ende sicherte sich M. Mohoric im Zielfoto den Etappensieg, während Marco auf den letzten 500 m aus seiner Gruppe attackierte und letztlich Rang 13 erreichte.

Von der Ziellinie
“Die Etappe war extrem hart und alle Teams wussten, dass der Sieg über eine Gruppe geht. Für uns lief es eigentlich perfekt, denn Nils war heute wieder unglaublich stark und zuerst vorne. Leider hatte er wirklich Pech und bei seinem Defekt war das Teamfahrzeug noch hinter dem Feld, daher ist er zurückgefallen. Es hätte für uns einen riesigen Unterschied gemacht, Nils dabei zu haben. Ich war dann mit Jordi in der Gruppe, aber das Rennen war so unglaublich schnell, dass wir beide schon richtig angeschlagen waren, bevor es ins Finale ging. Ich hatte nicht mehr viele Körner übrig und musste etwas riskieren und habe versucht, das richtige Rad zu finden, aber es war ein Roulette. Am Ende hat es nicht gereicht, aber ich habe heute auch sicher nicht zu den besten Drei gehört.” – Marco Haller

Matej Mohoric pours the triple

Matej Mohoric claimed stage 19 like in Libourne 2021 to make it three for himself in his career as a Tour de France rider and three for his Bahrain Victorious team this year. A duel made a Slovenian beat a Dane since Kasper Asgreen missed out on the two-in-row by a very small margin. On GC, Denmarks kept the lead over Slovenia and Jonas Vingegaard received the 25th Maillot Jaune of his career in Poligny.

ALAPHILIPPE AND 8 OTHER RIDERS IN THE LEAD

The start of stage 19 was given to 151 riders at 13.33. Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) went on the attack for the second consecutive day but he was reeled in after 10km of racing. Mad Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) managed to get a gap for themselves at km 18. The Kazakh national champion took 1 KOM point atop côte du bois de Lionge (km 23) while many people were reacting strongly at the head of the peloton. The leading duo was reeled in at km 37 by the first part of the peloton that included Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar but not Adam Yates. Many more skirmishes took place after the regrouping. It led to the formation of a 9-man front group at km 57: Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic), Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious), Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe), Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny), Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma) and Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates).

CAMPENAERTS AND CLARKE AHEAD AND 34 CHASERS

Their advantage was 1’15’’ at km 62 but teams Israel-Premier Tech, Uno-X and EF Education-EasyPost were unhappy to have missed the breakaway so they chased hard. The front runners were only one minute ahead when Politt broke his chain and couldn’t resume racing on a new bike before the peloton overtook him with 90km remaining. 65km before the end, the eight leaders were joined by a group of more than thirty riders including Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma). Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) and Campenaerts rode away right after the regrouping. Intermarché-Circus-Wanty seized the reins of the peloton to bring everyone together in favour of Biniam Girmay but they eventually surrendered and the gap went up. The 34 riders behind the leading duo were: Benoot, Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates), Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), Lars van den Berg (Groupama-FDJ), Alberto Bettiol, Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Alaphilippe, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Haig, Matej Mohoric, Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), Marco Haller, Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Ben O’Connor, Oliver Naesen (AG2R-Citroën), Van der Poel, Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Hugo Houle, Krists Neilands, Corbin Strong (Israel-Premier Tech), Luke Durbridge, Dylan Groenewegen, Luka Mezgec (Jayco-AlUla), Barguil (Arkea-Samsic), Jonas Abrahamsen, Anton Charmig, Rasmus Tiller, Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X), Daniel Oss and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies).

PHOTO-FINISH TO SHOW MOHORIC WINS

Clarke gave up because of cramping. Asgreen, O’Connor and Mohoric overtook Campenaerts in the ascent of côte d’Ivory with 30km to go. Lots of counter-attacks were launched behind them in the last 25 kilometres. 10km before the end, they had 20’’ lead over nine chasers. The leading trio remained composed during the 8-km long straight line. O’Connor launched the sprint 500 metres before the line. He was overhauled by Asgreen who looked like going for his second stage win in a row but Mohoric pipped him on the line to claim his third Tour de France stage victory after he imposed himself at Le Creusot and Libourne in 2021. It’s also the third stage win for his Bahrain Victorious team this year following the successes of Pello Bilbao and Wout Poels. It makes it 16 stage wins for Slovenian riders since Primoz Roglic took the first one at Serre-Chevalier in 2017.

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.

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.

110. Tour de France Etappe 16

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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.

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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.

110. Tour de France Etappe 15

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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.