Tour de France 2021 – Stage 12 [FULL STAGE]

July 8, 2021

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 12 – Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – Nîmes : 159,4 km

The 2021 Tour de France is almost upon us with the Grand Départ set for June 26, and 21 mouth-watering stages to look forward to as the race takes in Brittany, two individual time trials, a double assault on Mont Ventoux and the customary finish on the Champs Élysées in Paris on July 18. The 108th edition of the race will see defending champion Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) aim to defend his crown against Primoz Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) and a host of other yellow jersey contenders over what is an intriguing and multi-layered route profile. After a mountain-heavy Tour de France in 2020, race organisers have opted for a more traditional and classic affair this time around, with the race reverting to hosting two long individual time trials for the first time since 2013.

Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) won stage 12 of the Tour de France, after he managed to drop every other member of a 13-man breakaway that went clear at the start of the day.

Having gone clear with three other riders 40 kilometres from the finish, the German struck out alone with an attack 12km from the finish, and soloed all the way to the finish to take what was just the second victory of his pro career.

The riders he had dropped, Imanol Erviti (Movistar) and Harry Sweeny (Lotto Soudal), arrived at the line 31 seconds later to claim second and third, respectively.

Although crosswinds caused some gaps in the peloton at the start of the stage in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, no major general classification contenders were caught out, and the race soon settled down with the trailing groups all re-joining the peloton, and the sprinters’ teams allowing the breakaway to contest for the stage win.

Strong tail and cross-tail winds made for a very fast stage, and helped Politt use his sheer strength to drop the other riders from the breakaways, which featured several dangerous fast finishers including Andre Greipel (Israel Start-Up Nation), Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies) and Luka Mezgec (Team BikeExchange).

There was no interest in exploiting the potential of the winds in the peloton, however, which rolled into the finish 15:52 after Politt, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) finishing safely with no changes in the top of the GC.

Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-QuickStep) brought the peloton home by sprinting for the three green jersey points not swept up by the riders from the break. This might have been a stage for him to match Eddy Merckx’s Tour record for stage wins, but Deceuninck-QuickStep chose not to chase the break after Julian Alaphilippe managed to get into it.

“It’s unbelievable,” said Politt at the finish. “It’s a dream to win a stage at the Tour de France.”

It was an especially welcome result for his Bora-Hansgrohe team, as their star man Peter Sagan failed to make it to the start, as he chose to abandon due to a deterioration of knee injuries suffered after his crash on stage 3.

“At the start we had to decide that Peter [Sagan] was to leave the race because of his knee problem, so it changed our tactics,” explained Politt in regards to him getting into the lead group.

Having made it into the break, Politt continued to make the right tactical choices, and had the strength to make his well-timed attacks stick.

“There were quite a lot of sprinters in the group…so I knew that I had to do the race hard, and that I had to attack, and attack quite early. I did the first attack, and then there were just four guys. Then the sports director told me, ‘now it’s the last way until the finish, so give everything’. So I did it again, I attacked…to come in solo to the finish line, it’s unbelievable,” Politt said.

“It’s my passion, cycling. I’m away so much from home because of training and races. And now I have the biggest win that you can have — a stage at the Tour.”

How it unfolded

Rather than the usual fight to go out in front of the peloton and get into the day’s break, stage 12 of the Tour de France began with an intense battle to stay in the peloton as crosswinds blew the race apart from the flag.

Multiple groups were spat out of the back of the peloton and formed into echelons, with big names including the Ineos Grenadiers’ duo Geraint Thomas and Richie Porte, although all of the top GC riders remained in the bunch.

The pace was intense, but a change of direction from a crosswind to a tailwind about 10km into the stage prompted the first attacks out of the front of the diminished peloton in an attempt to form a breakaway.

A group of 13 riders formed, and, as you’d expect given the effort required to go clear in such circumstances, it featured several very strong riders: André Greipel (Israel Start-Up Nation), Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo), Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo), Connor Swift (Arkea-Samsic), Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal), Luka Mezgec (Team BikeExchange), Sergio Henao (Qhubeka NextHash), Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies), Erviti, Sweeny and Politt.

Alaphilippe was the 13th rider, and although he was initially on marking duties, he soon began to contribute too, indicating that Deceuninck-QuickStep would not chase for Cavendish today.

With this group gaining a gap, the peloton sat up 20km into the stage, allowing all of the trailing groups to return to the peloton.

With the race having calmed down, it wasn’t long before the break had opened a lead of nine minutes over the peloton.

No sprinters’ teams showed any interest in bringing the break back, leaving UAE Team Emirates to set a steady pace at the front of the peloton as custodians of the yellow jersey.

Success for the breakaway was therefore all but confirmed, and the battle between the 13 riders in it to become the stage winner commenced 50km from the finish.

Politt was the man to ignite hostilities with an attack, with Swift and later Mezgec joining him, and the trio stayed clear for 5km before being brought back.

Sweeny was next to try 40km from the finish, and went clear along with Küng, Politt and Erviti. The tailwinds and cross-tailwinds saw the riders reach speeds of over 70 kph and made gaps hard to close down, and helped this quartet open up and maintain a gap of 30 seconds over the rest of the break.

The chasers continued to work well together, but could not make any inroads into this 30-second deficit from the leading quartet. By the time they reached the final 20km, and the gap began to increase to over 40 seconds, it became clear that they would not be caught.

Sweeny attacked on a small uphill 14.5km from the finish, managing to drop and take Kü of contention.

Then 2.5km later, Politt launched a huge attack, to which neither Sweeny or Erviti had any response. From that moment there was little doubt that he would hang on for victory, and he was able to soak in the atmosphere and reflect on his imminent victory as he soloed to the win during the final few kilometres.

Results :
1 Nils Politt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 3:22:12
2 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:31
3 Harry Sweeny (Aus) Lotto Soudal
4 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:58
5 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team BikeExchange 0:02:06
6 André Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-up Nation
7 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
8 Brent Van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal
9 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
10 Sergio Henao Montoya (Col) Qhubeka-NextHash
11 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic
12 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) TotalEnergies 0:02:09
13 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:22
14 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:15:53
15 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange
16 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
17 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Qhubeka-NextHash
18 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
19 Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
20 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
21 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
22 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
23 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
24 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep
25 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma
26 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech
27 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
28 Michael Schär (Swi) AG2R Citroën Team
29 Magnus Cort (Den) EF Education-Nippo
30 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe
31 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers
32 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team
33 Silvan Dillier (Swi) Alpecin-Fenix
34 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team
35 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team DSM
36 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers
37 Michael Valgren (Den) EF Education-Nippo
38 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Alpecin-Fenix
39 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team
40 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team
41 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo
42 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma
43 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates
44 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis
45 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain Victorious
46 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) TotalEnergies
47 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates
48 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
49 Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Team BikeExchange
50 Jonas Rutsch (Ger) EF Education-Nippo
51 Franck Bonnamour (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
52 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Education-Nippo
53 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
54 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
55 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious
56 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
57 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Team BikeExchange
58 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious
59 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech
60 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis
61 Marc Hirschi (Swi) UAE Team Emirates
62 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain Victorious
63 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo
64 Victor de la Parte (Spa) TotalEnergies
65 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team
66 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team
67 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
68 Maxime Chevalier (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
69 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
70 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana-Premier Tech
71 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain Victorious
72 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
73 Simon Clarke (Aus) Qhubeka-NextHash
74 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Israel Start-up Nation
75 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Education-Nippo
76 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Cofidis
77 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
78 Casper Pedersen (Den) Team DSM
79 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team DSM
80 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain Victorious
81 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Movistar Team
82 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team DSM
83 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana-Premier Tech
84 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
85 Sergio Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education-Nippo
86 Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma
87 Georg Zimmermann (Ger) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
88 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
89 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis
90 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Start-up Nation
91 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
92 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain Victorious
93 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Lotto Soudal
94 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
95 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
96 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo
97 Simon Geschke (Ger) Cofidis
98 Chris Froome (GBr) Israel Start-up Nation
99 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers
100 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep
101 Rafal Majka (Pol) UAE Team Emirates
102 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
103 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers
104 Ide Schelling (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe
105 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
106 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Israel Start-up Nation
107 Pierre Latour (Fra) TotalEnergies
108 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team DSM
109 Cees Bol (Ned) Team DSM
110 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-up Nation
111 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
112 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
113 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
114 Fabien Doubey (Fra) TotalEnergies
115 Sean Bennett (USA) Qhubeka-NextHash
116 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
117 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-up Nation
118 Anthony Turgis (Fra) TotalEnergies
119 Cyril Gautier (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
120 Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fra) Cofidis
121 Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
122 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
123 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
124 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep
125 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers
126 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep
127 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Alpecin-Fenix
128 Julien Simon (Fra) TotalEnergies
129 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech
130 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-up Nation
131 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis
132 Jeremy Cabot (Fra) TotalEnergies
133 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM
134 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
135 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech
136 Richie Porte (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers
137 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange
138 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team
139 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange
140 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
141 Mikkel Bjerg (Den) UAE Team Emirates 0:16:26
142 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team BikeExchange
143 Alex Aranburu Deba (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech
144 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team
145 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Movistar Team
146 Christopher Juul-Jensen (Den) Team BikeExchange
147 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
148 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
149 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers
150 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Qhubeka-NextHash
151 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:17:19
152 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
153 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:17:30
154 Michael Gogl (Aut) Qhubeka-NextHash
155 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar Team
DNS Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe

General Classification after Stage 12 :
1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 47:22:43
2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:18
3 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 0:05:32
4 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:33
5 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 0:05:58
6 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:16
7 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech 0:06:30
8 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team 0:07:11
9 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:09:29
10 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious 0:10:28
11 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:15:35
12 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 0:24:44
13 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 0:25:21
14 Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Team BikeExchange 0:25:53
15 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:30:51
16 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:32:20
17 Sergio Henao Montoya (Col) Qhubeka-NextHash 0:37:10
18 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain Victorious 0:38:49
19 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:39:13
20 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain Victorious 0:43:54
21 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:45:46
22 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Education-Nippo 0:47:37
23 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers 0:49:17
24 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:53:35
25 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana-Premier Tech 0:54:35
26 Sergio Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:54:41
27 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:54:54
28 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-up Nation 0:57:00
29 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:57:12
30 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:57:38
31 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:58:10
32 Franck Bonnamour (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:00:55
33 Richie Porte (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 1:02:54
34 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 1:03:44
35 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:04:40
36 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 1:04:52
37 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 1:04:55
38 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 1:09:03
39 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange
40 Rafal Majka (Pol) UAE Team Emirates 1:11:23
41 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Movistar Team 1:11:35
42 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 1:12:25
43 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:15:23
44 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 1:17:45
45 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 1:18:02
46 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team DSM 1:18:23
47 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 1:19:41
48 Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:19:46
49 Nils Politt (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 1:20:35
50 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 1:20:41
51 Pierre Latour (Fra) TotalEnergies 1:21:10
52 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain Victorious 1:22:53
53 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 1:23:44
54 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 1:23:50
55 Michael Valgren (Den) EF Education-Nippo 1:23:58
56 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 1:24:57
57 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana-Premier Tech 1:25:32
58 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 1:25:45
59 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) TotalEnergies 1:26:15
60 Magnus Cort (Den) EF Education-Nippo 1:27:11
61 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers 1:28:26
62 Brent Van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:29:48
63 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange 1:30:21
64 Jonas Rutsch (Ger) EF Education-Nippo 1:30:51
65 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-up Nation 1:31:20
66 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 1:31:56
67 Simon Geschke (Ger) Cofidis 1:32:05
68 Victor de la Parte (Spa) TotalEnergies 1:32:37
69 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Education-Nippo 1:33:25
70 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team DSM 1:35:58
71 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers 1:36:12
72 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 1:36:17
73 Anthony Turgis (Fra) TotalEnergies 1:36:23
74 Silvan Dillier (Swi) Alpecin-Fenix 1:36:40
75 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 1:37:52
76 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team 1:38:50
77 Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma 1:39:14
78 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic 1:39:17
79 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 1:42:15
80 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team 1:42:59
81 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 1:43:13
82 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) TotalEnergies 1:43:30
83 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 1:43:40
84 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:44:34
85 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 1:44:58
86 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 1:45:03
87 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis 1:45:16
88 Harry Sweeny (Aus) Lotto Soudal 1:45:37
89 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 1:45:47
90 Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:46:45
91 Alex Aranburu Deba (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 1:46:53
92 Cyril Gautier (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:46:54
93 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 1:47:02
94 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) EF Education-Nippo 1:47:15
95 Michael Schär (Swi) AG2R Citroën Team 1:48:00
96 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team BikeExchange 1:48:32
97 Fabien Doubey (Fra) TotalEnergies 1:48:33
98 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 1:49:07
99 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Movistar Team 1:50:54
100 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Israel Start-up Nation 1:52:09
101 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 1:54:05
102 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis 1:54:08
103 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 1:54:27
104 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 1:56:15
105 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Team BikeExchange 1:56:23
106 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1:56:56
107 Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fra) Cofidis 1:57:18
108 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Alpecin-Fenix 1:57:57
109 Maxime Chevalier (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 1:58:02
110 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 1:59:01
111 Jorge Arcas (Spa) Movistar Team 2:01:31
112 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 2:02:08
113 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 2:02:15
114 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Alpecin-Fenix 2:03:46
115 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 2:04:03
116 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar Team 2:04:21
117 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis 2:04:25
118 Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:06:23
119 Michael Gogl (Aut) Qhubeka-NextHash 2:06:55
120 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:07:05
121 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team DSM 2:07:30
122 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech 2:07:44
123 Georg Zimmermann (Ger) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 2:08:48
124 Mikkel Bjerg (Den) UAE Team Emirates 2:09:37
125 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain Victorious 2:09:38
126 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team DSM 2:09:46
127 André Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-up Nation 2:09:52
128 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) Qhubeka-NextHash 2:10:46
129 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 2:11:17
130 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:12:06
131 Simon Clarke (Aus) Qhubeka-NextHash 2:12:20
132 Casper Pedersen (Den) Team DSM 2:14:38
133 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Cofidis 2:14:45
134 Carlos Barbero (Spa) Qhubeka-NextHash 2:14:51
135 Christopher Juul-Jensen (Den) Team BikeExchange 2:16:41
136 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:17:58
137 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) Israel Start-up Nation 2:18:16
138 Ide Schelling (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe 2:18:57
139 Sean Bennett (USA) Qhubeka-NextHash 2:20:54
140 Julien Simon (Fra) TotalEnergies 2:21:19
141 Danny van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 2:21:32
142 Chris Froome (GBr) Israel Start-up Nation 2:21:40
143 Marc Hirschi (Swi) UAE Team Emirates 2:22:22
144 Cees Bol (Ned) Team DSM 2:22:23
145 Rick Zabel (Ger) Israel Start-up Nation 2:22:32
146 Omer Goldstein (Isr) Israel Start-up Nation 2:23:11
147 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:24:52
148 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:25:59
149 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2:26:23
150 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 2:28:34
151 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain Victorious 2:29:34
152 Jeremy Cabot (Fra) TotalEnergies 2:35:22
153 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 2:36:44
154 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team BikeExchange 2:40:09
155 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal 2:44:54