Tour de France 2020 – Stage 02 [FULL STAGE]

August 30, 2020

Tour de France 2020 – Stage 2 – Nice – Nice : 187 km

The world has changed dramatically since the route of the 2020 Tour de France was unveiled last October. The 3,470-kilometre route remains the same, but the global COVID-19 pandemic means that it will be a Tour de France like no other. The race dates have changed from July to late August/September, and the riders’ preparation and teams’ selections have changed, leaving everyone fresh, on form and hungrier then ever to win during the short but intense rescheduled season. Everyone on the race will have to respect strict medical protocols to limit the risk of the COVID-19 virus emerging in the peloton and possibly stopping the whole race, but there is a real sense that the riders will race as if there’s no tomorrow. The number of COVID-19 cases in France has grown enormously in recent weeks, and could keep increasing over the next few weeks as the Tour de France rolls through the country, but organisers ASO, governing body the UCI, the French government and even the sponsor-dependent teams and riders seem convinced that the show must go on. It is ultimately their risk. If the race manages to reach Paris with a limited number of cases in the ‘race bubble’, the sport will have pulled off a high-stakes, calculated gamble. If something happens along the route and the race has to be cancelled, the damage to the sport could be irreparable.

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) kept his appointment with the Tour de France when he claimed a stage victory and the yellow jersey by out-sprinting Marc Hirschi (Swuneb) and Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) at the end of a breathless stage 2 in Nice.

The stage brought the Tour into the high Alps with ascents of La Colmiane and the Col de Turini, but the day’s main action unfolded in the hills behind Nice. Just like on the road to Épernay on last year’s Tour, Alaphilippe was expected to be active in the finale here, and he reported for duty with a rasping acceleration on the ascent of the Col des Quatre Chemins with a shade over 13km remaining.

The former world under-23 champion, Hirschi, had been touted by some as an outsider for the day’s stage and he lived up to that billing by forging across to Alaphilippe shortly afterwards, while Yates produced a smooth acceleration with 11km to go to bridge a 10-second gap to the two leaders.

Yates even denied Alaphilippe the maximum 8 bonus seconds at the summit with 9km to go, but the trio collaborated smoothly on the descent that followed, extending their lead from 14 seconds over a very reduced peloton to 24 by the time they reached the final 5km.

In champagne country a year ago, Alaphilippe had attacked with such ferocity that he soloed clear of the entire peloton. This time out he was initially glad of the company given the block headwind in the run-in, though a cagy game of cat-and-mouse among the leaders almost saw their good work go to waste in the final kilometre.

After losing out to Wout van Aert further down along the Riviera in San Remo three weeks ago, Alaphilippe was loath to let the opportunity pass him by here, and he nervelessly manoeuvred Yates to the front on the Promenade des Anglais, refusing to blink even as the Briton slowed almost to walking pace and the chasers closed rapidly from behind.

With 200 metres to go, Alaphilippe finally lifted himself from the saddle, straining every sinew as he opened his effort. Hirschi reacted well but the Swiss rider couldn’t quite overhaul the Frenchman. A tearful Alaphilippe dedicated his victory to his late father Jo, who died in June.

“It’s always a special emotion to win on the Tour but this is a special year. I haven’t won a race since the beginning of the season, although I’ve always continued to work hard despite the difficult moments,” Alaphilippe said.

“I just wanted to dedicate this victory to my dad. It meant a lot to me and I’m happy I did it.”

A select chasing group of 32 riders came in just two seconds down on Alaphilippe, with Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) pipping Sergio Higuita (EF Pro Cycling) and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) to 4th place.

Despite crashing on the final ascent after touching wheels with Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos), Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) came home safely in that group among the principal overall contenders, though Critérium du Dauphiné winner Dani Martínez (EF Pro Cycling) was less fortunate after his crash on the descent of the preceding Col d’Èze, Although he latched back on initially, he was distanced once the road climbed again and he came home 3:38 down.

In the overall standings, Alaphilippe holds a lead of 4 seconds over Yates with Hirschi a further 3 seconds back in third, while Higuita and the other GC contenders are 17 seconds behind the Frenchman.

As anticipated, overnight leader Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) was distanced on the Col de Turini, and he came in more than half an hour down on the new wearer of the maillot jaune.

It remains to be seen if Alaphilippe can replicate the remarkable resilience of the 2019 Tour, when he wore yellow into the final Friday of the race and finished 5th overall in Paris. In a Tour that might not even make it to the Champs-Élysées, of course, he was understandably focused on the here and now.

“I had asked the team to toughen up the final and that’s what we did,” Alaphilippe said. “When I made my effort, I didn’t ask myself any questions, I just gave everything I had. I had nothing to lose. Afterwards, they tried to play a little bit with my nerves but before that, Adam Yates collaborated well.”

When it was put to Alaphilippe that he had been a marked man in the finale, he simply shrugged. “I’m used to it,” he said. He is used to leading the Tour, too.

How it unfolded

The Tour de France consists of multiple races within a race, and several quickly sharpened into focus after the flag dropped outside Nice. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), one of the walking wounded from Saturday’s opening stage, was jettisoned out the back of the bunch as soon as the speed rose and he found himself in the lonesome endeavour of racing simply to stay in the race.

At the other end of a stretched field, Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) was busy infiltrating the early break in a bid to pick up maximum points at the intermediate sprint. He has been largely in a race of his own for the green jersey since 2012 but Matteo Trentin (CCC) is among those hoping to muscle in on his terrain this year, and the Italian duly pipped at Lac du Broc after 16km before sitting up.

Sagan and the rest of the escapees did not relent, however, and a fluid race soon hardened into a firmer shape, with the Slovak joined off the front by teammate Lukas Pöstlberger as well as Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R-La Mondiale), Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo), Anthony Perez (Cofidis) and Michael Gogl (NTT).

They would establish a lead of three minutes on the category 1 Col de la Colmiane, where another race within a race ignited near the summit, as Cosnefroy stole away to pick up the king of the mountains points. Further down the road, meanwhile, the Tour’s incongruously early passage into the Alps saw riders distanced from the peloton, though not definitively, and men like the yellow jersey Kristoff latched back on over the other side.

Sagan would eventually bid farewell to the head of the race on the following Col de Turini, where Cosnefroy, too, betrayed signs of suffering, but the Frenchman gamely battled his way back on before the summit, where Perez took maximum points.

By then, the escapees had just 1:30 on a peloton where Jumbo-Visma had begun to take a controlling interest and where Kristoff had sat up and formally resigned himself to the inevitable. The Tour’s early entry into the high mountains meant he was always destined to be an ephemeral maillot jaune.

The sharp hairpins on the descent of the Turini had been grounds for considerable concern ahead of the stage, though mercifully the peloton negotiated the cascade of corners without incident, save for a mechanical issue for Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), though the Slovenian quickly rejoined the fray.

With 50km remaining, the six leaders still had 1:15 in hand on a bunch but that gap melted to nothing in the space of 10km as Jumbo-Visma upped the tempo on the approach to the Col d’Èze. Once on the climb, the efforts of Dries Devenyns (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Robert Gesink (Jumbo-Visma) whittled the bunch down to just 50 or so riders, but the intensity of their pace-making discouraged any attacks from distance.

The deadlock was broken only when Alaphilippe surged clear on the final ascent of the Col des Quatre Chemins. Egan Bernal, Primoz Roglic, Thibaut Pinot et al kept their powder dry behind, though it is unclear how Jumbo-Visma’s plans were altered by Dumoulin’s nervous fall on the ascent. The Dutchman quickly regained his place, but, for now at least, Alaphilippe is out on his own.

Results :
1 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep 4:55:27
2 Marc Hirschi (Swi) Team Sunweb
3 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:01
4 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team 0:00:02
5 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Pro Cycling
6 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
7 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
8 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
9 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
10 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Pro Cycling
11 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis
12 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott
13 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
14 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
15 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
16 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Astana Pro Team
17 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Ineos Grenadiers
18 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
19 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
20 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers
21 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
22 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
23 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
24 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sunweb
25 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team
26 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
27 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
28 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
29 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
30 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
31 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
32 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Pro Cycling
33 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
34 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
35 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
36 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
37 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:00:19
38 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers 0:01:04
39 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:12
40 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:01:16
41 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
42 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:09
43 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
44 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
45 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
46 Wout van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma
47 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Pro Cycling 0:03:38
48 Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) EF Pro Cycling
49 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
50 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis 0:04:25
51 Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue (Col) Astana Pro Team
52 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team
53 Romain Sicard (Fra) Total Direct Energie
54 Mikel Nieve Iturralde (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott
55 Ion Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
56 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
57 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:35
58 Krists Neilands (Lat) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:07:02
59 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers
60 Bob Jungels (Lux) Deceuninck-Quickstep
61 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
62 Winner Anacona (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
63 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 0:08:41
64 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
65 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
66 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:09:55
67 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:09:57
68 Cyril Gautier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:10:19
69 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo
70 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation
71 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
72 Felix Grossschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
73 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
74 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team
75 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:12:43
76 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar Team 0:13:52
77 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling
78 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb
79 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:14:33
80 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:17:45
81 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R la Mondiale
82 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic
83 Nils Politt (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
84 Dayer Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
85 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
86 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
87 Michael Schär (Swi) CCC Team
88 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) NTT Pro Cycling
89 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
90 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team
91 Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
92 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
93 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team
94 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis
95 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
96 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
97 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Team Sunweb
98 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana Pro Team
99 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Pro Cycling
100 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-Up Nation
101 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
102 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) NTT Pro Cycling
103 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
104 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
105 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers
106 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
107 Michael Gogl (Aut) NTT Pro Cycling
108 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
109 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
110 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
111 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team
112 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Team 0:17:51
113 Michael Valgren (Den) NTT Pro Cycling 0:20:42
114 Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC Team
115 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain McLaren
116 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
117 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation
118 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) EF Pro Cycling
119 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
120 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
121 Pierre Luc Perichon (Fra) Cofidis
122 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Mitchelton-Scott
123 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:21:38
124 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
125 Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
126 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team Sunweb
127 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
128 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team
129 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren 0:25:47
130 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:28:15
131 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis
132 Jens Debusschere (Bel) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
133 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep
134 Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation
135 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Total Direct Energie
136 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
137 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
138 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
139 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
140 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain McLaren
141 Maxime Chevalier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
142 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Direct Energie
143 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie
144 Andrey Amador (CRc) Ineos Grenadiers
145 Casper Phillip Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb
146 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo
147 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis
148 Luke Rowe (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers
149 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep
150 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling 0:28:55
151 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling
152 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) NTT Pro Cycling
153 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
154 Samuel Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
155 André Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
156 Clément Russo (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
157 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal
158 Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto Soudal
159 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
160 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
161 Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
162 Mathieu Burgaudeau (Fra) Total Direct Energie
163 David De la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) UAE Team Emirates
164 Fabien Grellier (Fra) Total Direct Energie
165 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis
166 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Total Direct Energie
167 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb
168 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep
169 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie
170 Kevin Reza (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
171 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
172 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:29:08
173 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal
DNS Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
DNS Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Lotto Soudal

General Classification after Stage 2 :
1 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep 8:41:35
2 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:00:04
3 Marc Hirschi (Swi) Team Sunweb 0:00:07
4 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Pro Cycling 0:00:17
5 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates
6 Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott
7 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
8 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Ineos Grenadiers
9 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers
10 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
11 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
12 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team
13 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
14 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis
15 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
16 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Pro Cycling
17 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
18 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
19 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team
20 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
21 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
22 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
23 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team
24 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo
25 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Pro Cycling
26 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Sunweb
27 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
28 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis
29 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Astana Pro Team
30 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
31 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team
32 Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
33 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
34 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
35 Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain McLaren
36 Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:00:34
37 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers 0:01:19
38 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:27
39 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:01:31
40 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
41 Wout van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:02:24
42 Sepp Kuss (USA) Team Jumbo-Visma
43 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
44 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
45 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
46 Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) EF Pro Cycling 0:03:53
47 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
48 Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Pro Cycling
49 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:04:32
50 Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis 0:04:40
51 Mikel Nieve Iturralde (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott
52 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) CCC Team
53 Romain Sicard (Fra) Total Direct Energie
54 Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue (Col) Astana Pro Team
55 Ion Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Astana Pro Team
56 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
57 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:50
58 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:07:17
59 Krists Neilands (Lat) Israel Start-Up Nation
60 Bob Jungels (Lux) Deceuninck-Quickstep
61 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers
62 Winner Anacona (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
63 Robert Gesink (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:08:56
64 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team
65 Niklas Eg (Den) Trek-Segafredo
66 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:10:10
67 Jan Polanc (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:12
68 Cyril Gautier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 0:10:34
69 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
70 Felix Grossschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
71 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo
72 Lennard Kämna (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
73 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Movistar Team
74 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale 0:12:58
75 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team Sunweb 0:14:07
76 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Pro Cycling
77 Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar Team
78 Ben Hermans (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:14:38
79 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep 0:14:48
80 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R la Mondiale 0:18:00
81 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic
82 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
83 Jonas Koch (Ger) CCC Team
84 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
85 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep
86 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team Jumbo-Visma
87 Dayer Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
88 Daniel Oss (Ita) Bora-Hansgrohe
89 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Team Sunweb
90 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma
91 Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
92 Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
93 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Pro Cycling
94 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) NTT Pro Cycling
95 Michael Gogl (Aut) NTT Pro Cycling
96 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers
97 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale
98 Tim Declercq (Bel) Deceuninck-Quickstep
99 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) NTT Pro Cycling
100 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) CCC Team
101 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-Up Nation
102 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ
103 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana Pro Team
104 Anthony Perez (Fra) Cofidis
105 Michael Schär (Swi) CCC Team
106 Lukas Pöstlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
107 Nils Politt (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
108 José Rojas (Spa) Movistar Team
109 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
110 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain McLaren
111 Jan Hirt (Cze) CCC Team 0:18:06
112 Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team 0:18:20
113 Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC Team 0:20:57
114 Jack Bauer (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
115 Christopher Juul Jensen (Den) Mitchelton-Scott
116 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) EF Pro Cycling
117 Pierre Luc Perichon (Fra) Cofidis
118 Michael Valgren (Den) NTT Pro Cycling
119 Daryl Impey (RSA) Mitchelton-Scott
120 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain McLaren
121 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana Pro Team 0:21:53
122 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team Sunweb
123 Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
124 Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation
125 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team
126 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
127 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain McLaren 0:26:02
128 Guy Niv (Isr) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:26:11
129 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates 0:28:20
130 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:28:24
131 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis 0:28:30
132 Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Direct Energie
133 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott
134 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
135 Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain McLaren
136 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis
137 Andrey Amador (CRc) Ineos Grenadiers
138 Michael Mørkøv (Den) Deceuninck-Quickstep
139 Casper Phillip Pedersen (Den) Team Sunweb
140 Jens Debusschere (Bel) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
141 Marco Marcato (Ita) UAE Team Emirates
142 Maxime Chevalier (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
143 Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation
144 Geoffrey Soupe (Fra) Total Direct Energie
145 Rémi Cavagna (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep
146 Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:29:06
147 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling 0:29:10
148 Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
149 Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep
150 Ryan Gibbons (RSA) NTT Pro Cycling
151 Clément Russo (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic
152 Simone Consonni (Ita) Cofidis
153 Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto Soudal
154 Fabien Grellier (Fra) Total Direct Energie
155 Kevin Reza (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
156 Maximilian Walscheid (Ger) NTT Pro Cycling
157 David De la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) UAE Team Emirates
158 Samuel Bewley (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott
159 Frederik Frison (Bel) Lotto Soudal
160 André Greipel (Ger) Israel Start-Up Nation
161 William Bonnet (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
162 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 0:29:23
163 Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal
164 Luke Rowe (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:32:23
165 Lilian Calmejane (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:33:21
166 Kevin Ledanois (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:34:01
167 Mathieu Burgaudeau (Fra) Total Direct Energie
168 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:40:14
169 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Sunweb
170 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Total Direct Energie
171 Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie
172 Pavel Sivakov (Rus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:41:34
173 Steff Cras (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:42:14