Tour de France 2021 – Stage 04 [FULL STAGE]

June 29, 2021

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 4 – Redon – Fougères : 150,4 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.

Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-QuickStep) turned back time on Tuesday with a fairytale victory on stage 4 of the Tour de France, the 31st of his career and his first since 2016.

Cavendish’s career appeared to be fizzling out towards the end of last year but he has been reborn in 2021 and completed one of the greatest resurgences this sport has seen, taking place in Fougères, a scene of one of those 30 former glories.

It was a breathtaking finale, as Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal) survived from a two-man breakaway all the way to the final 200 metres. In fact, Cavendish’s sprint was complicated by the big Belgian, who by then was effectively moving backwards.

The sprint had been led out by stage 3 winner Tim Merlier, as Alpecin-Fenix switched tactics and plumped for Jasper Philipsen, and Cavendish managed to squeeze past Van Moer just as his rival was opening up. Philipsen had the jump, but Cavendish was able to outpower him through the gentle bend on the slightly uphill drag, where he raised his arms in delight before collapsing to the tarmac in tears.

Nacer Bouhanni (Arkéa-Samsic) came up to take second place, with Philipsen hanging on for third ahead of Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), and Cees Bol (Team DSM).

“I don’t know what to say. Just being here is special enough, you know? I didn’t think I’d get to come back to this race,” said Cavendish, whose last appearance came in 2018.

The significance of the location was not lost upon him. Chateauroux on Thursday had been scripted for the fairytale as the scene of his first Tour de France victory 13 years ago, but Fougères was where he took his third and final win for QuickStep in 2015 in his previous stint at the team.

After not winning for three years, he has resurrected his career at the Belgian squad, first taking some minor podiums, then raising his arms at the Tour of Turkey, then winning bigger at the Belgium Tour, and then earning a ticket to the Tour after the injury to the team’s lead sprinter, Sam Bennett.

“When you come to Deceuninck-QuickStep, they have the best riders in the world, so it wasn’t even a thought to come here. But the stars aligned,” Cavendish said. “So many people didn’t believe in me, and these guys do.”

There was no change to the overall standings, with Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) retaining the yellow jersey ahead of the stage 5 time trial. There was a cherry on the cake for Cavendish, who pulled on the green jersey for the first time since 2016 after taking the lead of the points classification.

How it unfolded

There were no immediate attacks after the peloton had rolled out of Redon. That’s because the riders had organised a protest after the spate of crashes the previous afternoon, which many felt were caused in part by a dangerous run-in to Pontivy. Organised is perhaps the wrong word for it, as the planned stop at kilometre-zero didn’t come to pass – not until André Greipel (Israel Start-Up Nation) asked what was going on and came to the fore to bring the bunch to a halt a kilometre or so in.

After a couple of minutes, green jersey Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was the rider who got things moving again, but the racing had to wait as the the bunch collectively enacted a go-slow for the best part of 10 kilometres.

Alpecin-Fenix were the first team to lift the tempo, while Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal) was the first to go on the attack. The Belgian was joined by Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis), but no one else was interested in getting involved in the breakaway.

Despite just being a duo, they were only allowed an advantage of three minutes before the sprinters’ teams came to the front of the peloton to keep them on a short leash. Groupama-FDJ, Deceuninck-QuickStep, and Alpecin-Fenix were the teams doing the work, with Lotto Soudal having to change approach through Van Moer after their sprinter Caleb Ewan crashed out on Monday.

The terrain was largely flat, with no categorized climbs, and the situation remained calm and stable for much of the day. The gap between break and bunch dropped to two minutes with 100km to go and stayed there for the next 40km.

With 50km to go, Cavendish had a mechanical and required a bike change, but rejoined the peloton with a minimum of fuss. By that point, the gap had come down towards 1:30, and the intermediate sprint in Vitré was coming into view.

In the breakaway, Van Moer showed an interest and sprinted away from Périchon to claim maximum points, while Cavendish was first from the bunch after a lead out from Michael Mørkøv. Bouhanni was just behind, while Matthews, Greipel, and Sagan were also in the mix.

Heading into the final 30km, the gap stood at 1:15 but the battle for positions ahead of the final started to build up. It only really intensified once they were through the 20km-to-go banner, with Groupama-FDJ, Alpecin-Fenix, and Ineos Grenadiers on the left-hand side of the road, and Qhubeka-NextHash, Deceuninck-QuickStep and Trek-Segafredo on the right. Bora-Hansgrohe, Team DSM and Movistar were prominent through the middle.

There was a big surge into a sweeping right-hand bend off the main road and onto narrower streets, where Ineos’ Luke Rowe emerged in pole position.

With 15km to go, and the gap at 30 seconds, Périchon launched an acceleration but was unable to shake Van Moer. Soon after, the Belgian asked about the lack of cooperation before launching an attack of his own. After several seconds out of the saddle, he was away, taking 45 seconds into the final 13km. At that point, the urgency ebbed from the bunch, and it went out to a minute.

Under the 10km-to-go banner, the gap was 1:05, with the peloton still bunched up and no team really taking responsibility for the chase. With 7.5km to go, they turned off the country lane and out onto a wider road, and that’s where the pace was finally lifted, but the gap was still just above a minute.

DSM and Groupama-FDJ took up the reins initially, and then Alpecin-Fenix, although Lotto Soudal were placing blockers to disrupt the trains. The gap started to fall but Van Moer still entered the final 5km with a lead of 50 seconds.

Deceuninck-QuickStep then came to the fore and initiated an even bigger push, but that only lasted until 3.5km to go. Alpecin were also running out of numbers but DSM and Trek-Segafredo then took it up. With 2.5km to go, the gap had been reduced to 25 seconds.

Van Moer hit the false flat in the final 1500 metres with just 15 seconds in hand, desperately trying to hang on. At that point Alaphilippe hit the front, with Mørkøv and Cavendish in the wheel. Alpecin-Fenix, however, came through to perform the lead-out proper, with stage 3 winner Tim Merlier switching into support mode.

He pulled aside and launched Philipsen before Van Moer had even been caught, with the Belgian finally caught just inside 200 metres to go. It was heartbreak for him – so close to a famous moment but instead resigned to a footnote in the Cavendish fairytale.

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

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