Tour de France 2021 – Stage 07 [LAST 20 KM]

July 2, 2021

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 7 – Vierzon – Le Creusot : 249,1 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.

Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) proved himself to be the best rider from a very strong breakaway to win stage 7 of the Tour de France.

Also present in the breakaway was the yellow jersey of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), who as a result extended his lead on GC, as well as Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep), who as a result move up into second and third, respectively.

The group of favourites finished well adrift at 5:15 behind Mohorič and 3:35 behind the rest.

The Slovenian arrived at the finish 1:20 ahead of Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) and third place went to Magnus Cort (EF Education-Nippo), who was another 20 seconds back.

Tadej Pogačar, whose UAE Team Emirates domestiques had to endure a long, hard chase after letting such a strong group go, was present in the group, as were all the other top GC favourites, with the striking exception of Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma).

Roglič was dropped on the Signal d’Uchon climb 18km from the finish, presumably still suffering from the injuries sustained from his crash on stage 3. He eventually made it to the finish almost four minutes down on the group of favourites, and is surely now out of the running for the yellow jersey.

The absence of any Jumbo-Visma teammates dropping back and helping him suggests that his team believes he does not have the legs to compete for GC, despite an encouraging time trial a couple of days ago.

His woes on the climb prompted Ineos Grenadiers to put the knife in, as they upped the pace on the climb, before Richard Carapaz launched an explosive attack.

Although Carapaz was able to open up a gap of over 30 seconds, a committed chase from Movistar and EF Education-Nippo managed to bring him back on the finishing straight, meaning he gains no time.

Any fears that the longest Tour de France stage since the 2000 edition might have boring stretches were happily dispelled on a day full of action. The sight of the yellow jersey riding hard at the front of the breakaway was a spectacular one, and it will be fascinating to see how he, Van Aert and Asgreen ride on tomorrow’s first Alpine test, having gained such a big advantage over the climbers on GC.

Amid all the excitement, it should not be forgotten just how brilliant a ride it was from Mohorič to take the stage win. The Slovenian arrived 1:20 ahead of Stuyven, who he dropped on Signal d’Uchon, and 1:40 ahead of the chasing group containing Van der Poel and Van Aert.

“I knew that today was a good stage for me,” said a delighted Mohorič while warming down at the finish. “I checked through the road book for the other stages, so I knew how much to focus on one day only. There is practically only one more stage that suits my characteristics, so I thought maybe it was a good idea to go and try and win a stage.

“I somehow got into the breakaway, but then I saw it had super-strong riders, so I didn’t think I could make it on the last climb if I waited. So I decided to try and go early.”

Mohorič made his move with Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Soudal) on the first classified climb of the day, Côte de Château-Chinon, 88km from the finish.

“I didn’t think I would go after the first KOM, because I was just sprinting for the jersey. But then, when there was a gap, I thought: ‘why not?’.”

After being joined by Stuyven and Victor Campanaerts (Qhubeka-NextHash), he then went solo on Signal d’Uchon, an attack which turned out to be the winning move.

“I rode steadily, with in mind how many kilometres there was to go. Then, kilometre by kilometre, they were ticking off, and I was still feeling OK. I just pushed all the way to the line, and I really couldn’t believe it until the last kilometre.

“I won stages at the Giro and the Vuelta, but this is something else completely. This is the biggest race in the world. I think it will take some time to settle in.”

How it unfolded

With such a long, rolling parcours of 249.1km, Friday was expected to be the first chance for a breakaway to make it to the finish and contest the stage, and therefore there was a big battle to get into the break at the start of the day.

After several attempts fizzled out, eventually a 29-man group succeeded in getting a significant gap, with the yellow jersey of Van der Poel himself involved.

Rather than ride defensively in an attempt to defend the jersey, Van der Poel’s move was a characteristically aggressive one, but he was joined in the break by one of the main threats to his lead, his great rival Van Aert, who was third on GC at just 30 seconds.

Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates were anxious about letting such a large group up the road, especially given the presence of Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo), who was the highest placed rider in the break aside from Van der Poel, Van Aert and Asgreen in 19th at 2-55. Although not expected to challenge for the GC this year, he can not be completely discounted as a possible contender while he remains that high on GC.

Also present was Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-QuickStep), who yet again defied expectations at this race to steal a march on the main rivals for his green jersey. With no other contenders in the break, he was able to take maximum points unchallenged at the day’s intermediate sprint 115km into the stage, meaning he extended his lead to 66 points ahead of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix) on a day he might have expected to see it decreased.

Bolstering the group’s strength was the presence of several other notoriously powerful rouleurs and climbers like Victor Campenaerts (Qhubeka-NextHash), Søren Kragh Andersen (Team DSM), Mohorič, Philippe Gilbert (Lotto-Soudal), Stuyven, Simon Yates (Team BikeExchange) and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), and was rounded out by Toms Skujins, (Trek-Segafredo), Harry Sweeny, Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal), Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma), Imanol Erviti, Ivan Cortina (Movistar), Magnus Cort, (EF Education-Nippo), Michael Schär, Dorion Godon (AG2R Citroën), Jan Bakelants, Danny Van Poppel (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert), Dylan van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers), Christophe Laporte (Cofidis), Hugo Houle (Astana-Premier Tech), Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels) and Ruben Guerreiro (EF Education-Nippo), although Guerreiro dropped back after apparently suffering some kind of problem.

With such a large group featuring such powerful riders, UAE Team Emirates faced a tough chase to keep it contained. The gap between the peloton and the break kept growing until it exceeded six minutes about halfway into the stage.

On the Côte de Château-Chinon 88km from the finish, which marked the beginning of the hillier second half of the stage, Mohorič and Van Moer attacked the rest of the break, and gained a gap so that Mohorič could gain maximum points over that climb and the next, the Côte de Glux-en-Glenne.

Stuyven and Campanaerts set off in pursuit of the leading duo with an attack 54km from the finish, and joined them 8km later to form a new leading quartet. They worked well together, and increased their gap over the rest of the breakaway to 1:45 by the start of the next climb, the Côte de la Croix de la Libération.

Mohorič set the pace all the way up the climb, which was fast enough to drop Campanaerts, but their lead was reduced to one minute after several attacks in the chasing group from the likes of Nibali, Konrad and Bonnamour saw it whittled down to just the strongest riders, among them Van der Poel, Van Aert and Yates.

Meanwhile in the peloton, which was still around six minutes down on the breakaway, there was a crash, with Jumbo-Visma’s GC ‘plan B’ Jonas Vingegaard going down. Fortunately he appeared unhurt.

Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) was also surprisingly dropped from the peloton, although whether that was down to bad legs, a problem or a tactical manoeuvre to lose enough time to have licence to go out on the attack in the coming Alpine stages was unclear.

The leading trio began the decisive penultimate climb of the category two Signal d’Uchon with an advantage of around 1:30 over the chasers. Mohorič was once again the strongest of them, and this time managed to drop both Van Moor and then Stuyven on the steep, double-digit gradients towards the top.

Konrad was next over the top having attacked earlier on the climb, while Van der Poel, Van Aert, Nibali, Bonnamour, Skujins, Cort and Asgreen were all who remained in the chasing group after a fierce pace set by Asgreen saw all the others dropped.

After the climb, Cort, Asgreen and Bonnamour attacked and caught Konrad, but together they were too far adrift from Mohorič to still be in contention for the stage win.

Still keen on taking the yellow jersey, Van Aert launched an attack about 8km from the finish in an attempt to drop Van der Poel, but the Dutchman remained glued to his wheel even as the others in the group were all dropped.

Van Aert and Van der Poel then worked together, and managed to catch the four-man group just as they arrived at the finish line, although not quite in time for Van der Poel to sprint for the bonus seconds.

After several more stragglers arrived, the peloton eventually arrived at the finish 5:15 down on Mohorič and 3:35 down on the yellow jersey group, just about swallowing up Carapaz after his powerful attack on Signal d’Uchon.

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

General Classification after Stage 7 :
1 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix 25:39:17
2 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 0:00:30
3 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:49
4 Matej Mohoric (Slo) Bahrain Victorious 0:03:01
5 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:43
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:04:12
7 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:04:23
8 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech 0:04:56
9 Pierre Latour (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:05:03
10 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:04
11 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 0:05:18
12 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:19
13 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:29
14 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:05:31
15 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team 0:05:33
16 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:43
17 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana-Premier Tech 0:05:51
18 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 0:05:54
19 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:06:10
20 Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team DSM 0:06:30
21 Sergio Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:06:41
22 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious 0:06:59
23 Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Team BikeExchange
24 Sergio Henao Montoya (Col) Qhubeka-NextHash 0:07:30
25 Richie Porte (Aus) Ineos Grenadiers 0:07:33
26 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:07:34
27 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:08:06
28 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma 0:08:14
29 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 0:08:31
30 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:08:52
31 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Movistar Team 0:08:55
32 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 0:08:57
33 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 0:09:11
34 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:09:15
35 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:10:02
36 Franck Bonnamour (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 0:10:39
37 Wout Poels (Ned) Bahrain Victorious 0:10:45
38 Magnus Cort (Den) EF Education-Nippo 0:11:30
39 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:11:35
40 Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 0:12:17
41 Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 0:12:57
42 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:12:59
43 Hugo Houle (Can) Astana-Premier Tech 0:13:47
44 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:13:48
45 Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange 0:13:57
46 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Education-Nippo 0:14:34
47 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:15:27
48 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Movistar Team 0:15:43
49 Brent Van Moer (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:15:54
50 Mark Donovan (GBr) Team DSM 0:16:29
51 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:16:45
52 Dorian Godon (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 0:16:52
53 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:16:53
54 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain Victorious 0:17:20
55 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:17:53
56 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team 0:18:12
57 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 0:18:15
58 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:18:34
59 Michael Valgren (Den) EF Education-Nippo 0:19:36
60 Stefan Küng (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:19:38
61 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:19:42
62 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:19:45
63 Daniel Martin (Irl) Israel Start-up Nation 0:20:03
64 Simon Geschke (Ger) Cofidis 0:20:09
65 Cristian Rodriguez Martin (Spa) TotalEnergies 0:20:19
66 Rafal Majka (Pol) UAE Team Emirates 0:20:53
67 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers 0:20:56
68 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Ineos Grenadiers 0:21:00
69 Ruben Guerreiro (Por) EF Education-Nippo 0:21:44
70 Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:21:55
71 Anthony Turgis (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:22:21
72 Alex Aranburu Deba (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 0:22:52
73 Stefan De Bod (RSA) Astana-Premier Tech 0:23:15
74 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 0:23:25
75 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers 0:23:55
76 Imanol Erviti (Spa) Movistar Team 0:24:09
77 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:25:00
78 Cyril Barthe (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 0:25:06
79 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:25:16
80 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:26:00
81 Ruben Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 0:26:07
82 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Israel Start-up Nation 0:26:29
83 Boy van Poppel (Ned) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:26:52
84 Victor de la Parte (Spa) TotalEnergies 0:27:19
85 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Qhubeka-NextHash 0:27:26
86 Jonas Rickaert (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:27:28
87 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Team DSM 0:28:40
88 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:28:46
89 Michael Schär (Swi) AG2R Citroën Team 0:28:51
90 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:29:09
91 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team BikeExchange 0:29:35
92 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 0:29:39
93 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team 0:29:51
94 Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 0:30:07
95 Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:30:14
96 Connor Swift (GBr) Team Arkea-Samsic 0:30:27
97 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-up Nation 0:30:47
98 Nils Eekhoff (Ned) Team DSM 0:31:01
99 Michael Gogl (Aut) Qhubeka-NextHash 0:31:15
100 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) TotalEnergies 0:31:35
101 Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 0:31:37
102 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis 0:32:59
103 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 0:33:07
104 Joris Nieuwenhuis (Ned) Team DSM 0:33:14
105 Silvan Dillier (Swi) Alpecin-Fenix 0:33:23
106 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:33:29
107 Fabien Doubey (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:33:54
108 Bruno Armirail (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:33:59
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