Tour de France 2021 – Stage 18 [FULL STAGE]

July 15, 2021

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 18 – Pau – Luz Ardiden : 129,7 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.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won his second straight mountain top finish at the Tour de France on stage 18 to Luz Ardiden with another utterly dominant performance in the Pyrenees.

The yellow jersey stamped his authority on the race once again, finishing ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma) and Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers).

The Slovenian made it look easy, once again, skipping up to two accelerations from Enric Mas (Movistar), who had dared to attack on the final climb and cause something of a mini-upset. The second attack from Mas with just under 1km remaining was closed by Pogačar with 400m to go and he used that momentum to kick again. Carapaz tried in vain to bring the race leader back but he was unable to match the pace set by a rider who has looked head and shoulders above everyone in this year’s Tour de France.

At the line, a still fresh looking Pogačar had time to look back at his two main rivals, before basking in his success once a again.

“It’s unbelievable. After yesterday, today … I don’t know, I felt good and I’m really happy with the win,” the race leader said. “It’s crazy. It was a game for me since I started and I’m enjoying playing it. I’m super happy. You never know. It’s still three days to go but it looks good.”

The win puts Pogačar a massive 5:45 clear of Vingegaard with just three stages remaining, and with Carapaz a further six seconds adrift. By winning the stage Pogačar also sealed the win in the king of the mountains competition, meaning that he is likely to arrive in Paris to celebrate classification victories in yellow, white and polka-dot jerseys.

While Pogačar made his way to the podium for the third stage win in this year’s race there was only heartbreak for Rigoberto Urán, who was dropped on the Col du Tourmalet. The Colombian came into the stage with his podium hopes hanging by a thread after he cracked on stage 17 but any dreams of a second time inside the top three in Paris were brutally dismantled by a combination of Ineos and UAE who controlled much of the stage. Uran would eventually finish almost nine minutes down and is now in 10th place overall.

The battle for the stage however truly ignited with around 5.5km to go on the last climb when Rafał Majka took over and began to drive the pace for his teammate and race leader. The acceleration in pace, just like we had seen before from the UAE rider on stage 17 reduced the front group to around a dozen riders with Wout van Aert, Alexey Lutsenko and David Gaudu quickly distanced as a result.

Pogačar attacked first with 3.2km to go and was joined by Carpaz, Vingegaard, Sepp Kuss, and Enric Mas and it was Jumbo-Visma who set the pace with Kuss sitting on the front until about 1.1km to go. When the pace slowed and Mas attacked it looked as though the Spaniard would be able to escape and thus save his team’s race but Pogačar had other ideas.

“It was super hard,” Pogačar said. “Already on the Tourmalet it was a pace where you just sit on the wheel and forget about everything, and and just focus. The last climb, it was the maximum.”

How it unfolded

Stage 18 of the Tour de France began in an all too familiar frame in Pau, with the French police authorities confirming that they had visited the Bahrain Victorious hotel during the previous night with a raid that lasted well into the small hours of Thursday morning.

The news overshadowed the start of the final mountain stage of this year’s race with riders forced to answer questions from the media about the raid and what it meant for a Bahrain Victorious team that had already won two stages and was leading both the team and mountains classification.

It was hardly surprising to see Wout Poels and Matej Mohoric – both from Bahrain Victorious, take out their frustration on the race with the pair of riders among the early attackers after the rollout towards the high Pyrenees. The squad had been forced to hand over phones and laptops, their bus and rooms searched, yet any lack of sleep was put to one side with Mohoric eventually kicking clear with Chris Juul Jensen and Sean Bennett.

Only Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis) were able to mount a counter-attack, and with just under 100km to go of the short stage, the two groups merged to form five leaders on the road. Their advantage remained slim, at just under two minutes, with Juul Jensen forced to drop back due to team orders.

On the fourth category Côte de Loucrup after 55km, the leaders held a gap of 1:22. With an intermediate sprint coming up just after the climb at Pouzac, it was Team BikeExchange that lifted the pace in order to try and drop Mark Cavendish and help Michael Matthews close the gap in the green jersey competition. That aim fell short when Cavendish survived the onslaught and then outsprinted Matthews to increase his points lead but the action sparked a run of attacks with Dan Martin, Kenny Elissonde, Jasper Stuyven, Edward Theuns and Davide Ballerini the first wave of riders to push clear.

That move failed but Pierre Rolland and Juul Jensen kicked ahead just as Alaphilippe and Mohoric dropped Bennett and Pierre-Luc Périchon with 58km to go.

Valentin Madouas, Pierre Latour, Kenny Elissonde and Pierre Rolland created a dangerous move with 50km to go as the race climbed the lower slopes of the Col du Tourmalet. UAE Team Emirates took up the chase but an even more threatening move escaped next with David Gaudu, Ion Izaguirre, and Ruben Guerreiro, Omer Fraile, all going on the offensive roughly halfway up the legendary climb, with around 45km to go on the stage.

Seven kilometres from the summit, the Gaudu and Madouas groups merged but with only 40 seconds covering most of the race the fight for the stage win lay wide open.

Ineos Grenadier’s high pace caused problems for several riders, including Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates) and the British team’s very own Richie Porte, who were both dropped.

With six kilometres to go on the climb Alaphilippe and Mohoric were reeled in by the Gaudu break but with the peloton at just 26 seconds the chance for any break contesting the stage win looked slim as Dylan Van Baarle ground out a pace that reduced the peloton to about 30 riders. Soon after Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-Nippo), fourth overall at the start of the stage, was forced to let go of his rivals with 37km remaining on the stage.

At the same time Gaudu went for broke, perhaps knowing that taking on Pogacar and company on the final climb would be futile. He accelerated with Alaphilippe, Guerreiro, and Latour for company. The world champion cracked four kilometres from the summit as Gaudu plowed on – his lead to the yellow jersey holding at around 40 seconds.

Guerreiro was distanced by Latour and Gaudu one kilometre from the summit of the Tourmalet as Poels and Michael Woods ignited their battle in the king of the mountains competition. The Bahrain Victorious rider extended his lead in the competition when Woods was forced to sit up, as Gaudu, second on the climb to Latour, distanced his breakaway companion on the breathtaking descent.

The final test

After diving down the spectacular descent of the Tourmlalet to the foot of Luz Ardiden, lone leader Gaudu held a slender 17 seconds on the Ineos fronted peloton with a group containing Uran 1:52 behind the front of the race.

At that point Pogacar still had three teammates by his side, as Michal Kwiatkowski took over at the front of the race with Gaudu 17 seconds clear with 10km to climb.

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

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