Mads Pedersen on Friday won the Tour de France stage, with Jonas Weinggaard holding his yellow jersey with a solid lead.
After three stages of mountain runs, this time easier terrain and three ranked climbs, plus a 2,100-meter altitude difference awaits the field, which — due to coronavirus-stricken Warren Bargill’s withdrawal — has continued to shrink in the 30-degree heat.
Monday’s breakup included two-time World Test champion Filippo Gana, European Test gold medalist Stefan Kung, 2019 world champion Mads Pedersen and Quinn Simmons, who finished second in the Tour de Hongrie two years ago. The field led by Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lotto Soudal did not allow the fugitives to go for more than two minutes due to the high speed due to cross-wind sections and the possibility of sprinting. However, on a left turn, the team’s last runner, Caleb Ewan, fell after colliding with his teammate and had his left knee treated for a minute.
However, the Australian sprinter, who also fell at the finish line in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia in Visegrád, sat down and tried to get back on the field alone, without success. On the last seeded climb, the lead increased his lead to three and a half minutes, at which point BikeExchange-Jayco took a chase, which gave up with 15 kilometers to go. Maidan reached the finish line 5:45 minutes, at a quiet pace, the leading group in the compound has not changed.
In the lead, Pedersen shook the time runners with an attack 12 kilometers before the finish, two of whom managed to keep up. In the sprint, the Dane was – according to chances – faster than Britain’s Fred Wright and Canadian Hugo Hall, so he could celebrate his first Tour stage win aged 26. Denmark stage victory for the third time in four days.
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Stage 13, Le Bourg-d’Oisans – Saint-Etienne, 193 km
1. Mads Pedersen (Denmark, Trek Segafredo) 4:13:03
2. Fred Wright (UK and victor Bahrain) at the same time
3. Hugo Houle (Canadian, Israel-Premier Tech) ai
The leading group of the complex
1. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark, Jumbo-Visma) 50:47:34
2. Tadej Pojákár (Slovenia, UAE) was late 2:22
3. Geraint Thomas (Great Britain, Ineos Grenadies) 2:26 p.
4. Romain Bardet (France, DSM) 2:35 p.
On Saturday, 192.5 kilometers from Saint-Etienne and the end of Mount Menden awaits the 109th Tour de France, which covers a total of 3,328 kilometers until it reaches its traditional end on the Champs-Elysées next Sunday in Paris.
