Canadian Hugo Hole won stage 16 of the Tour de France after a day marked by an early breakaway by 29 men.
Nairo, the most benefited
Canadian Hugo Houle won this Tuesday in the first Pyrenean stage of the
Tour de France, culminating a long breakaway with the finish line in Foix, ahead of Frenchman Valentin Maudois, his teammates and compatriot Michael Woods and Movistar’s American Matteo Jorgenson.
Houle, 31, a cyclist for the Israel team, became the first Canadian to win in the round wins since his current sporting director Steve Bauer did.
The Danish Jonas Vingegaard kept the yellow jersey after reaching the finish line almost 6 minutes after the winner, in a group that also included the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, second, who attacked him several times on the ascent to Col de Lers, the penultimate port of the day.
The British Geraint Thomas kept the fourth position, but the Colombian Nairo Quintana, who remained with the best, improved a position by overtaking the Frenchman Romain Bardet, who could not keep up with the pace of the leading group and left more than 3 minutes.
The Colombian from Arkea is 4.15 behind the leader and remains 1.32 behind third place. The Spanish Enric Mas, who attacked in the port of Lers, was finally left off the hook and lost almost 3 minutes with the best, which left him out of the top 10 in the general classification.
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Classification of stage 16
1. Hugo Hole 4h 23m 47s
2. Valentin Madouas at 1 min 10 sec
3. Michael Woods mt
4. Matteo Jorgenson at 1 min 12 sec
5. Michael Storer at 1 min 25 sec
6. Aleksandre Vlasov at 1 min 40 sec
7. Dylan Teuns mt
8. Simon Geschke at 2 min 11
13. Wout Van Aert at 5 min 54 sec
15. Jonas Vingegaard mt
16. Tadej Pogacar mt
17. Geraint Thomas mt
18. David Gaudu mt
19. Nairo Quintana mt
20. Daniel Martinez mt
General ranking
1. Jonas Vingegaard 64hrs 28mins 9s
2. Tadej Pogacar at 2 min 22 sec
3. Geraint Thomas at 2 min 43 sec
4. Nairo Quintana, 4 min 15 sec
5. David Gaudu at 4 min 24 sec
6. Adam Yates at 5 min 28 sec
7. Louis Meintjes at 5 min 46 sec
8. Aleksander Vlasov at 6 min 18 sec
9. Romain Bardet at 6 min 37 sec
10. Thomas Pidcock at 10 min 11 sec
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