2023-07-07 17:37:44
The king of the sprint is him: the Belgian Jasper Philipsen won his third victory in just seven stages on Friday July 7 in Bordeaux with a new show of force along the banks of the Garonne.
He clearly won ahead of Briton Mark Cavendish and Eritrean Biniam Girmay in a bunch sprint. Dane Jonas Vingegaard retains the yellow jersey at the end of this flat stage run in very hot weather.
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Winner in Bayonne and Nogaro, Philipsen won his third success since leaving on July 1 in the Spanish Basque Country. Counting his successes last year at the end of the Tour in Carcassonne and on the Champs Elysées, the Belgian even won the last five massive sprints contested on the Grande Boucle.
He deprived Mark Cavendish of a historic success by styling him in the last meters. The Briton, winner in Bordeaux in 2010 when the Tour last came to the Gironde city, is looking to beat the record for stage victories in the Tour de France which he currently shares with Eddy Merckx (34).
The Isle of Man veteran tried his luck in the last 100 meters but had to sit down, stunned by the effort, before being swallowed by Philipsen.
After two hotly contested stages in the Pyrenees, the peloton first took time on Friday behind Frenchman Simon Guglielmi who broke away. Joined by Nans Peters and Pierre Latour, the Arkéa-Samsic runner was caught 37 km from the goal.
The two other Frenchmen continued their effort and Latour was the last to be swallowed up by the teams of sprinters, 3.5 km from the finish along the banks of the Garonne.
► The classification of the 7th stage, Mont-de-Marsan – Bordeaux, Friday July 7
1. Jasper Philipsen (BEL/ADC) under 169.9 km in 3h46:28. (average: 45.1 km/h)
2. Mark Cavendish (GBR/AST) at 0 seconds.
3. Biniam Girmay (ERI/ICW) 0.
4. Luca Mozzato (ITA/ARK) 0.
5. Dylan Groenewegen (NED/JAY) 0.
6. Jordi Meeus (BEL/BOH) 0.
7. Phil Bauhaus (GER/TBV) 0.
8. Bryan Coquard (FRA/COF) 0.
9. Alexander Kristoff (NOR/UXT) 0.
10. Mads Pedersen (DEN/LTK) 0.
► The general classification after the 7th stage
1. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN/TJV) 29 h 57 : 12.
2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO / UAD) at 25 seconds.
3. Jai Hindley (AUS/BOH) 1:34.
4. Simon Yates (GBR/JAY) 3:14.
5. Carlos Rodríguez (ESP/IGD) 3:30.
6. Adam Yates (GBR/UAD) 3:40.
7. David Gaudu (FRA/GFC) 4:03.
8. Romain Bardet (FRA/DSM) 4:43.
9. Thomas Pidcock (GBR/IGD) 4:43.
10. Sepp Kuss (USA/TJV) 5:28.
► The profile of the 8th stage, Saturday July 8
For Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France: “The sprints can follow each other but are not necessarily alike. Where Limoges can hold surprises, the finish of the day will be rather open to the most explosive sprinters, capable of enduring a short but difficult stair climb to win the final. »
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