Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian moves one day closer to the first individual time trial of the race.

Remco Evenepoel spent a relatively quiet day in the Tour de France white jersey, which he is wearing since the end of the second stage, as the peloton embarked on a 177.2km journey from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint Vulbas. A breakaway formed late into the day, and with only two riders being part of it, the peloton had no problems reeling it in.

Rain made things a bit more complicated in the final hour of racing, forcing the teams to slow down before picking up the pace again inside the last ten kilometers, when the lead-out trains began making their presence felt at the front. As expected, stage five came down to a bunch sprint, won by Mark Cavendish (Astana-Qazaqstan), who wrote history on the roads of the Tour de France with his 35th victory at the race. Remco finished safely in the peloton and kept the lead in the white jersey classification, where he currently has a 25-second buffer.

“It was a bit stressful in the last 40 kilometers when it started to rain, but we managed things well and we can be content with our day, as it was pretty straightforward. We hope things will continue like this for us in the next stages. I also want to congratulate Mark on his record, we were teammates for a couple of years and it’s pretty special to witness his achievement from the bunch”, Evenepoel said after the stage.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
4:08:46
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
3 Alexander Kristoff
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
4 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
0:00
5 Fabio Jakobsen
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
6 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
7 Arnaud Démare
0:00
8 Gerben Thijssen
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
9 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
0:00
10 Marijn van den Berg
EF Education - EasyPost
0:00
43 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
44 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
45 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
58 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
80 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
119 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
159 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
23:15:24
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:45
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:50
4 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
1:10
5 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:14
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:16
7 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1:32
8 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:32
9 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
3:20
10 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
3:21
26 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
5:41
50 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
26:32
82 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
50:14
93 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
56:54
143 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
1:19:53
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
102 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
94 pt
3 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
87 pt
4 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
78 pt
5 Kévin Vauquelin
60 pt
6 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
58 pt
7 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
53 pt
8 Mark Cavendish
Astana Qazaqstan Team
50 pt
9 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
42 pt
10 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
38 pt
14 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
33 pt
47 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
9 pt
54 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
66 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
1 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
25 pt
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
3 Valentin Madouas
Groupama - FDJ
16 pt
4 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
15 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
12 pt
6 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
10 pt
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
8 Frank van den Broek
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
9 pt
9 Ion Izagirre Insausti
Cofidis
8 pt
10 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
8 pt
13 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
23:16:09
2 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
0:25
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
0:31
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
2:36
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
3:25
6 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
4:56
7 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
7:27
8 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
8:15
9 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
11:38
10 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
11:57
1 UAE Team Emirates 69:49:16
2 INEOS Grenadiers 4:54
3 Soudal Quick-Step 5:02
4 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 6:34
5 Bahrain - Victorious 11:27
6 Movistar Team 13:24
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 17:39
8 EF Education - EasyPost 23:37
9 Lidl - Trek 28:41
10 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 34:33

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