The World ITT Champion took a spectacular win on the roads of Burgundy.

Remco Evenepoel became the first rider in history to have won a time trial at Il Giro, Le Tour, La Vuelta, the Worlds and the European Championships, a fantastic feat that came on the back of a phenomenal ride on the first stage against the clock of this Tour de France edition. The 24-year-old Belgian, a debutant in the race, proved he is the best time triallist in the world as he scored Soudal Quick-Step’s 51st Tour de France victory and cemented his place at the top of the youth classification.

It’s crazy! I enjoyed every meter of this time trial and coming out with the win is simply amazing.

“I wasn’t thinking of the GC, the only thing that I had in mind was the victory and it’s an incredible feeling now to be a stage winner in all Grand Tours. A big thank you to the team for all their support, and to Specialized and our other partners for the setup of the bike. It’s a very special day in my life and my career, one which I will always remember.”

The penultimate rider to leave the start house, the World ITT Champion produced one of the finest displays of power of his career, going fastest through all three intermediate checkpoints of the 23.4km undulating course between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin, before posting the best time at the finish thanks to a stunning 52.58km/h average speed. Following this impressive win, Remco gained twelve seconds on the yellow jersey wearer, only half a minute separating him from the first place in the overall standings.

“I had a very good day on this challenging course, which had a pretty hard climb and also some technical roads. I knew before the start that there wouldn’t be any big time gaps today, but I gave everything out there. I did a better time trial than the one in the Dauphiné. It ended up being a perfect day for me and my team, we took some time on the others, so it’s mission accomplished. We will celebrate this beautiful victory tonight, and from tomorrow, we’ll focus on the remaining stages of this week”, added Evenepoel – the youngest rider in the last 45 years to have individual time trial wins in all three Grand Tours.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
28:52
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
0:12
3 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:34
4 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:37
5 Victor Campenaerts
Lotto Dstny
0:52
6 Kévin Vauquelin
0:52
7 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:54
8 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:57
9 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
0:59
10 Stefan Küng
Groupama - FDJ
1:00
13 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:14
35 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
2:15
95 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
3:58
112 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
4:18
127 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
4:34
150 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
5:01
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
27:16:23
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:33
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:15
4 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:36
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
2:16
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
2:17
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
2:31
8 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
3:35
9 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4:03
10 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:36
21 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
6:43
50 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
32:01
80 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
54:20
101 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
1:05:43
142 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
1:23:39
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
149 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
111 pt
3 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
87 pt
4 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
85 pt
5 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
75 pt
6 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
73 pt
7 Dylan Groenewegen
Team Jayco AlUla
71 pt
8 Kévin Vauquelin
70 pt
9 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
64 pt
10 Arnaud Démare
63 pt
12 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
53 pt
51 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
9 pt
56 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
58 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
7 pt
1 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
26 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
27:16:56
2 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
1:43
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:58
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:30
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
5:20
6 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
6:10
7 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
8:26
8 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
12:40
9 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
18:00
10 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
20:02
1 UAE Team Emirates 81:54:04
2 Soudal Quick-Step 6:04
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 7:41
4 INEOS Grenadiers 8:31
5 Bahrain - Victorious 14:33
6 Movistar Team 16:01
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 18:34
8 EF Education - EasyPost 25:53
9 Lidl - Trek 34:32
10 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 43:02

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