Mikel Landa tightens grip on fifth overall after a day with more than 4000 vertical meters.

Remco Evenepoel made another step towards what would be a well-deserved top-three finish at his maiden Tour de France appearance, on a day that featured Col de Vars, Cime de la Bonette and Isola 2000. Soudal Quick-Step’s leader showcased once again his remarkable consistency, finishing in the first ten on the stage for the eighth time since the race got underway from Florence, almost three weeks ago.

Isola 2000, a 16.1km climb averaging 7.1%, which had been used as a Tour de France stage finish only once before Friday, at the 1993 edition of the race, was where the main attacks came at the end of this savage day in the Alps, and when the action began, both Remco Evenepoel and Mikel Landa responded present. The Basque did a superb job pacing his teammate on the steep part of the ascent, before Evenepoel surged in pursuit of lone leader Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) with only Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on his wheel.

The 24-year-old Belgian taped out a strong rhythm as he went into time trial mode and sparing no effort, concluded the stage in fifth place. He was followed some twenty seconds later by Mikel, whose rock-solid performance Friday afternoon helped him extend the buffer he has over the next rider on the general classification to a full two minutes and consolidate his position in the top five overall.

“The pace today was hard from the beginning. On the final ascent, I tried to follow Tadej, but his tempo was too strong, so I rode for my place on the podium and gave everything out there, trying to go as fast as I could. We’ll see how things go tomorrow and what we can do, but what’s certain is that it’s going to be a tough stage”, said Remco about the last summit finish of the Grande Boucle, the Col de la Couillole.

 

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Race details

1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
4:04:03
2 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:21
3 Simon Yates
Team Jayco AlUla
0:40
4 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
1:11
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
1:42
6 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:42
7 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
2:00
8 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
2:00
9 Wilco Kelderman
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
2:52
10 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
3:27
23 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
14:31
35 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
22:24
87 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
40:34
97 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
40:34
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
78:49:20
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
5:03
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
7:01
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
15:07
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
15:34
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
17:36
7 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
19:18
8 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
21:52
9 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
22:43
10 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
22:46
27 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:31:25
68 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
3:27:06
85 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
3:44:47
122 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
4:40:54
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
387 pt
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
354 pt
3 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
208 pt
4 Anthony Turgis
TotalEnergies
180 pt
5 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
161 pt
6 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
156 pt
7 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
152 pt
8 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
149 pt
9 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
123 pt
10 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
118 pt
31 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
46 pt
76 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
15 pt
1 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
101 pt
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
87 pt
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
59 pt
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
53 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
44 pt
6 Oier Lazkano López
Movistar Team
41 pt
7 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
36 pt
8 Wilco Kelderman
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
36 pt
9 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
30 pt
10 Simon Yates
Team Jayco AlUla
30 pt
21 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
14 pt
28 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
10 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
78:56:21
2 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
10:35
3 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
15:42
4 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
15:55
5 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
1:18:02
6 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
1:19:45
7 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:24:24
8 Jordan Jegat
TotalEnergies
1:41:50
9 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
2:04:54
10 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
2:15:06
1 UAE Team Emirates 236:59:00
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 27:25
3 Soudal Quick-Step 1:12:07
4 INEOS Grenadiers 1:12:52
5 Lidl - Trek 2:01:25
6 Movistar Team 2:25:57
7 Bahrain - Victorious 3:04:13
8 EF Education - EasyPost 3:06:20
9 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 3:07:22
10 Israel - Premier Tech 3:36:25

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