Tour of Britain

Stage 5: Northampton - Northampton

GB United Kingdom Saturday 07 September 2024 149.6 km

Magnier scores the hat-trick in Great Britain

Magnier scores the hat-trick in Great Britain

Soudal Quick-Step reached 30 victories this season after Paul Magnier blasted to another win at the Tour of Britain, in what was a nail-biting finish in Northampton, where the breakaway got caught with only 700 meters to go.

Three men animated stage five, putting two minutes into the peloton, a gap which was reduced by just half a minute by the time they entered the last 20 kilometers. It took an incredibly long and determined pull of double Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel – racing for the 300th time in his career with the Soudal Quick-Stpe jersey on his shoulders – to bring the peloton within distance of the trio, the effort Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian put in there turning out to be crucial at the end of the stage.

As it happened in the previous two days that came down to a mass gallop, Julian Alaphilippe devoted his energies to working for his countryman, expertly putting him in an excellent position for the final 500 meters. Magnier hit the front in the last 200 meters and completely unbothered by the uphill drag to the line, he swept past all his opponents producing a superb turn of speed that landed him his third stage win at this edition.

“I don’t have the words to tell you what it means to me to take three wins at the Tour of Britain. The team put in a great team performance today. It wasn’t easy to catch the breakaway, but Remco did an incredible effort to cut the gap, and then Julian brought me to the front while I saved my energy. I was able to do another good sprint. We have one more stage here and we hope to be in the mix on Sunday, when there should be another bunch sprint”, said Paul after mathematically winning the points jersey.

 

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Race details

1 Paul Magnier
Soudal Quick-Step
3:12:09
2 Erlend Blikra
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
3 Ethan Vernon
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
4 Matevž Govekar
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
5 Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
0:00
6 Robert Donaldson
Trinity Racing
0:00
7 Ethan Hayter
INEOS Grenadiers
0:00
8 Tom Donnenwirth
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
0:00
9 Rory Townsend
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:00
10 Casper van Uden
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:00
43 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
0:12
44 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
0:12
63 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
1:44
83 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
2:32
89 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
5:33
1 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
18:02:56
2 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
0:16
3 Mark Donovan
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
0:40
4 Tom Donnenwirth
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
0:41
5 Joseph Blackmore
Israel - Premier Tech
0:41
6 Paul Magnier
Soudal Quick-Step
1:11
7 Jelte Krijnsen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
1:42
8 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
1:43
9 Julius Johansen
Sabgal / Anicolor
1:45
10 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
1:45
25 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
2:57
32 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6:04
85 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
45:42
87 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
51:40
1 Paul Magnier
Soudal Quick-Step
95 pt
2 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
51 pt
3 Ethan Vernon
Israel - Premier Tech
48 pt
4 Julius Johansen
Sabgal / Anicolor
30 pt
5 Erlend Blikra
Uno-X Mobility
30 pt
6 Jelte Krijnsen
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
25 pt
7 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
22 pt
8 Robert Donaldson
Trinity Racing
22 pt
9 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
21 pt
10 Edoardo Zambanini
Bahrain - Victorious
19 pt
30 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
6 pt
34 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
3 pt
36 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
3 pt
37 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Callum Thornley
Trinity Racing
50 pt
2 Dean Harvey
Trinity Racing
24 pt
3 Laurent Gervais
Project Echelon Racing
20 pt
4 Baptiste Veistroffer
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
19 pt
5 Louis Sutton
Great Britain
18 pt
6 Nickolas Zukowsky
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
18 pt
7 Julius Johansen
Sabgal / Anicolor
14 pt
8 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
13 pt
9 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal Quick-Step
12 pt
10 Matthew Holmes
Great Britain
10 pt
21 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
5 pt
23 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
24 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
3 pt
26 Paul Magnier
Soudal Quick-Step
2 pt
1 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
18:03:12
2 Joseph Blackmore
Israel - Premier Tech
0:25
3 Paul Magnier
Soudal Quick-Step
0:55
4 Louis Sutton
Great Britain
1:39
5 Noa Isidore
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
1:42
6 Robert Donaldson
Trinity Racing
1:49
7 Antoine L'Hote
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team
1:55
8 Fergus Browning
Trinity Racing
2:08
9 Nils Aebersold
Lidl - Trek Future Racing
2:29
10 Gil Gelders
Soudal Quick-Step
2:41
33 Martin Svrček
Soudal Quick-Step
51:24
1 Israel - Premier Tech 54:11:58
2 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Development Team 1:29
3 Soudal Quick-Step 1:30
4 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 2:51
5 INEOS Grenadiers 2:55
6 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 3:30
7 Sabgal / Anicolor 5:15
8 Great Britain 5:59
9 Lidl - Trek Future Racing 8:55
10 Trinity Racing 9:54

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