Tour de France 2007/20. stage
Result of the 20th stage | |||
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Stage winner | Daniele Bennati | 3:51:03 h (37.914 km / h) |
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Second | Thor Hushovd | equal time | |
Third | Erik Zabel | equal time | |
Fourth | Robert Hunter | equal time | |
fifth | Tom Boonen | equal time | |
Sixth | Sébastien Chavanel | equal time | |
seventh | Fabian Cancellara | equal time | |
Eighth | David Millar | equal time | |
Ninth | Robert Forster | equal time | |
Tenth | Manuel Quinziato | equal time | |
Most combative driver | Freddy Bichot | ||
Final results after the 20th stage | |||
Yellow jersey | Alberto Contador | 91:00:26 h | |
Second | Cadel Evans | + 0:23 min | |
Third | Levi Leipheimer | + 0:31 min | |
Green jersey | Tom Boonen | 256 p. | |
Second | Robert Hunter | 234 P. | |
Third | Erik Zabel | 232 P. | |
Dotted jersey | Mauricio Soler | 206 P. | |
Second | Alberto Contador | 128 P. | |
Third | Yaroslav Popovych | 105 p. | |
White jersey | Alberto Contador | 91:00:26 h | |
Second | Mauricio Soler | + 16:51 min | |
Third | Amets Txurruka | + 49:34 min | |
Team evaluation | Discovery Channel | 273: 12: 22 h | |
Second | Caisse d'Epargne | + 19:36 min | |
Third | Team CSC | + 22:10 min | |
Most combative driver | Amets Txurruka |
The 20th stage of the Tour de France 2007 on July 29th was 146 kilometers long and led the remaining 139 riders from Marcoussis , the training center of the French national rugby union team , north through the northern region of the Île-de-France , in detail through the departments of Essonne and Yvelines , from south to Paris on the Champs-Élysées . From there, the finish line was crossed eight times on the 6.5-kilometer circuit between Tuileries , Rue de Rivoli , Place de la Concorde and Place Charles de Gaulle , before the tour ended with the ninth target crossing. The tenth and, at the same time, last flat stage featured the last two mountain ratings of the tour, both classified in the fourth category.
As in previous years, the first part of the stage, which with the start in Marcoussis was supposed to remind of the upcoming Rugby Union World Cup in France , was like a leisurely stroll on which the various jersey wearers and valuation leaders posed for the cameras of the photographers and the television .
The race began when the Discovery Channel team entered the final lap on the Champs-Élysées. After the field had passed the first target section , the Frenchman Freddy Bichot launched the first attack 48 kilometers from the finish. However, the Agritubel driver was never able to break away from the peloton for more than 20 seconds and after only eight kilometers alone at the front, he was caught first by Marcus Burghardt and Vicente García Acosta and then by the field. Shortly before the end of the second round, a group of ten, consisting of Juan Antonio Flecha , Murilo Fischer , Christian Knees , Simon Gerrans , Alessandro Ballan , Ronny Scholz , Mickaël Delage , Nicolas Portal , José Iván Gutiérrez and Anthony Charteau , took the lead Race. With a maximum advantage of only 45 seconds, they stayed in the lead up to nine kilometers from the finish, before eight drivers from the main field, now led by the teams Barloworld and Crédit Agricole , were overtaken. Only the two Spaniards Flecha and Gutiérrez were able to evade the field for another seven kilometers and were made 2000 meters from the finish line. In the subsequent mass sprint of the field, the Italian Daniele Bennati secured his second stage win in the tour, followed by Thor Hushovd , who won the final stage the year before , and Erik Zabel .
The overall ranking was won by Alberto Contador, the first Spaniard since Miguel Induráin in 1995 and the youngest driver since Jan Ullrich in 1997 . Second place went to Cadel Evans , who achieved the best placement by an Australian in the history of the tour, followed by Levi Leipheimer in third place, who continued the good results of the Americans on the previous tours of France. Contador's 23-second lead over runner-up Evans was the second smallest in touring history and was only beaten by the eight seconds separating Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon in 1989 . The 31 seconds behind the third placed Leipheimer even marked the smallest gap ever between the three drivers on the podium and was 58 seconds less than the record set in the previous year among the drivers Floyd Landis , Óscar Pereiro and Andreas Klöden of 1:29 Minutes. The Belgian Tom Boonen won the green jersey for the first time with a 22-point lead over the first South African stage winner Robert Hunter . With Mauricio Soler , an up-and-coming young professional who was the third Colombian to achieve this after Luis Herrera and Santiago Botero secured himself the mountain classification . After Michael Rasmussen's expulsion , he was followed by a large margin, overall winner Contador and his teammate Jaroslaw Popowytsch . In addition to overall victory and second place in the mountain classification, Contador was also able to win the junior competition ahead of Mauricio Soler and Amets Txurruka , who was named the most combative driver of the tour the day before . For the first time in its history, the Discovery Channel team won the team standings and clearly distanced the Caisse d'Epargne and CSC teams by more than 19 minutes.
Intermediate sprints
1st intermediate sprint in Châtenay-Malabry (kilometer 74) (155 m above sea level)
First | Lilian Jégou | 6 p. And 6 s |
Second | Carlos Barredo | 4 p. And 4 s |
Third | Steven de Jongh | 2 P. and 2 s |
2nd intermediate sprint in Haut des Champs-Elysées (kilometer 108.5) (60 m above sea level)
First | Simon Gerrans | 6 p. And 6 s |
Second | Alessandro Ballan | 4 p. And 4 s |
Third | Nicolas Portal | 2 P. and 2 s |
Mountain ratings
Côte de Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse , category 4 (kilometer 51) (128 m above sea level)
First | Gert Steegmans | 3 p. |
Second | Thomas Lövkvist | 2 p. |
Third | Frederik Willems | 1 P. |
Côte de Châteaufort , category 4 (km 54.5) (136 m above sea level)
First | Gert Steegmans | 3 p. |
Second | Michael Albasini | 2 p. |
Third | Yaroslav Popovych | 1 P. |