The 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2013 took place on June 30, 2013. It ran entirely on Corsica and led from Bastia over 156 km to Ajaccio . During the course of the stage there was a mountain classification in the second category, 3 in the third category and a sprint classification. The second stage counted as a low mountain range stage. All 198 drivers started.
A short time after the start, the four drivers David Veilleux , Blel Kadri , Rubén Pérez and Lars Boom pulled away from the main field. Their lead grew to just over three minutes just before the intermediate sprint. Boom won the standings ahead of Veilleux, Kadri and Pérez, and André Greipel was the sprint winner in the main field . At the beginning of the ascent to Col de Bellagranajo with a mountain classification in the third category, the leading group was two minutes ahead of the field. Lars Boom was first on the summit, followed by Rubén Pérez. In the following descent, the peloton came within less than a minute of the outliers.
On the second ascent to Col de la Serra, the leading group disintegrated, Kadri won the mountain classification before Veilleux, Boom and Pérez fell back. From the field attacked Thomas Voeckler , who overtook the two on the climb. At the same time, Marcel Kittel, who was wearing the yellow jersey, had to tear off and fell behind. Kadri was now alone in the lead and kept the gap to the field at 30 seconds. He had a defect at the Col de Vizzavona (2nd category) and then had to let Pierre Rolland overtake him, who had broken out of the main field and won the third mountain classification of the day ahead of Kadri.
About 50 kilometers from the finish, Rolland was overtaken by the peloton again. Meanwhile, Marcel Kittel was more than five minutes behind and no longer had a chance to defend his yellow jersey. The last mountain classification of the stage was held on the Côte du Salario and won by Cyril Gautier , who had pulled away on the mountain. Tour favorite Chris Froome attacked about 200 meters from the summit , but was caught up again like Gautier. Sylvain Chavanel attacked seven kilometers from the finish ; A breakaway group of six formed. About a kilometer from the finish, Jan Bakelants pulled away from the group. He won the stage and was the only one able to save a second lead over the peloton at the finish, making him the new overall leader of the Tour de France 2013.
In the other ratings, Rolland took over the dotted jersey . Michał Kwiatkowski was ahead in the junior driver class, Marcel Kittel kept the green jersey of the points classification.
