Tour de France
Slovenia’s Matej Mohoric won the third-to-last stage of the Tour de France on Friday. After 173 bumpy kilometers from Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny, the 28-year-old celebrated his third day’s success on the Tour in the sprint of a trio of escapees just a few centimeters ahead of the previous day’s winner Kasper Asgreen. The overall ranking with dominator Jonas Vingegaard and Felix Gall in eighth place remained unchanged in the top ten.
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For Gall, the coveted mountain jersey is still at stake in the final climb in the Vosges on Saturday. His AG2R teammate Ben O’Connor went empty handed in the final sprint against Mohoric and Asgreen for third. Bahrain professional Mohoric, on the other hand, fixed his personal tour triple, in 2021 he had won two stages. The best Austrian of this year’s 19th stage was 1:41 minutes behind Bora veteran Marco Haller in 13th place.
On the day, with an average speed of over 49 km/h, Gall was almost 14 minutes behind Mohoric and Co. in the field with the top stars. In the Vosges, the winner of the king’s stage could set another historic mark by winning the mountains classification. With the exception of Bernhard Kohl, who was subsequently convicted of doping, no Austrian has worn the dotted mountain jersey at the end of the 2008 tour.
Gall’s gap to Italy’s Giulio Ciccone in the mountains classification is still six points. The final ascents of the section to the Petit Ballon and the Col du Platzerwasel each have ten points ready for the first. But even before that there would be several smaller classifications on the 133.5 km long section from Belfort to Le Markstein. The final day with the traditional Tour d’Honneur to Paris only has one mountain point left on Sunday.
110. Tour de France
Morians-en-Montagne – Poligny (173 km): 1. Matej Mohoric SLO 3:31:02 2. Kasper Asgreen DEN -“- 3. Ben O’Connor AUS + 0:04 4. Jasper Philipsen BEL 0:39 5. Mads Pedersen DEN -“- 6. Christophe Laporte FRA -“- 7. Luka Mezgec SLO -“- 8. Alberto Bettiol ITA -“- 9. Matteo Trentin ITA – “- 10. Tom Pidcock GBR -“- 13.
Marco Haller
AUT 1:41 37. Jonas Vingegaard DEN 13:43 39.
Felix Großschartner
AUT -“- 42. Tadej Pogacar SLO -“- 43. Adam Yates GBR -“-
Felix Gall
AUT
-“-
126.
Michael Gogl
AUT
16:45
134.
Patrick Konrad
AUT
-“-
145.
Gregor Muehlberger
AUT
-“-
rating
Standing after 19 of 21 stages: 1. Jonas Vingegaard DEN 75:49:24 2. Tadej Pogacar SLO + 7:35 3. Adam Yates GBR 10:45 4. Carlos Rodriguez ESP 12:01 5. Simon Yates GBR 12:19 6. Pello Bilbao ESP 12:50 7. Jai Hi ndley AUS 13:5
Felix Gall
AUT 16:11 9. Sepp Kuss USA 16:49 10. David Gaudu FRI 17:57 24.
Felix Großschartner
AUT
1:37:51
49.
Gregor Muehlberger
AUT
2:41:52
78.
Marco Haller
AUT
3:41:54
83.
Patrick Konrad
AUT
3:48:28
129.
Michael Gogl
AUT
4:48:15