Tour de France Final stage

Tour de France 2013

Sunday, July 21st - Stage 21 133.5km

Versailles / Paris Champs-Élysées

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Jersey wearers after the stage 21

Yellow jersey

No.1

Christopher
FROOME

GBR SKY PROCYCLING

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times83h 56' 40''

Green jersey

No.11

Peter
SAGAN

SVK CANNONDALE

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points409

Polka-dot jersey

No.128

Nairo Alexander
QUINTANA ROJAS

COL MOVISTAR TEAM

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points147

White jersey

No.128

Nairo Alexander
QUINTANA ROJAS

COL MOVISTAR TEAM

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times84h 01' 00''

The day's winner

No.197

Marcel
KITTEL 

GER TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO

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times03h 06' 14''

Team

TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF

DEN

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times251h 11' 07''

Super-combative

No.89

Christophe
RIBLON

FRA AG2R LA MONDIALE

 

Overall individual time classification

Total distance covered: 3403.5 km

rank	rider	rider No.	team	times	gap
1.	GBR FROOME Christopher	1	SKY PROCYCLING	83h 56' 40''
2.	COL QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander	128	MOVISTAR TEAM	84h 01' 00''	+ 04' 20''
3.	ESP RODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin	101	KATUSHA TEAM	84h 01' 44''	+ 05' 04''
4.	ESP CONTADOR Alberto	91	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	84h 03' 07''	+ 06' 27''
5.	CZE KREUZIGER Roman	94	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	84h 04' 07''	+ 07' 27''
6.	NED MOLLEMA Bauke	164	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	84h 08' 22''	+ 11' 42''
7.	DEN FUGLSANG Jakob	63	ASTANA PRO TEAM	84h 08' 57''	+ 12' 17''
8.	ESP VALVERDE Alejandro	121	MOVISTAR TEAM	84h 12' 06''	+ 15' 26''
9.	ESP NAVARRO Daniel	139	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	84h 12' 32''	+ 15' 52''
10.	USA TALANSKY Andrew	178	GARMIN - SHARP	84h 14' 19''	+ 17' 39''
11.	POL KWIATKOWSKI Michal	153	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	84h 15' 39''	+ 18' 59''
12.	ESP NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel	116	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	84h 16' 41''	+ 20' 01''
13.	NED TEN DAM Laurens	167	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	84h 18' 19''	+ 21' 39''
14.	BEL MONFORT Maxime	47	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	84h 20' 18''	+ 23' 38''
15.	FRA BARDET Romain	82	AG2R LA MONDIALE	84h 23' 22''	+ 26' 42''
16.	AUS ROGERS Michael	98	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	84h 23' 31''	+ 26' 51''
17.	ESP MORENO FERNANDEZ Daniel	106	KATUSHA TEAM	84h 29' 14''	+ 32' 34''
18.	BEL BAKELANTS Jan	42	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	84h 32' 31''	+ 35' 51''
19.	AUS PORTE Richie	6	SKY PROCYCLING	84h 36' 21''	+ 39' 41''
20.	LUX SCHLECK Andy	41	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	84h 38' 26''	+ 41' 46''
21.	COLSERPA José	149	LAMPRE - MERIDA	84h 41' 48''	+ 45' 08''
22.	FRAGADRET John	86	AG2R LA MONDIALE	84h 42' 40''	+ 46' 00''
23.	ESPANTON Igor	111	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	84h 44' 47''	+ 48' 07''
24.	FRAROLLAND Pierre	51	TEAM EUROPCAR	84h 48' 55''	+ 52' 15''
25.	SVKVELITS Peter	159	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	84h 50' 40''	+ 54' 00''
26.	NEDGESINK Robert	162	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	84h 51' 05''	+ 54' 25''
27.	PORCOSTA Rui Alberto	124	MOVISTAR TEAM	84h 51' 14''	+ 54' 34''
28.	NEDPOELS Wouter	201	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	84h 53' 13''	+ 56' 33''
29.	FRAJEANNESSON Arnold	77	FDJ.FR	84h 53' 46''	+ 57' 06''
30.	GERKLÖDEN Andreas	46	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	84h 59' 23''	+ 01h 02' 43''
31.	FRACHAVANEL Sylvain	152	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	85h 00' 21''	+ 01h 03' 41''
32.	FRAGAUTIER Cyril	54	TEAM EUROPCAR	85h 09' 22''	+ 01h 12' 42''
33.	IRLMARTIN Daniel	175	GARMIN - SHARP	85h 09' 48''	+ 01h 13' 08''
34.	FRADUPONT Hubert	85	AG2R LA MONDIALE	85h 11' 39''	+ 01h 14' 59''
35.	SUIMORABITO Steve	36	BMC RACING TEAM	85h 17' 19''	+ 01h 20' 39''
36.	ESPZUBELDIA Haimar	49	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	85h 21' 02''	+ 01h 24' 22''
37.	FRARIBLON Christophe	89	AG2R LA MONDIALE	85h 24' 37''	+ 01h 27' 57''
38.	BELDE CLERCQ Bart	23	LOTTO-BELISOL	85h 24' 46''	+ 01h 28' 06''
39.	AUSEVANS Cadel	31	BMC RACING TEAM	85h 26' 54''	+ 01h 30' 14''
40.	IRLROCHE Nicolas	97	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	85h 30' 57''	+ 01h 34' 17''
41.	NEDDUMOULIN Tom	194	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	85h 31' 10''	+ 01h 34' 30''
42.	ESPASTARLOZA Mikel	112	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	85h 33' 07''	+ 01h 36' 27''
43.	ESPHERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ Jesus	93	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	85h 33' 20''	+ 01h 36' 40''
44.	FRAGENIEZ Alexandre	76	FDJ.FR	85h 34' 46''	+ 01h 38' 06''
45.	USAVAN GARDEREN Tejay	39	BMC RACING TEAM	85h 35' 37''	+ 01h 38' 57''
46.	FRAVUILLERMOZ Alexis	219	SOJASUN	85h 36' 45''	+ 01h 40' 05''
47.	ESPPLAZA MOLINA Ruben	127	MOVISTAR TEAM	85h 37' 15''	+ 01h 40' 35''
48.	RUSVORGANOV Eduard	109	KATUSHA TEAM	85h 39' 21''	+ 01h 42' 41''
49.	ITAMALACARNE Davide	56	TEAM EUROPCAR	85h 41' 30''	+ 01h 44' 50''
50.	NORNORDHAUG Lars-Peter	165	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	85h 46' 22''	+ 01h 49' 42''
51.	RUSTROFIMOV Yury	108	KATUSHA TEAM	85h 46' 34''	+ 01h 49' 54''
52.	FRAMEDEREL Maxime	217	SOJASUN	85h 49' 41''	+ 01h 53' 01''
53.	LUXDIDIER Laurent	43	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	85h 55' 33''	+ 01h 58' 53''
54.	CRCAMADOR Andrey	122	MOVISTAR TEAM	85h 55' 39''	+ 01h 58' 59''
55.	ITACUNEGO Damiano	141	LAMPRE - MERIDA	85h 56' 18''	+ 01h 59' 38''
56.	FRAMOINARD Amaël	35	BMC RACING TEAM	85h 56' 43''	+ 02h 00' 03''
57.	POLNIEMIEC Przemyslaw	148	LAMPRE - MERIDA	85h 57' 08''	+ 02h 00' 28''
58.	FRAGALLOPIN Tony	44	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	85h 59' 39''	+ 02h 02' 59''
59.	FRAFEDRIGO Pierrick	74	FDJ.FR	86h 00' 59''	+ 02h 04' 19''
60.	USADANIELSON Thomas	173	GARMIN - SHARP	86h 02' 08''	+ 02h 05' 28''
61.	FRALEVARLET Guillaume	136	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	86h 03' 41''	+ 02h 07' 01''
62.	BELGILBERT Philippe	34	BMC RACING TEAM	86h 03' 51''	+ 02h 07' 11''
63.	FRACOPPEL Jérôme	133	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	86h 05' 53''	+ 02h 09' 13''
64.	NEDTANKINK Bram	166	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	86h 06' 52''	+ 02h 10' 12''
65.	FRAVOECKLER Thomas	59	TEAM EUROPCAR	86h 09' 28''	+ 02h 12' 48''
66.	FRAVICHOT Arthur	79	FDJ.FR	86h 11' 46''	+ 02h 15' 06''
67.	GERVOIGT Jens	48	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	86h 11' 49''	+ 02h 15' 09''
68.	AUSCLARKE Simon	183	ORICA GREENEDGE	86h 16' 54''	+ 02h 20' 14''
69.	ESPIZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon	114	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	86h 18' 12''	+ 02h 21' 32''
70.	CANHESJEDAL Ryder	171	GARMIN - SHARP	86h 18' 21''	+ 02h 21' 41''
71.	ITADE MARCHI Alessandro	13	CANNONDALE	86h 19' 51''	+ 02h 23' 11''
72.	AUSHANSEN Adam	25	LOTTO-BELISOL	86h 19' 55''	+ 02h 23' 15''
73.	FRAMOLARD Rudy	138	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	86h 22' 05''	+ 02h 25' 25''
74.	RSAIMPEY Daryl	185	ORICA GREENEDGE	86h 23' 17''	+ 02h 26' 37''
75.	GERGESCHKE Simon	196	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	86h 24' 22''	+ 02h 27' 42''
76.	ITAMORI Manuele	147	LAMPRE - MERIDA	86h 24' 59''	+ 02h 28' 19''
77.	GBRKENNAUGH Peter	3	SKY PROCYCLING	86h 30' 26''	+ 02h 33' 46''
78.	ESPOROZ Juan José	117	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	86h 30' 35''	+ 02h 33' 55''
79.	ESPROJAS José Joaquin	129	MOVISTAR TEAM	86h 30' 45''	+ 02h 34' 05''
80.	AUSGERRANS Simon	181	ORICA GREENEDGE	86h 31' 16''	+ 02h 34' 36''
81.	FRAEL FARES Julien	213	SOJASUN	86h 33' 08''	+ 02h 36' 28''
82.	SVKSAGAN Peter	11	CANNONDALE	86h 35' 31''	+ 02h 38' 51''
83.	UZBLAGUTIN Sergey	206	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	86h 35' 35''	+ 02h 38' 55''
84.	ITAGAVAZZI Francesco	65	ASTANA PRO TEAM	86h 35' 48''	+ 02h 39' 08''
85.	ITAQUINZIATO Manuel	37	BMC RACING TEAM	86h 36' 14''	+ 02h 39' 34''
86.	SUIALBASINI Michael	182	ORICA GREENEDGE	86h 37' 02''	+ 02h 40' 22''
87.	FRASIMON Julien	218	SOJASUN	86h 38' 04''	+ 02h 41' 24''
88.	ESPMATE MARDONES Luis Angel	137	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	86h 40' 08''	+ 02h 43' 28''
89.	FRADELAPLACE Anthony	212	SOJASUN	86h 40' 53''	+ 02h 44' 13''
90.	BLRSIUTSOU Kanstantsin	7	SKY PROCYCLING	86h 41' 23''	+ 02h 44' 43''
91.	USABOOKWALTER Brent	32	BMC RACING TEAM	86h 41' 45''	+ 02h 45' 05''
92.	ITATOSATTO Matteo	99	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	86h 44' 19''	+ 02h 47' 39''
93.	ESPFLECHA GIANNONI Juan Antonio	204	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	86h 44' 43''	+ 02h 48' 03''
94.	ITAMOSER Moreno	17	CANNONDALE	86h 50' 07''	+ 02h 53' 27''
95.	ITAGASPAROTTO Enrico	64	ASTANA PRO TEAM	86h 50' 16''	+ 02h 53' 36''
96.	BELDE GENDT Thomas	203	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	86h 50' 21''	+ 02h 53' 41''
97.	ESPCASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan	123	MOVISTAR TEAM	86h 50' 21''	+ 02h 53' 41''
98.	GERBURGHARDT Marcus	33	BMC RACING TEAM	86h 50' 41''	+ 02h 54' 01''
99.	JPNARASHIRO Yukiya	52	TEAM EUROPCAR	86h 51' 33''	+ 02h 54' 53''
100.	SLOKOREN Kristijan	15	CANNONDALE	86h 53' 43''	+ 02h 57' 03''
101.	NEDHOOGERLAND Johnny	205	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	86h 54' 39''	+ 02h 57' 59''
102.	ESTTAARAMÄE Rein	131	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	86h 55' 49''	+ 02h 59' 09''
103.	ESPIRIZAR Markel	45	RADIOSHACK LEOPARD	86h 56' 19''	+ 02h 59' 39''
104.	FRAFEILLU Brice	211	SOJASUN	86h 56' 25''	+ 02h 59' 45''
105.	NEDBOOM Lars	161	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	86h 59' 32''	+ 03h 02' 52''
106.	GERMARTIN Tony	154	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 02' 05''	+ 03h 05' 25''
107.	ITABENNATI Daniele	92	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	87h 02' 35''	+ 03h 05' 55''
108.	DENBAK Lars Ytting	22	LOTTO-BELISOL	87h 03' 52''	+ 03h 07' 12''
109.	ESPLOSADA ALGUACIL Alberto	105	KATUSHA TEAM	87h 04' 06''	+ 03h 07' 26''
110.	RUSBRUTT Pavel	102	KATUSHA TEAM	87h 06' 27''	+ 03h 09' 47''
111.	ITAMARANGONI Alan	16	CANNONDALE	87h 06' 41''	+ 03h 10' 01''
112.	FRALEMOINE Cyril	215	SOJASUN	87h 08' 18''	+ 03h 11' 38''
113.	GBRMILLAR David	176	GARMIN - SHARP	87h 11' 05''	+ 03h 14' 25''
114.	POLBODNAR Maciej	12	CANNONDALE	87h 11' 55''	+ 03h 15' 15''
115.	ESPGARCIA ECHEGUIBEL Egoitz	134	COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS	87h 13' 08''	+ 03h 16' 28''
116.	FRAMARINO Jean Marc	216	SOJASUN	87h 13' 10''	+ 03h 16' 30''
117.	ITASABATINI Fabio	18	CANNONDALE	87h 15' 20''	+ 03h 18' 40''
118.	ESPERVITI Imanol	125	MOVISTAR TEAM	87h 15' 52''	+ 03h 19' 12''
119.	LATSMUKULIS Gatis	107	KATUSHA TEAM	87h 17' 46''	+ 03h 21' 06''
120.	LTUNAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas	177	GARMIN - SHARP	87h 18' 09''	+ 03h 21' 29''
121.	GERDEGENKOLB John	191	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	87h 20' 03''	+ 03h 23' 23''
122.	FRASICARD Romain	119	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	87h 20' 34''	+ 03h 23' 54''
123.	CANVEILLEUX David	58	TEAM EUROPCAR	87h 20' 56''	+ 03h 24' 16''
124.	FRAMINARD Sébastien	88	AG2R LA MONDIALE	87h 21' 08''	+ 03h 24' 28''
125.	FRAKADRI Blel	87	AG2R LA MONDIALE	87h 23' 57''	+ 03h 27' 17''
126.	FRAROY Jérémy	78	FDJ.FR	87h 25' 19''	+ 03h 28' 39''
127.	ESPLOPEZ GARCIA David	5	SKY PROCYCLING	87h 25' 27''	+ 03h 28' 47''
128.	ITAFAVILLI Elia	144	LAMPRE - MERIDA	87h 27' 59''	+ 03h 31' 19''
129.	GERGREIPEL André	24	LOTTO-BELISOL	87h 28' 47''	+ 03h 32' 07''
130.	AUSMEYER Cameron	187	ORICA GREENEDGE	87h 28' 54''	+ 03h 32' 14''
131.	BELVANMARCKE Sep	168	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	87h 31' 13''	+ 03h 34' 33''
132.	BELWYNANTS Maarten	169	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	87h 33' 46''	+ 03h 37' 06''
133.	BRAFISCHER Murilo Antoniobil	75	FDJ.FR	87h 34' 28''	+ 03h 37' 48''
134.	FRAREZA Kévin	57	TEAM EUROPCAR	87h 35' 11''	+ 03h 38' 31''
135.	GBRSTANNARD Ian	8	SKY PROCYCLING	87h 35' 29''	+ 03h 38' 49''
136.	PORPAULINHO Sergio Miguel Moreira	96	TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF	87h 35' 38''	+ 03h 38' 58''
137.	ITACIMOLAI Davide	143	LAMPRE - MERIDA	87h 37' 11''	+ 03h 40' 31''
138.	NEDDE KORT Koen	193	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	87h 37' 35''	+ 03h 40' 55''
139.	ESPPEREZ MORENO Ruben	118	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	87h 39' 55''	+ 03h 43' 15''
140.	GBRTHOMAS Geraint	9	SKY PROCYCLING	87h 40' 14''	+ 03h 43' 34''
141.	BLRKUCHYNSKI Aliaksandr	104	KATUSHA TEAM	87h 41' 42''	+ 03h 45' 02''
142.	ITATRENTIN Matteo	158	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 42' 10''	+ 03h 45' 30''
143.	FRADUMOULIN Samuel	84	AG2R LA MONDIALE	87h 43' 51''	+ 03h 47' 11''
144.	NEDVAN POPPEL Boy	207	VACANSOLEIL-DCM	87h 44' 55''	+ 03h 48' 15''
145.	NEDCURVERS Roy	192	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	87h 45' 10''	+ 03h 48' 30''
146.	GERFRÖHLINGER Johannes	195	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	87h 45' 42''	+ 03h 49' 02''
147.	NORKRISTOFF Alexander	103	KATUSHA TEAM	87h 46' 30''	+ 03h 49' 50''
148.	GBRCAVENDISH Mark	151	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 48' 44''	+ 03h 52' 04''
149.	NEDTERPSTRA Niki	157	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 48' 45''	+ 03h 52' 05''
150.	NEDLEEZER Thomas	163	BELKIN PRO CYCLING	87h 50' 35''	+ 03h 53' 55''
151.	FRAHIVERT Jonathan	214	SOJASUN	87h 53' 49''	+ 03h 57' 09''
152.	AUSGOSS Matthew Harley	184	ORICA GREENEDGE	87h 54' 04''	+ 03h 57' 24''
153.	BELSTEEGMANS Gert	156	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 55' 54''	+ 03h 59' 14''
154.	AUSLANCASTER Brett Daniel	186	ORICA GREENEDGE	87h 56' 59''	+ 04h 00' 19''
155.	DENVANDBORG Brian	19	CANNONDALE	87h 57' 01''	+ 04h 00' 21''
156.	FRACOUSIN Jérome	53	TEAM EUROPCAR	87h 57' 50''	+ 04h 01' 10''
157.	ITAFERRARI Roberto	145	LAMPRE - MERIDA	87h 58' 49''	+ 04h 02' 09''
158.	FRAGENE Yohann	55	TEAM EUROPCAR	87h 59' 46''	+ 04h 03' 06''
159.	FRAPINEAU Jérôme	155	OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP	87h 59' 51''	+ 04h 03' 11''
160.	BELROELANDTS Jurgen	27	LOTTO-BELISOL	87h 59' 58''	+ 04h 03' 18''
161.	AUSO'GRADY Stuart	188	ORICA GREENEDGE	88h 00' 07''	+ 04h 03' 27''
162.	NZLHENDERSON Gregory	26	LOTTO-BELISOL	88h 01' 06''	+ 04h 04' 26''
163.	BELWILLEMS Frederik	29	LOTTO-BELISOL	88h 01' 58''	+ 04h 05' 18''
164.	NEDTIMMER Albert	198	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	88h 03' 59''	+ 04h 07' 19''
165.	ESPLOBATO DEL VALLE Juan José	115	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	88h 04' 39''	+ 04h 07' 59''
166.	GERKITTEL Marcel	197	TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO	88h 06' 48''	+ 04h 10' 08''
167.	KAZMURAVYEV Dmitriy	69	ASTANA PRO TEAM	88h 18' 26''	+ 04h 21' 46''
168.	KAZBAZAYEV Assan	62	ASTANA PRO TEAM	88h 21' 32''	+ 04h 24' 52''
169.	CANTUFT Svein	189	ORICA GREENEDGE	88h 24' 35''	+ 04h 27' 55''

Froome: champion of the 100th Tour!

He was the dominant force in the 100th Tour de France and even though Christopher Froome lost 53 seconds to the winner of the final stage and 43 seconds to his nearest rival in the general classification, the Sky team sealed its second successive victory in the Tour de France at the end of the evening spectacle on the streets of Paris. The finish was around 9.40pm in the city of lights and the stars came out to shine: the four at the top of the sprinters classification had a drag race to the line to determine the winner of the 21st stage and it was Marcel Kittel who began the Tour as he started it - with a victory. The German won in Bastia, St-Malo and Tours (stages one, 10 and 12) and he topped off a stunning second appearance by holding off a late challenge from the four-time winner in Paris, Mark Cavendish. Behind the battle of the sprinters, the celebrations had begun. Chris Froome would roll over the finish line arm-in-arm with team-mate David Lopez and with Richie Porte by his side. The grin on his face spelled out the relief and satisfaction of becoming the second British champion of the Tour and the first rider born in Africa to take home the yellow jersey. He ended his emphatic campaign with an advantage of 4'20» over the best young rider - and King of the Mountains - Nairo Quintana. «I get a lot of inspiration from reading messages from fans who say that just watching the Tour de France makes them want to get out on their bikes or start cycling,» said the champion of the 2013 Tour. «That's what this is about. It's one of the main reasons we're here, why Sky is sponsoring us - to get that kind of response and support from the public back home is a really cool feeling.»

The progress report
The official start of the final stage of the 100th Tour de France was at 6.26pm with an equal record number of riders at the sign on for the final stage, 170 (matching the 2010 race when this was the biggest finishing field ever). The stage had two category-four climbs in the opening hour: the cote de Saint-Remy-les-Chevreause (at 29.5km) and cote de Chateaufort (at 33.5km). The peloton idled along at an average speed of 35.6km/h for the first hour. Before the race officially began, the bunch rode around the gardens of the palace of Versailles showcasing yet another popular tourist attraction of the host nation.
Steegmans (OPQ) and Rojas (MOV) were the riders who claimed the final climbing points of the 2013 Tour. There was a small crash involving Lagutin (VCD) at the 25km mark but he remounted his bike quickly and rejoined the peloton.

Sky leads to the streets of Paris
There were the traditional festivities at the start of the stage with champagne sipping and photo taking amongst the riders. The Sky team led the peloton to the site of the finish for the first of 10 laps of the Champs-Elysées with Froome giving his friend Richie Porte the honour of leading the bunch for the first lap. The Sky team did the whole first lap at the front of the bunch and then, on the second passage of the Haute des Champs, Boom (BEL) became the first to gain any ground on the peloton.
With 53km to go, the winner of the four most recent stages in Paris – Cavendish (OPQ) – punctured his front tyre; it took him just three kilometres to rejoin the peloton. At 48km to go, Meyer (OGE) instigated an escape. He was joined in the lead by Millar (GRS), Flecha (VCD) and El Fares (SOJ). Millar and Flecha kept the escape alive and led by 20” at the intermediate sprint (87km) where the Spaniard took first place for the intermediate sprint.
Westra (VCD) was forced to abandon the Tour de France with 38km to go.

Omega begin their lead-out...
With 36km to go, two riders from the Omega Pharma-Quickstep team went to the front of the peloton. Millar and Flecha were 10” ahead. Millar remained at the front of the stage while Flecha, who was briefly joined by Muravyev (AST) was caught 30km from the finish. With 25km to go, Millar had a lead of 30”; single-handedly, he held off the peloton until 18km to go. With 21km to go, Roy (FDJ) attacked the peloton, he caught and passed the stage leader but then duly retreated to the peloton. This prompted another move: Quinziato (BMC), Valverde (MOV) and Tankink (BEL) were in the lead at 17km to go. They had an advantage of 12”. Omega Pharma-Quickstep got seven men to the front of the peloton with 10km to go and Valverde's trio was 10” ahead. The escape was over with 6.5km to go.

100th Tour ends as it began: Kittel 1st in the stage
The Omega Pharma-Quickstep team was the dominant force at the front of the peloton in the closing kilometres of the 100th Tour but Argos-Shimano, Lotto-Belisol and Cannondale also had a strong presence. Kwiatkowski led Trentin and Steegmans to the ‘Flamme Rouge' but it was Argos-Shimano that opened up the sprint as they traversed the Place de la Concorde. Kittel started his sprint with about 300m to go and held off a strong challenge from both Cavendish and Greipel. The German is the only rider to win four stages of the 2013 Tour de France. The winner on day one is the winner on the final Sunday.

Froome drops 53” of his lead but wins the yellow jersey!
In the final rush to the line, Froome dropped well behind as the sprinters battled it out for stage honours. The Sky leader would cross the line arm-in-arm with Lopez (SKY) in 114th place, 53” behind Kittel. Despite his loss of time to Quintana who finished in the front group (48th, 10” behind Kittel), Froome became the winner of the Tour de France with an advantage of 4'20”.
Nairo Quintana (MOV) won both the youth and climbing classifications in his debut in the race.
And Peter Sagan, fourth in the final stage won his second successive green jersey.
Chris Froome is the champion of the 100th Tour de France. more

Chris Froome's incredible journey to victory

 When he is on his bike, Chris Froome's face rarely changes: his jaw set, features fixed in total concentration. As he rounded the Arc de Triomphe on Sunday night for the first time, in 20th place in the pack, with his Tour de France victory all but in the bag, the long, painfully lean cyclist's expression was the same as it had been for so many of the 84 hours he had spent in the saddle since leaving Corsica 22 days earlier.

The ecstatic smile and the tears would come later on this balmy evening, after 10 laps of the Champs Élysées. It is rare for a Tour winner to lose any time on the final stage but, in the final kilometre, Froome slipped off the back of the pack on purpose in order to share the final moments with his Team Sky teammates, crossing the line as a unit. Dropping back those few hundred metres meant the young Colombian Nairo Quintana closed by 43sec to be 4min20sec behind Froome in the standings, but that barely counted in the context of the previous 3,400km.

The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening. Tonight the Parisian sunset greeted the 169 survivors of the Tour, in a race climax put back by several hours to finish as the sun dipped over the French capital's western edge, as part of the celebration of the race's 100th edition. It was a gamble made with television images in mind and it paid off, with le couchant, or setting, bathing the riders in a golden haze for the final miles.

The previous evening Froome spoke of his "incredible journey", from mountain biking as a 12-year-old on Kenya's dirt roads to wearing the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. It is a voyage with a unique conclusion: the Tour has never had a finish quite like this. To mark the 100th Tour, the riders were made to race around the Arc de Triomphe, in Place d'Étoile rather than doing a U-turn hundreds of metres short of the great monument as is usually the case, to provide the most symbolic backdrop possible.

As Froome pedalled round the arch, wearing a specially designed yellow jersey dolled up in sequins to glitter in the night lights, the smoke from the red, white and blue vapour trails left by a flypast of la patrouille blanche, or White Patrol – the French equivalent of the Red Arrows – was slowly dissipating in the balmy breeze. The union flags flapped over the barriers in front of the bistros as they had done 12 months ago for Wiggins.

In the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle, a vast tricolour flapped below a list of Napoleon's victories on the Aarch's pediment. With the Eiffel Tower poking coyly over the horizon, it was the most French of settings for the latest instalment in Britain's spectacular summer of sport, in the wake of Andy Murray's Wimbledon, the Lions' win, and Justin Rose's victory in the US Open.

Froome had quipped the previous evening that his brothers were both chartered accountants "and that's probably what drove me to ride my bike". But it had been easy to do the maths over the previous three weeks: Froome had dominated the 20-stage race, taking three stage victories – one at the distinctive Mont Ventoux mountain top in Provence to clock up the biggest winning margin in 16 years. It was a perfect reflection of the form book, as the Kenyan-born Briton has dominated multi-day cycle racing this season, winning four major events before he even started the Tour, where he was the clear favourite.

Wiggins' view after his Tour triumph was that kids from Kilburn don't win the Tour de France. Nor do scions of the Safari Simbaz, a disparate group of young mountain bikers with whom the 28-year-old Froome, born in Nairobi and educated in Johannesburg, began riding back in Kenya at the age of 12.

As the first winner born in Africa, Froome's advent takes the Tour, founded in 1903 but missing 10 editions due to the world wars, into a new and still more exotic dimension than its first winner from the other side of La Manche. Wiggins' past as a cycling nerd with posters of Miguel Indurain on his walls seems almost conventional compared with his successor's tales of keeping pet pythons – Froome's were called Rocky and Shandy – and catching scorpions with his brothers.

Froome received his final yellow jersey with the Arc de Triomphe lit up against the night sky in honour of the 100th edition of the Tour. Vast projectors installed on the Qatari embassy bathed the great monument in a spectacular son et lumière. This had been billed as a tourist's Tour de France, taking in France's most iconic sights, including Mont Saint Michel, Lyon's Basilica and the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The climax was no exception, beginning by the sumptuous splendour of Louis XIV's formal gardens at Versailles and closing below Napoleon's arch.

The next time the Tour caravan convenes, the race will have a grittier ring to it; on 5 July 2014, the 101st edition race begins with a 120-mile (190km) run from Leeds to Harrogate, which will be followed by visits to Sheffield and London: from the home of fine wine to the land of Last of the Summer Wine.

Whether or not Froome makes it a double next year, 2012 to 2014 will go down in the race's history as Les Tours Anglais.more

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