2023 Tour de France stage 2 by BikeRaceInfo

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Weather at the finish city of Saint Sébastien at 1:30 PM, local time: 21C (69F), cloudy, with the wind from the northwest at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is currently a 16% chance of rain, but it drops to a 4% chance at 4:00.

Rated ascents:

Km 81.3: Col d'Udana, 4.6 km @ 5.1%. Cat 3
Km 87.6: Côte d'Aztiria, 2.7 km @ 5.3%. Cat. 4
Km 140.9: Côte d'Alkiza, 4.2 km @ 5.7%. Cat. 3
Km 174.2: Côte de Gurutze, 2.6 km @ 4.7%. Cat. 4
Km 192.4: Jaizkibel, 8.2 km @ 5.3%. Cat. 2

The race: 174 riders began the stage at 12:21 PM. This is the 2023 Tour's longest stage. Though he has a fractured elbow and is in considerable pain, Torsten Traen (Uno-X) began the stage.

The breakaway trio of Rémi Cavagna, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Neilson Powless. Photo: ASO/Charly Lopez

The attacks went off about at the start and by kilometer seven the trio of Rémi Cavagna (Soudal Quick-Step), Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies) and Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) had gone clear. Twenty kilometers into the stage the trio had a lead of 2 minutes 15 seconds. Ten kilometers later the gap was 4 minutes.

With 145 kilometers to go the trio had a gap of 4 minutes 38 seconds.

About two in the afternoon, just before the day's first climb, the Col d'Udana, rain began to fall on the riders. At the top of the Col the lead trio was 3 minutes 55 seconds ahead of the pack.

Here's the break halfway into the stage. ASO photo

With 83 kilometers to go Mark Cavendish was dropped on a uncategorized climb. Not long after more sprinters were left behind: Jakobsen, Groenewegen, Kristoff and others. And up front Rémi Cavagna, having leg problems, could not stay with Boasson Hagen and Powless and had to let them go.

Rémi Cavagna can't stay with his fellow breakaways. That has to hurt.

With about 55 kilometers to go the dropped sprinters have rejoined the peloton. Up front Powless and Boasson Hagen have a lead of 2 minutes 55 seconds. Rémi Cavagna was caught by the peloton.

On the penultimate ascent, the Côte de Gurutze, Neilson Powless dropped Boasson Hagen. Back in the peloton, two contenders for final victory, Jonas Vingegaard and Ben O'Connrer crashed. With assistance from teammates, the pair were soon back on their bikes and back in the peloton.

At the bottom of the day's final and somewhat formidable ascent, the Jaizkibel, Powless was alone, off the front, with a lead of 1 minute 40 seconds.

At the back of the pack, Mathieu van der Poel was dropped.

Time to get up and over the day's final ascent, the Jaizkibel.

And with 19.3 kilometers to go and still on the Jaizkibel, Powless is caught. The front group is down to about thirty riders with Julian Alaphilippe, Thibaut Pinot and other fine riders dropped.

The order of the riders as they went over the Jaizkibel had no surprises:

1. Tadej Pogacar, 8 bonus seconds
2. Jonas Vingegaard, 5 bonus seconds
3. Simon Yates, 2 bonus seconds
4. Giulio Ciccone

Descending the Jaizkibel Pogacar and Vingegaard were together with a 10-second lead, but were caught with 12 kilometers to go. The Pello Bilbao took off. Wout van Aert tried to catch Bilbao, but couldn't.

With 4.5 kilomters to go Bilbao is 5 seconds ahead of his chasers. That couldn't last and he was caught. The lead group at this point had 25 riders.

With just 2 kilometers to go Danish champion Mattias Skjelmose attacked. Then Victor Lafay gave chase.

That worked for Lafay. He won the stage, giving his Cofidis team its first TDF stage win since Sylvain Chavanel won a stage in 2008.

Here's the race organizer's stage two report:

Victor Lafay escaped from the group of the favourites one kilometre before the end to deliver the stage victory the Cofidis team waited for fifteen years – since Sylvain Chavanel outclassed Jérémy Roy in Montluçon in 2008. Lafay maintained the tradition of French stage wins in San Sebastian after Louis Caput in 1949 and Dominique Arnould in 1992. Third on the line, Tadej Pogacar gained four seconds of time bonus while Adam Yates retained the yellow jersey.

POWLESS, BOASSON HAGEN AND CAVAGNA IN THE LEAD
174 riders started stage 2 in Vitoria-Gasteiz at 12.32. One non-starter: Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost). Three riders managed to go clear at km 8, firstly Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies) and Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), joined secondly by Rémi Cavagna (Soudal-Quick Step). The maximum time gap of 4’55’’ was recorded at km 68 as Vegard Stake Laengen was pulling the bunch for UAE Team Emirates until his team-mate Mikkel Bjerg took over.

The peloton was 2’30’’ adrift and it was raining when Mark Cavendish got dropped in a non-categorized climb with 83km to go. Cavagna could no longer hold the pace in the ascent to Alkiza where Powless mathematically secured his polka dot jersey at km 140.9. All the riders dropped got back to the pack with 57km to go as they followed Cavendish’s servant Gianni Moscon.

POGACAR FIRST AT JAIZKIBEL
With 40km to go, the deficit of the peloton was down to two minutes. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën) crashed 37km before the end but got back to the pack pretty quickly. With 36km to go, Powless distanced Boasson Hagen and continued solo en route to the Jaizkibel, the main difficulty of the main located 16.5km away from the finishing line.

The American had 1’30’’ lead at the bottom of 8-km long climb. He was reeled in 2.5km before the summit and it was all together again with 19.5km remaining. Pogacar won the bonus point atop the Jaizkibel before Vingegaard while Simon Yates crested in third position. Pogacar and Vingegaard went away in the downhill but were brought back by the reduced yellow jersey group with 12km to go.

LAFAY SOLOES AT THE FLAMME ROUGE
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) rode away solo at the end of the downhill. He was reeled in with 5.5km to go by 25 riders. Jumbo-Visma led the group until Victor Lafay (Cofidis) attacked with 1km to go. The Frenchman fended off the riders sprinting behind him to beat Wout van Aert and claim his first Tour de France stage win, two years after he imposed himself in a stage of the Giro d’Italia as well.

Complete results:

Stage 2 photos

208.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.726 km/hr

1	Victor Lafay	Cofidis	4hr 46min 39sec
2	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
3	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
4	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
5	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
6	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
7	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
8	Romain Bardet	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
9	Dylan Teuns	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
10	Jai Hindley	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Steff Cras	TotalEnergies	s.t.
12	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
14	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
15	Emanuel Buchmann	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
16	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
17	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
18	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
19	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
20	Simon Yates	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
21	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
22	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
23	Wilco Kelderman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
24	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
25	Alex Aranburu	Movistar	@ 58sec
26	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
27	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
28	Ben O'Connor	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
29	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	s.t.
30	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
31	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
32	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	2:25
33	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
34	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X	s.t.
35	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar	s.t.
36	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Clément Berthet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
38	Matthew Dinham	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
39	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
40	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
41	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
42	Victor Campenaerts	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
43	Dylan Van Baarle	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
44	Chris Harper	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
45	Quinten Hermans	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:00
46	Felix Gall	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
47	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
48	Chris Hamilton	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
49	Bob Jungels	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
50	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
51	Tony Gallopin	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
52	Clément Champoussin	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
53	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar	s.t.
54	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
55	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.
56	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
57	Anthony Delaplace	Arkéa-Samsic	6:26
58	Lilian Calmejane	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
59	Rui Costa	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
60	Dries Devenyns	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
61	Warren Barguil	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
62	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
63	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	7:00
64	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
66	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
67	Luis León Sánchez	Astana Qazaqstan	8:12
68	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
69	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	s.t.
70	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	s.t.
71	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
72	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
73	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
74	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
75	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
76	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
77	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
78	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
79	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	11:21
80	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
81	Mike Teunissen	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
82	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	11:42
83	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
84	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
85	Omar Fraile	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
86	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
87	Jenthe Biermans	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
88	Jonas Gregaard	Uno-X	s.t.
89	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
90	Lars Van Den Berg	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
91	Bryan Coquard	Cofidis	s.t.
92	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
93	Daniel Oss	TotalEnergies	13:11
94	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
95	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
96	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X	s.t.
97	Valentin Ferron	TotalEnergies	s.t.
98	Simon Guglielmi	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
99	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
100	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
101	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
102	Maxim Van Gils	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
103	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	13:44
104	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	14:10
105	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
106	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
107	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
108	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
109	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
110	Oliver Naesen	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
111	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
112	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
114	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
115	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	s.t.
116	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
117	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	s.t.
118	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	s.t.
119	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	s.t.
120	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
121	Andrey Amador	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
122	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	s.t.
123	Quinn Simmons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
124	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
125	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
126	Lawson Craddock	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
127	Kasper Asgreen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
128	Biniam Girmay	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
129	Jordi Meeus	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
130	Frederik Frison	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
131	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
132	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
133	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
134	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
135	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
136	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	s.t.
137	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
138	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	18:15
139	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
140	Sam Welsford	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
141	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
142	Kevin Vermaerke	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
143	Nils Eekhoff	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
144	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
145	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
146	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
147	Axel Zingle	Cofidis	s.t.
148	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
149	Luca Mozzato	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
150	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
151	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
152	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
153	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X	s.t.
154	Torstein Træen	Uno-X	s.t.
155	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
156	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
157	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
158	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
159	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
160	David De La Cruz	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
161	Yevgeniy Fedorov	Astana Qazaqstan	20:06
162	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
163	Cees Bol	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
164	Gianni Moscon	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
165	Alexis Renard	Cofidis	s.t.
166	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
167	John Degenkolb	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
168	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
169	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
170	Remi Cavagna	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
171	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
172	Luke Durbridge	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
173	Matteo Trentin	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
174	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Dstny	21:14

GC after stage 2:

GC leader: Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)
Mountains classification leader: Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost)
Points classification leader: Victor Lafay (Cofidis)
Best young rider Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
Teams classification leader: Jumbo-Visma)

380.9 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.606 km/hr

1	Adam Yates	UAE Team Emirates	9hr 9min 18sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	@ 6sec
3	Simon Yates	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
4	Victor Lafay	Cofidis	0:12
5	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	0:16
6	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	0:17
7	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	0:22
8	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
9	Jai Hindley	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
10	Mikel Landa	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
11	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
13	Wilco Kelderman	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
14	Dylan Teuns	Israel-Premier Tech	0:43
15	Romain Bardet	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
16	Steff Cras	TotalEnergies	s.t.
17	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
18	Emanuel Buchmann	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
19	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Egan Bernal	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
21	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
22	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Alex Aranburu	Movistar	1:41
24	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
25	Harold Tejada	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
26	Guillaume Martin	Cofidis	s.t.
27	Ben O'Connor	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
28	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
29	Rafal Majka	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
30	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	2:16
31	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	2:47
32	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	3:08
33	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
34	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Uno-X	s.t.
35	Matthew Dinham	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
36	Clément Berthet	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
37	Chris Harper	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
38	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	3:23
39	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
40	Juan Pedro Lopez	Lidl-Trek	3:27
41	Corbin Strong	Israel-Premier Tech	5:43
42	Felix Gall	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
43	Victor Campenaerts	Lotto Dstny	8:11
44	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	8:23
45	Bob Jungels	BORA-hansgrohe	8:47
46	Luis León Sánchez	Astana Qazaqstan	8:55
47	Dylan Van Baarle	Jumbo-Visma	9:38
48	Felix Grossschartner	UAE Team Emirates	9:41
49	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	9:54
50	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	10:09
51	Tony Gallopin	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
52	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	10:23
53	Chris Hamilton	dsm-firmenich	10:46
54	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	11:00
55	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	11:00
56	Anthon Charmig	Uno-X	11:59
57	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
58	Dries Devenyns	Soudal Quick-Step	12:12
59	Quinten Hermans	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:13
60	Ruben Guerreiro	Movistar	12:17
61	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	13:21
62	Maxim Van Gils	Lotto Dstny	13:54
63	Mathieu van der Poel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:53
64	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	15:05
65	Anthony Delaplace	Arkéa-Samsic	15:12
66	Rui Costa	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
67	Michal Kwiatkowski	INEOS Grenadiers	15:25
68	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
69	Gregor Mühlberger	Movistar	16:13
70	Antonio Pedrero	Movistar	s.t.
71	Warren Barguil	Arkéa-Samsic	16:18
72	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	16:51
73	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	16:52
74	Clément Champoussin	Arkéa-Samsic	16:55
75	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	16:58
76	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	17:07
77	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	17:33
78	Lilian Calmejane	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	17:39
79	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	18:04
80	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	18:13
81	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
82	Marc Soler	UAE Team Emirates	18:57
83	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:03
84	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	19:19
85	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	19:21
86	Michael Gogl	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:25
87	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	19:26
88	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	19:46
89	Kasper Asgreen	Soudal Quick-Step	19:56
90	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
91	David De La Cruz	Astana Qazaqstan	20:40
92	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	21:23
93	Biniam Girmay	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
94	Omar Fraile	INEOS Grenadiers	21:34
95	Quentin Pacher	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
96	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	22:55
97	Torstein Træen	Uno-X	23:24
98	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Lotto Dstny	23:27
99	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	24:02
100	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
101	James Shaw	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
102	Daniel Oss	TotalEnergies	24:24
103	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
104	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	24:57
105	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	25:23
106	Mike Teunissen	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	25:24
107	Jenthe Biermans	Arkéa-Samsic	25:45
108	Bryan Coquard	Cofidis	s.t.
109	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
110	Lars Van Den Berg	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
111	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
112	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Dstny	27:14
113	Simon Guglielmi	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
114	Jasper Stuyven	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
115	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X	s.t.
116	Kevin Vermaerke	dsm-firmenich	28:07
117	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	28:13
118	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
119	Nikias Arndt	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
120	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
121	Tim Declercq	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
122	Oliver Naesen	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
123	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
124	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
125	Quinn Simmons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
126	Lawson Craddock	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
127	Luka Mezgec	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
128	Søren Kragh Andersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
129	Christopher Juul-Jensen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
130	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	28:26
131	Jonas Gregaard	Uno-X	28:43
132	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	29:24
133	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	29:28
134	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
135	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	29:34
136	Andrey Amador	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
137	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
138	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	29:38
139	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	30:12
140	Nans Peters	Ag2r-Citroën	31:11
141	Frederik Frison	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
142	Remi Cavagna	Soudal Quick-Step	31:19
143	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	32:06
144	Axel Zingle	Cofidis	32:18
145	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
146	Nils Eekhoff	dsm-firmenich	s.t.
147	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
148	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
149	Vegard Stake Laengen	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
150	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X	s.t.
151	Elmar Reinders	Jayco-AlUla	33:39
152	Dylan Groenewegen	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
153	Michael Mørkøv	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
154	Fabio Jakobsen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
155	John Degenkolb	dsm-firmenich	34:09
156	Luke Durbridge	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
157	Matteo Trentin	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
158	Søren Wærenskjold	Uno-X	s.t.
159	Valentin Ferron	TotalEnergies	34:12
160	Sam Welsford	dsm-firmenich	35:16
161	Laurent Pichon	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
162	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X	s.t.
163	Jordi Meeus	BORA-hansgrohe	35:42
164	Luca Mozzato	Arkéa-Samsic	35:51
165	Alex Edmondson	dsm-firmenich	37:07
166	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
167	Jasper De Buyst	Lotto Dstny	38:15
168	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	39:47
169	Jacopo Guarnieri	Lotto Dstny	s.t.
170	Alexis Renard	Cofidis	41:07
171	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	41:38
172	Gianni Moscon	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
173	Yevgeniy Fedorov	Astana Qazaqstan	41:38
174	Cees Bol	Astana Qazaqstan	41:03