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2022 Tour de France

109th edition: July 1-24, 2022

Stage 18: Thursday, July 21, 2022

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Thursday, July 21: Stage 18, Lourdes - Hautacam, 143.2 km

Stage 18 map & profile | Stage 18 photos

Jonas Vingegaard wins at Hautacam in yellow. Bravo!. ASO photo.

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Weather at Ayros-Arbouix, on the route, 14 km from the finish, at 1:15 PM, local time: 29C (85F), sunny, with the wind from the north at 10 km/hr (6 mph). There is just a 2% chance of rain.

Rated ascents:

Km 76.7: Col d'Aubisque, 16.4 km @ 7.1%. Hors categorie
Km 110: Col de Spandelles, 10.3 km @ 8.3%. Cat. 1
Km 143.2: Hautacam, 13.6 km @ 7.8%. Hors categorie

The race: 140 riders began the stage at 1:36 PM. There were three non-starters: Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech), Imanol Eriviti (Movistar) and Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious). All three have Covid-19.

Here's the race organizer's stage 18 summary:

Jonas Vingegaard took his second stage of the Tour de France at Hautacam and that’s his first with the yellow jersey on his shoulder. He extended his lead over Tadej Pogacar as he rode the last 3.5km by himself at the end of an eventful race. Green jersey holder Wout van Aert rounded out the stage podium after riding at the front for most of the day. Vingegaard looks like a solid leader with three stages remaining.

140 riders took the start of stage 18 at 13.36. 3 non-starters after they returned a positive test for Covid-19: Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech), Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) and Imanol Erviti (Movistar).

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) attacked from the gun. Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) accompanied him but couldn’t hold his pace as early as on km 4. Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Victorious) counter-attacked.

Van Aert was brought back by the front part of the peloton at km 13. He forged on and took a few riders with him but six other contenders managed to go clear at km 20: Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Andreas Leknessund (DSM), Stan De Wulf (AG2R-Citroën), Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost), Florian Vermeersch (Lotto-Soudal) and Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco).

It was all together again at km 33 as Cofidis rode hard to bring polka dot jersey holder Simon Geschke in a better position before the ascent to col d’Aubisque. 36 riders gathered at the front at km 47 but three of them, Florian Sénéchal, Yves Lampaert and Mattia Cattaneo, all from Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl, sat up to wait for the peloton instead. Geschke missed out again and said goodbye to the polka dot jersey.

About 20 riders climbed to col d’Aubisque together while Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) rode away from the yellow jersey group. Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) crested the Aubisque in first position before Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Van Aert, 45’’ ahead of Meintjes and 3’20’’ ahead of the yellow jersey group.

Up to col des Spandelles, Van Aert, Pinot and Martinez found themselves at the front 5km before the top while Pogacar attacked on several occasions: 7km, 5km, 4km, 3km and 2km before the summit but Vingegaard always managed to stay with him. Both riders had a fright in the downhill, the yellow jersey holder being close to crashing as the white jersey holder was putting him under pressure. Eventually, it was Pogacar who went down but at a slow speed. Vingegaard waited for his rival who thanked him for his fair-play.

Pinot was first to speed up in the leading trio with 12.5km remaining. The trio had an advantage of 1’30’’ over the yellow jersey group led by Sepp Kuss ahead of Vingegaard, Pogacar and Thomas 10km before the end.

1km further, Van Aert sped up. Martinez followed him but Pinot couldn’t. Thomas lost contact to Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar who caught Van Aert and Martinez 5km before the summit.

A leading trio united three distinctive jersey holders: Vingegaard, Van Aert and Pogacar. Pogacar surrended 4.5km before the end. Vingegaard rode away from Van Aert with 3.5km remaining and soloed to victory.

The Dane had 40’’ lead over Pogacar with 2km to go and crossed the line 1’05’’ before his rival, which also put him in the lead of the King of the Mountains competition. Thomas defended his third place while David Gaudu edged out Quintana for fourth.

Complete results:

Stage 18 photos

143.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 35.825 km/hr

1	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	3hr 59min 50sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	@ 1min 4sec
3	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	2:10
4	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	2:54
5	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	2:58
6	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	3:09
7	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	3:27
9	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	4:04
10	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	4:09
11	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
12	Carlos Verona	Movistar	4:18
13	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	5:22
14	Adam Yates	INEOS Grenadiers	5:34
15	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	5:48
16	Dylan Teuns	Bahrain Victorious	6:23
17	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	6:40
18	Gregor Muhlberger	Movistar	7:23
19	Enric Mas	Movistar	s.t.
20	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	7:27
21	Luis León Sánchez	Bahrain Victorious	9:59
22	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	10:02
23	Bob Jungels	Ag2r-Citroën	10:38
24	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	10:39
25	Nick Schultz	BikeExchange-Jayco	11:12
26	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	13:37
27	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	14:17
28	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-hansgrohe	14:23
29	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	14:27
30	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	15:43
31	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	15:44
32	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	s.t.
33	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	16:37
34	Guy Niv	Israel-Premier Tech	16:46
35	Sebastian Schönberger	B&B Hotels-KTM	17:14
36	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	17:41
38	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	18:02
39	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	20:27
40	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
41	Dylan Van Baarle	INEOS Grenadiers	22:51
42	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
43	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	23:26
44	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	23:58
45	Antoine Duchesne	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
46	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
47	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	s.t.
48	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
49	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
50	Michael Storer	Groupama-FDJ	24:16
51	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	24:34
52	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	24:44
53	Alexandr Riabushenko	Astana Qazaqstan	26:40
54	Andreas Kron	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
55	Andrey Zeits	Astana Qazaqstan	28:47
56	Cyril Barthe	B&B Hotels-KTM	29:58
57	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	30:14
58	Philippe Gilbert	Lotto Soudal	31:00
59	Pierre Rolland	B&B Hotels-KTM	s.t.
60	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	31:31
61	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
62	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	32:23
63	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
64	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
66	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
67	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
68	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
69	Connor Swift	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
70	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
71	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
72	Amaury Capiot	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
73	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
74	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
75	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
76	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
77	Alexis Gougeard	B&B Hotels-KTM	s.t.
78	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
79	Tony Gallopin	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
80	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
81	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
82	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	s.t.
83	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
84	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
85	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
86	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	s.t.
87	Alexander Kristoff	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
88	Felix Grossschartner	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
89	Stefan Bissegger	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
90	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	32:31
91	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	33:08
92	Hugo Hofstetter	Arkéa-Samsic	33:15
93	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	33:22
94	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Lotto Soudal	33:38
95	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	33:41
96	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
97	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	33:43
98	Nils Eekhoff	Team DSM	33:49
99	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	33:52
100	Marc Hirschi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
101	John Degenkolb	Team DSM	33:56
102	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	s.t.
103	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
104	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
105	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	33:59
106	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
107	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
108	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	34:05
109	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	34:10
110	Maciej Bodnar	TotalEnergies	34:11
111	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	34:20
112	Michael Matthews	BikeExchange-Jayco	34:22
113	Luca Mozzato	B&B Hotels-KTM	34:23
114	Franck Bonnamour	B&B Hotels-KTM	34:30
115	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	34:32
116	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Soudal	34:41
117	Luke Rowe	INEOS Grenadiers	34:44
118	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	34:59
119	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	35:15
120	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	35:35
121	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	35:41
122	Taco Van Der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
123	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
124	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
125	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
126	Luka Mezgec	BikeExchange-Jayco	36:25
127	Jack Bauer	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
128	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
129	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
130	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
131	Dylan Groenewegen	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
132	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
133	Cyril Lemoine	B&B Hotels-KTM	36:32
134	Andrea Bagioli	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	36:40
135	Mikkel Honore	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
136	Florian Sénéchal	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
137	Fabio Jakobsen	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
138	Mattia Cattaneo	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
139	Yves Lampaert	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
140	Jérémy Lecroq	B&B Hotels-KTM	s.t.

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GC after stage 18:

GC leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
Mountains classification leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

2,999.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.718 km/hr

1	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	71hr 53min 34sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	@ 3min 26sec
3	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	8:00
4	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	11:05
5	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	13:35
6	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	13:43
7	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	14:10
8	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	16:11
9	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	20:09
10	Adam Yates	INEOS Grenadiers	20:17
11	Enric Mas	Movistar	24:08
12	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	33:34
13	Bob Jungels	Ag2r-Citroën	42:23
14	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	44:58
15	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	46:09
16	Luis León Sánchez	Bahrain Victorious	47:07
17	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	51:38
18	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	53:00
19	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	57:59
20	Dylan Teuns	Bahrain Victorious	1:06:01
21	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	1:23:40
22	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	1:31:22
23	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	1:33:49
24	Nick Schultz	BikeExchange-Jayco	1:35:33
25	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	1:35:51
26	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	1:38:05
27	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	1:40:23
28	Carlos Verona	Movistar	1:45:17
29	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:48:27
30	Gregor Muhlberger	Movistar	1:53:17
31	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	1:53:20
32	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	2:01:40
33	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	2:05:58
34	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	2:08:07
35	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	2:10:41
36	Michael Storer	Groupama-FDJ	2:10:56
37	Sebastian Schönberger	B&B Hotels-KTM	2:11:12
38	Dylan Van Baarle	INEOS Grenadiers	2:13:51
39	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	2:15:01
40	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	2:17:12
41	Tony Gallopin	Trek-Segafredo	2:20:30
42	Andrey Zeits	Astana Qazaqstan	2:21:36
43	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	2:22:37
44	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	2:25:31
45	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	2:29:04
46	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:31:38
47	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	2:32:16
48	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	2:33:29
49	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	2:35:58
50	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-hansgrohe	2:37:17
51	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:39:27
52	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	2:42:39
53	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	2:43:51
54	Felix Grossschartner	BORA-hansgrohe	2:50:48
55	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	2:51:36
56	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:52:12
57	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	2:59:03
58	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	3:00:02
59	Franck Bonnamour	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:00:20
60	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	3:00:48
61	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	3:03:46
62	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	3:06:17
63	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	3:07:13
64	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:08:18
65	Antoine Duchesne	Groupama-FDJ	3:09:52
66	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	3:12:15
67	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	3:14:34
68	Pierre Rolland	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:15:06
69	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	3:16:00
70	Andreas Kron	Lotto Soudal	3:16:41
71	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	3:19:38
72	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	3:21:40
73	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	3:24:03
74	Philippe Gilbert	Lotto Soudal	3:24:47
75	Guy Niv	Israel-Premier Tech	3:26:02
76	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:27:25
77	Connor Swift	Arkéa-Samsic	3:29:26
78	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	3:30:59
79	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	3:34:24
80	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	3:34:25
81	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	3:35:13
82	Michael Matthews	BikeExchange-Jayco	3:38:44
83	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	3:38:57
84	Cyril Barthe	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:41:19
85	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	3:42:06
86	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	3:42:37
87	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	3:43:26
88	Hugo Hofstetter	Arkéa-Samsic	3:44:20
89	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	3:46:01
90	Stefan Bissegger	EF Education-EasyPost	3:46:43
91	Amaury Capiot	Arkéa-Samsic	3:46:59
92	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	3:47:32
93	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	3:47:56
94	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	3:50:08
95	Alexis Gougeard	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:52:17
96	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	3:52:36
97	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:53:04
98	Mattia Cattaneo	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	3:53:57
99	Alexandr Riabushenko	Astana Qazaqstan	3:56:49
100	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	3:57:46
101	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	3:58:06
102	Andrea Bagioli	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	3:58:16
103	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	4:04:41
104	Luca Mozzato	B&B Hotels-KTM	4:08:29
105	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	4:08:41
106	Luka Mezgec	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:09:27
107	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:10:02
108	Alexander Kristoff	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:10:58
109	John Degenkolb	Team DSM	4:14:02
110	Luke Rowe	INEOS Grenadiers	4:14:30
111	Mikkel Honore	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:16:02
112	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	4:19:35
113	Florian Sénéchal	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:21:07
114	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	4:23:23
115	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Soudal	4:23:59
116	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:24:33
117	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:25:31
118	Cyril Lemoine	B&B Hotels-KTM	4:27:17
119	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	4:29:31
120	Nils Eekhoff	Team DSM	4:31:30
121	Jack Bauer	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:32:57
122	Dylan Groenewegen	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:33:58
123	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	4:34:08
124	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	4:34:22
125	Maciej Bodnar	TotalEnergies	4:37:00
126	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:38:06
127	Yves Lampaert	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:38:29
128	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	4:41:26
129	Taco Van Der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:42:55
130	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	4:52:05
131	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:56:27
132	Jérémy Lecroq	B&B Hotels-KTM	4:59:19
133	Marc Hirschi	UAE Team Emirates	5:02:49
134	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	5:06:19
135	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	BikeExchange-Jayco	5:12:21
136	Fabio Jakobsen	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	5:13:07
137	Albert Torres	Movistar	5:18:27
138	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	5:20:17
139	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Lotto Soudal	5:25:53
140	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	5:33:02