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71,9: A SPRINTING MASTERCLASS
After a frustrating first week for Alpecin-Deceuninck, the world champion took matters in his own hands to launch Jasper Philipsen to victory in Saint-Amand-Montrond.
With his unique explosive skills, Mathieu van der Poel accelerated from 46.7km/h to 67.5km/h and Philipsen sealed the deal with a top speed of 71.9km/h inside the last 50 metres.
7: PHILIPSEN IS BACK ON TOP
Almost a year after his last Tour win to date (12 July 2023, in Moulins), Jasper Philipsen clinched a 7th victory in the race and join Chris Froome as the 4th active rider with the highest number of stage wins. They trail Mark Cavendish (35), Tadej Pogacar (12) and Wout van Aert (9).
Since his last victory, Jasper Philipsen had finished 5 times inside the top-5, with no victories: 3 places of 2nd and 2 places of 4th.
4: SPRINTS ARE UP FOR GRABS
Jasper Philipsen is the fourth different sprinter with a stage win in this Tour after Biniam Girmay (2), Mark Cavendish and Dylan Groenewegen. Only three sprinters won last year as Mads Pedersen and Jordi Meeus found an opening while Philipsen claimed 4 wins.
The last Tour with four different successful sprinters was the 2020 edition, with Alexander Kristoff, Caleb Ewan, Wout van Aert and Sam Bennett.
40: POGACAR EXTENDS SLOVENIA’S RULE
With a 29th Maillot Jaune, Tadej Pogacar matches Fabian Cancellara’s record and brings Slovenia’s tally up to 40 jerseys. The country waited until stage 9 of the Tour 2020 to lead the overall standings for the first time ever, with Primoz Roglic rising to power in Laruns. Since then, Roglic and his countryman Pogacar collected 47% (40/86) of the Maillot Jaune:
- 40 for Slovenia
- 27 for Denmark
- 6 for the Netherlands
- 5 for Belgium
- 4 for Great Britain
- 2 for France
- 1 for Australia and Ecuador
1-10: ABRAHAMSEN’S VERY OWN POLKA DOTS
A leader of the KOM standings since he went on the move on day 1, Jonas Abrahamsen has taken the polka-dot jersey all the way to the second week, a feat only achieved once in the history of the Tour de France, in 1984. That year, Ludo Peeters led the KOM standings from stage 1 until stage 10 and lost the polka-dot jersey to Jean-René Bernaudeau in stage 11.
So far, Jonas Abrahamsen has spent 30% of his race time in breakaways, gone first atop 15 categorised ascents (out of 31) and collected a total of 33 KOM points (out of 81).
The standings can change on Wednesday with 25 points up for grabs.
4: GIRMAY MEANS CONSISTENCY
Already the only rider with multiple wins in this Tour, Biniam Girmay didn’t make it to 3 victories on day 10, but he’s the first to claim a 4th top-3 result: winner in Turin and Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, 2nd in Dijon and Saint-Amand-Montrond. Jasper Philipsen follows with 3 results in the top-3.
Girmay’s consistency will be rewarded with a 6th day in green as the leader of the points standings.
3: ACKERMANN GETS IN THE MIX
Already a stage winner in La Vuelta and the Giro, Pascal Ackermann claimed his first top-3 result in the Tour as he sprinted to the 3rd position in Saint-Amand-Montrond. The German sprinter is on the shortlist to become the 110th winner in all three Grand Tours after Remco Evenepoel made it in stage 7.
106: PHILIPSEN’S LUCKY NUMBER
Jasper Philipsen takes another victory with the bib number 106 pinned on his back, the same he had last year. Before him, we need to go back to 2002 to find a stage winner with the same bib (Karsten Kroon in Plouay).
