2020 Tour de France – Stage 13 – Highlights, Report, Results
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Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-_zxN8cJQ
Report
It was a spectacular day for the EF Pro Cycling team today in France. Our riders showed unrivaled perseverance and teamwork, Dani Martínez took a breathtaking stage win, and the team moved back to the top position on the team classification.
The stage set off from Châtel-Guyon, faced a whopping seven categorized climbs and ended at Puy Mary, a steep volcanic climb in the Massif Central. The total elevation gain of the day was 4400m (14,400ft); the most climbing of all 21 stages in the Tour this year.
Before lining up at the start line this morning, Rigoberto Urán said, “We have a strong team, so we can try to maybe do something in the break.” And indeed the team did. It was a third day in the breakaway for American rider, Neilson Powless, accompanied by Dani Martínez and Hugh Carthy.
The mountain stage saw early attacks from the get-to. After a high-tempo start, a five-man early breakaway turned into 17 riders, including Martínez, Carthy and Powless.
Neilson surged ahead with 40km to go at the foot of the Côte d’Anglards-de-Salers, riding ahead in a solo break as the chase group dropped behind. He was the first to cross the summit on that climb, earning him two KOM points before losing his lead to Max Schachmann of Bora–Hansgrohe.
When the chase group arrived on the Col de Nerrone, Dani Martínez together with Bora rider Lenni Kämna launched an attack behind leader Schachmann.
Reaching the base of the final climb, the Puy Mary Cantal, Martínez battled hard with Kämna glued to his wheel, catching Schachmann and pushing onward.
The three men suffered up the punishing 15% grade, the two Bora riders trailing Martínez. Schachmann fell off the back and in the final grueling meters of the day it was a head-to-head battle between Martínez and Kämna. It was Martínez who ultimately overpowered the German rider on the steep uphill sprint, sailing up over the summit finish line to victory.
To round out the team’s triumphant day, they’ve reclaimed their lead in the teams classification and Rigoberto Urán has moved up to 4th place in the overall standings.
Results
Stage
| 1 | Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) EF Pro Cycling | 05:01:47 |
| 2 | Lennard Kämna (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe | 00:00:04 |
| 3 | Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe | 00:00:51 |
| 4 | Valentin Madouas (Fra) Groupama-FDJ | 00:01:33 |
| 5 | Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept | 00:01:42 |
| 6 | Nicolas Edet (Fra) Cofidis | 00:01:53 |
| 7 | Simon Geschke (Ger) CCC Team | 00:02:35 |
| 8 | Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team | 00:02:43 |
| 9 | Hugh Carthy (GBr) EF Pro Cycling | 00:03:18 |
| 10 | David De la Cruz Melgarejo (Spa) UAE Team Emirates | 00:03:52 |
General Classification
| 1 | Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma | 56:34:35 |
| 2 | Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates | 00:00:44 |
| 3 | Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Ineos Grenadiers | 00:00:59 |
| 4 | Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Pro Cycling | 00:01:10 |
| 5 | Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic | 00:01:12 |
| 6 | Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (Col) Astana Pro Team | 00:01:31 |
| 7 | Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott | 00:01:42 |
| 8 | Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Bahrain McLaren | 00:01:55 |
| 9 | Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo | 00:02:06 |
| 10 | Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team | 00:02:54 |
Points
| 1 | Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep | 252 |
| 2 | Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe | 186 |
| 3 | Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept | 162 |
| 4 | Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal | 155 |
| 5 | Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC Team | 146 |
Mountains
| 1 | Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale | 36 |
| 2 | Nans Peters (Fra) AG2R la Mondiale | 31 |
| 3 | Marc Hirschi (Swi) Team Sunweb | 31 |
| 4 | Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo | 24 |
| 5 | Quentin Pacher (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept | 21 |
Young Riders
| 1 | Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates | 56:35:19 |
| 2 | Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Ineos Grenadiers | 00:00:15 |
| 3 | Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team | 00:02:10 |
| 4 | Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Pro Cycling | 00:25:28 |
| 5 | Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Col) EF Pro Cycling | 00:56:37 |