Le Tour 2021 – Stage 12

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Nîmes

Distance: 159.4 kilometers.

A Flat stage with a Cat 3 climb in the middle.

• Côte du belvédère de Tharaux 83.7 km (cat 3: 4.4km @ 4.6%)

The intermediate sprint is at 132.7 km at Uzès. Expect a bunch sprint to the finish.

Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [Yellow] 47 hours 22 minutes 43 seconds
Mark Cavendish (DQT – 055) [Green] 221 Points
Nairo Quintana (ARK – 136) [Polka Dot] 50 points
Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [White] 3*

Stage winner: Nils Politt (BOH – 076)
Combative: Nils Politt (BOH – 076 ) [Red numbers]
Team: Bahrain Victorious ( TBV – 161-168 ) [Yellow numbers]

*Number 2 is wearing the White as Number 1 is wearing Yellow.

Top 30 below the fold

1 Tadej Pogacar (UAD – 001)
2 Rigoberto Uran (EFN – 111) + 00h 05′ 18″
3 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) + 00h 05′ 32″
4 Richard Carapaz (IGD – 022) + 00h 05′ 33″
5 Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124) + 00h 05′ 58″
6 Wilco Kelderman (BOH – 073) + 00h 06′ 16″
7 Alexey Lutsenko (APT – 188) + 00h 06′ 30″
8 Enric Mas (MOV – 065) + 00h 07′ 11″
9 Guillaume Martin (COF – 091) + 00h 09′ 29″
10 Peio Bilbao (TBV – 162) + 00h 10′ 28″
11 Mattia Cattaneo (DQT – 054) + 00h 15′ 35″
12 Aurélien Paret Peintre (ACT – 125) + 00h 24′ 44″
13 Wout Van Aert (TJV – 012) + 00h 25′ 21″
14 Jhoan Esteban Chaves (BEX – 172) + 00h 25′ 53″
15 David Gaudu (GFC – 081) + 00h 30′ 51″
16 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 211) + 00h 32′ 20″
17 Sergio Luis Henao (TQA – 191) + 00h 37′ 10″
18 Wouter Poels (TBV – 166) + 00h 38′ 49″
19 Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044) + 00h 39′ 13″
20 Dylan Teuns (TBV – 167) + 00h 43′ 54″
21 Julian Alaphilippe (DQT – 051) + 00h 45′ 46″
22 Ruben Guerreiro (EFN – 113) + 00h 47′ 37″
23 Jonathan Castroviejo (IGD – 023) + 00h 49′ 17″
24 Kenny Elissonde (TFS – 043) + 00h 53′ 35″
25 Jakob Fuglsang (APT – 181) + 00h 54′ 35″
26 Sergio Andres Higuita (EFN – 114) + 00h 54′ 41″
27 Alejandro Valverde (MOV – 067) + 00h 54′ 54″
28 Michael Woods (ISN – 037) + 00h 57′ 00″
29 Patrick Konrad (BOH – 074) + 00h 57′ 12″
30 Steven Kruijswijk (TJV – 014) + 00h 57′ 38″

Did not start:
Peter Sagan (BOH – 071)

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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