Jumbo-Visma team’s Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard celebrated with the overall leader’s yellow jersey after winning the 109th edition of the Tour de France.
The 2022 Tour de France was the 109th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 1 July and ended with the final stage at the Champs-Élysées, Paris, on 24 July. Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard won the general classification for the first time.
The 25-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider beat two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia by three minutes and 34 seconds. Last year, Vingegaard finished second to Pogacar.
Vingegaard, winner of stages 11 and 18, is also the second Dane to wear the yellow jersey, cycling’s most coveted prize. Another Dane, Bjarne Riis, did win in 1996, but he was ordered to return his yellow first-place jersey in 2007 after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs to win his title.
Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour champion, completed the podium in this year’s three-week race.
The Tour de France is a prestigious multistage bike race that takes place annually in France and sometimes the surrounding countries. The race, also known as Le Tour or La Grande Boucle, includes 21 stages and covers 3,328 kilometers in 2022.
For South African Tour de France fans, Louis Meintjes struck terrific form during the event, eventually finishing in eighth. After a few quiet seasons, the South African climber rode with boldness in the Alps.
On stage 12, he finished in a very impressive second place. Meintjes was fully deserving of his lead rider status for the Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux team, as he entered the top ten classification after stage 14, defending his position all the way to Paris.
Overall (Yellow Jersey)
- Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) — 79:32:29
- Tadej Pogacar (SLO) — +3:34
- Geraint Thomas (GBR) — +8:13
- David Gaudu (FRA) — +13:56
- Aleksandr Vlasov — +16:37
- Nairo Quintana (COL) — +17:24
- Romain Bardet (FRA) — +19:02
- Louis Meintjes (RSA) — +19:12
- Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) — +23:47
- Adam Yates (GBR) — +25:43
- Neilson Powless (USA) — +47:48
- Sepp Kuss (USA) — +1:02:29
DNF. Chris Froome (GBR)
DNF. Primoz Roglic (SLO)
Sprinters (Green Jersey)
- Wout van Aert (BEL) — 480
- Jasper Philipsen (BEL) — 286
- Tadej Pogacar (SLO) — 250
- Christophe Laporte (FRA) — 171
- Fabio Jakobsen (NED) — 159
Climbers (Polka-Dot Jersey)
- Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) — 72 points
- Simon Geschke (GER) — 65
- Giulio Ciccone (ITA) — 61
- Tadej Pogacar (SLO) — 61
- Wout van Aert (BEL) — 59
Young Rider (White Jersey)
- Tadej Pogacar (SLO) — 79:36:03
- Thomas Pidcock (GBR) — +57:34
- Brandon McNulty (USA) — +1:27:43
- Matteo Jorgenson (USA) — +1:31:14
- Andreas Leknessund (NOR) — +1:54:48
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