2018 Tour de France

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Cadel Evans in Tour de France 2011

The 2018 Tour de France was won by Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas, ending teammate and countryman Chris Froome’s three-year reign as champion.

The Tour de France, first run in 1903, is known as the biggest race in world cycling and is one of the three grand tours, alongside the Vuelta a Espana and Giro d’Italia. The grand tours are the only races allowed to go for three week’s duration, and are the most prestigious tours on the calendar.

The 2018 Tour de France, won by Geraint Thomas, began on Saturday, July 7 and concluded on Sunday, July 29.

2018 Tour de France General Classification

Pos.	Rider	Country	Team	Time/Gap
1	Geraint Thomas	Great Britain	Team Sky	83:17:13
2	Tom Dumoulin	Netherlands	Team Sunweb	+ 1:51
3	Chris Froome	Great Britain	Team Sky	+ 2:24
4	Primoz Roglic	Slovenia	LottoNL-Jumbo	+ 3:22
5	Steven Kruijswijk	Netherlands	LottoNL-Jumbo	+ 6:08
6	Romain Bardet	France	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 6:57
7	Mikel Landa	Spain	Movistar Team	+ 7:37
8	Dan Martin	Ireland	UAE Team Emirates	+ 9:05
9	Ilnur Zakarin	Russia	Team Katusha-Alpecin	+ 12:37
10	Nairo Quintana	Colombia	Movistar Team	+ 14:18

2018 Tour de France route

Stage no.	Date	Stage type	Start	Finish	Distance	Winner
1	Sat Jul 7	Flat	Noirmoutier-en-l’Île	Fontenay-le-Comte	189km	Fernando Gaviria
2	Sun Jul 8	Flat	Mouilleron-Saint-Germain	La Roche-sur-Yon	183km	Peter Sagan
3	Mon Jul 9	Team Time Trial	Cholet	Cholet	35km	BMC Racing Team
4	Tue Jul 10	Flat	La Baule	Sarzeau	192km	Fernando Gaviria
5	Wed Jul 11	Hilly	Lorient	Quimper	203km	Peter Sagan
6	Thu Jul 12	Hilly	Brest	Mur-de-Bretagne	181km	Dan Martin
7	Fri Jul 13	Flat	Fougeres	Chartres	231km	Dylan Groenewegen
8	Sat Jul 14	Flat	Dreux	Amiens Metropole	181km	Dylan Groenewegen
9	Sun Jul 15	Flat – Cobblestones	Arrax	Roubaix	154km	John Degenkolb
Rest Day 1	Mon Jul 16	Annecy
10	Tue Jul 17	Mountains	Annecy	Le Grand-Bornand	159km	Julian Alaphilippe
11	Wed Jul 18	Mountains	Albertville	La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo	108km	Geraint Thomas
12	Thu Jul 19	Mountains	Bourg-Saint-Maurice Les Arcs	Alpe D’Huez	175km	Geraint Thomas
13	Fri Jul 20	Flat	Bourg d’Oisans	Valence	169km	Peter Sagan
14	Sat Jul 21	Mountains	Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux	Mende	187km	Omar Fraile
15	Sun Jul 22	Hilly	Millau	Carcassonne	181km	Magnus Cort Nielsen
Rest Day 2	Mon Jul 23	Carcassonne
16	Tue Jul 24	Hilly	Carcassone	Bagneres-de-Luchon	218km	Julian Alaphilippe
17	Wed Jul 25	Mountains	Bagneres-de-Luchon	Saint-Lary-Soulan	65km	Nairo Quintana
18	Thu Jul 26	Hilly	Trie-Sur-Baise	Pau	172km	Arnaud Demare
19	Fri Jul 27	Mountains	Lourdes	Laruns	200km	Primoz Roglic
20	Sat Jul 28	Individual Time Trial	Saint-Pee-sur-Nievelle	Espelette	31km	Tom Dumoulin
21	Sun Jul 29	Flat	Houilles	Paris	115km	Alexander Kristoff

2017 Tour de France

The 2017 Tour de France was won by Chris Froome of Team Sky. The Kenyan born British cyclist took out his fourth yellow jersey when the race finished in Paris on the evening of Sunday, July 23. The total winner’s time across 21 stages was 86 hours, 20 minutes and 55 seconds – almost three hours quicker than the race in 2016.

It follows Froome’s victories in 2013, 2015 and 2016, but this was his closest by a considerable distance. He finished just 54 seconds ahead of Cannondale-Drapac’s Colombian climber Rigoberto Uran, with Frenchman Romain Bardet hanging onto the final podium spot by just a single second, coming in at 2:20 down. Froome’s Sky teammate Mikel Landa finished at 2:21.

In the race for the sprinters (green) jersey, it looked like Marcel Kittel was going to take the crown with five stage wins. At one point, his lead was over 100 points. Australian Michael Matthews, riding for Team Sunweb managed to cut the gap back to just nine points through the mountains though, with Kittel then pulling out of the race after a crash.

Matthews finished the race on 370 points, 136 clear of German sprinter Andre Greipel, with the Lotto-Soudal sprinter not winning a stage.

The Australian’s Sunweb teammate, Frenchman Warren Barguil easily claimed the King of the Mountains jersey, finishing 69 points clear of Primoz Roglic, who himself won Stage 17.

Team Sky were ranked as the best team, finishing 7 minutes ahead of AG2R La Mondiale, the team of Romain Bardet while Orica-Scott rider and fellow Briton Simon Yates finished with the best young rider’s white jersey, finishing two minutes and six seconds ahead of South African Louis Meintjes.

2017 Tour de France General Classification

Pos.	Rider	Country	Team	Time/Gap
1	Chris Froome	Great Britain	Team Sky	86:20:55
2	Rigoberto Uran	Colombia	Cannondale-Drapac	+ 0:54
3	Romain Bardet	France	AG2R La Mondiale	+ 2:20
4	Mikel Landa	Spain	Team Sky	+ 2:21
5	Fabio Aru	Italy	Astana	+ 3:04
6	Daniel Martin	Ireland	Quick-Step	+ 4:42
7	Simon Yates	Great Britain	Orica-Scott	+ 6:14
8	Louis Meintjes	South Africa	UAE Team Emirates	+ 8:20
9	Alberto Contador	Spain	Trek-Segafredo	+ 8:49
10	Warren Barguil	France	Team Sunweb	+ 9:25