Cavendish wins in Utah Beach

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Cavendish wins in Utah Beach

The German sprinters are close to the stage victory at the start of the Tour de France. But a Briton has the fastest legs and slips into the Yellow Jersey. In the mountains classification, a surprise leading man.

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Mark Cavendish wins first stage # DW news # 02.07.2016 # tour21f

The British cyclist Mark Cavendish from the Team Dimension Data has the first stage of the 103. Tour de France win and the Yellow Jersey secured. The Ex-world champion was at the 188 kilometres between Mont-Saint-Michel and Utah Beach in the bunch sprint in front of the German top Sprinter Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quick Step) and world champion Peter Sagan from Slovakia (Tinkoff).

The German champion André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) was Fourth after he was slipped in the final in a very bad Position. “With the tailwind, it was super fast, chaotic. Of course, I am a bit disappointed, because I couldn’t do my Job as usual. I was installed,” said Greipel after the race. Also Kittel, had dreamed of his match-winning hat-Trick, had to admit: “of Course I’m disappointed. It would not have today, you must all agree, that it has. I had to go 350 meters from the finish, it was too far.”

The final print in the Normandy region was less than overshadowed a kilometre from the finish of a mass fall. Previously, the two-time tour winner Alberto Contador of Spain (Tinkoff) crashed hard on the shoulder, was able to finish the race as the other favourites for the overall victory, the British defending champion Chris Froome (Sky) without any loss of time.

Mountain king for a day

The mountain Jersey had previously conquered Paul Voss. The 30-Year-old from the Team Bora-Argon 18, has won two mountain stages of the 4. Category and secured the single point spent. “It was the tactics of the team, to get the mountain Jersey. But the 25 kilometers were alone in the Wind a lot of hard work,” said Voss at the stage finish in the ARD-television. Voss is the seventh German professional who may wear the polka-dot Jersey at the Tour. The last Tony Martin, 2014 in the mountain Jersey on the way.

The second stage results on Sunday, also by the Normandy, about 183 kilometres from Saint-Lô to Cherbourg. In view of the difficult Finals with a challenging mountain rating of 3. Category is likely to be no Sprinter in the front. 103. The tour de France takes the 198 riders with a total of 21 stages and 3535 kilometres.

to/ck (sid, dpa)