This year’s Tour de France was the 103rd edition of the race, and the 3,529-kilometre race was won by Great Britain’s Chris Froome (Team Sky) for the third time.

The opening stage of the race was won by Mark Cavendish which enabled the Briton to wear the yellow jersey for the first time in his career.

Unfortunately for previous race winner and one of the race favourites Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), he crashed on that opening stage and struggled in the following stages before eventually withdrawing from the race. Amongst the other stage winners in the opening days of the race were Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quick Step).

Chris Froome took over the yellow jersey when he won the eighth stage of the race from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon which was the first big mountainous stage of the race. He held onto the lead to the end of the race in Paris, despite a scare on the 12th stage from Montpellier to Chalet Reynard (Mont Ventoux) when he crashed and ended up running for a section of the final climb.

Froome’s nearest challenger was Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) who finished 4’05” down with Nairo Quintana (Movistar) a further 16″ down.

Sagan won the green jersey yet again with his Tinkoff team-mate Rafal Majka taking the mountains classification. The young rider’s classification was won by Adam Yates (Orica–BikeExchange) and Movistar won the team classification.

Below are highlights of the race.


Best of – Tour de France 2016 by tourdefrance

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