Last Updated on July 24, 2023 6:16 pm by Erwin Noguera
From July 1 through July 23, 2023, the Tour de France returned, covering a 3,404-kilometer route beginning in Spain and ending in Paris, France.
The defending champion Jonas Vingegaard won for a second straight year. This time, besting his top rival, Tadej Pogačar, by 7 minutes, 29 seconds.
We’ll be going Stage By Stage from the first to the 21st to give you the best details:
Tour de France 2023: Stage 1
Stage Winner: Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)
Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) claimed Stage 1 of the 2023 Tour de France, winning an unusually difficult opening stage and claiming the race’s first yellow jersey.
He outlasted his twin brother, Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla), as the two riders broke free after the final climb of the day.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 2
Stage Winner: Victor Lafay (Cofidis)
Victor Lafay won Stage 2 of the 2023 Tour de France. The Cofidis rider broke free of the lead group of riders that included many of the race favorites with 1K to go in the Tour’s longest stage (208.9K). It was a surprise victory for Lafay, who managed to hold off a hard-charging Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar in the waning meters to capture his first-career stage win.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 3
Stage Winner: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Jasper Philipsen won Stage 3 of the Tour de France, capturing a sprint victory over Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny). Philipsen received a terrific lead out from his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Mathieu van der Poel and was delivered to the finish in a great position to use his power to take the stage win.
It was a bit of a controversial finish. The race organizers took a little while after the finish before declaring Philipsen as the stage winner officially.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 4
Stage Winner: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage win of the 2023 Tour de France, sprinting to the Stage 4 victory on Tuesday.
It was a crash-marred last 5K after a very slow day in the peloton. Philipsen’s Alpecin-Deceuninck team once again delivered a great lead-out. He had the legs at the end to hold off a hard-charging Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny).
Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) was third across the line to make for the same three men on the podium as Stage 3 (just flip Ewan and Bauhaus).
Tour de France 2023: Stage 5
Stage Winner: Jai Hindley (Bora–Hansgrohe)
Jai Hindley won Stage 5 of the 2023 Tour de France, claiming the yellow leader’s jersey along with it. It was an eventful first day in the Pyrenees as the top climbers in the world shined and shook up the GC in a big way.
Giulio Ciccone (Lidl–Trek) was second on the stage and Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën) came across third on the day. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora–Hansgrohe) was fourth and Jonas Vingegaard was fifth on the stage. Ciccone, Gall, and Buchmann were all 32 seconds behind Hindley and Vingegaard was 34 seconds behind the stage winner.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 6
Stage Winner: Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)
Tadej Pogačar won Stage 6 of the 2023 Tour de France, and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) took the yellow leader’s jersey during a busy day in the Pyrenees.
While Vingegaard took over the GC lead, Pogačar made the biggest statement of the day, passing and gapping Vingegaard on the final climb of the day. Pogačar won the stage and narrowed the gap to Vingegaard.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 7
Stage Winner: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
This was a stage that had cycling fans screaming at the top of their lungs at the finish. After a long, sleepy, and mostly flat stage, all the action was crammed into the last 3K.
Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) came this close to winning the stage and breaking the TdF stage wins record, only to be passed by the seemingly unstoppable Jasper Philipsen with 500 meters to go.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 8
Stage Winner: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
Mads Pedersen won a Stage 8 sprint, holding off Jasper Philipsen to win his first stage of the 2023 Tour de France.
The run-in to the finish saw some punchy climbs, but the top sprinters were all there and Pedersen took the win in the end.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 9
Stage Winner: Mike Woods (Israel-PremierTech)
Canada’s Mike Woods won Stage 9 atop the Hors Categorie (“Beyond Category”) Puy de Dôme, one of the most famous climbs in Tour history.
The 36-year-old from Toronto paced himself from the base of the climb, catching four riders on his way to his first Tour de France stage victory.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 10
Stage Winner: Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious)
Pello Bilbao won a sprint out of the breakaway to claim the Stage 10 victory after a thrilling of racing.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 11
Stage Winner: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Jasper Philipsen won Stage 11 of the 2023 Tour de France, picking up his fourth stage win so far and continuing to assert his dominance in the sprints.
It was a wet and technical finish in Moulins on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop Philipsen, who sprinted past Dylan Groenewegen in the closing meters to claim win No. 4 of the Tour.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 12
Stage Winner: Ion Izagirre (Cofidis)
Make it two-stage wins for the Cofidis team in the 2023 Tour de France. That’s thanks to a brilliant Stage 12 ride by Ion Izagirre.
With 30K to go on the final climb of the day, Izagirre broke free of the breakaway that included the likes of Mathieu van der Poel, riding to the day’s stage win. For him, it’s his second career stage win.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 13
Stage Winner: Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers)
Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski won Stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France. The 33-year-old won the stage atop the “Beyond Category” Grand Colombier after spending all day in the breakaway and then attacking what was left of it on the lower slopes of the final climb.
It was clear throughout most of the 137.8km ride from Châtillon-Sur-Chalaronne to the summit of the Grand Colombier that UAE Team Emirates wanted to set up Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar for the win.
But Kwiatokoski, a super-domestique with an impressive resume of his own, proved too strong to catch, holding off Belgium’s Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Soudal) and then Pogačar to take the second Tour de France stage victory of his career.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 14
Stage Winner: Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers)
Spain’s Carlos Rodriguez won Stage 14 of the 2023 Tour de France during a wild day in the GC.
Rodriguez was dropped on the final climb up the Joux Plane. However, he was able to return on the ensuing descent, and gap the two GC leaders and ride to the stage win—the second in as many days for INEOS—and improve his own GC positioning.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 15
Stage Winner: Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious)
Wout Poels won Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour de France, capturing the win from the breakaway and beating a talented group to claim the first TdF stage victory of his career.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 16
Stage Winner: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
Jonas Vingegaard roared to the Stage 16 win in the 2023 Tour de France’s lone individual time trial.
Vingegaard put down an incredible TT over 22.4km and he won the stage by 1:38 over second place Tadej Pogačar, who also happens to be his biggest rival in the GC battle.
He earned his Jumbo-Visma team its first stage win of the Tour. More importantly, he made the most significant time gains of the Tour so far.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 17
Stage Winner: Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën)
Felix Gall won Stage 17 of the Tour de France. It was a stage that ended up being the craziest of the 2023 Tour so far.
Gall made his move from the breakaway and rode away from a talented group of riders to claim the first grand tour stage win of his career.
Meanwhile, there were plenty of fireworks behind Gall. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) cracked on the stage losing well over five minutes to Jonas Vingegaard in the yellow jersey.
Vingeagaard placed fourth on the stage and gained a significant amount of time that would likely carry him to Paris in the maillot jaune.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 18
Stage Winner: Kasper Asgreen (Soudal Quick-Step)
Kasper Asgreen won Stage 18 of the Tour de France dramatically. He got in the original breakaway of the day at kilometer zero.
On a stage that seemed destined for a sprint finish out of the peloton, Asgreen, and the others in the break managed to fend off the hungry peloton.
Asgreen outsprinted Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) for the win at line.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 19
Stage Winner: Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious)
It doesn’t get any closer than that! Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) took a sprint finish to win Stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Mohorič got in a breakaway that included many of the top sprinters and classics riders. That breakaway included the likes of Jasper Philipsen and Mads Pedersen. So, he knew he had to make a move early and that’s exactly what he did, breaking free, along with Stage 18 winner Kasper Asgreen and Ben O’Connor, of that breakaway with 30K to go in the stage.
Down the final stretch, O’Connor, knowing his speed couldn’t match that of Mohorič or Asgreen, made his move, but that was quickly answered by the pair and it was a drag race between Mohorič and Asgreen, who gapped O’Connor and made their dash for the line. It was a photo finish, but Mohorič narrowly edged out Asgreen for the stage win.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 20
Stage Winner: Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won Stage 20 of the 2023 Tour de France. Pogačar was able to outsprint Jonas Vingegaard and a few other strong riders on the flat drag at the top of the Col du Platzerwasel.
The win was Pogačar’s second stage win of this Tour and his 11th career Tour stage win. Vingegaard was third to Pogačar (Stage 17 winner Felix Gall was second), losing just a few bonus seconds. All while maintaining his lead in the yellow jersey competition heading into the mostly ceremonial final Stage 21.
Tour de France 2023: Stage 21
Stage Winner: Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) was a surprise winner of Stage 21 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Meeus won a sprint finish on the Champs-Élysées over the Tour’s top sprinters, Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen, and Mads Pedersen.
Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) enjoyed some champagne on the ride. Finally, he was officially crowned winner of the Tour de France for a second year. He won by 7 minutes, 29 seconds over second place Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). It was the largest margin of victory since 2014.
Final General Classification Standings
- Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma): 82:05:42
- Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates): -7:29
- Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates): -10:56
- Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla): -12:23
- Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers): -13:17
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