2012 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20#Stage 19
(50.0 km / h)
Not awarded
The 19th stage of the 2012 Tour de France was held on 21 July 2012. She was discharged as a time trial and was 53.5 km long. The start was in Bonneval, the goal in Chartres.
Route
The route took in a north-westerly and north-easterly direction through the Eure- et- Loir. The profile was almost completely flat and had no topographical difficulties. The intermediate times were measured in Mézières -au -Perche and Bailleau- le-Pin.
Race course
The race opened shortly after noon, the Frenchman Jimmy Engoulvent who finished 153rd and last place in the overall standings with a backlog of 3:49:09 h. The first serious time presented at the German Patrick Gretsch, who finished with a time of 1:06:41 hours. This best time had nearly three hours on hand, to drive the Spaniard Luis León Sánchez, who was 38 seconds less time on the road. The Slovakian Peter Velits was the first split only one second behind Sánchez and lost to the finish further eleven seconds. A little later still pushed the Australian Richie Porte between Velits and Gretsch.
No chance of winning had the previous year's Tour winner Cadel Evans, who was behind at two intermediate times far behind the best and eventually finished only 52nd. Tejay van Garderen The American was the first split three seconds before Sánchez still leading, but lost on the rest of the track about half a minute ( even though he had started three minutes before him, Evans obsolete ). As the Briton Chris Froome second last rejoined the race in attack. He was the second meantime just four seconds ahead of Sanchez, but the Spaniard was on the last section dissociate even more than half a minute. As in the first time trial of the Tour 2012 in Besançon Bradley Wiggins started as Last, undercutting Froomes times still further. At the finish, he finally had a lead of 76 seconds.