2011 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 10

(44,9 km / h)

The 10th stage of the Tour de France 2011 on July 12, led after the first rest day about 158 km from Aurillac to Carmaux. On the stage there was a sprint and in each case two climbs of the 3rd and 4th category. There were still 178 of the 198 registered riders at the start.

Race course

After about ten kilometers, a six -man breakaway group from Rémy Di Gregorio, Sébastien Minard, Arthur Vichot, Julien El Fares, Marco Marcato and Anthony Delaplace formed. At this time, again a fall occurred in the field, which had no consequences but. Vichot won the intermediate sprint, in the field, Mark Cavendish prevailed. With 51.6 km / h the first hour of the race was the fastest of the Tour de France, where the outliers reached a maximum lead of four minutes. More left the team HTC -Highroad and Lampre not. Then the race was somewhat slower.

Marcato won the first and the following two climbs for himself and was awarded at the end of the stage as kämpferischter driver. Prior to the last climb, the projection of the group shrank to less than one minute when HTC alone made the leadership. The top group was divided into two groups, as Minard, Vichot Marcato and drove out one step ahead of their three companions, who were then captured from the field. Shortly after Marcato tried continue on alone, but he also was as caught up with his other two companions before the summit, after Tony Gallopin had the pace intensified again, causing some sprinters fell back on the Thomas Voeckler first drove.

It was formed a five-member group, which in addition to these two also Philippe Gilbert, Tony Martin and Dries Devenyns included. Gallopin fell back and Gilbert tried to go it alone, but he was like his companions re-captured from the field a few kilometers from the finish, which only consisted of around 60 riders. In the final sprint André Greipel won against Cavendish and so won his first Tour de France stage.

Climbs

Côte de Figeac, Category 3 ( 62.5 km; 350 m, 2.3 km at 6%)

Côte de Loupiac, Category 4 ( 70.5 km; 326 m, 2.5 km at 4.1%)

Cote de Villefranche -de- Rouergue, Category 3 ( 99.5 km; 511 m; 4.1 km at 5.9 %)

Côte de Mirandol- Bourgnounac, Category 4 ( km 143; 415 m; 3.9 km at 4.1 %)

Scoring

Intermediate sprint in Maur ( 37.5 km; 280 m)

Target in Carmaux ( 158 kilometers; 229 m )

Tasks

078 - Yaroslav Popovych (Team RadioShack ): Not competing in the National stage.
197 - Alexander Kolobnew ( Katyusha ): Not started to stage because of positive doping finding on July 11.

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