2011 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 14
(32,2 km / h)
The 14th stage of the Tour de France 2011 on July 16, led over 168.5 km from Saint -Gaudens to Plateau de Beille where the mountains classification of Hors Catégorie held the second mountain top finish this Tour de France. On this high mountain stage, there was still a sprint and even two climbs of the 1st and 2nd and a 3rd category. There were still 171 of the 198 registered riders at the start.
Race course
Immediately after the start began the attacks and Sylvain Chavanel was there again, this time with could settle. He was overtaken by 19 other riders, so that a 20 - man breakaway group formed, which was followed by seven other riders, three of which were suspended again while Rubén Pérez, Jérôme Pineau Rui Costa and Adriano Malori could catch up with the front runners. Prior to the merger succeeded Mickaël Delage, the first mountain stage and the intermediate sprint to decide for themselves. Together they created the now 24 -strong leading group to over six minutes to increase the lead. Also, the second peak reached Delage first, followed by Chavanel. In the main field, which continued to be led by Team Europcar, Mark Cavendish lost the connection, but was introduced by Bernhard Eisel again. In the descent Costa was suspended, while forward Julien El Farès attacked, followed by Sandy Casar and later David Millar. Together they reached a lead of over two minutes on their pursuers, including Costa again pulled one back, and about nine minutes on the Haupftfeld.
At the foot of the fourth mountain, the Col d' Agnes, Christophe Riblon attacked the chase group, with four drivers were suspended. Also in the field was carried Leopard Trek now the pace increased and formed a Gruppetto. Riblon managed to catch up with the three -man lead group, and shortly afterwards Millar lost the connection. To him Egor Silin unlocked. It now formed a nine-member lead group, which consisted of Silin, El- Farès, Jens Voigt, Casar, Riblon, Millar, Rémy Di Gregorio, Gorka Izagirre, Xabier Zandio and Anthony Charteau to the Linus Gerdemann and Chavanel found the connection. Meanwhile, it was obtained the first of the breakaway group again with Kristjan Koren, later also Pineau. To Chavanel took on the mountain classification before Charteau the most points.
In the descent to Izagirre could settle. Further back Laurens ten Dam came to case, but was able to continue. Izagirre won the fifth mountain classification. In this departure Voigt came twice to case and fell in the sequence back into the field. Luis León Sánchez and Marco Marcato from the second chase group, who caught up with the first, now attacked, but were put back. Now formed a group of five from Millar, Ruben Perez, Bauke Mollema, Marcato and El Farès that took up the pursuit of the leader and it came back to the merger, even with other drivers. Next, Chavanel attacked, which in turn was provided by Sánchez and Rubén Pérez, the latter could hold even the longest forward and arrived first on the final climb.
The final climb was followed by an attack of Casar, who took over the lead. The guided by Leopard Trek favorite group now came closer but, with many drivers would fall outside this group. The leader was meanwhile pursued by Riblon and Zandio. Then there were some attacks in the Favorites group, which also includes Thomas Voeckler still belonged, often by Andy Schleck, but no one could settle decisively. The lying before the group Jelle Vanendert attacked and took over the leadership of Casar, who was captured on the favorite group. From this out Samuel Sánchez attacked, but the Vanendert could not catch up. Thus, the reverse result of the increase was to Luz Ardiden -: Vanendert who also conquered the mountain jersey, won ahead of Sanchez.
The top group included at this time nine riders: Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck, Fränk Schleck, Jean -Christophe Peraud, Voeckler, Ivan Basso, Alberto Contador, Rigoberto Urán and Pierre Rolland, out of which there were some attacks. As on the 12th stage of the Schleck brothers crossed the finish line before the other favorites. This time it was Andy, who was able to pull two seconds on the other favorites.
Climbs
- Col de Portet- d'Aspet, Category 2 ( 26.5 km; 1069 m; 4.3 km at 9.7 %)
- Col de la Core, category 1 ( 62.5 km; 1395 m; 14.1 km at 5.7 %)
- Col de Latrape, Category 2 ( 94 km; 1110 m; 5.6 km at 7.2 %)
- Col d' Agnes, Category 1 ( 109 km, 1570 m or 10.0 km at 8.2%)
- Port de Lers, Category 3 ( 118 km, 1517 m, 3.8 km at 5.5%)
- Plateau de Beille, Hors Catégorie ( 168.5 km; 1780 m; 15.8 km at 7.9 %)
Scoring
- Intermediate sprint in Orgibet ( 36.5 miles ) ( 647 m)
- Target on the Plateau de Beille ( 168.5 km ) (1780 m)