2013 Paris–Nice

The 71 - wheel voyage Paris-Nice was held between March 10, 2013 from 3. The stage race is part of the UCI World on tour and was within this the second race after the Tour Down Under. The total race distance was 1174 km. As in 2012, the race ended with a mountain time trial up the Col d' Eze.

• 2.1 List of stages

Participant

Eligible were the 19 ProTeam and the French Professional Continental teams Cofidis, Team Europcar, Saur - Sojasun and the Swiss team IAM Cycling, who received a wild card by the organizer. Among the 184 drivers with Andreas Kloden was only one of the previous winners at the start.

Favorites

By eliminating most of the top drivers to a start this year there have been numerous favorites for overall victory. In the battle for the coveted Maillot Jaune Robert Gesink, Jakob Fuglsang, Tejay van Garderen, Ivan Basso, Mikel Nieve, Thomas De Gendt, Maxime Monfort and Denis Menshov were mentioned as favorites.

Stages

Like last year, the "Race to the Sun " began with a prologue, which was this time 15 km north-east of Paris carried out in Houilles. This was followed by two relatively flat sections to the south. In the two following stages the riders had to cross the Massif Central before March 8, the queen stage with a mountain top finish of the first category on the Montagne de Lure ended each of several mountains. With the penultimate stage the riders reached Nice. Like last year, the race was decided by a mountain time trial up the Col d' Eze.

List of stages

Ratings in the itinerary

Time bonuses for the general classification, there were for the first three riders in completed races (10, 6 and 4s ) and intermediate sprints ( 3, 2 and 1 s).

Points for the sprint, it was at target arrivals for the first 20 driver (25, 22, 20, 18, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1) and at intermediate sprints for the first three riders (3, 2, 1).

Depending on the difficulty of the increase was assigned a different number of points for the mountains classification at the tops of mountains: Category 1 (10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1), Category 2 (7, 5, 3, 2, 1) and the third category ( 4, 2, 1).

To the white jersey of best young rider fought all the riders who were born after January 1, 1988.

For the team competition, the time of the top three drivers of each team was added at each stage.

The table shows the leaders in their respective standings after each stage.

Race course and outcome

Richie Porte was the first Australian winner of Paris - Nice. As in the previous year was the winner of the British SKY team. Having won the 5th stage on the Montagne de Lure of Australians could conquer the yellow jersey by Andrew Talansky, which he did not relinquish it until the end. On the final climb of Stage 5 Talansky tried several times unsuccessfully break away from the group with the favorites. Was attacked as Porte approximately 1.5 km from the finish no longer follow driver and he won the stage 26 seconds ahead of Russian Denis Menshov. The victory in Nice on the 6th stage Sylvain Chavanel could win the green jersey, which he was able to defend to the end. He sat down by the final sprint of the comprehensive 59 driver main field against Philippe Gilbert. The final mountain time trial up the Col d' Eze won Richie Porte, who thus secured the overall victory. Talansky was both on the Col d' Eze, as well as in the overall runner-up. In addition, he was the best young rider of the voyage. Dominik mink reached as the best German in the standings with a gap of 1:38 minutes the 6th Place. The mountains classification was won by Johann Tschopp by the Swiss Continental Cycling Team IAM. Best German was the winner of 2000 Andreas Klöden with a gap of 2:22 minutes on Rank 9