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2013 Tour de France

2013 Tour de France
2013 UCI World Tour, race 18 of 29
Map of France showing the showing the path of the race starting in Corsica, then going clockwise around France.
Route of the 2013 Tour de France
Race details
Dates 29 June – 21 July
Stages 21
Distance 3,403.5 km (2,115 mi)
Winning time 83h 56' 40"
Results
Jersey awarded to the overall winner Winner  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
  Second  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
  Third  Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Team Katusha)

Points  Peter Sagan (SVK) (Cannondale)
Mountains  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Youth  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Team Saxo–Tinkoff
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Jersey awarded to the overall winner Winner  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)
  Second  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
  Third  Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) (Team Katusha)

Points  Peter Sagan (SVK) (Cannondale)
Mountains  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Youth  Nairo Quintana (COL) (Movistar Team)
Team Saxo–Tinkoff

The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on the island of Corsica on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 21 July. The Tour consisted of twenty-one race stages and covered a total distance of 3,403.5 km (2,115 mi). The race was won by Chris Froome of Team Sky. Second and third respectively were Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and the Team Katusha rider, Joaquim Rodríguez.

Marcel Kittel (Argos–Shimano) was the first rider to wear the race leader's yellow jersey after winning stage one. He lost the lead the next day to Jan Bakelants of RadioShack–Leopard, who managed to obtain a one-second lead from a late solo attack. Simon Gerrans gained the race lead after his team, Orica–GreenEDGE, won the stage four team time trial. Gerrans passed the lead on to teammate Daryl Impey after the fifth stage. Froome took the lead from Impey after the eighth stage, the first classified as mountainous. Froome maintained his lead for the remainder of the race by consolidating his lead through solid performances in the individual time trials and in the high mountains.

Froome became the second consecutive British cyclist to win the Tour de France, after Bradley Wiggins accomplished the feat the year before. In the race's other classifications, Movistar Team rider Quintana won the mountains classification and also finished as the best young rider in the general classification, finishing in second place overall; Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team was the winner of the points classification, with Saxo–Tinkoff finishing as the winners of the team classification. Christophe Riblon (Ag2r–La Mondiale) was given the award for the most combative rider. Kittel won the most stages, with four.


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