Sunday 13 October 2013 at 18h02
In the last race in line of the season in France, a group of 4 riders quickly got away from the peloton but in the end Aleksejs Saramotins (IAM Cycling) was the only one who managed to stay ahead. Unable to resist to a peloton which wanted the race to end in a sprint, the rider of the Swiss team was finally taken back as well. Several new attempts failed, except for the one by Jetse Bol (Belkin) who was still alone ahead when he arrived on the Avenue de Grammont in Tours but the Dutch rider couldn't resist to the peloton either and finally John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) won Paris-Tours 2013 in a sprint!
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The summary of Paris-Tours 2013
Under quite cold temperatures, 191 riders came to sign the start list in Authon-du-Perche, before taking the start of the 107th edition of Paris-Tours over 235 kilometres.When the 4 leading riders start the climb of the Côte de Crochu, the first one out of 3 climbs which make up the final of Paris-Tours, their gap on the peloton is down to only 1'22". Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) tries to get away from the peloton there but his attempt was unsuccessful. It did however allow to create a selection in the peloton which saw numerous riders in difficulty to keep up with the speed.
Numerous other attacks at the front of the peloton also remained without success, which an accelleration by Julien Duval in the leading group made Sebastian Lander drop from this group. Aleksejs Saramotins takes up the good example and continues alone leading the race at about twenty kilometres from the finish while a chasing group tries to get back on the leading rider. The peloton however continues its effort to take back the Latvian rider and at the foot of the Côte de Beau Soleil his adventure comes to an end. An attack from Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team) is followed by Sep Vanmarcke (Belkin) and John Degenkolb (Team Argos-Shimano) and in the descent this leading trio is joined by Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), Michael Morkov (Team Saxo-Tinkoff), Jetse Bol (Belkin) and Arnaud Démare who start the last climb, the Côte de l'Epan, together.
Once Greg van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) joined this group, Jetse Bol decided to attack and the Dutch rider took a few seconds on his chasers. He was still a few seconds ahead when he arrived in the Avenue de Grammont in Tours but this wasn't enough to resist alone to the peloton. In the 700 last metres the Dutch rider was thus taken back and the race ended in a bunch sprint, in which John Degenkolb turned out to be the fastest, finishing more than one bikelength ahead of Michael Morkov (Team Saxo-Tinkoff). This was thus the first time since 3 years that Paris-Tours ended in a bunch sprint, thus moving up to 5 out of 17 last editions the number of times the race ended in a sprint!
The result of Paris-Tours 2013
Here's the top 10 of Paris-Tours 2013:2/ Michael Morkov (Team Saxo-Tinkoff)
3/ Arnaud Démare (FDJ.fr)
4/ Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp)
5/ Michael van Staeyen (Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise)
6/ Heinrich Haussler (IAM Cycling)
7/ Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R La Mondiale)
8/ Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
9/ Ioannis Tamouridis (Euskaltel-Euskadi)
10/ Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma-QuickStep)
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The photos of Paris-Tours 2013
A selection of 104 photos of Paris-Tours 2013 is now available in the corresponding photo section:>> Watch the photos of Paris-Tours 2013
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merci thomas !
En meme temps tu etais super bien placé a l'arrivee !
Merci à Stephane et son chauffeur(femme passionnée de la FDG)pour leur: gentillesse , disponnibilité et les belles photos .
Bravo et à bientôt sur le bord des routes?
Hello Thomas,
Tu n'as pas parlé du début de polémique Belkin - Argos sur la manoeuvre des belkin pour retarder l'organisation de la poursuite.
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien je trouve, Degenkolb manque un peu de jugeotte sur ce coup là je trouve.