The Eritrean Biniam Girmay He won this Monday at the finish line in Turin in the third stage of the Tour de France (Piacenza-Turin (230.5 km), in the first sprint of this edition, in which he surpassed the Colombian Fernando Gaviriawhile the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz became the new leader of the overall standings.

The EF cyclist competed for the finish among the fastest, which allowed him to gain places in the points classification and thus surpass the Slovenian Tadej Pogacarwith whom he is tied on time, as well as with the Danish Jonas Vingegaard and the belgian Remco Evenpoel.

After the first two mountain stages, in which the sprinters had no options, the African won the finish after a completely flat day and where the highlight came at the end, with a fall two kilometers from the finish line which knocked out one of the favourites, the Belgian sprinter Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin Deceuninck).

The victory in the Tour was the fourteenth victory for the African rider, the third of the season, and the debut of the Intermarché in the history of the Grand Boucle.

This Tuesday the French race will return to French territory and will experience its first day of high mountainswith a stage of 139.6 kilometres between Pinerolo and Valloire, and which will include the fearsome Col du Galibier, over 19 kilometres long and whose summit is less than 20 kilometres from the finish line.

STAGE CLASSIFICATION:

1 – GIRMAY Biniam (Intermarché) 5:26:48

2 – GAVIRIA Fernando (Movistar) mt

3 – DE LIE Arnaud (Lotto) mt

4 – PEDERSEN Mads (Lidl) mt

5 – GROENEWEGEN Dylan (Jayco) mt

6 – BAUHAUS Phil (Bahrain) mt

7 – JAKOBSEN Fabio (DSM) mt

8 – BALLERINI Davide (Astana) mt

9 – BENNETT Sam (Decathlon) mt

10 – COQUARD Bryan (Cofidis mt

Source: Eitb

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