Intermarché sprinter-puncher Biniam Girmay won the third stage of the 2024 Tour de France between Plaisance and Turin. He is the third African to win on the Grande Boucle, after South Africans Daryl Impey and Rob Hunter.
Published on: 01/07/2024 – 17:11Modified on: 01/07/2024 – 17:28
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The Eritrean Biniam Girmay won the third stage of the Tour de France in a sprint on Monday July 1 in Turin. A historic victory: he is the third African to achieve this feat and the first Eritrean.
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He won ahead of the Colombian Fernando Gaviria and the Belgian Arnaud De Lie in a chaotic finale with a major collective fall just over two kilometers from the finish.
Philipsen fell
This major crash, in which Jasper Philipsen, the big favourite for the sprint, was notably involved, created a split in the peloton.
Without any direct consequence in normal times for the general classification, since the times are frozen in the last three (five on Monday) kilometers in the event of a fall or mechanical incident, this gap still caused the loss of the yellow jersey for Tadej Pogacar, who did not fall, but was delayed.
It is Carapaz who, in total of the best stage places, takes yellow, knowing that there are always four in the same second with, in addition to the Ecuadorian and the Slovenian, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel and the Dane Jonas Vingegaard.
Historic for Carapaz, the stage was also historic for Girmay who, at 24, wrote a new important page for African cycling, two years after his stage victory in the Giro d’Italia.
