Tour de France 2021: Second solo triumph Mohoric in Libourne

foto: Cor VosA huge breakaway takes shape midway through the 19th stage of the Tour. Matej Mohoric strikes with 24 kilometres and the Slovene solos to victory. His compatriot Tadej Pogacar, who crosses the line almost 21 minutes later in the peloton, keeps the yellow jersey. (Slideshow route/profile)

Results 19th stage Tour de France 2021

1. Matej Mohoric (slo)
2. Christophe Laporte (fra) + 0.58
3. Casper Pedersen (den) s.t.
4. Mike Teunissen (nld) + 1.02
5. Nils Politt (ger) + 1.08
6. Edward Theuns (bel) s.t.
7. Michael Valgren (den) s.t.
8. Georg Zimmermann (ger) s.t.
9. Anthony Turgis (fra) + 1.10
10. Jasper Stuyven (bel) s.t.
– peloton at 20.50 minutes

GC after stage 19
1. Tadej Pogacar (slo)
2. Jonas Vingegaard (den) + 5.45
3. Richard Carapaz (ecu) + 5.51
4. Ben O’Connor (aus) + 8.18
5. Wilco Kelderman (nld) + 8.50
6. Enric Mas (spa) + 10.11
7. Alexey Lutsenko (kaz) + 11.22
8. Guillaume Martin (fra) + 12.46
9. Pello Bilbao (spa) + 13.48
10. Rigoberto Uran (col) + 16.25

Race report
Bernard, Rutsch, Clarke, Zimmermann and Bonnamour jump off the front after 5 kilometres before Mohoric comes across. The six open up a gap of more than 4 minutes.

After the intermediate sprint several riders try to escape the clutches of the peloton. Edward Theuns and Nils Politt are the first to succeed before Jasper Stuyven, Alejandro Valverde, Michael Valgren, Mike Teunissen, Davide Ballerini, Iván García, Christophe Laporte, Sylvan Dillier, Greg Van Avermaet, Élie Gesbert, Casper Pedersen, Brent Van Moer, Omar Fraile, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Ion Izagirre, Max Walscheid and Anthony Turgis track them down.

The peloton keeps chasing and Valverde, García, Fraile, Gruzdev and Van Avermaet stop their efforts before the others catch the original lead group with 100 kilometres remaining. At that moment the peloton chases at 30 seconds, but the gap widens to 11 minutes with 50 kilometres remaining.

Mohoric strikes with 24 kilometres remaining and he opens up a 1 minute gap. Which is enough to hold off the chasers and forge on to his second Tour de France stage victory.

The peloton comes home almost 21 minutes after the stage winner.

Another interesting read: route 19th stage 2021 Tour de France.