Tour de France 2023: Philipsen completes hattrick, Vingegaard still in yellow

image: Cor VosJasper Philipsen storms to his third sprint victory. He outguns Mark Cavendish and Biniam Girmay in the streets of Bordeaux, while Jonas Vingegaard stays in the overall race lead. (Slideshow route/profile)

Results 7th stage 2023 Tour de France

1. Jasper Philipsen (bel) s.t.
2. Mark Cavendish (gbr) s.t.
3. Biniam Girmay (eri) s.t.
4. Luca Mozzato (ita) s.t.
5. Dylan Groenewegen (nld) s.t.
6. Jordi Meeus (bel) s.t.
7. Phil Bauhaus (ger) s.t.
8. Bryan Coquard (fra) s.t.
9. Alexander Kristoff (nor) s.t.
10. Mads Pedersen (bel) s.t.

GC after stage 7
1. Jonas Vingegaard (den)
2. Tadej Pogacar (slo) + 0.25
3. Jai Hindley (aus) + 1.34
4. Simon Yates (gbr) + 3.14
5. Carlos Rodriguez (spa) + 3.30
6. Adam Yates (gbr) + 3.40
7. David Gaudu (fra) + 4.03
8. Romain Bardet (fra) + 4.43
9.Tom Pidcock (gbr) s.t.
10. Sepp Kuss (usa) + 5.28

Race report
Jonas Abrahamsen, Simon Guglielmi, Nelson Oliveira and Mathieu Burgaudeau attack early on, but three of them sit up. So there is only one breakaway rider remaining, Gugliemi, who rides to a maximum lead of 7 minutes.

The gap has fallen after the intermediate sprint, which inspires Pierre Latour and Nans Peters to bridge across to Gugliemi. The orginal attacker is dropped on Côte de Béguey.

Latour and Peters open up a lead of over 1 minute, while Latour is the last attacker to be reeled in inside the last 4 kilometres

As expected, the race comes down to a bunch sprint. Star lead-out Van der Poel launches Philipsen before Cavendish overhauls him. The green jersey jumps to his wheel and finishes it off on brilliant style. Cav comes home in second, Girmay in third.

The GC remains unchanged with Vingegaard in yellow.

Another interesting read: route 7th stage 2023 Tour de France.